KR20120037597A - System and method for recommending shop based on user's location - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A location based franchise recommending system and a method thereof are provided to supply franchise store information having a high customer evaluation score to a user terminal. CONSTITUTION: A service device(200) extracts a franchise store around a current location of a user. The service device selects the franchise store having high priority as a recommended member store. The service device transmits member store recommendation information to a user terminal(100). A franchise store terminal(300) transmits customer attraction information to the service device. A payment device(400) transmits a payment approval response message to the user terminal. The payment device supplies franchise store evaluation information to the service device.

Description

System and Method for recommending shop based on user's location}

The present invention relates to a location-based merchant recommendation system and method, and more particularly, when a service device receives a merchant recommendation request signal including a consumer item from a user terminal, handles the consumer product near the current location of the user. Extracting the affiliated stores, ranking the extracted affiliated stores based on the affiliated store evaluation information from the payment device, selecting a high-ranking affiliated store as a recommended affiliate store, and including customer attraction information from the affiliated store terminal of the recommended affiliate store; The present invention relates to a location-based merchant recommendation system and method for transmitting affiliate store recommendation information to the user terminal.

In modern society, not only primary industries such as agriculture and fisheries or secondary industries such as manufacturing industries, but also service industries such as culture, leisure and food service using the human brain are in the spotlight.

Moreover, since human diet is the most basic and essential element of human survival, there have been many developments and changes in the diet in modern times.

In general, service industries, such as catering, develop mainly in communities or by industry. As a result, many restaurant operators have devised a variety of ways to attract customers to survive the fierce competition.

For example, there are means for distributing discount coupons free to customers who use their own restaurants or ordering food for free to customers who visit a predetermined number of times by providing mileage coupons.

Such means are not limited to the catering business, but are used in various ways from the point of view of a store owner who wants to sell clothing and other goods.

Also, in recent years, according to the development of communication technology, merchants related to the current location of the terminal transmit discount coupons, etc., to the customer terminal based on the current position of the terminal, and the user of the terminal uses the received discount coupon. By visiting the affiliated store and presenting a discount coupon sent to the user's terminal to the affiliated store can obtain a discount.

If you are going to visit a merchant, you will be able to receive competitive information on customers in real time, providing discount events or free services that meet your current conditions (current location, distance traveled, number of people, visit time, discount conditions, etc.). It would be advantageous to select a merchant with better conditions by acquiring. However, when receiving only discount coupons unilaterally transmitted from a particular merchant, there is a limit in selecting the most advantageous merchant from the customer's position. Therefore, even though there is a desire to acquire all the information of affiliates who want to visit based on their current location, the customer position does not have a system that can satisfy such desires.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide the merchant information in real time based on the location information of the current location of the user in accordance with the user's recommendation of the user request to the user terminal, the merchant Provides information on discounts and mileage usage, etc., and merchants with high customer scores to attract users to facilitate the selection of merchants to visit, or to optimize the number of merchants near the user's location. To provide a location-based merchant recommendation system and method that can recommend affiliates.

According to an aspect of the present invention to achieve the above objects, when a merchant recommendation request signal including a consumption item is received from a user terminal, extracting the merchants handling the consumer goods near the current location of the user, The selected merchants are ranked based on the merchant evaluation information from the payment device, and a high ranking merchant is selected as a recommendation merchant, and the merchant recommendation information including customer attraction information from the merchant terminal of the recommendation merchant is the user terminal. A service device for transmitting to the service device, the customer attraction information including affiliated store information, price, and discount information to the service device according to the request for customer attraction information from the service device, and the payment approval provided by the corresponding user. Merchant terminal requesting, payment win from the merchant terminal In response to the request, in response to the payment approval payment request response message including payment approval history and merchant evaluation query to the corresponding user terminal, and receives the merchant evaluation information from the corresponding user terminal to provide a payment device for the service device; A location-based merchant recommendation system is provided that includes.

The location-based affiliated store recommendation system may further include an LBS device that detects a current location of the user terminal and provides the service device to the service device.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a communication interface unit for performing communication through a communication network, a database storing affiliate store information including affiliate store evaluation information, and receiving affiliate store evaluation information from a payment device through the communication interface unit and storing the database in the database. When an affiliated store recommendation request signal including a consumption item is received from a user terminal through the affiliated store evaluation information collecting unit and the communication interface unit, extracting the affiliated stores that handle the consumption item near the current location of the user, and extracting A recommendation merchant selection unit that ranks merchants based on merchant evaluation information and selects high-ranking merchants as recommended merchants, and requests and receives customer attraction information from the merchant terminals of the recommended merchants, and recommends merchants including customer attraction information. 4 information reminders The service apparatus including merchant services like portion is provided to be transmitted to the host terminal.

The affiliated store evaluation information collection unit collects the evaluation information for each affiliated store through the web / swap site and stores in the database.

The recommendation affiliate selection unit may determine the current location of the user terminal through an LBS device or receive information about the current location from the user terminal to determine the current location of the user terminal.

In addition, the recommendation merchant selection unit retrieves the merchant evaluation information for the extracted affiliated stores in the database, calculates a weighted score for each item in the retrieved affiliated store evaluation information to calculate the evaluation score for the affiliated store, the calculation The franchisees are ranked based on the evaluation scores and the high ranking franchisees are selected as recommended franchisees.

