KR20120018459A - Method and system for providing real-time reservation infromation - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and a system for providing real time reservation information. The real-time reservation information providing method includes the steps of receiving a POS information received from a predetermined point of sale POS system, generating a reservation information based on the received POS information, and the generated reservation information And transmitting to a user terminal corresponding to a predetermined user or an application system to which the user terminal is connected.

Description

Method and system for providing real-time reservation infromation}

The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing real-time reservation information, and more particularly, to a mobile terminal in real time with reservation information such as vacant seat information and orderable information of a user-specific specific business place (eg, a restaurant) in real time. Or a computer and a method and a system for easily confirming whether there is a current place without going to the specific place of business, and making a reservation, order, and / or payment using the confirmed reservation information. will be.

As we enter the information society, many people can obtain a lot of useful information through wired and wireless networks without experiencing or verifying it. However, in many areas, such useful information is not easily obtained. For example, where people live in close contact with restaurants, such as restaurants, they do not provide useful information to people on time. People in modern societies usually have the same or similar meal times, such as lunch or dinner. As a result, many people go to restaurants near work or home to eat at the same time. However, most people go to the restaurants they want and have a lot of situations where they have to go back and wait undesired.

On the other hand, a point of sales (POS) system is used in many places such as restaurants and coffee shops. This POS system is mainly used for store management or point of sale management.

As such, the POS system mainly manages order information and price information for each seat in a particular place of business, helping a lot of automation in the place of business. However, such a POS system is mainly used only for automation in a business place. Therefore, if it is possible to generate useful information using the POS information and provide it to users who need it in real time, it may be useful for many users.

Therefore, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to create a reservation information using the POS information installed for each business place, and to provide the user convenience by providing the user with frequent use or use of the business place And to provide a system.

In addition, to determine the location of the user in order to provide the information available for the appropriate place of business according to the situation, such as the environment or location of the user, by specifying the place of business according to the determined location can provide the information available for reservation of the specific place of business. It is to provide a method and system.

In addition, it is to provide a method and system that allows a user to easily perform a reservation or order and payment after the customized reservation information suitable for the user is transmitted.

Real-time reservation information providing method for achieving the technical problem is a real-time reservation information providing system receiving the POS information received from a predetermined business POS system, generating the reservation information based on the received POS information, and And transmitting the generated bookable information to a user terminal corresponding to a predetermined user or an application system to which the user terminal is connected.

The real-time reservation information providing method further comprises the step of determining the location of the user by the real-time reservation information providing system and the step of specifying the business POS system from a plurality of business POS system based on the determined location of the user; Can be.

The real-time reservation information providing method, when the POS information of the POS system is changed, receives the changed POS information and transmits the reservation available information generated based on the changed POS information to the user terminal or the application system. can do.

The determining of the location of the user by the real-time reservation information providing system may include extracting the location of the user registered in advance in the real-time reservation information providing system or determining the location of the user terminal. It may include.

The determining of the location of the user terminal may include checking, by the real-time reservation information providing system, location information from the application system or the user terminal.

The location information may include at least one of GPS information of the user terminal or IP (Internet Protocol) address information allocated to the user terminal.

The transmitting of the generated reservable information to a user terminal corresponding to a predetermined user or an application system to which the user terminal is connected may include transmitting the reservable information at a predetermined time.

The real-time reservation information providing method includes receiving reservation information from the user terminal based on the reservation availability information transmitted by the real-time reservation information providing system, and performing a payment corresponding to the reservation information by the user terminal. It may further include.

The reservation information may include at least one of empty seat information or orderable menu information.

The user terminal may include at least one of a mobile terminal or a computer of the user.

When the application system receives the reservation information from the real-time reservation information providing system, the application system may transmit a link for confirming the reservation availability information or the reservation availability information to an application installed in the terminal of the user.

The business POS system may be a POS system corresponding to a business preselected by the user. The application may include an instant messenger application.

A method for providing real-time reservation information for solving the technical problem, wherein the real-time reservation information providing system receives POS information received from a plurality of business point POS systems, and a customized business place corresponding to a predetermined user among the plurality of received POS information. Generating bookable information based on the POS information, and pushing the generated bookable information to a user terminal corresponding to a predetermined user or an application system to which the user terminal is connected at a predetermined time; . The real-time reservation information providing method may be stored in a computer-readable recording medium recording a program.

