Present messenger service system and method of operating the same

• US 7,299,196 B2
• Filed: 07/19/2001
• Issued: 11/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Ki Kuk
• Primary Examiner(s): Zeender; F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Buchanan; Christopher
• Application Number:
  US09/907,593
• Publication Number:
  US 20020010653A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,315 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26, 705/27, 709/200, 709/206, 707/1, 707/9, 707/10
• US Class Current: 705/27.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access

Abstract

Disclosed is a present messenger service system and method of operating the same including a DB storing information of various products, a web server connected with the DB and displaying various information in accordance with a demand of the customer, a proposal program established in the web server, a message transmission server connected with the web server, transferring a message transferred from the web server to a corresponding receiving party and established in accordance with a communication means of the present provider, a gateway server, a relay server and the like, whereby a present request message of the customer is correctly transferred to the present provider regardless of time. Thus, an information provision to a final present delivery are carried out in order.

Claims

1. A method of operating a present messenger service system comprising:

providing information of products through a web page to a customer terminal when a customer gains access to a web server of a present messenger service provider;

verifying whether the customer has selected to purchase at least one of the products displayed on the web page directly or to receive the product as a present;

sending a request to the customer terminal for information including a personal identification address of a messenger service to which a present provider subscribes and a message to be transferred to the present provider when the customer has selected to receive the product as the present;

storing the message to be transferred to the present provider in a temporary message storage of the present messenger service provider when a present provider PC of the present provider is not connected to a same network to which the web server of the present messenger service provider and the temporary message storage of the present messenger service provider are connected, the network being provided by the present messenger service provider and the network including a web server to manage a website of the present messenger service provider and a message transfer server, separate from the web server, to transfer messages to the present provider, the message transfer server to determine whether the present provider PC is connected to the same network by verifying that the present provider PC is connected to a messenger service through the Internet; and

transmitting the message directly to the present provider PC when the customer finishes inputting said information, wherein transmitting the message includes the message transfer server transferring the message stored in the temporary message storage of the present messenger service provider to the present provider PC when the present provider PC becomes connected to the same network to which the web server and the temporary message storage of the present messenger service provider are connected, and wherein the message is displayed on a screen of the present provider PC using a pop-up method; and

delivering the product to the customer when the present provider agrees to provide the product as a present after verification of the message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request sent to the customer terminal requests the customer to input delivery place information of the customer, and wherein the message including the delivery place information of the customer is transferred to the present provider PC by the message transfer server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the web server of the present messenger service provider displays delivery place information of the customer which was previously inputted and wherein the message including the delivery place address information of the customer is transferred to the present provider PC by the message transfer server.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the present provider selects an intention for the agreement on a message image transferred to the present provider PC as soon as payment means is specified, and wherein a purchase is made immediately after the present messenger service provider receives a reply from the present provider.

5. A method of operating a present messenger service system comprising:

providing information of products through a web page to a customer terminal when a customer gains access to the web server of a present messenger service provider;

verifying whether the customer has selected to purchase at least one of the products displayed on the web page directly or to receive the product as a present;

sending a request to the customer terminal for information of a web-TV of a present provider and a message to be transferred to the present provider when the customer has selected to receive the product as a present;

storing the message to be transferred to the present provider in a temporary message storage of the present messenger service provider when power of the web-TV of the present provider is off;

transferring the information of the web-TV and the message to a relay server of the present messenger service provider when the customer finishes inputting said information, wherein the transferring further includes the relay server of the present messenger service provider transferring the message stored in the temporary message storage of the present messenger service provider to the web-TV of the present provider when the power of the web-TV is verified to be on by the relay server;

verifying, in the relay server of the present messenger service provider, an address (TCP/IP;

transmission control protocol/internet protocol) of the web-TV of the present provider in order to display the message on the web-TV of the present provider; and

delivering the product to the customer when the present provider agrees to provide the product as a present after verification of the message.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the request sent to the customer terminal requests delivery place information of the customer, and wherein the message including the delivery place information of the customer is transferred to the present provider web-TV.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein in the request, the web server of the present messenger service provider displays delivery place information of the customer which was previously inputted, and wherein the message including the delivery place information of the customer is transferred to the present provider.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein delivering the product comprises the present provider selecting an intention for the agreement on a message image transferred to the present provider as soon as a payment means is specified, and wherein a purchase is made immediately after the present messenger service provider receives a reply from the present provider.

9. A method of operating a present messenger service system comprising:

providing information of products through a web page to a customer terminal when a customer gains access to a web server of a present messenger service provider;

verifying whether the customer has selected to purchase at least one of the products displayed on the web page directly or to receive the product as a present;

sending a request to the customer terminal for information including a personal identification address of a messenger service to which a present provider subscribes and a message to be transferred to the present provider when the customer has selected to receive the product as a present; and

transmitting the message directly to the present provider when the customer finishes inputting said information, wherein transmitting the message comprises;

storing the message to be transferred to the present provider in a temporary message storage of the present messenger service provider when the present provider is not connected to a same network to which the web server and the temporary message storage of the present message service provider are connected, the network being provided by the present messenger service provider and the network including a web server to manage a website of the present messenger service provider and a message transfer server to transfer messages to the present provider, the message transfer server to determine whether the present provider is connected to the same network by verifying that the present provider is connected to a messenger service through the Internet,

the message transfer server transferring the message stored in the temporary message storage of the present messenger service provider to the present provider when the present provider becomes connected to the same network to which the web server and the temporary message storage are connected,

delivering the product to the customer when the present provider agrees to provide the product as a present after verification of the message, and

displaying the message on a screen of the present provider.