KR101326593B1 - A processing method for mobile coupon using user's mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal, and the method for processing a mobile coupon according to the present invention identifies a merchant to which a user terminal which has received a mobile coupon intends to use a mobile coupon, and identifies the identified merchant information. The mobile terminal checks the validity of the mobile coupon, and if the mobile coupon is valid, the user terminal transmits the usage history of the coupon to the server and automatically deactivates the mobile coupon.

Description

A processing method for mobile coupon using user's mobile terminal}

The present invention relates to a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal, in particular, when a user who visits a merchant who wants to use a mobile coupon uses a mobile coupon through his terminal in a coupon processing system environment for processing this through a server The present invention relates to a mobile coupon processing method and a recording medium recording the same.

A coupon is a discount coupon of a product or service and an exchange ticket of a product or service provided for the purpose of promoting the sale of the product or advertising the product or service. Traditionally, these coupons were generally made of printed materials printed on paper or vinyl. As market competition is fierce, the use of coupons as a means of marketing is actively spreading.

With the advent of computer technology, coupons have been processed and distributed in electronic form. Recently, as the use of mobile communication services has become popular, mobile coupons that have been downloaded to mobile terminals have appeared. Such mobile coupons have gained much popularity due to their unique mobility, and are wirelessly transmitted from the coupon providing server to the user's communication terminal through a mobile communication network. That is, in the case of a mobile coupon, the user does not have printed matters, but the electronic coupon is stored in the memory of the communication terminal he is carrying.

Meanwhile, in order to use a mobile coupon, a user must possess a communication terminal of his own and visit a member store and present a mobile coupon displayed on a display screen of the terminal. Then, the merchant checks the mobile coupon and provides a corresponding product or service. In this case, in order to process the mobile coupon in the merchant, the merchant stores the barcode displayed on the merchant with a barcode reader, or directly check the contents of the mobile coupon. If it is recognized as a barcode reader, the point of sales (POS) system owned by the merchant can record the product or service delivery history, and if confirmed only with the naked eye, the merchant representative can provide it through a separate means. You will need to record the details. Finally, the mobile coupons that have been used must be deleted. For this purpose, the mobile coupon is inevitably taken over by the user's terminal and the mobile coupon can be deleted directly from the terminal.

Therefore, a separate system or means for processing a mobile coupon is necessary in the merchant's point of view, and the user has to inconvenience the need to delete the coupon by handing his terminal to the person in charge of the merchant.

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve the burden of providing a separate processing system for processing a mobile coupon for each merchant in order to provide a specific goods and services, mobile only if the direct operation of the merchant to the user's terminal The present invention provides a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal and a recording medium recording the same.

In order to solve the above technical problem, a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal according to the present invention comprises the steps of receiving the mobile coupon by the user terminal; Identifying, by the user terminal, an affiliate store for using the mobile coupon; Checking the validity of the mobile coupon based on the identified merchant information; And if the test result indicates that the mobile coupon is valid, the user terminal transmits a usage history of the coupon to a server and automatically deactivates the mobile coupon.

In order to solve the above technical problem, a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal according to the present invention comprises the steps of receiving a server identification information and the mobile coupon for the merchant to use the mobile coupon from the user terminal; Validating the mobile coupon based on the received information; And if the mobile coupon is valid as a result of the test, the server automatically deactivating the mobile coupon by recording a usage history of the coupon and transmitting the validity to the user terminal.

On the other hand, the process of identifying the affiliated store in the processing method of the mobile coupon through the user terminal is performed by the user terminal receives an affiliated store identifier for identifying the affiliated store, the affiliated store identifier is directly from the user terminal It may be obtained by at least one of the input through the input means of, or input through the RFID tag provided in the merchant.

In addition, the process of identifying the affiliated store in the method of processing a mobile coupon through the user terminal comprises the steps of receiving a location information of the affiliated store via a GPS receiver provided in the user terminal to query a server; And receiving affiliated store identification information corresponding to the location information from the server.

In order to solve the other technical problem, a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal according to the present invention comprises the steps of receiving a request for the use of the mobile coupon from the user terminal; Transmitting an approval request message including a call back URL to a preset approver phone number according to the use request; And receiving an approval command from the approver via the reply URL, and the validating of the mobile coupon further checks whether the approval command is received.

