KR20140066278A - Method for providing social service and server therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing social services through an application server. The method comprises the following steps: determining at least one receiver targeted to receive an invitation message based on meeting invitation information acquired from a user terminal; transmitting the invitation message to the terminal of the targeted receiver; determining expected meeting participants based on replies on the invitation message acquired from the terminal of targeted receivers; checking if event conditions related to meeting place are satisfied based on at least one among participation assurance information of expected meeting participants and expected arrival time of the expected meeting participants which can be verified within predetermined time range; and providing at least one terminal of the expected meeting participants with applicable incentive related to the event if the event conditions are satisfied.

Description

METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICE AND SERVER THEREFOR

The present invention relates to a method for providing a social service and an application server for executing the method.

It is not easy to plan meetings and decide where to meet with friends or members of a particular network. In particular, after deciding on the schedule and location of the meeting, it is very cumbersome and difficult to check what discounts or premium services are available at the meeting place or its surroundings, and which cards can be used for discounts.

In general, conventional service models that provide discount coupons, premium services, and the like are discounted services provided according to a pre-contract between a discount service provider (for example, a card company, a social commerce company, etc.) and an affiliate shop, Most of the discount service offered by the company to its own members.

However, such a discount service model is not focused on consumer-oriented discount service, but a service is provided in accordance with a discount service provider or a large-sized franchise company. In addition, there is a case where a discount is offered to a franchisee even if the franchisee is depressed by the purchasing power of the discount service provider or the consumer of the service model.

That is, according to the conventional service model, consumers can not enjoy the right to enjoy benefits based on their purchasing power and are limited. Also, the merchants such as retail stores can provide the consumers with reasonable There is a problem in that various benefits are limited.

If a merchant is able to select and provide a variety of benefits that he can reasonably provide to his customers, then consumers will also be able to match their purchasing power or the range of purchasing power Being able to enjoy reasonable benefits more conveniently will enable consumers, as well as merchants and discount service providers, to profitably share their interests.

The present invention provides a method of providing a social service and a server therefor, which can help consumers to provide a variety of incentives in accordance with an event establishment condition autonomously selected by an affiliate shop.

In addition, the present invention provides a method of providing a social service and a server therefor, which helps a consumer group necessary for receiving the incentive to be formed in a very convenient manner.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a social service by an application server,

Determining at least one recipient to send an invite message based on the meeting invitation information obtained from the user terminal;

Transmitting the invitation message to a terminal of the recipient;

Determining a meeting attendee on the basis of a response to the invitation message acquired from the terminal of the recipient;

Determining whether the event establishment condition related to the meeting place is satisfied based on at least one of the attendance guarantee information of the prospective meeting attendee and the arrival information of the prospective meeting attendee confirmed within a predetermined time range based on the meeting schedule ; And

And providing an incentive applicable to the event to the terminal of the at least one meeting attendant if the event establishment condition is satisfied.

In one embodiment, the step of determining the recipient comprises:

Determining, based on the meeting invitation information, the designated recipient identified by the meeting invitation information as the recipient if the meeting corresponds to a private meeting,

A group receiver belonging to a range of a personal network related to the user of the user terminal, a local receiver having a locally related relation with the meeting place, a meeting place or meeting And determining at least one of the registration receivers pre-registering an area or a place within a predetermined boundary around the place of interest as the object of interest together with the designated recipient.

In one embodiment, the step of determining the meeting attendee comprises:

A meeting establishment, a recipient whose consent is confirmed as a response to the invitation message, and a recipient who guarantees attendance of the meeting.

In one embodiment, information on at least one merchant providing incentives in connection with at least one of the meeting place and the meeting schedule, information on an event establishment condition for receiving an incentive at the merchant, information about an event period, And information on an incentive provided when the event establishment condition is satisfied, to the terminal of the reception subject or the prospective attendee of the meeting.

In one embodiment, the attendance guarantee information is generated as the meeting attendee provides a money substitute object of exchange value corresponding to a predetermined rate or amount,

Wherein the arrival information is generated as the meeting attendee arrives within a predetermined position range based on the meeting place within the predetermined time range,

Wherein the step of determining whether the event establishment condition is satisfied comprises:

A step of comparing the result of summing up the number of meeting attendees for which the attendance guarantee information is generated and the number of meeting attendees for which the arrival information is generated and the minimum attendance number designated as the event acceptance condition .

In one embodiment, periodically obtaining a current status of each of the meeting attendees from a predetermined time interval before the meeting start time; And

The method may further include providing the current status of the obtained one to the terminal of the remaining meeting attendee so that the current status of all the meeting attendees can be shared.

In one embodiment, the step of providing the incentive to the terminal of the at least one of the meeting participants,

And transmitting the incentive proof object to the terminal of the meeting attendee who proves the effective use of the incentive.

In one embodiment, the method further comprises recording arrival time information of the meeting attendee,

The incentive is determined by the discount amount or ratio,

The discount amount or ratio may be determined based on arrival time information of meeting attendees.

In one embodiment, the method may further include transmitting at least one of the information on the satisfaction of the event establishment condition and the information about the incentive provision fact to the merchant terminal, which is the incentive provider.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a receiving apparatus comprising: a receiving party determining unit for determining at least one receiving party to which an invite message is to be transmitted, based on meeting invitation information obtained from a user terminal;

A transmitting unit for transmitting the invitation message to a terminal of the recipient;

A participant candidate determiner for determining a participant to participate in the meeting based on a response to the invitation message acquired from the terminal of the recipient;

Determining whether or not the event establishment condition related to the meeting place is satisfied based on at least one of the attendance guarantee information of the prospective meeting attendee and the arrival information of the meeting attendance person confirmed within a predetermined time range based on the meeting schedule part; And

And an incentive provider for providing an incentive applicable to the event to the terminal of at least one of the meeting attendees if the event establishment condition is satisfied.