The real-time reservation information providing system for solving the technical problem is a POS module for receiving the POS information received from a predetermined business POS system and generating the reservationable information based on the received POS information, the predetermined reservation information available It includes a control module for transmitting to a user terminal corresponding to a user of the or the application system to which the user terminal is connected.

The real-time reservation information providing system may further include a location determination module for determining the location of the user and specifying the location POS system among a plurality of location POS systems based on the determined location of the user.

The location determination module may extract the location of the user registered in advance in the real-time reservation information providing system or determine the location of the user terminal.

The real-time reservation information providing system further includes a reservation / payment module for receiving reservation information from the user terminal based on the available reservation information and transmitting the payment corresponding to the reservation information by the user terminal. can do.

The method and system for providing real-time reservation information according to the technical concept of the present invention can grasp the current status of a specific place of business in detail by using POS information, thereby providing detailed status information (reservable information) to the user. .

In addition, by using the POS information, it is possible to generate meaningful information such as empty seat information or a menu that can be ordered currently, and transmit the same to users in real time. In addition, the real-time reservation information providing method and the system according to an embodiment of the present invention can generate the reservation information using the conventional POS information as it is, provided with a separate POS system to implement the technical idea of the present invention. There is no need to do.

In addition, by extracting a place of business that the user frequently uses or can use, based on the location, and providing only available information for the extracted place of business to the user's mobile terminal, It is pushed to a computer, an application, or the like, so that the user may not be inconvenienced.

In addition, even when the user does not request at a specific time (for example, around lunch or dinner time), there is an effect that can help the user to select a particular place of business by providing the user-specific reservation information available. In addition, there is an effect that can reduce the inconvenience, such as not having a seat in the selected place of concern or ordering the desired menu.

In addition, the user can easily perform the reservation and payment by using the available reservation information, there is an effect that the user does not need to perform a predetermined action for the reservation.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS In order to better understand the drawings cited in the detailed description of the invention, a brief description of each drawing is provided.
1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic system configuration for implementing a method for providing real-time reservation information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a system for providing real-time reservation information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram illustrating an example in which reservation information is displayed on a mobile terminal of a user according to an exemplary embodiment.
4 illustrates an example of a UI for allowing a user to make a reservation, an order, and / or a payment based on reservation information in accordance with a method for providing real-time reservation information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 illustrates an example in which bookable information is provided through a predetermined application according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a schematic flow chart illustrating a method of providing real-time reservation information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to fully understand the present invention, the operational advantages of the present invention, and the objects achieved by the practice of the present invention, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings which illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention and the contents described in the accompanying drawings.

Also, in this specification, when any one element 'transmits' data to another element, the element may transmit the data directly to the other element, or may be transmitted through at least one other element And may transmit the data to the other component.

Conversely, when one element 'directly transmits' data to another element, it means that the data is transmitted to the other element without passing through another element in the element.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements.

1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic system configuration for implementing a method for providing real-time reservation information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, in order to implement the real-time reservation information providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention may be provided with a real-time reservation information providing system 100. The real-time reservation information providing system 100 may receive POS information from POS systems 201 and 301 installed in each of a plurality of businesses (eg, restaurants, coffee shops, cartoon rooms, PC rooms, etc.) 200 and 300. .

The POS information may vary according to the characteristics of the business establishments 200 and 300 in which each of the POS systems 201 and 301 are installed. For example, when the business place 200 is a restaurant, the POS information may be various, such as seat information, order information for each seat, payment amount information, menu information, and the like. When the business place 300 is a cartoon room, a PC room, or the like, there may be various information such as seat information, entrance time information, exit time information, and beverage order information. Preferably, the POS information includes at least total seat information and / or information on occupied seats. The information on the occupied seat may be, for example, seat information in which order information exists in a restaurant. Therefore, the information about the occupied seat may mean predetermined information or a combination of a plurality of information which can know whether a specific seat is occupied. Hereinafter, for convenience of description, the case where the business places 200 and 300 are restaurants will be described as an example, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

In general, the POS information may include the total seat information and occupied seat information of the place of business, and the information about the empty seat may not be maintained separately. However, the information required by the users may be information about empty seats rather than information about seats currently occupied. Accordingly, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may generate information on at least empty seats based on the POS information. In general, the POS information may include information about the entire seat (table), identification information for each seat (table), and order information for each seat (table). According to an embodiment, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may determine that the seat is occupied when there is order information for each seat. According to an embodiment, there may be a case in which the seat is occupied but the order information for each seat does not exist. In this case, the POS information may include predetermined information that can express that the seat is occupied separately. . Then, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may generate information on the empty seat based on the information on the seat and the occupied seat information.

