Patents Assigned to GMarket Inc.
  • Publication number: 20120253970
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for sharing profits with beneficiaries designated by a recommender who evaluates goods of an on-line shopping mall or an on-line portal site etc. (hereinafter, an e-trading system), when a purchaser connects to the e-trading platform and buys goods of the e-trading platform through the evaluation contents. The system includes a web server for administrating general purchasing procedures and performing other functions, an information providing arrangement for providing access to information on the goods including a beneficiary identifying code by connecting to the sales web page of the e-trading platform, and a profit sharing server for distributing the profit to the designated beneficiary, when any purchaser buys the goods or services at the web page of the e-trading platform including the beneficiary identifying codes through the recommendation contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: GMARKET Inc.
    Inventors: Young Bae KU, Jung Du Choi
  • Publication number: 20120116922
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an online market management method and system capable of supporting a delivery option for direct pickup of purchased products. The present invention is constructed such that, when a purchaser who purchases a product traded on an online market selects a delivery option requesting the direct pickup of a product, the method and system verify an authentication key, issued by the online market in various forms to the purchaser, at a product pickup place agreed upon with a merchant, and allow the purchaser to directly pick up the purchased product. In the online market management method, a delivery option for direct pickup of a product, for which payment has been completed by a purchaser, is selected through a server for mediating trading of products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: GMARKET INC.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Patent number: 8019657
    Abstract: A system for searching products intelligently based on analysis of customer's purchasing behavior includes a search engine database, a product database configured to store a predetermined number of keyword information on each product, an input/output unit configured to receive keywords, product selection or order information, and output search results, a search unit configured to generate search results of the search engine database and the product database from the keywords, and a related keyword information update unit configured to update related keyword information of the product database depending on the product selection or the order information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: GMarket Inc.
    Inventors: Young Bae Ku, Jung Du Choi
  • Publication number: 20110202399
    Abstract: An online coupon distribution method includes creating, at a coupon distribution server and for a sold goods coupon, a pair of a code number and an authentication key which are stored in a coupon database. The code number is sent to a wireless communication terminal and the authentication key is sent to the wireless communication terminal using a callback short message service (SMS). When the sold goods store coupon is used at a goods store terminal, the code number is sent from the goods store terminal to the coupon distribution server. The coupon distribution server receives the authentication key sent from the wireless communication terminal through a callback SMS, and compares the received code number and authentication key with the code number and authentication key stored in the coupon database. The coupon distribution server sends an authentication result to the goods store terminal where the goods store coupon is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: GMARKET, INC.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Publication number: 20100325013
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic commerce method and system that are capable of collecting information on a variety of goods or quotations in broad, intermediate, and narrow categories corresponding to attributes of goods that a buyer requests according to his or her needs, and managing the information in a database. The method and system are also capable of enabling a buyer to read and refer to quotation history, including quotation requests or process details for goods or services, and suggest appropriate price and conditions in a process of requesting a quotation. The method and system are also capable of enabling a plurality of verified sellers to respond to the quotation request, by storing, processing, and publishing the quotation history, such that the seller can obtain online sales routes at low cost and the buyer can purchase desired goods or services at a better price and under better conditions due to competition among sellers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: GMARKET INC.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Publication number: 20100312666
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system that can support goods transaction diversity and extend and promote electronic commercial transactions by improving a process in which a buyer provides a seller with necessary supplementary order information for ordering goods or services that are difficult to trade in an on-line mode, receiving all supplementary order information from the buyer through a supplementary order form registered in an on-line open market without exchanging additional information between the buyer and the seller in an off-line mode in relation to the sale of goods or services requiring the supplementary order information, and allowing the seller to efficiently prepare and deliver the ordered goods or services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: GMARKET INC.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Publication number: 20100262516
    Abstract: An electronic commerce system and method for processing auxiliary order information in an on-line open market are provided. The system includes an on-line market server for brokering the on-line transaction on the Internet, wherein the on-line market server, when entrusted with partial or full processing of acquisition of auxiliary order documents for an object for sale requested for purchase from the buyer, acquires the auxiliary order documents from an issuing authority and requests the seller to deliver the object for sale, based on the auxiliary order documents; and at least one database for storing information related to the buyer and the seller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: GMARKET INC.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Publication number: 20100030811
    Abstract: A system and method for managing customer address information in electronic commerce using the Internet are provided. Customers' detailed address information is received from customer terminals connected over the Internet, a unique address number corresponding to the detailed address information is produced, and the produced unique address number and the corresponding detailed address information are separately stored and managed in separate database (DBs), thereby effectively preventing leakage of the customers' detailed address information due to hacking or a malicious program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: GMARKET INC.