In one embodiment, the reception subject determiner determines,

Determining, based on the meeting invitation information, the designated recipient identified by the meeting invitation information as the recipient if the meeting corresponds to a private meeting,

A group receiver belonging to a range of a personal network related to the user of the user terminal, a local receiver having a locally related relation with the meeting place, a meeting place or meeting It is possible to determine at least one of the registration receivers pre-registering an area or a place within a predetermined boundary around the place of interest as the object of interest together with the designated recipient.

In one embodiment, information on at least one merchant providing incentives in connection with at least one of the meeting place and the meeting schedule, information on an event establishment condition for receiving an incentive at the merchant, information about an event period, And an alarm unit for providing at least one of the information on the incentives provided when the event establishment condition is satisfied to the terminal of the receiver or the attendee of the meeting.

In one embodiment, the attendance guarantee information is generated as the meeting attendee provides a money substitute object of exchange value corresponding to a predetermined rate or amount,

Wherein the arrival information is generated as the meeting attendee arrives within a predetermined position range based on the meeting place within the predetermined time range,

Wherein,

A result obtained by adding the number of meeting attendees for which the attendance guarantee information was generated and the number of meeting attendees for which the arrival information was generated is compared with the minimum attendance number designated as the event acceptance condition, It can be judged.

In one embodiment, the apparatus further includes a status obtaining unit that periodically obtains a current status of each of the meeting attendees from a predetermined time interval before the meeting start time,

The transmitting unit may provide the current status of one of the obtained persons to the terminal of the remaining meeting attendees so that the current status of all the meeting attendees can be shared.

In one embodiment, the incentive provider comprises:

Transmitting an incentive proof object that proves effective use of the incentive to the terminal of the prospective attendee of the meeting via the transmission unit,

The information on the fact of meeting the event establishment condition and the information on the incentive providing fact may be transmitted to the merchant terminal, which is the incentive provider, through the transmission unit.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer readable storage medium storing a program including instructions for causing a user terminal to execute a predefined social service provisioning method in cooperation with an external application server when executed by a user terminal As a storage medium,

The method of providing a social service includes:

Transmitting the meeting invitation information to the application server when the invitation information is input by the user;

Transmitting an invitation message including meeting invitation information to the application server when a response to the invitation message is received;

Periodically obtaining the current status of the user from a predetermined time interval before the meeting start time and transmitting the obtained current status to the application server when the user's response is an approval or attendance guarantee; And

And informing the application server of the arrival of the user when the current location of the user is within a predetermined location range based on the meeting location.

In one embodiment, the method of providing a social service, running on the computer readable storage medium,

Acquiring information for reservation inquiry through a relay of the application server or through interworking with a merchant terminal of the meeting place when a reservation request by the user related to the meeting place exists; And

And transmitting the reservation information input by the user to the application server or the merchant terminal based on the obtained inquiry information.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide a variety of incentives to consumers in accordance with the condition of autonomously selected events in the case of franchisees, and to provide a consumer group required to receive the incentives in a very convenient manner There is an advantage to be able to do.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an entire system including a social service providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a social service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a method of providing a social service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a view for explaining a matter related to the location tracking of meeting attendees in the social service providing method according to the embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a method of providing a social service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a schematic flow chart for explaining the execution operation of the user-side client program as seen from the viewpoint of the meeting establisher;
FIG. 7 is a schematic flowchart for explaining the execution operation of the user-side client program as viewed from the meeting party; FIG.

While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof have been shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments, but includes all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, numerals (e.g., first, second, etc.) used in the description of the present invention are merely an identifier for distinguishing one component from another.

Also, in this specification, when an element is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" with another element, the element may be directly connected or directly connected to the other element, It should be understood that, unless an opposite description is present, it may be connected or connected via another element in the middle.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Here, Figs. 1 to 5 are diagrams for explaining an embodiment of the present invention from the viewpoint of a social service provision server, and Figs. 6 and 7 are diagrams for explaining implementation of the present invention from the viewpoint of a user terminal Fig.

In accordance with the above-described criteria, an embodiment of the present invention will be described first from the viewpoint of the social service providing server with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. Reference is made to FIGS. 3 through 5 together with the description thereof.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an entire system including a social service providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, a system for providing a social service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a user terminal 100 communicating with a social service providing server 200, a social service providing server 200, and an affiliate shop terminal 300, . ≪ / RTI >

1 shows one merchant terminal on the consumer side and one merchant terminal on the service provider side such as a discount, but it is obvious that there can be one or more user terminals and merchant terminal. The user terminal 100 and the social service providing server 200 may be directly connected to each other and the merchant terminal 300 and the social service providing server 200 may be directly connected to each other. It is possible. For example, the merchant terminal 300 may interwork with the social service providing server 200 via a merchant server (not shown) in the middle.

The user terminal 100 may be provided with a client program 50 that defines a specific operation to be performed on the user side in accordance with the method of providing a social service according to the embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, the client program 50 installed in the user terminal 100 is referred to as a user-side client program. Such a user-side client program can be downloaded from a specific web page or an application store provided by the social service providing server 200. Of course, the user-side client program may also be downloaded from a portal site provider (not shown) or a site operated by various application providers (not shown) and an application store. To this end, the social service providing server 200, the portal site provider, the application provider, and the like may store the user-side client program in a specific storage medium (not shown).

A client program 60 (hereinafter, referred to as a merchant-side client program) that defines a specific operation to be executed at the merchant point in accordance with the method of providing a social service according to the embodiment of the present invention is also provided in the merchant terminal 300 Can be installed. However, the merchant-side client program is not essential to the present invention. That is, the merchant terminal 300 may operate according to the original reservation inquiry program, the discount payment program, or the like, and only the basic data for executing the service providing method according to the embodiment of the present invention and the social service providing server 200 To each other.

The social service provision server 200 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a transmission unit 210, a reception unit 220, an information management unit 230, a reception subject determination unit 240, a candidate for participation determiner 250, A location acquisition unit 270, a determination unit 280, and an incentive provider 290. The location acquisition unit 270 may include a location acquisition unit 260, a location acquisition unit 270, a determination unit 280, However, all of the above components may not necessarily be necessary components for implementing the social service providing method of the present invention, and the social service providing server 200 may be implemented including fewer components. Of course, the present invention may be embodied by including more components (see, for example, a reservation processing unit (not shown), which will be described later with reference to FIG. 6).

