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US 10,482,412 B2Granted
System and method for providing product delivery service in electronic transaction using smartphone
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorPhil Jae Kim
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Abstract
Provided are a system and method for providing a product delivery service in an electronic transaction using a smartphone in which delivery product discharging devices are suitably disposed in specific places of main areas such as a subway station or a bus stop and a purchaser may conveniently pick up an ordered delivery product from a delivery product discharging device previously designated by the purchaser using a smartphone of the purchaser.
Claims20
A system for providing a product delivery service through an electronic transaction using a smartphone configured to perform a shopping-mall-related application service, the system comprising:
- a shopping mall server configured to:
- generate a unique product barcode provided to order a product registered through a seller terminal using the shopping-mall-related application service in response to a purchaser ordering the product, the unique product barcode including order-related information for the ordered product;
- receive data indicating that delivery products including the ordered product have been obtained, from a seller of the ordered product, the delivery products being processed for delivery by attaching unique product barcodes thereto to perform a classification and delivery processing service by delivery destination using the unique product barcodes;
- communicate with a device that is co-located with the delivery products and that is installed in a specific place to make the delivery products available for pickup by respective purchasers through the shopping-mall-related application service, wherein the device that is co-located with the delivery products is configured to transmit a specific signal to the shopping-mall-related application service installed in a smartphone of the purchaser;
- receive order-related information of the delivery products from the device that is co-located with the delivery products;
- transmit a delivery completion message to the purchaser smartphone of the purchaser of the ordered product indicating that the ordered product has been processed for delivery;
- receive, from the purchaser smartphone of the purchaser, location information of the purchaser, wherein the location information is received based on the specific signal;
- transmit, when the purchaser approaches the device that is co-located with the ordered product, using the location information of the purchase, an instruction for making the ordered product available for pickup by the purchaser to the device that is co-located with the delivery products.
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A method of providing a product delivery service through an electronic transaction using a system including a smartphone connected with a shopping mall server and at least one device that is co-located with delivery products over a communication network, the method comprising:
- (a) ordering a product registered through a seller terminal using a shopping-mall-related application service installed in the smartphone;
- (b) generating a unique product barcode including order-related information of the ordered product through the shopping mall server and receiving data indicating that delivery products including the ordered product have been obtained from a seller of the ordered product, the delivery products being processed for delivery by attaching unique product barcodes thereto, to perform a classification and delivery processing service by delivery destination using the unique product barcodes;
- (c) communicating, by the shopping mall server, with the device that is co-located with the delivery products and that is installed in a specific place to make the delivery of products available for pickup by respective purchasers through the shopping-mall-related application service, wherein the device that is co-located with the delivery products transmits a specific signal to the shopping-mall-related application service installed in a smartphone of the purchaser;
- (d) receiving, by the shopping mall server, the order-related information of the delivery products from the device that is co-located with the delivery products and transmitting a delivery completion message to the purchaser smartphone of the purchaser of the ordered product indicating that the ordered product has been processed for delivery;
- (e) receiving, by the shopping mall server from the purchaser smartphone of the purchaser, location information of the purchase, wherein the location information is received based on the specific signal;
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- (f) transmitting, by the shopping mall server when the purchaser approaches the device that is co-located with the ordered product, using the location information of the purchaser, an instruction for making the ordered product available for pickup by the purchaser to the device that is co-located with the delivery products that has been designated by the purchaser.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.