METHOD FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION AT DISCOUNTED PRICE THROUGH VOTING IN MOBILE PLATFORM

• US 20120179515A1
• Filed: 12/29/2011
• Published: 07/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NCSoft Corporation
• Original Assignee: NCSoft Corporation
• Inventors: OH, Han Jin, SONG, Jun Seo, CHO, Jennifer Moon Young
• Application Number:
  US13/339,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20120179515A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing an application for smartphones at a discounted price. According to the present invention, a new model in which a game application for smartphones is interworking with a social network may be provided.

Claims

1. A method for providing an application at a discounted price through voting in a mobile platform, the method comprising:

providing, by a server, a smartphone with a predetermined voting period or information on at least one target application targeted for voting, the smartphone accessing the server via a network;

displaying, by the smartphone, the received information on the at least one target application on a screen;

providing, by the smartphone, a selection value to the server based on a selection by a user of one of the at least one target application;

counting, by the server, at least one vote based on at least one selection value received from at least one smartphone, and selecting at least one application from among the at least one target application based on a result of the counting, when the predetermined voting period elapses; and

pushing, by the server, a message including information on the selected application to the at least one smartphone.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, after the displaying, displaying, on the screen, a menu enabling the user to determine whether to receive a push notification,

wherein the providing of the selection value comprises further providing the server with information regarding whether to receive the push notification determined by the user.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the pushing comprises pushing, by the server, the message to a smartphone responding that a user of the smartphone desires to receive at least the push notification.

13. A computer readable recording medium storing a program to cause a computer to implement the method of claim 1.

4. A method for providing an application at a discounted price through voting in a mobile platform, the method comprising:

providing, by a server, a smartphone with a predetermined voting period or information on at least one target application targeted for voting, the smartphone accessing the server via a network;

storing, by the server, a selection value when the selection value is received from the smartphone based on a selection by a user of one of the at least one target application;

counting, by the server, at least one vote based on at least one pre-stored selection value received from at least one smartphone, and selecting at least one application from among the at least one target application based on a result of the counting, when the predetermined voting period elapses; and

generating, by the server, a message including information on the selected application, and pushing the generated message to the at least one smartphone.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the generating comprises generating a message by combining the information on the selected application with a device token and an application name of a smartphone to which the message is to be pushed, and transmitting the generated message to a push notification server, so that the pushing is processed.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the message comprises a discounted price of the selected application or a discount period for the selected application.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the discount period comprises a period between Saturday and Sunday of a corresponding week.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the predetermined voting period comprises a period from Monday to Friday of a corresponding week.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein the counting comprises determining, by the server, a discount rate of the selected application or a discount period for the selected application, based on the result of the counting.

10. A method for providing an application at a discounted price through voting in a mobile platform, the method comprising:

displaying, by a smartphone, on a screen, information on at least one target application targeted for voting, when the information is provided from a server;

providing, by the smartphone, the server with a selection value based on a selection by a user of one of the at least one target application, and further providing the server with information regarding whether to receive a push notification determined by the user; and

parsing, by the smartphone, a message including information on an application selected based on at least one selection value received from at least one smartphone, and displaying the parsed message on the screen, when the message is pushed from the server.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising, after the displaying, receiving detailed information from the server, and displaying the received detailed information, when the user selects a function of viewing detailed information of one of the at least one target application, the detailed information including at least one of a screenshot, a description and user reviews of a corresponding application.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising, after the parsing, accessing, by the smartphone, a page used to buy the selected application via a network, based on a determination by the user of whether to buy the selected application.