In addition, in the social service providing server 200 shown in FIG. 1, each component is merely classified by focusing on each individual function. Therefore, it is needless to say that two or more components may be integrally implemented as one component, and one component may be separately implemented as a plurality of subdivided components. For this reason, if a specific configuration performs the same function as at least one configuration element in the embodiment of the present invention, regardless of the division into each configuration element and the name thereof, It should be judged.

Hereinafter, the components of the social service providing server 200 shown in FIG. 1 will be described together in the description of the flowchart of FIG.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a social service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the social service providing server 200 determines a recipient to send an invite message based on the meeting invitation information obtained from the user terminal (S110). Thereafter, the social service provision server 200 transmits an invitation message to the recipient terminal (S120), and determines a prospective attendee of the meeting based on the recipient's response to the invitation message (S130). This is a process related to opening and inviting a meeting, which will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

FIG. 3 is a reference diagram for explaining matters related to opening and inviting a meeting in a method of providing a social service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral C0 denotes a meeting establisher, reference numeral 102 denotes a terminal of the meeting establishment, C1, C2 and C3 designation receivers, 104, 106 and 108 designate respective terminals of the designated receiver, Reference numeral C4 denotes a local receiver, reference numeral 110 denotes a terminal of a local receiver, reference numeral C5 denotes a registration receiver, and reference numeral 112 denotes a terminal of a registration receiver. At this time, it is assumed that the user client program described above is installed in each terminal used by the meeting establisher, designated receiver, local receiver, and registration receiver. In FIG. 3, the input, transmission, and reception of information at each terminal can be executed by driving the user client program. If the program is not installed in a part of the program, an alarm message recommending installation of the program may be transmitted during the reception of the invitation message.

Referring to FIG. 3, the social service providing server 200 can acquire meeting invitation information according to opening of a meeting from the terminal 102 of the meeting establishment C0 (see S1 in FIG. 3).

Here, the meeting invitation information may include at least one of a meeting schedule (date and time), a meeting place, information on a meeting party, and the like. Various meeting invitation information (for example, a meeting purpose, etc.) is further provided according to an input (or selection) item of a GUI (Graphic User Interface) provided by the user side client program or the social service providing server 200 for opening a new meeting Of course.

The meeting invitation information may be directly transmitted from the terminal to the social service providing server 200 according to the operation of the user side client program. However, when the request for opening a new meeting is received, the social service providing server 200 side transmits related information from the terminal You can import it. The meeting invitation information may be received by the receiving unit 220 of the social service providing server 200 and managed by the information managing unit 230.

When the meeting invitation information is acquired as described above, the information managing unit 230 may generate an invitation message based on the meeting invitation information. Although the invitation message is generated in the social service providing server 200 in this example, the invitation message is generated by the user client program of the meeting establisher C0 and is transmitted to the social service providing server 200 It is possible.

In this case, the to-be-received person determining unit 240 of the social service providing server 200 determines a to-be-sent person to which the invite message is to be transmitted based on the meeting invitation information. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method for determining a recipient may be as follows.

As a first case, there is a method of determining only the designated receivers specified by the meeting establisher C0 as the receivers. This is based on the meeting invitation information, when the meeting is set to a private meeting or is interpreted as a private meeting. The case where it is interpreted as a private meeting means that there is no clear private obligation by the meeting organizer (C0), but there is no explicit disclosure intention or it is possible to deduce a private opinion based on meeting purpose or the like. For example, in a case where neither the "open" nor the "private" items are checked in the new meeting opening screen, there may be a case where a default meeting is set as a private meeting.

In the first case, the reception subject determination unit 240 determines only the meeting counterparts (i.e., designated receivers) C1, C2, and C3 clearly specified by the meeting establishment C0 as the reception subject. Therefore, at this time, the information management unit 230 transmits an invitation message to each of the terminals 104, 106, and 108 of the designated recipients C1, C2, and C3 via the transmission unit 210 (see S2 in FIG. 3).

As the second case, there is a method in which the parties not specified by the meeting establishment C0 are determined as the reception subject according to a predetermined requirement. This is based on the meeting invitation information, if the meeting is set to a public meeting or is interpreted as a public meeting. The case where the meeting is interpreted as a public meeting means that there is no clear disclosure by the meeting establishment (C0) but there is no specific disclosure intention or it is possible to infer the disclosure intention based on the meeting purpose, . For example, if the public meeting is set as default as opposed to the previous example, there is no other purpose other than the purpose of receiving the discount, if the meeting partner is not specified at all, This may be the case where the designated number of persons is small.

In the second case, the reception subject determination unit 240 can determine, as the reception subject, the other parties meeting the predetermined requirements in addition to the designated receivers C1, C2, and C3 designated by the meeting establishment C0. These correspond to local recipients, registration receivers. At this time, the local recipient and the registrant may be of any personal relevance in relation to the meeting establisher.

Here, the local receiver means a party having a locally related relationship with the designated meeting place. For example, in FIG. 3, the counterpart C4 located within a certain radius r1 about the meeting place P1 may correspond to the local receiver here. At this time, the local association for determining whether the receiver is a local receiver is not necessarily limited to the distance relation with the meeting place, and various criteria may be applied. For example, the current position does not satisfy the distance relation but may be classified as the upper local receiver even if the recent position or the main activity position satisfies the distance relation. Therefore, according to this criterion, an invitation message can also be sent to the terminal 110 of the local receiver C4 (see S4 in FIG. 3).

And the registration recipient may refer to the person who has pre-registered the area or place within the predetermined boundary around the specified meeting place or meeting place with interest. For example, in FIG. 3, the counterpart C5 having previously registered the meeting place P1 as a favorite (corresponding to R1) may correspond to the registration receiver here. Therefore, according to this criterion, an invitation message can also be sent to the terminal 112 of the registration recipient C5 (see S5 in Fig. 3).