    Inventor: Young Bae KU
  • Publication number: 20090327064
    Abstract: A method for selling bundle discount products in the electronic commerce and computer-readable record medium which is recording a program of executing the method are provided. For a plurality of bundle discount products registered by a seller or a shopping mall operator, a certain discount rate or discount price is applied and it is reflected on the final product selling price, so that a purchaser can buy a plurality of cheaper goods and a seller induces a buyer to buy large products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: GMARKET INC.
    Inventor: Young Bae KU
  • Publication number: 20090248520
    Abstract: An Internet advertisement method and system that issues an authentication key for enabling selected target customers to receive a commercial sample at a membership-based offline store by performing an advertisement in the form of a banner on a web page of an online market, such as an Internet shopping mall, such that an advertiser can conveniently satisfy needs of customers desiring to purchase goods after receiving the sample without delivering the sample, a targeting goods advertisement can be effectively performed, membership-based offline stores can be publicized, and increasing visits from customers can lead to an increase in sales. The Internet advertisement method includes providing an advertisement including information on providing a sample, and generating an authentication key for enabling a customer terminal selecting the advertisement and requesting a sample of advertised goods to receive the sample at an offline store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: GMARKET INC.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Publication number: 20090192924
    Abstract: A method and system for providing mobile inventory control service using a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method for providing mobile inventory control service includes receiving a text message containing goods information from a mobile communication terminal of a seller; searching for goods corresponding to the received goods information; and setting an inventory status of the searched goods to an out-of-stock status or ending the out-of-stock status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: GMARKET INC.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Publication number: 20090077035
    Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is a method and system for providing an advertisement and event which is customized for web-user, in particular, to a method and system capable of providing a customized advertisement and event by searching an advertisement and event information database based on the searching condition of the obtained web-user information. A method of providing an user-customized event according to the present invention comprises receiving an information of a user accessed to web site; searching an advertisement and event providing information in a database, based on the searching condition of the received user information; and providing an advertisement and an event to the user according to the search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: GMARKET INC.
    Inventors: Young Bae Ku, Jung Du Choi
  • Publication number: 20090006218
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for sharing profits with beneficiaries designated by a recommender who evaluates goods of an on-line shopping mall or an on-line portal site etc. (hereinafter, an e-trading system), when a purchaser connects to the e-trading platform and buys goods of the e-trading platform through the evaluation contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: GMARKET Inc.
    Inventors: Young Bae Ku, Jung Du Choi
  • Publication number: 20080300910
    Abstract: A system for searching products intelligently based on analysis of customer's purchasing behavior includes a search engine database, a product database configured to store a predetermined number of keyword information on each product, an input/output unit configured to receive keywords, product selection or order information, and output search results, a search unit configured to generate search results of the search engine database and the product database from the keywords, and a related keyword information update unit configured to update related keyword information of the product database depending on the product selection or the order information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: GMARKET INC.
    Inventors: Young Bae Ku, Jung Du Choi
  • Publication number: 20080114650
    Abstract: An online coupon distribution method includes (a) registering coupons in the coupon distribution server, at the seller terminal, (b) selecting, at the purchaser terminal, one of the registered coupons to purchase the coupon, whereby providing the purchase desire information to the coupon distribution server, (c) requesting, at the coupon distribution server, the purchaser of the purchaser terminal to make a payment for the coupon, (d) creating a pair of a code number and an authentication key after checking the payment at the coupon distribution server, the created code number and authentication key being stored in a coupon database (DB), (e) sending, at the coupon distribution server, the code number to the purchaser terminal, and (f) sending, at the coupon distribution server, the authentication key to the purchaser terminal or any authentication key receiving terminal. This improves convenience and profits of a goods seller issuing coupons and a purchaser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Applicant: GMARKET INC.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku