Abstract:
A mobile group-buying system and its implementing method comprises a group-buying server and a plurality of mobile communication devices. Each of the mobile communication device is individually installed a group-buying APP the execution of which can allow at least two mobile group-buying devices to be connected together to form a group-buying group. Further, initiator of the buying group can create a group-buying information through the group-buying APP, and the group-buying information is issued to each participant of the buying group so as to perform group-buying. Furthermore, the group-buying server records group-buying behavior of each mobile communication device and generates a group-buying record list. Thus, the present invention enables users actively launch a group-buying to specific commodity, so as to improve the problem of limitation on commodity selection imposed in conventional group-buying system.

Description:
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION 
       [0001]    1. Field of the Invention 
         [0002]    The present invention relates to a mobile group-buying system and its implementing method, more particularly to a mobile group-buying system and its implementing method in which a number of consumers conduct group-buying through a group-buying APPs of mobile communication devices. 
         [0003]    2. Brief Description of Prior Art 
         [0004]    Development of information networks has triggered increasingly booming on the development of e-commerce. A variety of internet shopping business models are introduced one by one for consumers to purchase a variety of goods on internet, on which the websites offering group-buying (in short, group-buying website) is dazzling, such as Gomaji group-buying website and 17 life group-buying website etc. By collecting sufficient number of consumers through the group-buying website, purchase or use of commodity, coupon or service of a third-party company at preferential price can be obtained. As seller can puerile and buyer can get concessions and money saving, the business model of group-buying has considerable growth prospect. For example, both Taiwanese Patent Gazette No. 201032161 entitled “Internet Group-Buying Platform and Group-Buying Method” and another Taiwanese Utility Model Patent Gazette No. M359755 entitled “Internet Group-Buying Platform” disclose that sponsor of a buying group can click on merchant geographical data, merchant commodity data and commodity marketing materials displayed on the souk website through the operation on host machine, a link page is generated after selecting a commodity of a merchant and the link page is transmitted to another participants of the buying group for purchasing commodity. However, the way of conventional group-buying platform requires that the operator of group-buying platform actively searches commodities himself and coordinates with merchant side to release commodities for possible group-buying and to publish on the group-buying website for sponsor of group-buying to choose. However, consumers cannot but to accept making choice on the group-buying platform in most cases, and are unable to choose the things they want. Therefore, group-buying systems more in line with customer&#39;s need have been proposed, such as a Taiwanese Patent Gazette No. 201342273 entitled “Group-Buying System and Its Purchase Method” discloses that a group-buying platform allowing multiple users to login is provided and the data of a specific commodity in the group-buying platform, including threshold value of the number of participants in group and price for group-buying, can be edited. When the number of participants exceeds the threshold value, the specific item of commodity can be purchased at the preset group-buying price. There are additional prior arts for reference as below.
   (1) Taiwanese Patent Gazette No. 1467508 entitled “Network Group-Buying Method”   (2) China Patent Gazette No. CN102880974 entitled “A System for Transmitting Commodity Group-Buying Information to Users”   (3) US Patent Publication US20140188650 entitled “Mobile group-buying method, platform and machine readable medium”   
 
         [0008]    It is learned from the above prior arts, although the conventional group-buying system enables group-buying sponsor to choose the item he wants for group-buying, however, selectable commodities for group-buying are still limited to that offered by the group-buying platform. In other words, consumers still fail to launch group-buying for specific commodity according to their preference. Furthermore, the existing systems still don&#39;t have the function of rendering group-buying information (including commodities and commercials) to a specific consumer in line with his favorite by analyzing his consuming records. 
       SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
       [0009]    In view of the above problems, the inventor of the present invention proposes a better group-buying system based on his abundant experience in manufacturing and product development in relevant field and according to the research and analysis made on the existing systems. Therefore, the main object of the present invention is to provide a mobile group-buying system and its implementing method which allows users to launch a group-buying actively on a specific commodity and recommends appropriate items in line with his demand for group-buying according to the analysis result made on group-buying records. 
         [0010]    In order to achieve above object, the mobile group-buying system of the present invention comprises a group-buying server and a plurality of mobile communication devices. The group-buying server has a group-buying information transceiving module and a group-buying information recording module. Further, the mobile communication devices are respectively connected to the group-buying server through interne. Furthermore, each of the mobile communication devices has a group-buying APP installed therein, the group-buying APP has a buying group set-up module, a group-buying information creating module and a group-buying information transmitting module. The implementing method of the mobile group-buying system of the present invention is to form a buying group between at least two mobile communication devices through a device identification code of the mobile communication device after the buying group set-up module of the group-buying APP has been executed, wherein the inviter issuing the invitation of a buying group is an group-buying initiator (or a group sponsor), the people accepting the invitation of the buying group are group-buying participants (or group participant). The group sponsor can further execute the group-buying information creating module of the group-buying APP so that group-buying information is created and transmitted to the group-buying server and further is released to each of the participants of specific buying group through the group-buying information transmitting module of the group-buying APP, so as to conduct group buying. Additionally, the group-buying information recording module of the group-buying server will record group-buying behavior of each mobile communication device (i.e., each device identification code) and generates a group-buying record list. 
     