Although not shown in FIG. 3, according to the system implementation, the person to receive the invitation message in the second case may include a meeting creator (or a designated recipient designated by the meeting organizer) and a group recipient This may be the case.

At this time, the invitation messages transmitted to the recipients may all be messages of the same format and contents, but in some cases, they may be messages having different formats or contents depending on the attributes of the recipients. For example, an invitation-type message may be sent to a designated recipient, and a message may be sent to a local recipient and a registration recipient in a newsfeed format.

At this time, the transmission time of the invitation message is not limited to the time of opening the meeting and the predetermined time range. For example, in the case of a local receiver, there may be frequent place-to-associates with the meeting place within a certain time range with the actual meeting start time. Thus, in this case, an invitation message may be sent to the local recipient before or after the meeting start time. This may be similar for registrants. Also, in the case of a designated recipient, there may be a need to remind the meeting schedule and place by reminding the invitation message before the actual meeting start time.

As described above, when a response is received from each terminal of the recipient through the receiver 220 of the social service providing server 200 (see S3 and S6 in FIG. 3) after the invitation message is transmitted to the recipients, The prospective attendance determining unit 250 determines a prospective attendee based on the corresponding response.

Here, the prospective attendee of the meeting may be determined as a recipient whose intention to accept is confirmed as a response to the invitation message, and as a recipient who guarantees attendance of a meeting. And the meeting organizer may be interpreted as being included in the meeting here, except in special cases (where only the meeting is open). (C5) of FIG. 3), it can be regarded as a potential refusal doctor. In this case, the possibility of rejection of the invitation message have. Of course, it can be the opposite, and if it is considered to be a potential consent, it can be treated as a prospective attendee within a certain time frame.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the recipient who has assured the attendance of the meeting will be specifically handled in the process of determining whether or not the event establishment condition is satisfied, which will be described in detail below. As will be described later, in the embodiment of the present invention, the minimum number of conditions may be required as a main item of the event establishment conditions. Such attendance guarantees may be treated as exceptions to this minimum number of conditions. In the embodiment of the present invention, the attendance guarantee can be made in the following manner. For example, this may be the case where the person who received the invitation message made a guarantee of presence using the token. The token may have a function as a kind of currency in the system according to the embodiment of the present invention. In this specification, a token is described as an object having a call function, but any currency substitute object having an exchange value regardless of the term is usable.

For example, if a user buys 100 tokens that are available through the system for $ 10, then one token will have a exchange value of 10 cents. At this time, the attendance guarantee can be established when the user decides to attend the meeting, guaranteeing to provide or provide the token corresponding to the predetermined ratio or amount in advance. Here, the predetermined ratio or amount may be related to a predetermined amount of money based on the minimum amount of money required by the present system or the merchant, or the minimum amount of money offered by the merchant as an event establishment condition. This amount, of course, may have been allocated to the number of participants. Thus, for example, if a deposit of $ 3 per person is required, the user can be assured of attending the meeting by providing a total of 30 tokens in advance. As described above, the user who has guaranteed the attendance using the token can receive special treatment in the process of satisfying the minimum number of conditions as an event establishment condition in the future. For example, in determining whether the minimum number of persons is satisfied, even if the user does not arrive at the meeting place within a certain time interval before or after the meeting start time, the user who is guaranteed to attend may be regarded as attending the meeting . At this time, the effect of the attendance consideration may disappear with the meeting time end or the end of the validity period of the incentive use as the cancel condition. That is, even a user guaranteed to attend may have a restriction to arrive at the meeting place before the meeting end time or the incentive use end time. This will be more clearly understood from the description of step S230. However, the assurance of attendance guarantee through the use of such tokens may be determined according to the policy of the merchant.

In the above-described process, the social service provision server 200 can provide the incentive-related information that can be provided in association with the meeting to the terminal of the determined recipient or the attendee of the meeting [S140].

In FIG. 2, step S140 is illustrated as being performed after step S130, but step S140 can be performed in any step after step S110. In one example, the incentive-related information may be transmitted together or separately in the process of transmitting the invitation message to the recipient (i.e., step S120). As another example, the incentive-related information may be transmitted to the meeting attendee after the meeting attendee is determined (i.e., after step S130). As another example, incentive-related information may be sent to the respondent as a reply to a response to the invitation message.

In addition, although FIG. 2 focuses on the case where the incentive-related information is transmitted to the meeting party after the meeting is opened by the meeting establishment, the incentive-related information may be provided to the meeting place and / And may be used as basic information for selecting a schedule. That is, the incentive-related information may be provided to the terminal of the meeting establisher in response to the information request from the meeting establisher.

Here, the incentive-related information may include at least one merchant information providing an incentive for a meeting place and / or a meeting schedule, information on an event establishing condition for receiving the incentive from the merchant, information on an event period, And information on an incentive to be provided when the establishing condition is satisfied. The incentive-related information is received in advance from each merchant terminal and registered in advance in the discount information DB (see reference numeral 204 in FIG. 5) (refer to reference R2 in FIG. 5) (230) and provided to each terminal by the alarm unit (260).

At this time, the range of the merchant information provided as the incentive-related information may be variously configured according to system implementation method, user setting, contents and specificity of the inputted meeting-related information, and the like. A modification example according to the meeting related information inputted by the meeting establishment person may be as follows.

For example, assuming that a meeting organizer selects only a meeting schedule (date and time), at least one merchant information providing a specific incentive within a predetermined time period in accordance with the schedule schedule or before or during the schedule may be included here have. At this time, if there are many such merchant information, a predetermined number of merchant information may be provided in the order of the merchants providing more incentives. Or may be provided with merchant information ranked according to a place category that is selected by the meeting organizer himself or that matches the statistical user taste or meeting purpose. Here, the place category can be classified into categories for each business category (for example, a Korean-style house, a Japanese-style house, a cafe, etc.) In this case, the selection process of the meeting place is performed later, and the right of selecting the meeting place at this time may be given to the reception subject person and / or the meeting attendee other than the meeting establishment person.

