Patent ID: 8639576
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An Internet advertisement method for distributing a sample through an off-line store based on an authentication key obtained from an online marketing server, said method comprising: providing an online marketing server for hosting an online mall that brokers transactions between buyers of goods and sellers of goods and is capable of generating target advertisements; providing a customer computer terminal connected to said online marketing server through a network, wherein said customer computer terminal communicates to said online marketing server through said network to register said target advertisements including information on providing a sample; receiving log-in information of a customer transmitted through said network from said customer computer terminal to said online marketing server, wherein said customer computer terminal selects the advertisement and requests the sample and said online marketing server determines whether the customer is a target customer; providing a sample application form from said online marketing server to the customer computer terminal according to the determination results; and generating an authentication key from said online marketing server and transmitting said authentication key through said network to said customer computer terminal, wherein said authentication key is used to receive the sample of the advertised goods at an offline store, in response to a notification that the sample application form has been completed from the customer computer terminal providing a seller computer terminal connected to said online marketing server through said network; prior to said online marketing server providing said target advertisement, said seller computer terminal reqisters a target information profile in a database of said online marketing server, the target information profile indicating target customers selected and designated in advanced by an advertiser, wherein determining using said online marketing server and said target information profile registered on said database whether the customer is a target customer, said step of determining includes comparing the target information profile with membership information based on the log-in information from the customer computer terminal to make the determination wherein registering the target information profile comprises the steps of using said seller computer terminal for transmitting registration information on at least one offline store through said network to said database of said online marketing server, and prior to generating an authentication key, using said online marketing server to provide the offline store information and a sample application form to the customer computer terminal and using said customer computer terminal to select an offline store where the customer desires to receive the sample of the advertised goods when the sample application form is being filled out using the customer computer terminal and transmitted through said network to said online marketing server; providing a franchise computer terminal connected to said online market server through a network, wherein after said online marketing server generates an authentication key, said online marketing server notifies the franchise computer terminal through said network whether the authentication is successfully performed, in response to a request for verification of the authentication key from the franchise computer terminal after notifying, said franchise computer terminal transmits through said network to said online marketing server a notification that provision of the sample has been completed including details of sample provision to the customer visiting the offline store, from the franchise computer terminal; after said online marketing server receives receiving the notification of sample provision completion, said online marketing server settles an advertising expenditure according to a commission policy wherein the commission policy is determined based on an issue number of the authentication key generated by the online marketing server or verified in response to a request for verification from the franchise computer terminal or based on the number of samples provided by the offline store.