Prepayment and profit distribution system for unrealized goods on internet

• US 20030101102A1
• Filed: 08/24/2002
• Published: 05/29/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yetoo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Yetoo Company Limited
• Inventors: Kim, Gyu Ho
• Application Number:
  US10/204,927
• Publication Number:
  US 20030101102A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/28 Pre-payment schemes, e.g. "pay before"
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders

Abstract

Provided is a prepayment and profit distribution system on the Internet, which allows customers to buy goods and/or services or both that are being produced or planed to produce, and which provides customers with the goods when finished, and distributes profit based on sales of goods. The system includes a database for storing information on goods currently being produced or under plan for production, a database for storing receipt details regarding the request for purchase of goods, a home page for providing a customer who has connected thereto through the Internet with goods information, making settlement of the price of the goods with a pertinent financial institution'"'"'s server if the customer applies for prepayment for particular goods, receiving the prepayment request and recording the receipt details if settlement is successfully made, and a web server for performing a function for completing a prepayment service for the corresponding goods.

Claims

1. A prepayment and profit distribution system using the Internet, for providing pre-payers with goods and distributing some of profits based on sales of goods to the pre-payers, comprising:

a first goods information database (DB) for storing information on goods currently being produced or under plan for production;

a home page for providing a customer who has connected thereto through the Internet with goods information stored in the first goods information DB, and processing prepayment requests for particular goods if settlement of the price of the goods with a pertinent financial institution'"'"'s server is successfully made;

a first receipt details DB for storing receipt details for the prepayment requests processed on the homepage; and

a web server for performing an “

occasional notice function”

of recording the information on the development of production of the goods on the home page and transferring the information on the development to e-mail addresses of the pre-payers, in connection with the first goods information DB and the first receipt details DB, a “

goods use information transfer function”

of transferring the information that enables the pre-payers to use the goods to the pre-payers by e-mail, if the production of the goods is finished, in connection with the first receipt details DB, a “

transportation information output function”

of outputting information to be indicated on the corresponding goods or packing to transport the goods to the pre-payers, in connection with the first receipt details DB, and a “

profit transfer function”

of transferring the profit based on sales of the goods from a designated bank account to each pre-payer'"'"'s bank account, in connection with the first receipt details DB,

wherein the first goods information DB, the home page, the first receipt details DB and the web server are linked with each other on the Internet to be connected with customers on the Internet.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the “

profit transfer function”

further includes a function of transferring the amount of distribution of the profit based on sales of the goods to the customers after the production of the goods is finished to a server of each pre-payer'"'"'s designated network operator and deducting the amount of distribution from charges for each pre-payer'"'"'s communication services.

3. A prepayment and profit distribution system using the Internet, for providing pre-payers with goods and distributing some of profits based on sales of goods to the pre-payers, comprising:

a third operator'"'"'s home page for performing a function of collecting information on goods currently being produced or planned to produce from a producer on-line on the Internet, storing the collected goods information in a first goods information DB, and providing a customer who has connected thereto through the Internet with goods information stored in the first goods information DB, and a function of recording receipt details of the pre-payers made with a pertinent financial institution'"'"'s server on a first receipt details DB;

a third operator'"'"'s web server for performing a function of transferring the receipt details of the pre-payers recorded on the first receipt details DB to the producer'"'"'s computer having uploaded the goods information, and a function of transferring the price of the goods received from the pre-payers with the commission of the third operator deducted to the producer'"'"'s designated bank account; and

the producer'"'"'s computer for performing a function of transferring the goods information to a third operator'"'"'s web site in connection with a second goods information DB in which the goods information currently being produced or planned to produce from the producer is stored, a function of recording the receipt details of the pre-payers transferred from the third operator'"'"'s web site on a second receipt details DB, and a function of transferring information on the development of production of the goods to the third operator'"'"'s web site,

wherein the third operator'"'"'s web site, the producer'"'"'s computer and the customer are connected with each other on the Internet.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the producer'"'"'s computer performs an occasional notice function, a goods use information transfer function, a transportation information output function and a profit transfer function, in connection with the third operator'"'"'s web site, the second goods information DB and the second receipt details DB on the Internet.