As another example, when the meeting establishment person specifically designates the meeting place, the franchise shop information, which is the designated meeting place, may be delivered to the receiver and / or the meeting attendees. Of course, in this case, the merchant information about the merchant beside the merchant information may be further transmitted. As described above, the incentive-related information to be transmitted to the reception subject and / or the meeting attendee can be variously configured according to system implementation method, user setting, content and specificity of the inputted meeting related information, and the like.

As the incentive-related information, the information on the event establishment condition means information on the conditions required by the merchant, such as information on the minimum number of people (quorum) required to receive incentives provided by the merchant, information on the minimum consumption amount do. Information on such event establishment conditions can be more clearly understood through the description of step S230. In this specification, an incentive means a special benefit, such as a discount, a coupon, an additional service, or the like, which provides financial benefits to consumers or provides psychological satisfaction to consumers, such as premium services, regardless of the name .

The above-described incentive-related information may be transmitted a plurality of times. The transmitted incentive-related information may all be the same information, but may be different information depending on the information receiving entity or the time when the information is received. For example, when a meeting establishment designates a meeting place as an A-affiliated shop, only the incentive-related information that can be offered by the A-affiliate shop in accordance with the meeting schedule (date and time) It can be transmitted equally to all subjects. However, after the scheduled attendance of the meeting is determined (i.e., step S130), incentive-related information that can be provided by other franchisees around the merchant A corresponding to the meeting schedule may be transmitted to the meeting attendees again. If the person is expected to attend the meeting, it is necessary to give the meeting attendee the opportunity to re-select (change) the meeting place, since the attendance of the meeting is provisional acceptance or confirmation (see the case of attendance guarantee through a token to be described later). That is, the person who is expected to attend the meeting is different from the person who received the invitation message (that is, the recipient) because the personality of the information receiving subject is different. Depending on the purchasing power of a specific meeting attendee or the possession of a discount card, incentives for better conditions may be provided in places other than the first selected meeting place. When the change request or change of the meeting place occurs, the alarm unit 260 may transmit an alarm message to the terminal of the other meeting attendees including the first meeting establisher.

Also, although not shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, the personal information on the prospective meeting attendee may be transmitted to the terminal of the participating shop, which is a meeting place, according to a predetermined process. Here, the predetermined process may be a case in which the system is implemented as such, or in the case of a specific franchisee, it is requested in advance to transmit personal information of a person who is going to attend a meeting, and so on.

In the foregoing, the steps of opening and inviting a meeting have been described with reference to steps S110 to S140 of FIG. 2 and FIG. Hereinafter, a process of providing location tracking, arrival, incentives (coupons, etc.) performed during a specific time period on the day of the meeting will be described with reference to steps S210 to S250 of FIG. Here, steps S210 and S220 and FIG. 4 show a position tracking process, and steps S230, S240, S250 and FIG. 5 illustrate a process of providing arrival and incentives.

The social service providing server 200 periodically acquires the current state of the meeting attendee from a specific time interval before the meeting start time on the day of the meeting [S210]. In order to share the current status of all the meeting attendees, information on the current status of one person is provided to the terminal of the remaining meeting attendees [S220]. Hereinafter, this will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 4 is a reference diagram for explaining matters related to location tracking of meeting attendees in a social service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. Here, the reference numerals C0, C1, and C2 in FIG. 4 represent prospective attendees of the meeting. In other words, reference numeral C0 denotes a case where a meeting attendance candidate is determined as a meeting attendee status, and reference numerals C1 and C2 indicate cases in which a meeting attendance candidate is determined according to acceptance of an invitation message or attendance guarantee.

According to the system of the present embodiment, the client program installed in the terminal of each prospective attendee of the meeting can display the status information of the user from a specific time period before the meeting start time (for example, 30 minutes before the meeting start time) And < / RTI > Here, the status information of the user means various information that can confirm the current status of the user such as the current position, the transportation means, the comment, the uploaded photograph, and the like. Therefore, the current state information of the prospective meeting attendees C0, C1, and C2 is periodically recorded by the client program, and the current state information can be periodically transmitted to the social service provision server 200 (see S7 of FIG. 4) ]. Accordingly, the status acquisition unit 270 of the social service provision server 200 can acquire various status information including the current position of each meeting attendee.

 In this case, the social service providing server 200 transmits the current status information obtained with respect to any one of the meeting attendees to the social service providing server 200 through the transmission unit 210, so that the current statuses of all the meeting attendees are shared with each other. And send it to the prospective attendees of the meeting (see S8 in Fig. 4).

The sharing of the status information can be periodically performed until a certain time (for example, 30 minutes) before the meeting start time or at the end of the meeting schedule. The start time and the end time of the state information sharing may be variously modified according to the system implementation method. Accordingly, the prospective attendees at each meeting can conveniently check the location, status, and the like of other prospective attendees.

4, the state information of the user is periodically transmitted to the social service providing server 200 through the operation of the client program installed in each user terminal. However, the state information of the user is transmitted to the social service providing server 200, . ≪ / RTI > For example, the current location information of each user may be directly confirmed on the side of the social service providing server 200 through confirmation of the terminal location information. In addition, the status information of the user may be automatically transmitted periodically according to the operation of the client program, but may be transmitted in synchronization with the request of the social service providing server 200. [

Although not shown in FIG. 4, the present status information of each meeting attendee may be transmitted to the terminal of the merchant, which is a meeting place, according to a predetermined process. Here, the predetermined process may be such a case that the system is implemented as such, or in the case of a specific merchant, it is requested in advance to transmit the current status information of the meeting attendee.

The process of arriving at the actual meeting place after the above-described intermediate process (i.e., the status check process) will be described below. In this case, the social service providing server 200 makes a decision as to whether or not a specific incentive can be provided at the meeting place, based on the arrival of the meeting attendee, the guarantee of attendance, and the like.

