Patent ID: 8290821
Filing Date: 2012-10-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for providing an online integrated shopping mall in an integrated shopping mall service apparatus connected to computer terminals over the Internet, comprising: a) upon receiving a control signal from a shopping mall management server including a product-provider shopping mall manager, a retail shopping mall manager, and a wholesale shopping mall manager, managing a product-provider shopping mall manager by the product-provider shopping mall manager, managing a retail shopping mall by the retail shopping mall manager, managing a wholesale shopping mall by the wholesale shopping mall manager, in which the product-provider shopping mall, the retail shopping mall, and the wholesale shopping mall are managed by a plurality of sub-domains linked to a main domain of the integrated shopping mall; b) providing an enterprise member with an independent management page via a main homepage of the main domain, such that the enterprise member is able to simultaneously manage commodities supplied to the integrated shopping mall via the main homepage of the main domain; c) receiving a shopping-mall sale-in-lots request from a general member via the main homepage of the main domain, registering the general member as a regular member, assigning a client shopping mall acting as a retail shopping mall to the regular member free of charge such that the client shopping mall is managed as a sub-domain, and providing the regular member with a homepage of the client shopping mall and a client shopping mall administrator page; d) assigning a wholesale shopping mall to a wholesale-qualified member selected from regular members as a sub-domain such that the wholesale-qualified member manages the wholesale shopping mall as the sub-domain, and providing the wholesale-qualified member with a homepage and an administrator page of the wholesale shopping mall; and e) if a regular member and an enterprise member requests to register commodities as regular commodities to be sold in the integrated shopping mall, displaying information of the commodities on a main homepage, homepages of client shopping malls, and each client shopping mall's homepage according to a predetermined product-registration request method, and managing the information of the commodities, wherein the method further comprises: upon receiving the shopping-mall sale-in-lots request from the general member, requesting the general member to enter a specific regular member who has previously received the shopping mall as a recommender; if the general member enters the regular member as the recommender, assigning a client shopping mall to the general member, and registering the general member who has received the client shopping mall as a regular member; and managing the regular member who has received the client shopping mall as a store member, and managing the regular member registered as the recommender as an agent member.