METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A GIFT USING A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE APPARATUS

• US 20150302516A1
• Filed: 06/30/2015
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eleven Street Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: CHOI, Kyung-Lim, CHO, Jae-Hee, JOO, Hyo-Jung
• Granted Patent: US 10,115,090 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/127 Shopping or accessing services according to a time-limitation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/325 using wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0637 Approvals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for providing a gift icon by a communication network. The method includes providing information about products to a user terminal connected with the gift provision apparatus through the communication network; when a gift is selected by the user terminal, providing an address book corresponding to the user terminal, to the user terminal; when information of at least one receipt terminal is selected from the address book, providing a message including a URL (Unique Resource Locator) of a gift icon corresponding to a product corresponding to the selected gift, to the selected receipt terminal; and when the receipt terminal connects with the gift provision apparatus using the URL and requests download of the gift icon, providing the gift icon to the receipt terminal.

Claims

1. A method for providing a gift icon by a communication network, the method comprising:

providing, by a gift provision apparatus, information about products to a user terminal connected with the gift provision apparatus through the communication network;

when a gift is selected by the user terminal, providing, by the gift provision apparatus, an address book corresponding to the user terminal, to the user terminal;

when information of at least one receipt terminal is selected from the address book, providing, by the gift provision apparatus, a message including a URL (Unique Resource Locator) of a gift icon corresponding to a product corresponding to the selected gift, to the selected receipt terminal; and

when the receipt terminal connects with the gift provision apparatus using the URL and requests download of the gift icon, providing, by the gift provision apparatus, the gift icon to the receipt terminal.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said providing the message comprises:

when the address book comprises a plurality of groups, and at least one group is selected from the plurality of groups of the address book, transmitting, by the gift provision apparatus, a web page or a wap page, for settlement, to the user terminal; and

performing, by the user terminal and by the transmitted page, the settlement by transferring money or using credit card information.

3. The method as set forth in claim 2, further comprising:

when settlement has been performed by transferring money or using the credit card information, providing, by the gift provision apparatus, the gift icon to one or more mobile terminals included in the at least one selected group or to one or more e-mail addresses belonging to the at least one selected group.

4. The method as set forth in claim 3, further comprising:

when a usable period of the gift icon is set, providing, by the gift provision apparatus, at least one of a first guide message regarding a repayment of money corresponding to the gift icon which is not used for the usable period, and a second guide message regarding a conversion of the gift icon which is not used for the usable period to reserve money, to the user terminal.

5. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

when at least one of a download period of the gift icon and a usable period of the gift icon is set, and when at least one of the download period and the usable period has expired, prohibiting, by the gift provision apparatus, a download or a usage of the gift icon.

6. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

when a recipient accepts the gift in a shop, registering, by the gift provision apparatus, an acceptance completion message transmitted from a terminal of the shop.

7. The method as set forth in claim 6, further comprising:

providing, by the gift provision apparatus, contents of gift icons transmitted from a predetermined period to the user terminal.