The process is roughly as follows. First, the social service provision server 200 determines whether the event establishment condition related to the meeting place is satisfied based on at least one of the attendance guarantee information and the arrival information of the prospective meeting attendee [S230]. At this time, if the event establishment condition is satisfied, the social service providing server 200 provides the incentive to the terminal of the prospective attendee [S240]. Then, the satisfaction of the event establishment condition and / or the fact that the incentive is provided is transmitted to the merchant terminal (S250). This will be described below with reference to FIG.

FIG. 5 is a reference diagram for illustrating an example of matters relating to arrival and coupon issuance in a method of providing a social service according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 5, among the various incentives that can be provided when the event establishment condition is satisfied, a case of coupon issuing will be described.

5, when an arbitrary meeting attendance candidate Cx arrives at the meeting place P1, the client program installed in the terminal of the corresponding user notifies the social service providing server 200 that the user has arrived at the meeting place (S9 in FIG. 5). Here, the case where the user arrives at the meeting place means that the user is within the predetermined position range (i.e., within the predetermined radius r2 in this example) on the basis of the meeting place P1 It can mean the case of arrival. Of course, it may be determined by other criteria.

In this case, the information management unit 230 of the social service providing server 200 may store the arrival time of the user in a specific DB or a storage medium (the arrival time table 202 in this example) (S10 in FIG. 5). The stored arrival time information may also be transmitted to the discount information DB 204 to calculate incentives to be provided in the future (S11, S12 of FIG. 5).

For example, suppose that a minimum of five people are required for the event establishment condition and a total discount of 15% of the consumption amount is applied if these conditions are met. However, in some cases, more than five people have attended the meeting, but all of them may have arrived at the meeting start time by more than one hour. In such a case, there is a possibility that the profit that the franchisor can obtain by the five persons during the meeting (that is, the purchasing power by the five franchisers) may be far below the expected profit. Therefore, in such a case, it may be necessary to set the discount rate to be proportionally reduced based on the arrival time. Of course, the application of this method may be an option of the system or the merchant.

In the system of the present embodiment, the conditions under which the merchant provides the incentive to the consumers (i.e., the event establishment conditions) can be determined by the condition selected and input by the merchant. Such an event establishment condition and the content of the incentive to be provided when the condition is satisfied can be pre-registered in the discount information DB 204 (Fig. 5, R2).

In the embodiment of the present invention, an incentive such as a coupon can be provided to the user only when the event establishment condition designated by the merchant is satisfied. Whether or not the event establishment condition is satisfied can be determined by the determination unit 280 of the social service provision server 200. Here, the event establishment condition may include, for example, a condition regarding the minimum number of persons required to receive an incentive.

For example, when the minimum number of people condition is set as the event establishment condition, the determination unit 280 determines whether the minimum number of people condition is satisfied based on the attendance guarantee information of the person who is going to attend the meeting using the arrival information or / Can be determined.

Here, the arrival information may be generated as the scheduled attendee arrives at the meeting place within a predetermined time range based on the meeting schedule. At this time, it is determined that the arrival at the meeting place can be determined as a case where the meeting attendee has arrived within a predetermined position range based on the meeting place. The attendance guarantee information may be generated when the person who is expected to attend the meeting assures attendance by using a token or the like as described above. In this case, the determination unit 280 compares the minimum number of conditions with the result obtained by adding the number of meeting attendees for which the arrival information was generated and the number of meeting attendees for which the attendance guarantee information was generated, Can be determined. Of course, if there is no prospective attendance meeting, it is judged whether or not the condition of the event is satisfied with only the arrival information. If all the attendance guarantees are satisfied, It is self-evident.

For this purpose, the judging unit 280 judges whether or not each meeting attendee has arrived at a predetermined time interval (for example, 30 minutes before the meeting start time and one hour before the meeting end time) You can continue to check whether you meet the minimum number of people. In this process, the guarantor of attendance can be treated as an exception for the determination of the condition of the minimum number of people as an event establishment condition. As explained above, the attendance guarantor may be considered to be present, regardless of whether or not he or she is within a predetermined time frame before or after the scheduled meeting.

According to the determination result, if the event establishment condition is determined to be satisfied, the event providing unit 290 can provide a predetermined incentive to the terminal of the user. To this end, the event providing unit 290 may transmit an incentive proof object (a coupon in this example) that demonstrates the effective use of the incentive to the terminal of the corresponding user (S13 in FIG. 5). At this time, the object to which the incentive proof object is to be transmitted may be any one or all of the meeting attendees. However, even when a coupon is issued to two or more persons, the issued coupons may all have the same identification number, thereby preventing duplicate use. At this time, the time of issuance of the coupon or the like (that is, the incentive providing time) may be the same time as the time when the event establishment condition is satisfied, but may be a time selected appropriately in consideration of the meeting schedule. For example, at first, only the fulfillment of the event fulfillment condition is notified to the users, and the issuance of the actual coupon may be designed to be performed 30 minutes before the end of the meeting schedule.

On the contrary, when it is determined that the event establishment condition is not satisfied, coupons and the like are not provided. That is, according to the embodiment of the present invention, whether or not the event establishment condition is satisfied is continuously confirmed within a predetermined time range based on the meeting schedule as described above, The incentive will not be granted.

In addition to the minimum number of players described above, there may also be more conditions for event establishment. For example, the event establishment condition may be varied such as a condition relating to a minimum usage amount, a meeting condition about a meeting purpose, a satisfaction condition about a participant attribute, a satisfaction condition about a payment means, and the like. Here, the fulfillment condition for a meeting purpose is a restriction requirement that it is applied only to a meeting for a specific purpose such as a birthday celebration purpose. In addition, the conditions for meeting attendee attributes are restricted, for example, to women in their twenties. And the fulfillment condition regarding the payment means may be a restriction requirement regarding a payment means, a method, etc., for example, in the case of using a specific credit card, in the case of cash payment, and the like. These conditions may be subject to temporary incentive conditions that apply only to specific time periods, but may be long term incentive conditions that continue to apply during the lifetime of the merchant.