In addition, the recommendation merchant selection unit extracts the merchants handling the consumer goods near the current location of the user and requests and receives customer attraction information to the merchants, based on the customer attraction information and merchant evaluation information of each merchant The extracted affiliated stores are sequenced to select a highly ranked affiliated store as a recommended affiliated store.

The recommendation affiliate selection unit selects a recommendation affiliate based on a value obtained by calculating a specific weight on the score of the recommendation selection criteria item, and the recommendation selection criteria item includes a price, a discount content, a cumulative number of times, a visit welcome time, and a store evaluation Contains information.

The customer attraction information includes affiliated store information, price, discount contents, event event, and the affiliated store recommendation information includes customer attraction information of a recommended affiliate store according to priority.

According to another aspect of the invention, the merchant information, a database storing the merchant evaluation information for each merchant, a communication interface for performing communication through a communication network, when receiving a payment approval request from the merchant terminal through the communication interface, the payment approval In response to the payment approval processing unit for transmitting a payment approval response message including payment approval history and merchant evaluation query to the user terminal, receiving the merchant evaluation information in response to the merchant evaluation query from the user terminal through the communication interface unit A payment device including a merchant evaluation information providing unit provided to a service device is provided.

The payment device may further include a point providing unit that provides at least one of points earning, discounts, and coupons for the affiliated store to a user who responds to the affiliated store evaluation query.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a communication interface for performing communication through a communication network, a storage unit for storing merchant information including affiliated store evaluation information, and collecting and storing merchant store evaluation information in real time or periodically Merchant evaluation information collection unit, an input unit for receiving a merchant recommendation request command including a consumption item from the user, when the merchant recommendation request command is input through the input unit, a position estimation unit for estimating the current position, near the estimated position A recommendation merchant selection unit for extracting affiliated stores handling the consumption items from the storage unit and selecting the highest ranking affiliated stores as recommended affiliates by ranking the extracted affiliated stores based on affiliated store evaluation information; Provided is a user terminal including an output unit for outputting information of .

The affiliated store evaluation information collection unit collects evaluation information for each affiliated store through the web / swap site or collects the affiliated store evaluation information from the payment device.

According to another aspect of the present invention, in response to a payment approval request from a merchant terminal, the payment device transmits a payment approval response message including a payment approval history and a merchant evaluation query to the corresponding user terminal in response to the payment approval, Receiving merchant evaluation information from a user terminal and transmitting the same to the service device; when the service device stores the merchant evaluation information from the payment device and receives a merchant recommendation request signal including a consumption item from the user terminal, the corresponding user; Confirming a current location of the service device; extracting merchants handling the consumption item from among merchants within a predetermined range from the identified location; and the service device stores the stored merchants with respect to the extracted merchants High ranking affiliates by ranking based on evaluation information Selecting as a recommendation affiliate store, the service device requesting and receiving customer attraction information from an affiliated store terminal of the recommendation affiliate store, and transmitting the affiliated store recommendation information including the customer attraction information to the user terminal. A location based merchant recommendation method comprising the steps is provided.

According to another aspect of the present invention, in the location-based merchant recommendation method of the service device, (a) when a merchant recommendation request signal including a consumption item is received from the user terminal, checking the current location of the user, (b) extracting franchisees handling the consumer goods from among the franchisees within a certain range from the identified location; (c) ranking the franchisees based on pre-stored franchisee evaluation information for the extracted franchisees Selecting an affiliated store as a recommended affiliate store; (d) requesting and receiving customer attraction information from the affiliated store terminal of the recommended affiliate store; and (e) transmitting the affiliated store recommendation information including the customer attraction information to the user terminal. Location-based merchant recommendation method comprising a.

The location-based merchant recommendation method may further include collecting and storing affiliate store evaluation information for each affiliate store from the payment device before step (a).

In the step (a), the current location of the user terminal is determined through the LBS device or the current location of the user terminal is received by receiving information on the current location from the user terminal.

The step (c) is a step of retrieving affiliated store evaluation information for the extracted affiliated stores from a database, calculating a score for each affiliated store by calculating a weight on a score of each item in the retrieved affiliated store evaluation information; And ranking the affiliated stores based on the calculated evaluation scores and extracting the highly ranked affiliated stores as the recommended affiliated stores.

In another method of the present invention, the service device in the location-based merchant recommendation method, (a) when receiving a merchant recommendation request signal including a consumption item from the user terminal, checking the current location of the user, (b) extracting merchants handling the consumer goods from among the merchants within a predetermined range from the identified location, (c) requesting and receiving customer attraction information from the extracted merchants, and attracting customers of each merchant Ordering the extracted affiliated stores based on the information and the affiliated store evaluation information to select a highly ranked affiliated store as a recommended affiliated store, (d) the affiliated store recommendation information including customer attraction information of the selected recommended affiliated stores to the user terminal; A location-based merchant recommendation method comprising the step of transmitting is provided.