Information about the empty seat may be generated by the real-time reservation information providing system 100. To this end, the POS systems 201 and 301 may transmit information necessary for generating information on an empty seat to the real-time reservation information providing system 100. Separately, even when the POS system 201 and 301 does not include the information about the empty seat, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may generate the information about the empty seat based on the POS information as described above. Therefore, there is an effect that it is not necessary to install a new POS system (201, 301) for each place separately to obtain information about the empty seat. Meanwhile, a predetermined code and / or an application may be installed in order to obtain predetermined information necessary for the POS system 201 and 301. According to the embodiment, the code and / or the application may generate reservation information for implementing the technical idea of the present invention, such as information about an empty seat, in which case the POS system 201 and 301 may be installed. The code and / or application may also be defined as a configuration included in the real-time reservation information providing system 100, which will be described later.

On the other hand, the POS system 201, 301 whenever the POS information (e.g., information about occupied seats, information about the non-orderable menu) that can be changed, such as information about the empty seats are changed. The changed POS information may be transmitted to the real-time reservation information providing system 100. Therefore, the user terminals 400 and 500 may receive the reservation available information in real time. According to an embodiment, the POS systems 201 and 301 may transmit POS information to the real-time reservation information providing system 100 at predetermined intervals (eg, every minute, five minutes, etc.), in which case the reservation information is available. In addition, the predetermined period may be updated. Accordingly, the term “real time” in the present specification may mean a case in which the bookable information is updated each time or at predetermined intervals.

Meanwhile, the reservation information transmitted to the user's terminals 400 and 500 may include information on an orderable menu as well as information on an empty seat as described above. For example, the POS information may include information on all menus that can be ordered in the corresponding business places 200 and 300, and it may be desirable to include information on prices for each menu. However, when a particular menu is sold out or a particular material is exhausted, the manager of the relevant place of business may use the POS system 201 and 301 to input that a particular menu is not available for ordering. Information about such an orderable menu may also be useful information for a customer looking for a corresponding business place (200, 300), it may be included in the bookable information according to an embodiment of the present invention. Various other information may be included in the bookable information, and the bookable information herein does not necessarily mean that a customer (user) makes a reservation. That is, the reservation information may be information on seats, menus, or services that are available to the customer at the corresponding offices 200 and 300 in real time.

The real-time reservation information providing system 100 is not limited to providing users with only the rough information of how many seats exist in the past by using POS information for each business place 200 and 300, and changes in real time. There is an effect that can provide customers with detailed information of each business place (200, 300) that can be. In addition, in the related art, in order to provide bookable information such as information on empty seats, it was possible only when a large-scale reservation system, such as a movie theater, was separately provided, but real-time reservation according to an embodiment of the present invention. According to the information providing method, it is possible to provide detailed reservation information to a customer even using a conventional POS system.

On the other hand, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may transmit the generated bookable information to the terminal (400, 500) of the user used by a predetermined user. In this case, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may transmit the reservation information to the user's terminals 400 and 500 when a request for transmission of the reservation information is available from the user's terminals 400 and 500. In addition, the reservation information may be pushed to the user's terminals 400 and 500 automatically at a predetermined time from the user or at a predetermined time in the real-time reservation information providing system 100. Pushing predetermined information may mean that specific information is transmitted to a specific terminal or an application so that a user can use the information even without an explicit request.

For example, when the reservation information is the information on a predetermined restaurant as described above, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may determine a predetermined user at a predetermined time (eg, 10 minutes before lunch or dinner). The reservation information may be pushed. Of course, even if there is a request for transmission of the reservation available information of a specific place of business from the terminal (400, 500) of the user, the corresponding reservation available information can be transmitted to the terminal (400, 500) of the user.