In the above examples, the fulfillment condition for the meeting purpose, the satisfaction condition for the attendee attribute, the satisfaction condition for the payment means, and the like are stored in the system (that is, the personal information of the user registered in advance in the social service providing server 200, Other additional information, etc.) are automatically confirmed, and the fulfillment of this fact may be transmitted to the merchant terminal. Of course, the process of confirming again at the merchant before the actual use of the coupon can be added. This may be similar in the case of a minimum use amount condition, and may be preliminarily guaranteed by an attendance guarantee through a token etc. mentioned above especially in the case of a minimum use amount condition.

The event establishment condition may be classified into a condition utilized as a precondition for issuing a coupon or a condition required for use of an actual coupon although not a precondition for issuing the coupon, depending on the attribute of the condition. For example, in the case of the minimum number of persons described above, it functions as a prerequisite for coupon issuance, and the minimum usage amount condition may serve as a prerequisite for using the actual coupon. In this way, the type of the event establishment condition, the coupon issue condition, and the actual usage condition of the coupon may be designed according to the system implementation method or according to the request of the merchant.

Information on whether or not such an event establishment condition is satisfied and information on the incentive provision fact can be transmitted from the social service providing server 200 to the merchant terminal. Accordingly, the merchant can provide predetermined incentives to the meeting attendees. Accordingly, the corresponding merchant who has received the fact of fulfilling the event establishment condition and / or the fact that the incentive is provided may automatically issue a discounted bill at the time of cost calculation, for example, even if the meeting attendee does not present the coupon. However, it is not essential to transmit the information on whether or not the event is satisfied or the fact that the incentive is provided to the merchant terminal, and the merchant may check the information on the terminal of the meeting participant. Accordingly, the above information may be transmitted to the terminal of the meeting attendee rather than the merchant terminal.

In the foregoing, the system of the present invention has mainly been described in terms of the social service providing server 200. Hereinafter, the case where the system of the present invention is executed on the user side will be mainly described. See FIGS. 6 and 7 for a description thereof.

6 is a schematic flow chart for explaining the execution operation of the user-side client program as seen from the viewpoint of the meeting establisher. 7 is a schematic flow chart for explaining the execution operation of the user-side client program as seen from the point of view of the other party of the meeting. That is, FIG. 6 is merely a logical division of the functions performed by the user client program from the viewpoint of the meeting establisher and FIG. 7 from the viewpoint of the invitee message receiver as the other party. Therefore, the processes of Figs. 6 and 7 all correspond to the functions executed by the user side client program.

First, from the viewpoint of the meeting establishment, if the invitation information of the meeting is inputted by the user, the client program transmits it to the social service providing server 200 (S310 of FIG. 6). Accordingly, the social service providing server 200 determines the recipient of the invitation message based on the meeting invitation information and transmits the invitation message, and the client program receives a response from the social service providing server 200 S320 "

At this time, the meeting establisher may make a reservation about the meeting place using the client program. This process is described in steps S330 and S340 of FIG. Such reservation may be performed by the other party in addition to the meeting establishment party, but it is assumed that the meeting establishment party performs the reservation in this example. In addition, although it is assumed that the steps S330 and S340 are performed after step S320 in FIG. 6, it is needless to say that there is no need to set a time limit for the execution of the reservation.

In other words, the meeting establisher can make a reservation with respect to the meeting place using the client program. In this case, the client program can be connected through the relay of the social service providing server 200 or directly with the affiliated store terminal, The reservation system can be created in synchronization with the reservation system of FIG. At this time, when the franchisee has only the manual reservation system, the franchisee will manually enter the reservation information according to the reservation information transmitted directly to the franchisee terminal or through the social service providing server 200, Is omitted. Hereinafter, it is assumed that the member store has an automatic reservation system.

When the merchant is equipped with the automatic reservation system, the client program can directly obtain reservation reservation information of the automatic reservation system through the relay of the social service provision server 200 or directly in association with the reservation (S340 in FIG. 6). Accordingly, the client program can perform the reservation processing by transmitting the reservation information entered by the user to the merchant terminal based on the obtained reservation inquiry information. Of course, in this process, it may happen that a reservation can not be made with respect to the schedule of the meeting. Accordingly, there may be processes such as a reservation change and the like, but this is a general matter, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Then, when the meeting place, the schedule, and the like are determined, the client program performs the following processing on the day of the meeting (S350, S360, S370, S380 of FIG. 6). The processing of this process is performed by the meeting organizer as a prospective attendee of the meeting, which is a process related to the reception of location tracking (sharing), arrival notification, coupons, and the like. This has been described in detail in the above description of the social service providing server 200 and the service providing method, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Conversely, from the viewpoint of the recipient of the invitation message, the client program receives the invitation message from the social service provision server 200 (S410 in FIG. 7), and further receives the incentive-related information that can be provided in connection with the meeting (S420 in FIG. 7). Then, in response to the user's response, the client program transmits the response to the social service provision server 200 (S430 in FIG. 7). In this case, if the user intends to guarantee the attendance, It is possible. It goes without saying that this guarantee can be made at any time regardless of the point of time of the response to the invitation message. If there is such a guarantee of attendance, the client program may transmit the related information to the social service provision server 200.

In the case where the response of the attendance rejection is transmitted as the response to the invitation message, steps S450 to S480 of FIG. 7 may not be performed. Conversely, if the attendance approval or the attendance guarantee is made, steps S450 to S480 of FIG. 7 are performed. However, this is a process that is processed in the case where the recipient of the invitation message becomes a prospective attendee of the meeting, which is essentially the same as steps S350 to S380 of FIG. 6, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the following claims And changes may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

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Claims (17)