In the step (c), the price, discount contents, the cumulative number of recommendations, the visit welcome time, and the ranking of the high ranks are calculated in order of the highest values based on the values obtained by calculating specific weights on the scores of the recommendation selection criteria items of the merchant evaluation information. Recommend franchisees Select franchisees.

According to another aspect of the present invention, in the method for the payment device collects the merchant evaluation information to provide a location-based merchant recommendation service, upon receipt of a payment approval request from the merchant terminal, the payment approval history and the merchant in response to the payment approval Transmitting a payment approval response message including an evaluation query to a corresponding user terminal; receiving affiliated store evaluation information in response to the affiliated store evaluation query from the user terminal and providing the service evaluation information to a service device; This is provided.

According to another aspect of the present invention, in a method for recommending an affiliated store by a user terminal, (a) estimating a current position when an affiliated store recommendation request command including a consumption item is input by a user, and (b) Extracting franchisees handling the consumer goods from among the franchisees within a predetermined range from the estimated position; (c) ranking the franchisees based on pre-stored franchisee evaluation information for the extracted franchisees and recommending a high rank franchisee There is provided a location-based merchant recommendation method comprising the step of selecting as an affiliated store, (d) outputting the information of the selected recommended affiliated store.

The location-based merchant recommendation method may further include collecting and storing affiliate store evaluation information for each affiliate store in real time or periodically from a web / wap site or a payment device.

As described above, according to the present invention, in accordance with a request for a merchant recommendation of a user, merchant information based on the location information of the current location of the user is provided to the user terminal in real time, or discounts or mileage provided by the merchant to attract customers are used. By providing the user terminal with information about the back and the like, the merchant information having a high evaluation score is provided to the user terminal to facilitate the selection of the merchant to visit, or recommend the optimal merchant among a plurality of merchants near the user's location.

In addition, customers can easily find and use merchants that can accommodate people with customers at their current location. Thus, customers do not have to go to merchants that can accommodate those they accompany.

In addition, the merchant can secure more acceptable customers even in the situation currently being used by customers can provide the service to customers more conveniently and quickly.

In addition, the customer is provided with live customer attraction information on the site, so that the customer can easily determine the merchant to visit.

In addition, it is possible to receive a recommendation of the optimal merchant among the various merchants around, so that customers can comfortably consume.

1 is a view showing a location-based merchant recommendation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 2 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of a service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of a payment device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a view showing a location-based merchant recommendation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a diagram illustrating a method for collecting affiliate store evaluation information by a service device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a view showing a location-based merchant recommendation method according to another embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a user terminal capable of recommending a location-based affiliated store according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a flowchart illustrating a method for recommending a location-based affiliated store by a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The foregoing and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG.

1 is a view showing a location-based merchant recommendation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the location-based merchant recommendation system includes a user terminal 100, a service device 200, a merchant terminal 300, a payment device 400, and an LBS device 500.

The user terminal 100 accesses the service device 200 through a communication network, transmits an affiliate store recommendation request signal including consumption items, and selects an affiliate store having a high evaluation score from among the affiliate stores based on the current location from the service device 200. Received as a recommended merchant.

That is, when the user inputs the number of visits, the scheduled time of visit, the consumption item, etc. through the user terminal 100, the user terminal 100 generates the affiliated shop recommendation request signal including the input information to the service device ( 200).

In addition, the user terminal 100 requests a reservation to the service device 200 for the affiliated store selected by the user from among the recommended affiliated stores provided from the service device 200.

Here, the user terminal 100 may be a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone or a PDA when the communication network is a mobile communication network, or may be a computer terminal when the communication network is a wired communication network such as the Internet or a PSTN. In addition, the communication network may include a mobile communication network such as CDMA, WCDMA, HSPA, a wired communication network such as the Internet and a PSTN, or a local area network such as Bluetooth or Zigbee.

In addition, the communication network interconnects the user terminal 100, the service device 200, the affiliated store terminal 300, the payment device 400, and the LBS device 500.

When the affiliated store recommendation request signal including the consumption item is received from the user terminal 100, the service device 200 extracts the affiliated stores that handle the consumption item near the current location of the user, and extracts the extracted affiliated store. Merchants based on the merchant evaluation information from the payment device 400 to select a high ranking merchants as a recommendation merchant, merchant recommendation information including customer attraction information from each of the merchant terminal 300 of the recommended merchants To transmit to the user terminal 100.

A detailed description of the service device 200 performing the above role will be given with reference to FIG. 2.

When the customer attraction information is requested from the service device 200, the affiliated store terminal 300 transmits customer attraction information including the affiliated store information, a price, and a discount to the service device 200. Here, the affiliated store information includes a trade name, a phone number, a location, and the like.

In addition, the affiliated store terminal 300 requests payment approval from the payment device 400 through a payment means provided by a user.

In addition, the affiliated store terminal 300 has an application program for communicating with the service device 200 is installed, for example, a customer attraction information request message is displayed from the service device 200 in the form of a pop-up, pop-up, You can enter customer attraction information through the window. The affiliated store terminal 300 includes a PC, a POS terminal, and the like.

The payment device 400 transmits a payment approval response message including a payment approval history and an affiliate store evaluation query to the corresponding user terminal in response to the payment approval request from the affiliated store terminal 300. The affiliate store evaluation information is received from the terminal and provided to the service device 200.

