Patents by Inventor Young Bae Ku

Young Bae Ku has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10438211
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a link system and link method of an upper shopping mall and an independent shopping mall of API (application programming interface) link method, in particular, to a technology that builds and manages an independent shopping mall having an independent domain address and an user interface besides the upper shopping mall which is registered together with the other sellers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: EBAY KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Patent number: 10176497
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Korea Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Patent number: 10095884
    Abstract: A system and method for using customer information in electronic commerce using the Internet are provided. The system includes a customer information database (DB) for storing a unique number for each customer, an integrated customer information DB for storing actual customer information corresponding to the unique number in an integrated manner, and a management server for providing the unique number stored in the customer information DB and providing the actual customer information corresponding to the unique number under a security condition when an external terminal requests customer information. Actual customer information can be effectively prevented from being easily leaked by hackers or malicious programs and customer information can be utilized without a security issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: EBAY KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Patent number: 9984171
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting false code in web pages linked to a web site are provided. One system includes a web server for administering the web site and a surveillance server for collecting generated or updated web pages from among the web pages linked to the web site, selecting tags of a given tag type included in the collected web pages, determining whether the selected tags comprise false code, and providing the determination result to an administrator terminal such that an administrator can check the determination result. One method includes collecting web pages that were generated or updated within a set time period from among the web pages linked to the web site, determining whether tags included in the collected web pages comprise false code, and providing the determination result to an administrator terminal such that an administrator can check the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: eBay Korea Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Bae Ku, Eui Won Park, Chang Sup Ko, Seung Wan Lee, Dong Hyun Kim, Ho Jin Jung, Sung Hoon Jin
  • Publication number: 20170300922
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a link system and link method of an upper shopping mall and an independent shopping mall of API (application programming interface) link method, in particular, to a technology that builds and manages an independent shopping mall having an independent domain address and an user interface besides the upper shopping mall which is registered together with the other sellers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Patent number: 9727870
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a link system and link method of an upper shopping mall and an independent shopping mall of API (application programming interface) link method, in particular, to a technology that builds and manages an independent shopping mall having an independent domain address and an user interface besides the upper shopping mall which is registered together with the other sellers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Publication number: 20160342674
    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: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Patent number: 9424582
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Publication number: 20160019591
    Abstract: A method for providing advertisement inducing active participation from targeted customers and a system therefore includes providing a high advertising effect to advertisers through active participation of customers and offering a predetermined compensation to customers participated in consultation. The method for providing advertisement inducing active participation from targeted customers comprises: (a) receiving consultation advertisement registering information from advertisers; (b) outputting consultation advertisement depending on the input registering information; (c) receiving consultation requesting information from customers about the consultation advertisement; and (d) providing a predetermined compensation to customers who input the consultation requesting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Young Bae Ku, Hwa Hyeon Ryu
  • Patent number: 9135628
    Abstract: A method for providing advertisement inducing active participation from targeted customers and a system therefore includes providing a high advertising effect to advertisers through active participation of customers and offering a predetermined compensation to customers participated in consultation. The method for providing advertisement inducing active participation from targeted customers comprises: (a) receiving consultation advertisement registering information from advertisers; (b) outputting consultation advertisement depending on the input registering information; (c) receiving consultation requesting information from customers about the consultation advertisement; and (d) providing a predetermined compensation to customers who input the consultation requesting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Young Bae Ku, Hwa Hyeon Ryu
  • Publication number: 20140136326
    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: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Patent number: 8639576
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: eBay, Inc.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Patent number: 8370213
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: eBay Korea Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • Patent number: 8352330
    Abstract: Methods and systems for electronic commerce are provided in which a buyer requests a merchandise estimate by selecting estimate items registered by a seller, selects one of various estimates suggested by the seller in response to the request, and performs payment for the merchandise. One method for providing electronic commerce includes receiving, from a buyer terminal, an estimate request selecting at least one of a plurality of items from estimate request information registered by a seller terminal, providing at least one estimate to a buyer according to an estimate response from the seller terminal, and receiving an estimate rejection or a purchase request in response to the at least one estimate from the buyer terminal and performing a corresponding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: GMmarket Inc.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8266004
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: eBay Korea Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Bae Ku
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20110313831
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for providing an electronic coupon service using a communication network, including: requesting a purchase for the electronic coupon product registered in an electronic coupon service-providing server via a purchaser terminal; enabling the electronic coupon service-providing server to generate first contract information containing a purchaser and a first contract number, using the electronic coupon service provider as a seller; and enabling the electronic coupon service-providing server to generate second contract information containing a second contract number, using the place at which the electronic coupon is used as a seller, and using the electronic coupon service provider as a purchaser, wherein said second contract information contains said first contract number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: EBAY GMARKET CO., LTD.
    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