The user's terminal 400, 500 is a user's mobile terminal (eg, mobile phone, smart phone, etc.) 400 or a computer (eg, desktop PC, hand-held PC, tablet) used by the user. PC, 500, etc. Therefore, the terminal 400, 500 of the user may receive the reservation information and display it in a predetermined manner in order to implement the technical idea of the present invention. As described below, a reservation, an order, and / or a payment is performed through communication with a system (not shown) for the reservation, order, or payment of the real-time reservation information providing system 100 or each business place 200, 300, as described below. It can be used as a meaning including all of the predetermined data processing apparatus capable of.

On the other hand, when the user's terminal (400, 500) is implemented as a computer 500, the reservation information can be displayed through a predetermined application installed in the computer (500). The application may be an independent application separately installed in the computer 500 to implement the technical idea of the present invention, or may be a predetermined application installed and used by the user for a separate purpose. For example, the application may be an instant messenger application. At this time, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 transmits the reservation information to a predetermined application system (eg, messenger server) 600 that provides the instant messenger application for transmitting the reservation information to the instant messenger application. You can also send. Then, the application system 600 transmits the reservation information to the instant messenger application installed in the computer 500 so that the user can confirm or use the reservation information as described below. You can also make a payment. In this case, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may transmit the reservation information to the application system 600 together with identification information (eg, ID) of the user, and the application system 600 may identify the corresponding information. The reservation information may be transmitted to an application corresponding to the information.

For example, User A, a user of the instant messenger application, may request the real-time reservation information providing system 100 for a service for a method of providing real-time reservation information according to an embodiment of the present invention. The user A may input or select information on a specific business place desired by the user A. In addition, identification information used in the instant messenger application may be registered in advance in the real-time reservation information providing system 100. Then, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 when the user A requests the reservation information of a specific business place through a predetermined UI provided in the instant messenger application, or when a predetermined time or a predetermined condition, the specific business place Can be transmitted to the application system 600 together with the identification information of the user A. Then, the application system 600 may transmit the reservation information to the instant messenger application logged in with the identification information. In the present specification, an instant messenger application has been described as an example. However, the instant messenger application is communicated with the real-time reservation information providing system 100 or an application system 600 capable of transmitting predetermined information to the corresponding application to receive the reservation information. It will be readily apparent to the average person skilled in the art that the technical spirit of the present invention can be implemented through all displayable applications.

On the other hand, when the user's terminal (400, 500) is implemented as a mobile terminal 400, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 pushes the reservation available information of a particular place of business to the mobile terminal 400 or to request Of course, it can transmit in response.

On the other hand, when the real-time reservation information providing system 100 transmits the reservation available information of a particular place of business to the terminal (400, 500) of the user (including the case of transmitting to the computer 500 through the application system 600) ), The real-time reservation information providing system 100 may selectively transmit a business place suitable for a specific user. That is, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may transmit the reservation information of all the business places to the terminal 400, 500 of the user, but the business place that the user frequently uses, intends to use, or is likely to use. By extracting and transmitting the bookable information of the user, it is possible to prevent the bookable information delivered to the user from being substantially unnecessary, thereby increasing the inconvenience of the user.

To this end, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may determine a location of a specific user, and specify a place of transmission of reservation information to the specific user among a plurality of locations based on the determined location. Of course, it is also possible to allow a specific user to pre-select the desired place of business.

For example, when the location of a specific user is determined, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may transmit bookable information of a business place existing in the same administrative district as the same location, city, city, and the like as the determined location. According to an embodiment, only reservation information of a business place existing within a predetermined distance (eg, 500m, 1km, etc.) from the determined location may be transmitted to the user's terminals 400 and 500. The predetermined distance may be selected by the user in advance. Thus, only bookable information useful to the user can be transmitted to the user's terminals 400 and 500.

To this end, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may store information about a pre-registered business place for each user and / or information about their own location pre-registered by the user in a predetermined DB. When the user registers the information on a specific business place in advance, the bookable information of the registered specific business place may be transmitted to the terminals 400 and 500 of the user. In the case of registering a specific location, as described above, the bookable information of the selected business place may be transmitted to the terminals 400 and 500 of the user according to the specific location.