Detailed description of the payment device 400 that performs the above role will be described with reference to FIG.

The LBS device 500 identifies the current location of the user terminal 100 that requested the affiliated store information and notifies the service device 200 of this.

2 is a block diagram schematically showing a configuration of a service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the service device 200 includes a communication interface 202, a merchant evaluation information collection unit 204, a recommendation merchant selection unit 206, a merchant recommendation service unit 208, and a database 210. do.

The communication interface unit 202 communicates with a user terminal, a merchant terminal, a payment device, and an LBS device through a communication network.

The database 210 stores merchant information including affiliate store evaluation information. That is, the database 210 stores affiliated store information, affiliated store evaluation information including location, type of business, menu, current number of users, affiliated store (or affiliated store owner) contact number, and the like.

The affiliated store evaluation information collection unit 204 receives the affiliated store evaluation information from the payment device through the communication interface unit 202 and stores it in the database 210.

In addition, the affiliated store evaluation information collection unit 204 may collect the evaluation information for each affiliated store through the web / swap site and store in the database 210.

When the affiliated store recommendation request signal including the consumption item is received from the user terminal through the communication interface unit 202, the recommended affiliated store selection unit 206 may select the affiliated stores that handle the consumption item near the current location of the user. Extracting and ranking the extracted affiliated stores based on affiliated store evaluation information to select a high ranking affiliated store as a recommended affiliated store.

That is, when the affiliated store recommendation request signal is received from the user terminal, the recommended affiliated store selection unit 206 determines the current location of the user terminal through an LBS device or receives information about the current location from the user terminal. Find out the current location of the terminal. Then, the affiliated merchant selection unit 206 extracts affiliated stores within a predetermined radius of the identified location using the affiliated store locations stored in the database 210, and manages the consumed item among the extracted affiliated stores. Are extracted from the database 210.

Then, the recommended affiliate selection unit 206 retrieves affiliate store evaluation information about the extracted affiliate stores from the database 210 and calculates an evaluation score for each affiliate store based on the retrieved affiliate store evaluation information. For example, the recommendation merchant selection unit 206 calculates an evaluation score by calculating a weight on a score of an item such as service level, cleanliness, atmosphere, and quality satisfaction included in the merchant evaluation information.

Then, the recommendation affiliate selection unit 206 ranks the affiliated stores based on the calculated evaluation score and selects the affiliated stores as the recommended affiliate stores.

In addition, the recommended merchant selection unit 206 extracts merchants handling the consumer goods near the current location of the user, requests and receives customer attraction information to the affiliated stores, and evaluates the customer attraction information and merchants of each merchant. Based on the information, the extracted affiliated stores are ranked to select affiliated stores which are highly recommended. In this case, the recommendation affiliate selection unit 9206 selects a recommendation affiliate based on a value obtained by calculating a specific weight on the score of the recommendation selection criterion item. Here, the recommendation selection criteria items include price, discount contents, recommendation cumulative number, visit welcome time, merchant evaluation information.

The affiliated store recommendation service unit 208 requests and receives customer attraction information from the affiliated store terminal of the recommended affiliate store selected by the recommended affiliate store selection unit 206 and transmits the affiliated store recommendation information including the customer attraction information to the user terminal. Here, the customer attraction information includes the price of the item of consumption, the discount details, and the like.

The affiliated store recommendation information includes affiliated store information, ranking of affiliated stores, the number of users, a price, a discount, and the like.

3 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of a payment apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the payment device 400 may include a communication interface 402, a payment approval processor 404, a merchant evaluation information provider 406, a point provider 408, for performing communication through a communication network. Database 410.

The database 410 stores information of credit card companies, affiliate store information of affiliated merchants, personal information of users, affiliate store evaluation information provided by a user, and all data necessary for payment for use.

When the payment approval request is requested from the affiliated store terminal through the communication interface unit 402, the payment approval processing unit 404 sends a payment approval response message including the payment approval details and the affiliated store evaluation query to the corresponding user terminal in response to the payment approval. send.

That is, the payment approval processing unit 404 approves the payment for the use bill payment through the user authentication procedure. In other words, the card information and the merchant usage information received from the merchant terminal are received, the payment is approved through the user authentication procedure according to the payment settlement approval program, and the result is transmitted to the merchant terminal.

When payment approval is completed, the payment approval processing unit 404 generates a payment approval response message including a payment approval details and a merchant evaluation query for a questionnaire survey regarding the satisfaction of the merchant, and transmits it to the corresponding user terminal. In this case, the merchant evaluation query is composed of items for evaluating the satisfaction of the quality of goods, service level, cleanliness, atmosphere, etc. The payment approval response message is a short message service (SMS), a long message service (LMS) or multimedia It may be in the form of a message service (MMS).

When using a messaging service such as a short message service (SMS), a long message service (LMS), or a multimedia message service (MMS), the payment approval response message is transmitted using a mobile communication service such as a general messaging service in connection with a mobile carrier. do. Payment approval response messages sent to the email address will be sent to the email address. That is, after the payment approval is completed, the payment approval response message including the payment approval details and the merchant customer satisfaction inquiry is transmitted to the terminal or the e-mail address of the user.