A method for providing a social service by an application server,
Determining at least one recipient to send an invite message based on the meeting invitation information obtained from the user terminal;
Transmitting the invitation message to a terminal of the recipient;
Determining a meeting attendee on the basis of a response to the invitation message acquired from the terminal of the recipient;
Determining whether the event establishment condition related to the meeting place is satisfied based on at least one of the attendance guarantee information of the prospective meeting attendee and the arrival information of the prospective meeting attendee confirmed within a predetermined time range based on the meeting schedule ; And
Providing an incentive applicable to the event to the terminal of at least one of the meeting attendees if the event establishment condition is satisfied;
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The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the step of determining the recipient comprises:
Determining, based on the meeting invitation information, the designated recipient identified by the meeting invitation information as the recipient if the meeting corresponds to a private meeting,
A group receiver belonging to a range of a personal network related to the user of the user terminal, a local receiver having a locally related relation with the meeting place, a meeting place or meeting Wherein at least one of the registration receivers pre-registering an area or a place within a predetermined boundary around a place as a target of interest is determined as the reception subject together with the designated recipient.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the step of determining a candidate for the meeting includes:
A meeting establisher, a recipient whose intention to accept is confirmed in response to the invitation message, and a recipient who guarantees attendance of the meeting.
The method according to claim 1,
Information on at least one merchant providing incentives related to at least one of the meeting place and the meeting schedule, information on an event establishing condition for receiving an incentive at the merchant, information on an event period, Providing information on an incentive provided to a person who is to attend a meeting or a person who is going to attend the meeting.
The method according to claim 1,
The attendance guarantee information is generated when the meeting attendee provides a money substitute object of exchange value corresponding to a predetermined ratio or a predetermined amount,
Wherein the arrival information is generated as the meeting attendee arrives within a predetermined position range based on the meeting place within the predetermined time range,
Wherein the step of determining whether the event establishment condition is satisfied comprises:
Wherein the attendance guarantee information is determined by comparing a sum of a number of meeting attendees for which the attendance guarantee information is generated and a number of meeting attendees for which the arrival information is generated and a minimum attendance number specified as the event acceptance condition.
The method according to claim 1,
Periodically obtaining a current status of each of the meeting attendees from a predetermined time interval before a meeting start time; And
Providing the current status of any one of the obtained persons to the terminal of the remaining meeting attendees so that the current status of all the meeting attendees is shared
Further comprising the steps of:
The method according to claim 1,
The step of providing the incentive to the terminal of at least one of the meeting attendees,
And sending an incentive proof object to the terminal of the meeting attendee, the incentive proof object proving effective use of the incentive.
The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising the step of recording arrival time information of the person scheduled to attend the meeting,
The incentive is determined by the discount amount or ratio,
Wherein the discount amount or rate is determined based on arrival time information of meeting attendees.
The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising the step of transmitting at least one of the information about the fact of meeting the event establishment condition and the information about the incentive providing fact to the franchisee terminal as the incentive provider.
A reception subject determining unit that determines at least one reception subject to which an invitation message is to be transmitted, based on meeting invitation information obtained from the user terminal;
A transmitting unit for transmitting the invitation message to a terminal of the recipient;
A participant candidate determiner for determining a participant to participate in the meeting based on a response to the invitation message acquired from the terminal of the recipient;
Determining whether or not the event establishment condition related to the meeting place is satisfied based on at least one of the attendance guarantee information of the prospective meeting attendee and the arrival information of the meeting attendance person confirmed within a predetermined time range based on the meeting schedule part; And
Providing an incentive applicable to the event to the terminal of at least one of the meeting attendees if the event establishment condition is satisfied;
And a server for providing the social service.
11. The method of claim 10,
The receiver-
Determining, based on the meeting invitation information, the designated recipient identified by the meeting invitation information as the recipient if the meeting corresponds to a private meeting,
A group receiver belonging to a range of a personal network related to the user of the user terminal, a local receiver having a locally related relation with the meeting place, a meeting place or meeting And determines at least one of registration receivers that have previously registered an area or a place within a predetermined boundary around a place of interest as an object of interest together with the designated receiver.
11. The method of claim 10,
Information on at least one merchant providing incentives related to at least one of the meeting place and the meeting schedule, information on an event establishing condition for receiving an incentive at the merchant, information on an event period, And information on the incentives provided when the attendance is to be performed to the terminal of the receiver or the attendee of the meeting,
Further comprising:
11. The method of claim 10,
The attendance guarantee information is generated when the meeting attendee provides a money substitute object of exchange value corresponding to a predetermined ratio or a predetermined amount,
Wherein the arrival information is generated as the meeting attendee arrives within a predetermined position range based on the meeting place within the predetermined time range,
Wherein,
A result obtained by adding the number of meeting attendees for which the attendance guarantee information was generated and the number of meeting attendees for which the arrival information was generated is compared with the minimum attendance number designated as the event acceptance condition, A social service offering server to judge.
11. The method of claim 10,
Further comprising a status obtaining unit for periodically obtaining a current status of each of the meeting attendees from a predetermined time interval before the meeting start time,
Wherein the transmission unit provides the current status of the one person who is to be obtained to the terminal of the remaining meeting attendees so that the current status of all the meeting attendees can be shared.
11. The method of claim 10,
The incentive-
Transmitting an incentive proof object that proves effective use of the incentive to the terminal of the prospective attendee of the meeting via the transmission unit,
Wherein the at least one of the information on the fact of meeting the event establishment condition and the information about the incentive providing fact is transmitted to the merchant terminal as the incentive provider through the transmission unit.
A program for causing a user terminal to execute a pre-designated social service provisioning method in cooperation with an external application server when executed by a user terminal, comprising:
The method of providing a social service includes:
Transmitting the meeting invitation information to the application server when the invitation information is input by the user;
Transmitting an invitation message including meeting invitation information to the application server when a response to the invitation message is received;
Periodically obtaining the current status of the user from a predetermined time interval before the meeting start time and transmitting the obtained current status to the application server when the user's response is an approval or attendance guarantee; And
Notifying the application server of the arrival of the user when the current location of the user enters a predetermined location range based on the meeting location
Gt; computer-readable < / RTI >
17. The method of claim 16,
The method of providing a social service includes:
Acquiring information for reservation inquiry through a relay of the application server or through interworking with a merchant terminal of the meeting place when a reservation request by the user related to the meeting place exists; And
And transmitting the reservation information input by the user to the application server or the merchant terminal based on the obtained inquiry information
Further comprising a computer-readable storage medium.

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