According to an implementation example, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may determine the location of the user. To this end, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may determine the location of the user terminal (400, 500). In order to determine the location of the user's terminal (400, 500), the real-time reservation information providing system 100 is the user's terminal (from the terminal 400, 500 and / or the application system 600) Location information, which is predetermined information for determining the location of 400 and 500, may be received or confirmed. The location information may be Global Positioning System (GPS) information corresponding to the terminals 400 and 500 of the user and / or Internet Protocol (IP) address information corresponding to the terminals 400 and 500 of the user.

For example, when a predetermined GPS module is installed in the mobile terminal 400 or the computer 500, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 is configured to provide the GPS from the mobile terminal 400 or the computer 500. The GPS information received by the module may be received and the location of the user may be determined based on the GPS information.

According to an embodiment, when the real-time reservation information providing system 100 and the user terminal (400, 500) of the IP session is connected, the user of the terminal (400, 500) that can be confirmed when the IP session is connected The location of the user may be determined using an IP address. In general, an IP address is assigned by an Internet service provider (ISP). The assigned IP address may correspond to a real address, and such information may be obtained from an ISP system. Therefore, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may check the IP address, and confirm the address or location corresponding to the confirmed IP address from the ISP system or from a predetermined system having an address corresponding to the IP address. .

According to an embodiment, there may be a case where an IP session is not connected between a terminal of the user's terminal 400 and 500 and the real-time reservation information providing system 100. For example, when the real-time reservation information providing system 100 pushes the reservation available information to a predetermined application installed in the computer 500, the application may be connected to the application system 600 with the IP session, but the real time. The IP information may not be connected to the reservation information providing system 100. In this case, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 receives the IP address of the specific user and / or location information corresponding thereto from the application system 600 and based on the received location information, the reservation information of the specific business place is available. Can be extracted. Then, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may transmit the extracted bookable information to the application system 600, and the application system 600 may transmit the reserved bookable information to an application installed in the computer 500. You can also push to. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 transmits reservation availability information corresponding to a plurality of business places to the application system 600, and the application system 600 determines the location of the user so that the user The bookable information according to the location of the can also be extracted and transmitted to the application.

On the other hand, the user can determine whether or not to go to a particular place of business by checking the reservation information transmitted to the user's terminal (400, 500). In some cases, the reservation information may be checked and reservations, orders, and / or payments may be performed when an empty seat is available or when a desired menu is available. To this end, a predetermined link and / or an embedded link may be transmitted together with the reservation information to the terminals 400 and 500 of the user, and the user may read the reservation information and / or the link. Selecting may allow access to a predetermined web page from which reservations, orders, and / or payments can be made. According to the implementation example, a predetermined code and / or an application capable of performing a reservation, an order, and / or a payment may be pre-installed in the terminal 400 or 500 of the user.

Therefore, the user can check in real time the current situation of the desired place or shops that can be visited in advance, and to make reservations, orders, or payments in advance, so that you can return to a specific place without a seat, wait in line or wait for food for a long time. There is an effect that can prevent you from waiting. In particular, by using the application installed on the mobile terminal 400 or the computer 500 that he or she always uses or carries, it is possible to automatically grasp all the situations of nearby businesses by request or at a specific time, thereby helping the user's selection. It can also have effects.

Hereinafter, a specific embodiment of the real-time reservation information providing system 100 and the real-time reservation information providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

2 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a system for providing real-time reservation information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1 and 2, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a control module 110 and a POS module 120. The real time reservation information providing system 100 may further include a location determination module 130, a reservation / payment module 140, and / or a DB 150.

The real-time reservation information providing system 100 may refer to a logical configuration having hardware resources and / or software necessary for implementing the technical idea of the present invention, and necessarily means one physical component. It does not mean a single device. That is, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may mean a logical combination of hardware and / or software provided to implement the technical idea of the present invention. If necessary, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may be installed in devices spaced apart from each other. By performing a function may be implemented as a set of logical configurations for implementing the technical idea of the present invention. For example, at least one of the control module 110, the POS module 120, the location determination module 130, the reservation / payment module 140, or the DB 150 may be a physically different device (eg, POS system 201, 301, or application system 600, etc.) is distributed and can implement the technical idea of the present invention through a predetermined communication protocol or call. For example, at least some of the POS modules 120 may be installed in the POS systems 201 and 301 to implement the technical idea of the present invention. According to an implementation example, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may be installed in the POS systems 201 and 301 to implement the technical idea of the present invention. In addition, according to an embodiment, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may be implemented by a plurality of servers or data processing apparatuses, and each may transmit and receive predetermined data for implementing the technical idea of the present invention through communication.