The affiliated store evaluation information providing unit 406 receives affiliated store evaluation information in response to the affiliate store evaluation query from the user terminal and provides the service evaluation unit to the service device through the communication interface unit 402.

The point providing unit 408 provides points earning, discounts, coupons, etc. for the affiliated store to a user who responds to the affiliated store evaluation query.

That is, the point providing unit 408 provides a predetermined material reward to the user when the user transmits the merchant satisfaction evaluation information in response to a questionnaire questionnaire asking the merchant satisfaction after using the merchant. That is, material rewards are provided to users who participated in the survey. At this time, the material reward is a free gift that can increase the participation rate of the consumer survey, for example, it may be a point score, a product price discount, credit card annual fee exemption, etc. that can be converted to the use price when purchasing the actual goods or use the merchant.

4 is a view showing a location-based merchant recommendation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, the service device stores affiliated store evaluation information from the payment device (S400). A detailed description of how the service device collects and stores affiliated store evaluation information will be given with reference to FIG. 5.

When the service device receives a merchant recommendation request signal including a consumption item from the user terminal (S402), the service device checks the current location of the corresponding user (S404). That is, the user terminal accesses a service device and transmits a franchise recommendation request signal including a number of people, a consumption item (menu), a scheduled visit time, and the like. The affiliated store recommendation request signal may be, for example, in the form of 5 people, menu: pork belly, scheduled time of visit: 7:00, and the like. In this case, the user terminal may also select whether it is a simple request or a recommendation request.

When the affiliated store recommendation request signal is received from the user terminal, the service device determines the current location of the user terminal through the LBS device or receives information about the current location from the user terminal to determine the current location of the user terminal. .

When the S404 is performed, the service device extracts the affiliated stores that handle the consumption item from among the affiliated stores within a predetermined range from the identified location (S406).

For example, if the identified location is Gangnam Station and the consumption item is pork belly, the service device extracts merchants handling pork belly from the merchants located near Gangnam Station.

Then, the service device selects the affiliated stores having the highest evaluation scores as recommended affiliate stores by ranking them based on the affiliated store evaluation information on the extracted affiliated stores (S408). That is, the service apparatus searches for affiliated store evaluation information on the extracted affiliated stores and calculates an evaluation score for the affiliated store by service or age based on the retrieved affiliated store evaluation information. The service device then ranks the affiliated stores based on the calculated evaluation scores and selects the affiliated stores as the recommended affiliated stores.

After performing the step S408, the service device requests the customer attraction information from the affiliated store terminal of the recommended affiliate store (S410). In some cases, the customer invitation information request message may be transmitted to the store contact information of the recommended affiliate store. At this time, the number of visitors can also be transmitted. However, the scheduled visit time may not be transmitted.

The affiliated store terminal transmits customer attraction information to the service device (S412). Here, the customer attraction information includes a price, a discount amount or a discount rate, the number of current users, the number of seats remaining, and a welcome time to visit.

The service device generates affiliated store recommendation information including customer attraction information for each recommended affiliate store (S414), and transmits it to the user terminal (S416).

In this case, the service device may provide the generated merchant recommendation information to the user terminal as an SMS message or an MMS message.

In addition, when there are two or more recommended franchisees, the service device transmits a list of recommended franchisees to the user terminal as a text message, and when the user terminal selects one of the affiliated stores included in the text message, the selection information is serviced through a URL. The service device may transmit a selection message to the selected affiliated store.

The user may check the affiliated store recommendation information, select a desired affiliated store, and request a reservation from the service device.

5 is a diagram illustrating a method for collecting affiliate store evaluation information by a service apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, when an affiliated store terminal requests a payment approval by accessing a payment device (S500), the payment device generates a payment approval response message including a payment approval history and a merchant evaluation query in response to the payment approval ( S502).

When a user receives a credit card from a specific financial institution, the user registers his terminal, for example, a mobile phone number and basic card issuance information, with a credit card company. The user terminal is used for messaging services authorized by the user. The card issuance information also includes the user's email address for the mailing service.

The merchant evaluation query includes items such as product quality, service level, cleanliness, and atmosphere.

After performing S502, the payment device transmits the generated payment approval response message to the corresponding user terminal (S504).

Then, the user terminal transmits the affiliated store evaluation information input by the user to the payment device (S506), and the payment device transmits the affiliated store evaluation information to the service device (S508). The merchant evaluation information may vary according to the quality of the product, for example, if the product is food, taste and cleanliness and price, and the level of service. At this time, the user checks the payment approval response message provided through the messaging service or the mailing service, and then returns the affiliate store satisfaction information experienced and felt by the affiliate store evaluation information.

The service device stores affiliated store evaluation information from the payment device (S510).

6 is a view showing a location-based merchant recommendation method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, since S600 to S606 are the same as S400 to S406 of FIG. 4, description thereof will be omitted.

After performing S606, the service device requests and receives customer acquisition information from the extracted affiliated stores (S608).