Furthermore, the following provides a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing mobile coupon processing methods through the user terminal described above on a computer.

According to the present invention, a mobile terminal can process a mobile coupon using only a user's terminal without providing a separate processing system for each affiliated store to provide corresponding products and services by identifying an affiliated store where the user terminal intends to use the mobile coupon. By automatically deactivating the mobile coupon without direct manipulation of the merchant personnel after the use of the user's terminal privacy and at the same time can be guaranteed that the coupon is complete and can not be reused anymore. Furthermore, the present invention can be used for mobile coupons at places other than the affiliated store because the mobile coupon can be authenticated through the user's terminal.

1 is a block diagram showing an overall system of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention with a focus on an operation performed in the user terminal.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal centering on an operation performed in a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a diagram for describing a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, focusing on transmission / reception data and a processing subject between an affiliate store, a user terminal, and a server.
5A to 5B are diagrams illustrating a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a system for processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, and includes a user terminal 10, a server 20, and an affiliated store 30. Of course, there is a coupon provider 40 that provides a mobile coupon to the user terminal.

First, the user terminal 10 stores the mobile coupon received from the coupon provider 40. The mobile coupon may be physically stored in a recording medium such as a memory of the user terminal 10, but may also be stored in a unique account space provided in a specific server on the network. That is, the mobile coupon is provided to be accessible at any time through the user terminal (10). The user now visits the affiliated store that wants to use the coupon while holding his terminal 10. At this time, when the user presents the mobile coupon through the terminal 10, the person in charge of the affiliated store 30 will request the coupon authentication.

In the case of the POS system that is conventionally used in merchants, since payment was processed through POS, authentication of the payment method also depends on the POS system of the merchant. However, since the types of mobile coupons are very diverse, authentication means are also diversified into barcodes or coupon unique numbers. Accordingly, if the merchant wants to authenticate the mobile coupon, it is forced to read the coupon information through a barcode reader or directly enter the coupon unique number in the POS system. Therefore, all merchants of a company that intends to provide mobile coupons have to introduce an expensive POS system or an authentication processing system.

In contrast, embodiments of the present invention assume that the affiliate store 30 is not provided with a separate authentication means or mobile coupon processing means. Accordingly, the use and post-use processing (meaning disposal or deletion of used coupons) of the mobile coupon must be performed entirely through the user's terminal 10. In order to implement this, embodiments of the present invention have a basic idea of identifying a merchant directly through the user terminal 10 and authenticating the mobile coupon through the server 20. More specifically, a company that wants to provide a product or service for a mobile coupon constructs a database 25 that assigns identifiers for identifying respective merchants to a specific server 20 in advance. That is, since the user (more precisely, the user terminal) can distinguish the affiliated store 30 through the unique identifier of the currently visited affiliated store 30, the affiliate store itself simply needs to record it on the server managing the mobile coupon. Even if a separate POS system or individual authentication system is not provided, the usage history of the mobile coupon can be managed.

The merchant 30 visited by the user is previously assigned a specific merchant identifier, and the user acquires the merchant identifier at the time when the user wants to use the mobile coupon. More specific means for obtaining the merchant identifier will be described later with reference to FIG. 2. Then, the user attempts to authenticate the coupon by transmitting the coupon information and the merchant identifier to be used by using the wireless communication provided in the user terminal 10 to the server 20. As a result, if the coupon is valid, the usage history is recorded in the server 20, and a message indicating that the coupon is completed is received. The user terminal 10 receiving the use completion message may automatically disable illegal coupon reuse by automatically deactivating the used coupon, and the person in charge of the affiliated store 30 operates the personal terminal 10 to use the already used coupon. You do not have to experience the inconvenience of deleting. Now, the user can query the usage history of the coupon through his terminal 10, and the company that provided the coupon can query and manage the usage history of mobile coupons provided by the user through the server 20.

According to the embodiment described above, since the affiliate store 30 is not involved in the entire process of authentication, use, and disposal of the used coupon, the affiliate store 30 may not only protect the privacy of the user, but also the affiliate store 30 itself. There is no need to have expensive certified equipment and POS systems. As a result, the offer provider 40 of the coupon has the advantage that it is possible to expand the franchise agreement even for small businesses that are difficult to invest in such equipment, and from the user's point of view, the affiliate stores are expanded to use mobile coupons in more places There is convenience.