Herein, a module may mean a functional and structural combination of hardware for carrying out the technical idea of the present invention and software for driving the hardware. For example, the module may refer to a logical unit of a predetermined code and a hardware resource for executing the predetermined code, and does not necessarily mean a physically connected code or a kind of hardware. Can be easily deduced to the average expert in the field of the present invention.

In addition, in the present specification, DB (DataBase) may be implemented as at least one table, and further includes a separate DBMS (Database Management System) for searching, storing, and managing information stored in the DB. It may be used as. In addition, it may be implemented in various ways such as linked-list, tree, relational DB, and all the data storage media and data structures capable of storing information to be stored in the pattern DB 130. It can be used to include.

The POS module 120 may receive POS information received from the POS system 201 and 301 and generate reservation information based on the received POS information. As described above, the POS information received by the POS module 120 may vary according to the type, menu, etc. of the business establishments 200 and 300 in which the POS systems 201 and 301 are installed. In addition, the POS module 120 may receive necessary POS information by installing a predetermined code and / or application in the POS systems 201 and 301. According to an implementation example, the POS module 120 may be installed in the POS systems 201 and 301 to implement the technical idea of the present invention.

The control module 110 may transmit the bookable information generated by the POS module 120 to the user's terminal 400 or 500 or the application system 600. In this case, the user's terminal 400 or 500 or the user's identification information may be stored in advance in the DB 150. For example, the control module 110 may transmit the reservation information to the user's mobile terminal 400 or may cause the reservation information to be displayed in a predetermined application installed in the computer 500. The application may be an application separately installed in the computer 500 for a method for providing real-time reservation information according to an embodiment of the present invention, or may be a predetermined application (eg, an instant messenger application) used by the user.

On the other hand, the control module 110 may transmit the reservation available information of the business establishment suitable for the user to the user as described above. To this end, the control module 110 may transmit the reservation available information on the place of business previously selected by the user to the user. According to an embodiment, the control module 110 may transmit the reservation information at a predetermined time (large time). For example, by sending or pushing reservation information to a user at a predetermined time around lunch time and / or at dinner time, the user can conveniently and conveniently check detailed information of the place of business in which the user is located, that is, reservation information.

In addition, the control module 110 may transmit the bookable information of the place of business selected or specified according to the location of the user to the user. The determination of the location of the user, the selection of the place of business, or the specification may include the location determination module ( 130).

The position determining module 130 selects a predetermined POS system from among a plurality of POS systems 201 and 301 according to the registered position if the user registers his / her own position in advance (that is, a predetermined business place among the plurality of business places). Or a location of the user in real time to select (specify) a predetermined POS system among the plurality of POS systems 201 and 301.

To this end, the location determination module 130 receives location information (GPS information) of the terminals 400 and 500 of the user from a predetermined GPS module (not shown) installed in the terminals 400 and 500 of the user. Based on this, the location of the user can be determined. According to another embodiment, the location determination module 130 obtains IP addresses of the terminals 400 and 500 of the user, and a predetermined system (eg, an ISP system) corresponding to the obtained IP address or location. Etc.) may determine the location of the user terminal (400, 500). According to an embodiment, the IP addresses of the terminals 400 and 500 of the user may be obtained from the application system 600, and the positions of the terminals 400 and 500 of the user may be determined based on the obtained IP addresses. have. According to another implementation example, the application system 600 may determine the location based on the IP address of the user's terminals 400 and 500 and transmit the determined location information to the location determination module 130. Alternatively, the application system 600 determines the location of the user using predetermined other user information (for example, information when registering as a member) based on the IP address, and determines the location information module 130 based on the determined location information. Can also be sent. In addition, the location determination module 130 may determine the location of the user in various ways. When the position of the user is determined by the position determination module 130, a business place is specified according to the determined position, and the reservation availability information of the specified business place is transmitted to the user by the control module 110, thereby providing the user with the user. It is possible to receive only the information available for reservation of the business place located in the vicinity of the user has the effect of increasing the usefulness of the information.