Then, the service device ranks the extracted affiliated stores based on the customer attraction information and the affiliated store evaluation information of each affiliated store (S610), and selects the affiliated stores with high evaluation scores (S612). At this time, the service device is ranked in order of high value based on the value obtained by calculating a specific weight on the score of the price, the discount contents, the cumulative number of recommendations, the visit welcome time, the recommendation selection criteria item of the merchant evaluation information. Recommend franchisees Select franchisees.

Then, the service device transmits affiliated store recommendation information including customer attraction information of the selected recommended affiliated stores to the user terminal (S614).

Then, the user may check the affiliated store recommendation information, select a desired affiliated store, and request a reservation from the service device.

7 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a user terminal capable of recommending a location-based affiliate store according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, the user terminal 700 capable of recommending a location-based affiliated store may include a communication interface 702, an input unit 704, an output unit 706, a storage unit 708, and the like, for performing communication through a communication network. Merchant evaluation information collection unit 710, location estimation unit 712, and the recommended merchant selection unit 714.

The communication interface unit 702 enables communication through a mobile communication network, a wired communication network, a short range wireless communication network, and the like.

The input unit 704 serves to receive a user command, and receives a merchant recommendation request command including consumption items from a user.

The output unit 706 outputs information of the recommended affiliate store selected by the recommended affiliate store selection unit 714 in the form of an image or an audio.

The storage unit 708 stores affiliated store information including affiliated store evaluation information. That is, the storage unit 708 stores affiliate store information, affiliate store evaluation information including a location, a business type, a menu, a current user number, an affiliate store (or affiliate store owner) contact number, and the like for the affiliate store.

The affiliated store evaluation information collecting unit 710 collects and stores the affiliated store evaluation information in real time or periodically and stores it in the storage unit 708. In other words, The affiliated store evaluation information collection unit 710 receives the affiliated store evaluation information from the payment device through the communication interface unit 702 and stores the evaluation information for each affiliated store through the storage unit 708 or through a web / wafer site. It may be collected and stored in the storage unit 708.

The location estimator 712 estimates the current location when a merchant recommendation request command is input through the input unit 704. The location estimating unit 712 may estimate its current location using a GPS or may receive information about the current location from the user.

The affiliated merchant selection unit 714 extracts affiliated stores handling the consumer goods from the storage unit in the vicinity of the estimated position, and ranks the extracted affiliated stores based on the affiliated store evaluation information. Selected as a recommended merchant.

That is, the recommended affiliate selection unit 714 extracts affiliate stores within a predetermined radius of the estimated location using the affiliate store locations stored in the storage unit 708 and handles the consumed item among the extracted affiliate stores. Merchants are extracted from the storage unit 708.

Then, the recommendation affiliate selection unit 714 searches the affiliate store evaluation information for the extracted affiliate stores in the storage unit 708 and calculates an evaluation score for each affiliate store based on the retrieved affiliate store evaluation information. For example, the recommended affiliate selection unit 714 calculates an evaluation score by calculating a weight on a score of an item such as service level, cleanliness, atmosphere, and quality satisfaction included in the affiliate evaluation information.

Thereafter, the recommendation affiliate selection unit 714 ranks the affiliated stores based on the calculated evaluation score and selects the affiliated stores as the preferred affiliated stores.

In addition, the recommendation merchant selection unit 714 extracts the merchants handling the consumer goods in the vicinity of the current location of the user and requests and receives customer attraction information to the merchants, the customer attraction information and merchant evaluation of each merchant Based on the information, the extracted affiliated stores are ranked to select affiliated stores which are highly recommended. In this case, the recommendation affiliate selection unit 714 requests and receives customer acquisition information from the affiliated store terminals of the extracted affiliate stores using a short range wireless communication network, a mobile communication network, a wired communication network, and the like. Then, the recommendation affiliate selection unit 714 selects a recommendation affiliate based on a value obtained by calculating a specific weight on the score of the recommendation selection criteria item. Here, the recommendation selection criteria items include price, discount contents, recommendation cumulative number, visit welcome time, merchant evaluation information.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a method for recommending a location-based affiliated store by a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 8, the user terminal collects and stores affiliated store evaluation information for each affiliated store in real time or periodically from a web / wap site or a payment device (S800).

Then, when the user terminal input request for a merchant recommendation including consumption items is input by the user (S802), the user terminal estimates its current position (S804).

The user terminal extracts affiliated stores handling the consumer goods from among the affiliated stores within a predetermined range from the estimated position (S806), and ranks the extracted affiliated stores based on pre-stored affiliated store evaluation information for high ranking. The affiliated store is selected as the recommended affiliated store (S808). That is, the user terminal searches for affiliate store evaluation information on the extracted affiliate stores, and calculates an evaluation score for the affiliate store based on the retrieved affiliate store evaluation information. Then, the user terminal ranks the affiliated stores based on the calculated evaluation score and selects the affiliated stores as the preferred affiliated stores.

Further, the user terminal requests and receives customer attraction information from the extracted affiliated stores, and ranks the extracted affiliated stores based on the received customer attraction information and affiliated store evaluation information of each affiliated store and recommends a high ranking affiliated store. You can also choose to be a merchant.

After the execution of the S808, the user terminal outputs the information of the selected recommended affiliated store in the form of an image, text, text, voice, etc. (S810).