Furthermore, the present embodiment may be utilized even when the user does not directly visit the affiliated store 30. For example, when a user orders food in the Hangang Park, the merchant delivers the ordered food. There is no authentication means or POS system in the Hangang Park. At this time, even if the user presents the mobile coupon in the conventional case could not receive the benefits. However, according to the above-described embodiment, since the authentication of the mobile coupon can be directly obtained from the server 20 through the user terminal 10, the mobile coupon can be utilized regardless of the place. In this case, of course, the merchant identifier should be obtained through the person in charge of the delivery merchant.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention with a focus on an operation performed in the user terminal.

In step 210, the user terminal receives a mobile coupon. As described above, the mobile coupon may be stored directly in the physical memory of the user terminal, or may be provided with only a link to a separate server.

In operation 220, the user terminal identifies an affiliate store that intends to use the mobile coupon received in operation 210. There are various methods for identifying an affiliated store, but the following will illustrate two methods that can be easily implemented.

First, the identifying of the affiliated store may be performed by the user terminal receiving an affiliated store identifier for identifying the affiliated store. More specifically, the affiliated store identifier may be input directly from a user through an input means of a user terminal or may be inputted through a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag provided in the affiliated store.

In the former case, the merchant identifier may be directly input through a key pad or touch pad provided in the user terminal (of course, the merchant identifier may be obtained from a representative of the visited merchant) or displayed in the merchant. The affiliated store identifier may be recognized through a camera module provided in the user terminal. Accordingly, the affiliated store identifier displayed in the affiliated store may be preferably displayed in the form of a barcode, but even though the display unit is displayed in the general number or English form, the affiliated store identifier can be easily obtained by character recognition of the image photographed through the camera module. In the latter case, the RFID tag may be attached to the affiliated store and the RFID may be read through the user terminal. In this case, the user terminal should have an RFID reader.

Secondly, the step of identifying the affiliated store may receive the affiliated store location information through a global positioning system (GPS) receiver provided in the user terminal, query the server, and receive the affiliated store identification information corresponding to the location information from the server. Recently, as the size of a GPS module has been miniaturized, a portable terminal having a GPS module has been introduced. Accordingly, the user terminal may directly receive the current location and then identify the affiliate store using the received coordinate information. In this case, the user terminal may query a separate server for the received coordinate information and receive an affiliate store identifier in response. However, if there is an affiliate store map mapping the affiliate store coordinate and identifier in the terminal, the terminal itself It may be possible to obtain a merchant ID corresponding to the current location from the received coordinate information.

In addition to the two methods described above, one of ordinary skill in the art may recognize that the user terminal may employ various technical means for identifying an affiliated store that intends to use a mobile coupon.

Next, in step 230, the validity of the mobile coupon is checked based on the affiliate store information identified in step 220. To this end, the user terminal transmits the mobile coupon information and the identified merchant information to the server. The mobile coupon information includes a type of coupon and a history of providing a product or a service, and a usage time will be checked for validation.

For example, if the coupon is a service offering the free offer of beverage B of the coffee shop A, the mobile coupon information may be given a coupon number for identifying the free offer of beverage B, and the user terminal receives the coupon number. Send the identified merchant number to the server. Then, the server searches the coupon number and the merchant number to check whether the corresponding coupon can be used in the identified merchant based on the time information to use the current mobile coupon. If the coupon is not available or has expired at the identified merchant, the server will respond to the mobile terminal with an error message stating that the mobile coupon is invalid.

If it is determined in step 240 that the mobile coupon is valid, in step 250, the mobile terminal transmits and records the use history of the coupon to the server and automatically deactivates the mobile coupon stored in the mobile terminal. Here, the meaning of deactivation may be implemented in the form of deleting or discarding the mobile coupon itself, but it is more preferable to record the usage history after removing the coupon use function so as not to reuse. Therefore, the user can check when, where and what products or services are provided for the mobile coupons he holds.

On the other hand, in another embodiment of the present invention, in the method of using the mobile coupon through the user terminal described above, it is possible to add a function for negotiating the conditions of use of the mobile coupon. More specifically, the embodiment described with reference to FIG. 2 may further include receiving a use condition of a mobile coupon from a user, and dynamically changing a service providing content of the mobile coupon according to the input use condition.