On the other hand, the reservation / payment module 140, if the user wants to perform the reservation, order, and / or payment on the basis of the available information available for transmission, may perform the processing for this. The control module 110 may include or separately transmit a predetermined link to a web page of a place of business where the reservation, order, and / or payment may be performed while the reservation information is transmitted. However, if there is no web page for each business place or it is cumbersome for the user to perform reservation, order, and / or payment by separately accessing the web page, the user terminal 400, 500 separately from the user's terminal 400, 500 In order to perform reservation, order, and / or payment without moving, a predetermined code and / or application is installed on the terminal 400 or 500 of the user to communicate the reservation / payment module 140 with the reservation, The order, and / or payment may be performed, or the reservation, order, and / or payment may be performed by accessing a web page provided by the real-time reservation information providing system 100. Information about the reservation, order, and / or payment that has been performed may be transmitted to the POS system 201, 301, which may be configured to transmit POS information (eg, occupancy) based on the transmitted information. Information on the reserved seat or order information) and / or bookable information (eg, empty seat information or orderable menu information). When the POS information and / or the reservation information is changed, the reservation availability information of the place of business that the control module 110 transmits to other users is also changed, so that the reservation information of the place of business may be updated in real time.

The reservation performed by the reservation / payment module 140 may mean a reservation for a seat (table), an order may mean an order for a menu, and payment may mean payment of an expense according to the order. Can be. Meanwhile, according to an embodiment of the present invention, when the user pays in advance, the user may be provided with a predetermined discount because the payment is performed before receiving the menu and / or service. Therefore, the real-time reservation information providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention may be activated. In addition, it is a matter of course that a predetermined payment institution (for example, card company, authorized certification authority, etc.) system and the reservation / payment module 140 may be connected through a wired or wireless network for payment.

The DB 150 may include information about the user, information about the user's terminals 400 and 500 (eg, a mobile phone number of the mobile terminal 400, an IP address of the computer 500, etc.), or the application system ( In operation 600, information on the identification information of the user may be stored in advance.

3 is a view for explaining an example in which the reservation information is displayed on the mobile terminal of the user according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 4 is a user reservation according to the real-time reservation information providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention An example of a UI for performing reservation, order, and / or payment based on the available information is shown.

Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, the reservation information displayed on the mobile terminal 400 by the control module 110 transmitted to the mobile terminal 400 is as shown in FIG. 3. The reservation information may include information on a name of a business place, information on an empty seat, a reference time of the reservation information, and the like. In addition, according to the embodiment, the seating arrangement 10 of the business place may be included in the reservation information. The seat arrangement diagram 10 may be configured to distinguish information on occupied seats (eg, 1, 3, 4, and 5) from empty seats (eg, 2 and 6) among the seats 1 to 6 of the business place. Can be displayed. When the user who has received the reservation information as shown in FIG. 3 wants to make a reservation, an empty seat may be selected. A reservation, order, and / or payment can then be performed for the selected empty seat. Therefore, the user may select a desired seat among the empty seats. Of course, according to the embodiment, the seat arrangement diagram 10 is not included in the reservation information, and thus the user may not be able to select a desired seat among the empty seats.

In FIG. 3, when the user selects the empty seat 2, the reservation / payment UI 20 may be displayed on the mobile terminal 400 as shown in FIG. 4. Then, the reservation / payment UI 20 may include a reservation UI 21, an order UI 22, and / or a payment UI 23. In some embodiments, a UI for more various functions (eg, a payment cancellation function) may be included in the reservation / payment UI 20. By selecting each of the UIs 21 to 23, the user can perform a desired function.

5 illustrates an example in which bookable information is provided through a predetermined application according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, a predetermined instant messenger application 30 as shown in FIG. 5 may be installed in the computer 500. Information pushed or transmitted from the application system 600 may be displayed in one region of the instant messenger application 30, and the application system 600 may reserve information received from the real-time reservation information providing system 100. Alternatively, the link 31 for confirming the reservation information may be pushed to the instant messenger application 30. When the user selects the link 31, reservation information as shown in FIG. 3 may be displayed in a predetermined area or a separate web client.

6 is a schematic flow chart illustrating a method of providing real-time reservation information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may receive POS information from the POS systems 201 and 301 (S100). Then, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may generate a reservation available information based on the received POS information (S110). In addition, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 may select or specify a suitable place of business (or POS system) for each user (S120), and transmit the reservation information of the specified place of business to the user's terminals 400 and 500. (S130). According to the embodiment, the user-specific business place (or POS system) may be first selected (S120), and reservation information of the selected business place may be generated (S110).