As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof. Therefore, the above-described embodiments are to be understood as illustrative in all respects and not as restrictive. The scope of the present invention is shown by the following claims rather than the detailed description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.

As described above, the location-based merchant recommendation system and method of the present invention provides the merchant information based on the location information where the user is currently located to the user terminal according to the user's affiliate recommendation request, or the affiliate stores to attract customers. By providing information on discounts, mileage usage, etc., and merchant information with high customer scores to the user terminal, the user can easily select the merchants to visit or recommend the best merchants among the multiple merchants near the user's location. It is suitable when there is a need.

100, 700: user terminal 200: service device
202, 402, 702: communication interface unit 204, 710: merchant evaluation information collection unit
206, 714: Recommended Merchant Selection Department 208: Merchant Recommended Services Department
210, 410: database 300: merchant terminal
400: payment device 404: payment approval processing unit
406: merchant evaluation information provider 408: point provider
500: LBS unit 704: input unit
706: output unit 708: storage unit
712 position estimation unit

Claims (24)

When a merchant recommendation request signal including a consumption item is received from a user terminal, merchants handling the consumption item are extracted near a current location of the user, and merchant evaluation information from the payment device is extracted for the extracted merchants. A service device that selects and ranks high-ranking merchants based on the basis as recommendation merchants and transmits merchant recommendation information including customer attraction information from the merchant terminal of the recommendation merchants to the user terminal;
A merchant terminal for transmitting customer attraction information including affiliated store information, price, and discount information to the service device according to a request for customer attraction information from the service device, and requesting payment approval through a payment means provided by the corresponding user; And
In response to the payment approval request from the affiliated store terminal, in response to the payment approval, a payment approval response message including a payment approval history and a merchant evaluation query is transmitted to the corresponding user terminal, and the affiliated store evaluation information is received from the corresponding user terminal. A payment device provided to the device;
Location-based merchant recommendation system comprising a.
The method of claim 1,
Location-based affiliated shop recommendation system further comprising an LBS device to determine the current location of the user terminal to provide to the service device.
A communication interface unit for performing communication through a communication network;
A database storing affiliate store information including affiliate store evaluation information;
Merchant evaluation information collection unit for receiving the merchant evaluation information from the payment device through the communication interface unit and stores in the database;
When the affiliated store recommendation request signal including the consumption item is received from the user terminal through the communication interface unit, the affiliated stores handling the consumption item are extracted in the vicinity of the current location of the user, and the affiliated store evaluation information is obtained for the extracted affiliated stores. A recommendation merchant selection unit configured to select a high ranking affiliate as a recommendation affiliate based on the ranking; And
An affiliated store recommendation service unit requesting and receiving customer attraction information from the affiliated store terminal of the recommended affiliate store and transmitting affiliated store recommendation information including the customer attraction information to the user terminal;
Service device comprising a.
The method of claim 3,
The affiliated store evaluation information collecting unit collects the evaluation information for each affiliate through a web / swap site and stores in the database.
The method of claim 3,
The recommendation merchant selecting unit is a service device, characterized in that to grasp the current location of the user terminal through the LBS device or to receive the current location information from the user terminal to determine the current location of the user terminal.
The method of claim 3,
The affiliated merchant selection unit searches the affiliated store evaluation information for the extracted affiliated stores in the database, calculates a weighted score for each item in the retrieved affiliated store evaluation information, calculates an evaluation score for the affiliated store, and calculates the calculated evaluation. The service device, characterized in that the ranking of the merchants based on the score to select a high ranking merchants as recommended merchants.
The method of claim 3,
The affiliated merchant selection unit extracts merchants handling the consumer goods in the vicinity of the current location of the user, requests and receives customer attraction information from the affiliated stores, and extracts the information based on the customer attraction information and affiliated store evaluation information of each affiliated store. The service device characterized in that the selected merchants are ranked by recommending affiliated merchants.
The method of claim 7, wherein
The recommendation merchant selection unit selects a recommendation merchant based on a value obtained by calculating a specific weight on the score of the recommendation selection criteria item,
The recommendation selection criterion item includes a price, a discount content, a cumulative recommendation count, a visit welcome time, and affiliated store evaluation information.
The method of claim 3,
The customer attraction information includes merchant information, prices, discount details, event events,
The affiliated store recommendation information is a service device, characterized in that it includes customer attraction information of the recommended affiliated stores according to the priority.
A database storing affiliate store information and affiliate store evaluation information for each affiliate store;
A communication interface unit for performing communication through a communication network;
A payment approval processing unit for transmitting a payment approval response message including a payment approval history and a merchant evaluation query to the corresponding user terminal in response to the payment approval upon receiving a payment approval request from the affiliated store terminal through the communication interface unit; And
An affiliated store evaluation information providing unit configured to receive affiliated store evaluation information in response to the affiliated store evaluation query from the user terminal and provide the received affiliated store evaluation information to a service device through the communication interface unit;
Payment device comprising a.
The method of claim 10,
The payment device further comprises a point providing unit for providing at least one of points earning, discounts, coupons for the merchant to the user in response to the merchant evaluation.