The function of negotiating the terms of use of the mobile coupon may be implemented as follows. The coupon provider may configure a plurality of coupon providing products or services by adding a select button or a radio button to the coupon in order to initially produce the mobile coupon. To this end, a simple program script is added to the mobile coupon to dynamically change the offer of the coupon according to the user's selection. For example, assuming that a service provider having a discount rate of 10% is provided when there is only one visitor of a merchant, it is possible to implement a mobile coupon in a form of changing the discount rate to 20% when there are three or more visitors of a merchant. . Through this variable form of mobile coupon, the merchant's owner can achieve the effect of attracting more customers.

The function of negotiating the terms of use of the mobile coupon may also be implemented through communication with the server. The coupon provider may process the above-mentioned content change of the coupon at the server side by implementing a mobile web page that can negotiate the terms of use of the mobile coupon through a specific URL of the server.

Negotiation of the terms of use of the mobile coupon as described above should be performed before step 230 of FIG. That is, the validity of the mobile coupon may be checked only after the content of the mobile coupon having the variable condition is determined.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal centering on an operation performed in a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In operation 310, the server receives affiliated store identification information and mobile coupon information for using the mobile coupon from the user terminal. Merchant identification information and mobile coupon information has already been described through step 220 of FIG. That is, in one embodiment of the present invention, the merchant identification information is a merchant identifier directly input from the user through the user terminal, and the merchant identifier is directly input from the user through an input means of the user terminal or through an RFID tag provided in the merchant. It may be obtained by at least one of the input. In another embodiment, the affiliated store identification information is information corresponding to the location information of the affiliated store that the server receives from the user terminal, and the location information of the affiliated store may be obtained through a GPS receiver provided in the user terminal.

In step 320, the validity of the mobile coupon is checked based on the information received in step 310. As described above, the validity check of the mobile coupon is performed based on at least two pieces of information. The first would be the mobile coupon number (meaning the identification number) and the second would be the merchant identifier. Here, additional information such as current time information for checking the expiration date of the coupon or the number of users may be additionally input as a test condition. The server then validates the mobile coupon via this input condition. Of course, it is natural to have a database that stores the validity conditions of the coupon for this inspection. In such a database, respective conditions of use are stored in a record using a coupon number or a merchant number as a key, and the server can check the validity of the mobile coupon by querying the database.

If it is determined in step 330 that the mobile coupon is valid, the process proceeds to step 340. In step 340, the server automatically deactivates the mobile coupon by recording the usage history of the coupon and transmitting the validity to the user terminal. This process can be variously proposed in terms of implementation, but only one example thereof is introduced here.

First, the server sends a response message to the user terminal that the mobile coupon is valid. Then, the user terminal requests a message indicating that the coupon has been used, and the server records the usage history of the mobile coupon in a specific database according to the request. At the same time, the mobile terminal deactivates the mobile coupon stored in its memory and stores the usage history in association with the mobile coupon.

A simpler design of this procedure from an implementation perspective would be to record the usage history in a database in the server at the time the server sends a response message to the user that the coupon is valid. Of course, the mobile terminal having received the response message that the coupon is valid does not need to request a message from the server for use processing separately, and only deactivates the mobile coupon stored in its memory.

The use history of the stored mobile coupon may be utilized as basic data of a customer relationship management (CRM) of the coupon provider. In particular, the use history of the mobile coupon accumulated through the mobile coupon processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention is differentiated from the amount and quality of the data compared to the customer data based on the conventional merchant POS system. In particular, since data is managed directly through the server and the coupon stored in the user terminal, it is possible to more accurately extract the usage history of the mobile coupon and the usage pattern of the customer. That is, the mobile coupon provider can utilize useful relationship information by directly matching the usage history of the mobile coupon with its customer database.

On the other hand, in another embodiment of the present invention, in the method of using the mobile coupon through the user terminal described above, it is possible to add a function for negotiating the conditions of use of the mobile coupon. Here, it is possible to present an embodiment of changing the use condition of the mobile coupon from the server's point of view through the server. That is, as described above, the server may receive the use condition of the mobile coupon from the user terminal, dynamically change the service provision content of the mobile coupon according to the received use condition, and then transmit the changed service provision history to the user terminal. .

