AUTOMATIC RECHARGE SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND SERVER

• US 20180033075A1
• Filed: 08/17/2017
• Published: 02/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: CHEN, YE, LIU, YICONG, LI, XIN, PAN, XIAOXIA, WEN, JUNQIANG
• Granted Patent: US 10,621,651 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/083 Shipping
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/28 Pre-payment schemes, e.g. "pay before"
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3672 initialising or reloading thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1467 involving prepayment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/49 Connection to several service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/51 for resellers, retailers or service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/52 for operator independent billing system
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/64 On-line charging system [OCS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 17/00 Prepayment of wireline communication systems, wireless communication systems or telephone systems using a coded card to authorise calls from a telephone set H04M1/675
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 17/02 Coin-freed or check-freed systems , e.g. mobile- or card-operated phones, public telephones or booths
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 17/204 on-line recharging, e.g. cashless

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses an automatic recharge system and method, and a server, and belongs to a field of online recharge. The system includes: an agent server end on which an automatic recharge program runs, a third-party platform server, and at least one provider server, each provider server providing at least one online recharge service; the third-party platform server generates at least one order and stores the order; the agent server end logs in the third-party platform server by using the automatic recharge program and obtains the order; and the agent server end sends a recharge parameter corresponding to the order to the provider server by using the automatic recharge program, so as to complete an online recharge process corresponding to the order.

Claims

1. An automatic recharge system, comprising:

an agent server end configured to run an automatic recharge program, a third-party platform server, and at least one provider server, each provider server providing at least one online recharge service;

the third-party platform server being configured to generate at least one order according to an online recharge request sent by a user terminal, and store the order;

the agent server end being configured to log in the third-party platform server by using the automatic recharge program, and obtain the order from the third-party platform server by using the automatic recharge program;

the agent server end being configured to;

for an order at an incomplete state, send a recharge parameter corresponding to the order to a provider server associated with the recharge parameter by using the automatic recharge program; and

the provider server being configured to complete an online recharge process corresponding to the order according to the recharge parameter.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein when sending the recharge parameter corresponding to the order to the provider server by using the automatic recharge program, the agent server end is further configured to:

obtain, according to the order by using the automatic recharge program, a resource type of a virtual resource to be recharged;

search for the provider server corresponding to the resource type by using the automatic recharge program;

determine a recharge mode corresponding to the resource type by using the automatic recharge program, wherein the recharge mode comprises;

a recharge mode of simulating user login by using an account number and a password, a first interface recharge mode, and a second interface recharge mode; and

construct the recharge parameter corresponding to the recharge mode by using the automatic recharge program, and send the recharge parameter to the found provider server.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein before constructing the recharge parameter corresponding to the recharge mode, the agent server end is further configured to:

obtain, by the agent server end, a verification code sample library corresponding to the provider server by using the automatic recharge program if the recharge mode of simulating user login by using the account number and the password is used,

dynamically identify a verification code of a current login according to the verification code sample library, and

log in the provider server by using the account number, the password, and the verification code.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

the agent server end is further configured to;

before sending the recharge parameter corresponding to the order to the provider server, send an advance shipping instruction corresponding to the order to the third-party platform server;

the third-party platform server is further configured to lock the order according to the advance shipping instruction;

the agent server end is further configured to send a shipped instruction to the third-party platform server after the online recharge process corresponding to the order is completed; and

the third-party platform server is further configured to unlock the order according to the shipped instruction, and update the order from the incomplete state to a completed state.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the third-party platform server is further configured to:

update an inventory parameter of a corresponding virtual resource according to a locked state or the completed state of the order, and

stop generating an order corresponding to the virtual resource when the inventory parameter is less than or equal to a preset threshold.

6. An automatic recharge method, applied to an agent server end, comprising:

logging in a third-party platform server by using an automatic recharge program on the agent server;

obtaining an order from the third-party platform server by using the automatic recharge program, the order being generated by the third-party platform server according to an online recharge request sent by a user terminal; and

for an order at an incomplete state, sending a recharge parameter corresponding to the order to a provider server by using the automatic recharge program, wherein the provider server completes an online recharge process corresponding to the order according to the recharge parameter.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the sending a recharge parameter corresponding to the order to the provider server by using the automatic recharge program comprises:

obtaining, according to the order by using the automatic recharge program, a resource type of a virtual resource to be recharged;

searching for the provider server corresponding to the resource type by using the automatic recharge program;

determining a recharge mode corresponding to the resource type by using the automatic recharge program, wherein the recharge mode comprises;

a recharge mode of simulating user login by using an account number and a password, a first interface recharge mode, and a second interface recharge mode; and

constructing the recharge parameter corresponding to the recharge mode by using the automatic recharge program, and sending the recharge parameter to the found provider server.