A communication interface unit for performing communication through a communication network;
A storage unit storing affiliated store information including affiliated store evaluation information;
An affiliate store evaluation information collection unit collecting and storing affiliate store evaluation information in real time or periodically;
An input unit configured to receive a merchant recommendation request command including a consumption item from a user;
A position estimating unit estimating a current position when an affiliate store recommendation request command is input through the input unit;
Recommended merchants selection unit for extracting the merchants handling the consumer goods in the vicinity of the estimated position from the storage unit, and to select the highest ranking merchants as recommended merchants by ranking the extracted merchants based on the merchant evaluation information ; And
An output unit configured to output information of the selected recommended affiliated store;
User terminal comprising a.
The method of claim 12,
The affiliated store evaluation information collection unit, characterized in that to collect the evaluation information for each affiliated store through the web / swap site or to collect the merchant evaluation information from the payment device.
In response to the payment approval request from the merchant terminal, the payment device transmits a payment approval response message including payment approval history and merchant evaluation query to the corresponding user terminal in response to the payment approval, and receives merchant evaluation information from the corresponding user terminal. Transmitting to the service device;
Storing, by the service device, the affiliated store evaluation information from the payment device, and checking a current location of the corresponding user when a merchant recommendation request signal including consumption items is received from the user terminal;
Extracting, by the service apparatus, merchants handling the consumption item from among merchants within a predetermined range from the identified location;
Selecting, by the service apparatus, the highest affiliated stores as recommended affiliates by ranking the extracted affiliated stores based on the stored affiliated store evaluation information;
Requesting and receiving, by the service apparatus, customer attraction information from an affiliated store terminal of the recommended affiliated store; And
Transmitting, by the service device, affiliated store recommendation information including the customer attraction information to the user terminal;
Location-based merchant recommendation method comprising a.
In the method that the service device recommends a location-based merchant,
(a) checking a current location of a corresponding user when a merchant recommendation request signal including a consumption item is received from a user terminal;
(b) extracting merchants handling the consumer goods from among the merchants within a certain range from the identified location;
(c) selecting high-ranking merchants as recommended merchants by ranking the extracted merchants based on pre-stored merchant evaluation information;
(d) requesting and receiving customer attraction information from an affiliated store terminal of the recommended affiliated store; And
(e) transmitting affiliated store recommendation information including the customer attraction information to the user terminal;
Location-based merchant recommendation method comprising a.
16. The method of claim 15,
Location-based merchant recommendation method further comprising the step of collecting and storing the merchant evaluation information for each merchant from the payment device before step (a).
16. The method of claim 15,
The step (a), the location-based affiliated shop recommendation method, characterized in that the current location of the user terminal by grasping the current location of the user terminal through the LBS device or receives information about the current location from the user terminal; .
16. The method of claim 15,
In step (c),
Retrieving affiliated store evaluation information for the extracted affiliated stores from a database;
Calculating an evaluation score for each affiliate store by calculating a weight on a score of each item in the retrieved affiliate store evaluation information; And
And ranking the affiliated stores based on the calculated evaluation scores and extracting the affiliated stores having the highest ranking as the recommended affiliate stores.
In the service device is a location-based merchant recommendation method,
(a) checking a current location of a corresponding user when a merchant recommendation request signal including a consumption item is received from a user terminal;
(b) extracting merchants handling the consumer goods from among the merchants within a certain range from the identified location;
(c) requesting and receiving customer attraction information from the extracted affiliated stores, and sequencing the extracted affiliated stores based on the customer attraction information and affiliated store evaluation information of each affiliated store and selecting a highly ranked affiliated store as a recommended affiliated store; And
(d) transmitting affiliated store recommendation information including customer attraction information of the selected recommended affiliated stores to the user terminal;
Location-based merchant recommendation method comprising a.
20. The method of claim 19,
Location-based merchant recommendation method further comprising the step of collecting and storing the merchant evaluation information for each merchant from the payment device before step (a).
20. The method of claim 19,
In step (c),
Select merchants that recommend high-ranking merchants by ranking them in the order of high value based on the value obtained by calculating a specific weight on the score of price, discount contents, cumulative number of recommendation, visit welcome time, and recommendation criteria items of merchant evaluation information. Location-based merchant recommendation method characterized in that.
In the method for the payment device collects merchant evaluation information to provide a location-based merchant recommendation service,
When receiving a payment approval request from the affiliated store terminal, transmitting a payment approval response message including a payment approval history and an affiliate store evaluation query to the corresponding user terminal in response to the payment approval; And
Receiving affiliate store evaluation information from the user terminal in response to the affiliate store evaluation query and providing the same to the service device;
Merchant evaluation information collection method comprising a.
In the user terminal recommends a location-based merchant,
(a) estimating a current location when a merchant recommendation request command including consumption items is input by a user;
(b) extracting merchants handling the consumer goods from among the franchisees within a certain range from the estimated position;
(c) selecting high-ranking merchants as recommended merchants by ranking the extracted merchants based on pre-stored merchant evaluation information; And
(d) outputting information on the selected recommended affiliated store;
Location-based merchant recommendation method comprising a.
The method of claim 23, wherein
Location-based merchant recommendation method further comprising the step of collecting and storing the merchant evaluation information for each merchant in real time or periodically from the web / swap site or payment device.

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