FIG. 4 is a diagram for describing a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to transmission / reception data and a processing subject between the affiliate store 30, the user terminal 10, and the server 20. .

In operation 410, the user visits the affiliated store 30 while holding the user terminal 10 to present a mobile coupon. In operation 420, the user terminal 10 obtains affiliated store identification information. The affiliated store identification information may be obtained through various means already described, and may be obtained only through the user's terminal 10 without using any of the affiliate's own POS system or authentication system.

The user terminal 10 transmits the affiliated store identification information and the mobile coupon information to the server 20 through step 430. In operation 440, the server 20 checks the validity of the mobile coupon. A series of processes for checking the validity of the mobile coupon are already described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3, but in this embodiment, an additional approval process by the representative of the affiliated store 30 is proposed.

As described above with reference to the embodiments described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3, the validity of the mobile coupon may be processed only by mutual communication between the user terminal 10 and the server 20 without intervention of the affiliate store 30. However, the present embodiment further presents an additional approval process by the affiliate store 30.

First, in step 430, the server 20 receives a request for using a mobile coupon (meaning a request for validating a mobile coupon) from the user terminal 10. Then, in step 443, the server 20 transmits an authorization request message including a call back URL to the affiliated store 30 to the preset approver phone number. At this time, the approver phone number will be the phone number of the terminal that can be confirmed by the store owner or resident representative of the affiliated store (30). The merchant terminal does not need to be a highly functional terminal, and it is sufficient to simply utilize a wireless Internet platform of the WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability).

In addition, the approval request message refers to a message requesting approval for a coupon that the current user wants to use. The approval message includes a reply URL for the convenience of approval. It is preferably implemented to be able to send an authorization command to. The call back URL can be used for this.

In operation 445, the server 20 receives an approval command from the approver via the reply URL. In this case, the step of checking the validity of the mobile coupon of step 440 is preferably to additionally check whether the approval command is received. That is, whether or not the merchant is approved is added to the conditions for determining the validity of the mobile coupon.

The approval process of the affiliated store 30 as described above may be selectively added in setting up a coupon use process by the coupon provider, and may be provided for a safer transaction. Even if this process is added, the embodiments of the present invention can still maintain the advantage that merchants do not need to provide a POS system or a separate authentication system.

When the validity check is completed, the server 20 transmits the validity to the user terminal 10 in step 450. As a result, if the mobile coupon is valid, the server 20 records the usage history of the coupon in a database in step 460 according to the coupon use request. In addition, the user may receive a product or service in step 470 by presenting to the affiliated store 30 a response message indicating that the mobile coupon displayed on the user terminal 10 is valid. Finally, the user terminal 10 deactivates the mobile coupon in step 480.

5A to 5B are diagrams illustrating a method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, FIG. 5A illustrates a beverage free coupon stored in a user's terminal. In FIG. 5A, the mobile coupon may include a coupon number 510 to a barcode 520. The coupon number 510 and the bar code 520 is used in the conventional mobile coupons to read it directly with a bar code reader provided in the merchant, or the inconvenience of having to enter the coupon number 510 in the authentication system of the merchant. there was. However, if the merchant identification means proposed by the embodiments of the present invention is utilized, the validity of the mobile coupon can be authenticated through the user terminal without the intervention of the merchant and the corresponding coupon can be used.

The simplest way to implement this is shown in Figure 5a. Since the mobile coupon of FIG. 5A is provided with an input window 530 through which an affiliated store identifier can be input, a user may obtain an affiliated store identifier from a resident representative of the affiliated store and input it to the input window 530. In this way, the user terminal can obtain a merchant identifier and query the server to authenticate the validity of the mobile coupon. Various methods of obtaining the merchant identifier have been described above with reference to various embodiments of FIGS. 2 to 3.

5B is a diagram illustrating a message screen indicating that a mobile coupon is normally used through a user terminal. 5B shows that the free drink coupon is deactivated after being normally used, and the usage history 540 is recorded. The usage history 540 may be a use date, a place of use, a merchant number, a provision history, a user name and a user ID, and may be flexibly implemented according to the needs of the coupon provider.