8. The method according to claim 7, before the constructing a recharge parameter corresponding to the recharge mode by using the automatic recharge program, further comprising:

if the recharge mode of simulating user login by using an account number and a password is used, obtaining a verification code sample library corresponding to the provider server by using the automatic recharge program;

dynamically identifying a verification code of a current login according to the verification code sample library; and

logging in the provider server by using the account number, the password, and the verification code.

9. The method according to claim 6, before the sending a recharge parameter corresponding to the order to the provider server, further comprising:

sending an advance shipping instruction corresponding to the order to the third-party platform server, wherein the third-party platform server locks the order according to the advance shipping instruction; and

sending a shipped instruction to the third-party platform server after the online recharge process corresponding to the order is completed, wherein the third-party platform server unlocks the order according to the shipped instruction, and updates the order from the incomplete state to a completed state.

10. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

generating, by the third-party platform server, at least one order according to the online recharge request sent by the user terminal, and storing the order; and

after the agent server end logs in the third-party platform server, providing, by the third-party platform server, the order to the agent server end.

11. The method according to claim 10, after the providing the order to the agent server end, further comprising:

receiving, by the third-party platform server, an advance shipping instruction that is sent by the agent server end and that corresponds to the order;

locking, by the third-party platform server, the order according to the advance shipping instruction;

receiving, by the third-party platform server, a shipped instruction sent by the agent server end; and

unlocking, by the third-party platform server, the order according to the shipped instruction and updating the order from the incomplete state to a completed state.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

updating, by the third-party platform server, an inventory parameter of a corresponding virtual resource according to a locked state or the completed state of the order, and

stopping generating, by the third-party platform server, an order corresponding to the virtual resource when the inventory parameter is less than or equal to a preset threshold.

13. A server, comprising:

a central processing unit and a memory, the memory storing a group of program codes, and the central processing unit executing the program codes stored in the memory to complete the following operations;

logging in a third-party platform server by using an automatic recharge program;

obtaining an order from the third-party platform server by using the automatic recharge program, the order being generated by the third-party platform server according to an online recharge request sent by a user terminal; and

for an order at an incomplete state, sending a recharge parameter corresponding to the order to a provider server by using the automatic recharge program, wherein the provider server completes an online recharge process corresponding to the order according to the recharge parameter.

14. The server according to claim 13, wherein the central processing unit executes the program codes stored in the memory to complete the following operations:

obtaining, according to the order by using the automatic recharge program, a resource type of a virtual resource to be recharged;

searching for the provider server corresponding to the resource type by using the automatic recharge program;

determining a recharge mode corresponding to the resource type by using the automatic recharge program, wherein the recharge mode comprises;

a recharge mode of simulating user login by using an account number and a password, a first interface recharge mode, and a second interface recharge mode; and

constructing the recharge parameter corresponding to the recharge mode by using the automatic recharge program, and sending the recharge parameter to the found provider server.

15. The server according to claim 14, wherein the central processing unit executes the program codes stored in the memory to complete the following operations:

obtaining a verification code sample library corresponding to the provider server by using the automatic recharge program if the recharge mode of simulating user login by using an account number and a password is used;

dynamically identifying a verification code of this login according to the verification code sample library; and

logging in the provider server by using the account number, the password, and the verification code.

16. The server according to claim 13, wherein the central processing unit executes the program codes stored in the memory to complete the following operations:

sending an advance shipping instruction corresponding to the order to the third-party platform server, wherein the third-party platform server locks the order according to the advance shipping instruction; and

sending a shipped instruction to the third-party platform server after the online recharge process corresponding to the order is completed, wherein the third-party platform server unlocks the order according to the shipped instruction, and updates the order from the incomplete state to a completed state.

17. A server, the server comprising:

a central processing unit and a memory, the memory storing a group of program codes, and the central processing unit executing the program codes stored in the memory to complete the following operations;

generating at least one order according to an online recharge request sent by a user terminal, and storing the order; and

after an agent server end logs in the server, providing the order to the agent server end, so that the agent server end sends a recharge parameter corresponding to the order to a provider server by using an automatic recharge program, and the provider server completes an online recharge process corresponding to the order according to the recharge parameter, the automatic recharge program running on the agent server end.

18. The server according to claim 17, wherein the central processing unit executes the program codes stored in the memory to complete the following operations:

receiving an advance shipping instruction that is sent by the agent server end and that corresponds to the order;

locking the order according to the advance shipping instruction;

receiving a shipped instruction sent by the agent server end; and

unlocking the order according to the shipped instruction and updating the order from the not-completed state to a completed state.

19. The server according to claim 18, wherein the central processing unit executes the program codes stored in the memory to complete the following operations:

updating an inventory parameter of a corresponding virtual resource according to a locked state or the completed state of the order, and stopping generating an order corresponding to the virtual resource when the inventory parameter is less than or equal to a preset threshold.