System and method for providing product delivery service in electronic transaction using smartphone
AssigneeeBay Korea Co. Ltd.
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 method of providing a product delivery service through an electronic transaction, the method comprising:
- ordering a product using a shopping application installed in a mobile device associated with a purchaser;
- communicating, by a shopping server, order related information to a device that will be co-located with the ordered product;
- receiving data indicating that the ordered product has been obtained from a seller, wherein the device co-located with the ordered product transmits a specific signal to the shopping application installed in the mobile device associated with the purchaser;
- transmitting a message to the mobile device associated with the purchaser of the ordered product indicating that the ordered product has been processed for delivery;
- and
- transmitting, by the shopping server, when the mobile device associated with the purchaser approaches the device co-located with the ordered product, an instruction for making the ordered product available for pickup by the purchaser to the device co-located with the ordered product.
A system comprising:
- a server comprising one or more processors and a machine-readable medium storing instructions that cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising
- ordering a product using a shopping application installed in a mobile device associated with a purchaser;
- communicating, by a shopping server, order related information to a device that will be co-located with the ordered product;
- receiving data indicating that the ordered product has been obtained from a seller, wherein the device co-located with the ordered product transmits a specific signal to the shopping application installed in the mobile device associated with the purchaser;
- transmitting a message to the mobile device associated with the purchaser of the ordered product indicating that the ordered product has been processed for delivery;
- and
- transmitting, by the shopping server, when the mobile device associated with the purchaser approaches the device co-located with the ordered product, an instruction for making the ordered product available for pickup by the purchaser to the device co-located with the ordered product.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising non-transitory computer readable instructions that when executed by one or more processors perform operations comprising:
- ordering a product using a shopping application installed in a mobile device associated with a purchaser;
- communicating, by a shopping server, order related information to a device that will be co-located with the ordered product;
- receiving data indicating that the ordered product has been obtained from a seller, wherein the device co-located with the ordered product transmits a specific signal to the shopping application installed in the mobile device associated with the purchaser;
- transmitting a message to the mobile device associated with the purchaser of the ordered product indicating that the ordered product has been processed for delivery;
- and
- transmitting, by the shopping server, when the mobile device associated with the purchaser approaches the device co-located with the ordered product, an instruction for making the ordered product available for pickup by the purchaser to the device co-located with the ordered product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.