The user may simply check the reservation information, and as described above, the user may perform a reservation, an order, and / or a payment (S140). Then, the real-time reservation information providing system 100 transmits the information on the reservation, order, and / or payment received from the user's terminal (400, 500) to the corresponding POS system, the POS information or reservation information You can change it. Of course, the changed POS information may be received by the real-time reservation information providing system 100 again (S100).

The method for providing real time reservation information according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. Computer-readable recording media include all kinds of recording devices that store data that can be read by a computer system. Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, hard disk, floppy disk, optical data storage, and the like, and also in the form of carrier waves (e.g., transmission over the Internet). It also includes implementations. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion. And functional programs, codes and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily inferred by programmers in the art to which the present invention belongs.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

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Receiving, by the real-time reservation information providing system, POS information received from a predetermined business POS system;
Generating reservable information based on the received POS information; And
And transmitting the generated reservation information to a user terminal corresponding to a predetermined user or an application system to which the user terminal is connected. The method of claim 1, wherein the real-time reservation information providing method is
Determining, by the real-time reservation information providing system, the location of the user; And
And specifying the business location POS system among a plurality of business location POS systems based on the determined location of the user. The method of claim 2, wherein the real-time reservation information providing method is
When the POS information of the POS system is changed, real-time reservation information providing method, characterized in that for receiving the changed POS information and transmitting the reservation information generated based on the changed POS information to the user terminal or the application system. The method of claim 2, wherein the real-time reservation information providing system determines the location of the user,
Extracting a location of the user registered in advance in the real-time reservation information providing system; or
Real-time reservation information providing method comprising at least one of the step of determining the location of the user terminal. The method of claim 4, wherein the determining of the location of the user terminal comprises:
The real-time reservation information providing system comprises the step of confirming the location information from the application system or the user terminal. The method of claim 5, wherein the location information,
And providing at least one of GPS information of the user terminal or IP (Internet Protocol) address information allocated to the user terminal. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of the generated bookable information to a user terminal corresponding to a predetermined user or an application system to which the user terminal is connected,
And transmitting the reservation information at a predetermined time. The method of claim 1, wherein the real-time reservation information providing method is
Receiving reservation information from the user terminal based on the reservation availability information transmitted by the real-time reservation information providing system;
The payment method corresponding to the reservation information is further performed by the user terminal. The method of claim 1, wherein the reservation information is:
Real-time reservation information providing method comprising at least one of the vacant seat information or orderable menu information. The method of claim 1, wherein the user terminal,
Real-time reservation information providing method comprising at least one of the user's mobile terminal or computer. The method of claim 1, wherein the application system,
When receiving the reservation information from the real-time reservation information providing system,
And providing a link for checking the reservation information or the reservation availability information to an application installed in the terminal of the user. According to claim 1, The business POS system,
Real-time reservation information providing method, characterized in that the POS system corresponding to the business place pre-selected by the user. The method of claim 11, wherein the application,
Real time reservation information providing method including an instant messenger application. Receiving, by the real-time reservation information providing system, POS information received from the plurality of business POS systems;
Generating bookable information based on POS information of a customized business place corresponding to a predetermined user among the plurality of received POS information; And
And pushing the generated bookable information to a user terminal corresponding to a predetermined user or an application system to which the user terminal is connected at a predetermined time. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 14. A POS module for receiving POS information received from a predetermined business POS system and generating reservationable information based on the received POS information;
And a control module for transmitting the generated reservation information to a user terminal corresponding to a predetermined user or an application system to which the user terminal is connected. The system of claim 16, wherein the real-time reservation information providing system is provided.
And a location determination module for determining the location of the user and specifying the location POS system among a plurality of location POS systems based on the determined location of the user. The method of claim 17, wherein the position determination module,
And extracting the location of the user registered in advance in the real-time reservation information providing system or determining the location of the user terminal. The system of claim 16, wherein the real-time reservation information providing system is provided.
And a reservation / payment module for receiving reservation information from the user terminal on the basis of the available reservation information and transmitting a payment corresponding to the reservation information by the user terminal.

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