According to the embodiments of the present invention described above, the user terminal directly identifies the affiliated store that wants to use the mobile coupon, so that the mobile coupon is provided only by the user's terminal without providing a separate processing system for each merchant in order to provide corresponding products and services. By deactivating the mobile coupon automatically without the direct manipulation of the merchant representative after the use of the mobile coupon, you can ensure that the privacy of the user's terminal is preserved and the coupon is used and can no longer be reused. have.

Meanwhile, the present invention can be embodied in computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored.

Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device and the like, and also a carrier wave (for example, transmission via the Internet) . In addition, the computer-readable recording medium may be distributed over network-connected computer systems so that computer readable codes can be stored and executed in a distributed manner. In addition, functional programs, codes, and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily deduced by programmers skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs.

The present invention has been described above with reference to various embodiments. It will be understood by those skilled 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 appended claims. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope of equivalents thereof should be construed as being included in the present invention.

10: user terminal 20: server
30: Merchant 40: Coupon Provider

Claims (11)

In the method of processing a mobile coupon (mobile coupon) through a user terminal,
Receiving, by the user terminal, the mobile coupon;
Acquiring affiliate store information by identifying the affiliate store currently visited by the user terminal when the user possessing the user terminal visits the affiliate store to use the mobile coupon;
Checking, by the user terminal, the validity of the mobile coupon through a server directly without intervention of the processing system of the affiliated store based on the identified affiliated store information; And
If the test results indicate that the mobile coupon is valid, the user terminal includes a step of directly transmitting the usage history of the coupon to the server without the intervention of the merchant and automatically deactivating the mobile coupon.
When the affiliated store is not equipped with a point of sales (POS) system, an authentication means, or a mobile coupon processing means, the user terminal directly identifies the affiliated store, and authenticates the mobile coupon through the server. How to. The method of claim 1,
The step of identifying the affiliated store is performed by the user terminal receiving an affiliated store identifier for identifying the affiliated store,
The affiliated store identifier is obtained by at least one of being input directly from a user through an input means of the user terminal or through a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag provided in the affiliated store. The method of claim 1,
Identifying the merchant,
Receiving location information of the affiliated store through a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver provided in the user terminal and querying a server; And
Receiving merchant identification information corresponding to the location information from the server. The method of claim 1,
Receiving a use condition of the mobile coupon from a user; And
And dynamically changing service provision contents of the mobile coupon according to the input use condition. In the method of processing a mobile coupon through a user terminal,
Receiving, by the server, affiliate store identification information and information on the mobile coupon from which the mobile coupon is to be used directly from the user terminal without intervention of the merchant system;
Validating the mobile coupon based on the received information; And
If the mobile coupon is valid as a result of the test, the server records the usage history of the coupon and automatically whether to deactivate the mobile coupon by transmitting directly to the user terminal without the intervention of the merchant;
The affiliated store identification information is obtained by identifying the affiliated store that the user terminal currently visits when the user possessing the user terminal visits an affiliated store that wants to use the mobile coupon.
When the affiliated store is not equipped with a point of sales (POS) system, an authentication means, or a mobile coupon processing means, the user terminal directly identifies the affiliated store, and authenticates the mobile coupon through the server. How to. The method of claim 5, wherein
The affiliated store identification information is an affiliated store identifier directly input from a user through the user terminal.
The affiliated store identifier is obtained by at least one of being input directly from a user through an input means of the user terminal or through an RFID tag provided in the affiliated store. The method of claim 5, wherein
The affiliated store identification information is information corresponding to the location information of the affiliated store that the server receives from the user terminal,
The location information of the affiliated store is obtained through a GPS receiver provided in the user terminal. The method of claim 5, wherein
Receiving, by the server, conditions of use of the mobile coupon from the user terminal;
Dynamically changing service provision contents of the mobile coupon according to the received use condition; And
Transmitting the changed service provision history to the user terminal. The method of claim 5, wherein
Receiving, by the server, a request for using the mobile coupon from the user terminal;
Transmitting an approval request message including a call back URL to a preset approver phone number according to the use request; And
Receiving an approval command from the approver via the reply URL;
The checking of the validity of the mobile coupon further comprises checking whether the approval command has been received. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the method according to any one of claims 1 to 9. delete

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