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS 
         [0011]    The objects, the technical contents and the expected effect of the present invention will become more apparent from the detailed description of a preferred embodiment in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: 
           [0012]      FIG. 1  is a block diagram showing the system structure of the present invention; 
           [0013]      FIG. 2  is a schematic view (I) showing the set-up of buying group of the present invention; 
           [0014]      FIG. 3  is a schematic view (II) showing the set-up of buying group of the present invention; 
           [0015]      FIG. 4  is a schematic view (III) showing the set-up of buying group of the present invention; 
           [0016]      FIG. 5A  is a schematic view (I) showing the creation of group-buying information of the present invention; 
           [0017]      FIG. 5B  is a schematic view (II) showing the creation of group-buying information of the present invention; 
           [0018]      FIG. 6  is a schematic view showing the transmission of the group-buying information of the present invention; 
           [0019]      FIG. 7  is a schematic view of the group-buying record list of the present invention; 
           [0020]      FIG. 8  is a schematic view of the implementing steps of the present invention; 
           [0021]      FIG. 9  is a block diagram of another structure of the system of the present invention; 
           [0022]      FIG. 10  is a schematic view of a commodity data list of the present invention; 
           [0023]      FIG. 11  is a schematic view of another implementing step of the present invention. 
       
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
       [0024]    Firstly referring to  FIG. 1 , the mobile group-buying system  1  of the present invention comprises a group-buying server  10  and a plurality of mobile communication devices (i.e., a first mobile communication device  11  and a second mobile communication device  12 ). The group-buying server  10  has a group-buying information transceiving module  101 , a group-buying information recording module  102  and a buying group recording module  103 . The group-buying information recording module  102  and the buying group recording module  103  are connected to the group-buying information transceiving module  101  through internet. The group-buying information recording module  102  has a buying group personnel recording unit  1021  and a buying group commodity recording unit  1022 . The group-buying information transceiving module  101  of the group-buying server  10  is used for transmitting and receiving group-buying information (not shown). The group-buying information recording module  102  is used for recording group-buying information, the buying group personnel recording unit  1021  of the group-buying information recording module  102  is used for recording the group personnel, and the buying group commodity recording module  1022  of the group-buying information recording module  102  is used for recording group-buying commodities. In other words, the group-buying information includes both the group personnel information and the group-buying commodities information. However, the present invention is not limited to this; any information required for completing the deals can be recorded by the group-buying information recording module  102 . Furthermore, the first mobile communication device  11  and the second mobile communication device  12  respectively have a first communicating module  111  and a second communicating module  121  which can be connected to the group-buying server  10  through internet. Moreover, the first mobile communication device  11  and the second mobile communication device  12  respectively have a group-buying APP ( 112 ,  122 ) installed therein, each of the group-buying APP ( 112 ,  122 ) has a buying group set-up module ( 1121 , 1221 ), a group-buying information creating module ( 1122 ,  1222 ) and a group-buying information transmitting module ( 1123 ,  1223 ). 
         [0025]    Continuing from above and also referring to  FIG. 2 , each of the mobile communication devices of the present invention (i.e., the first mobile communication device  11  and the second mobile communication device  12 ) has a device identification code S, i.e., the first mobile communication device  11  has a first device identification code S 1  and the second mobile communication device  12  has a second device identification code S 2 . The above device identification code S can be a mobile phone number, an international mobile equipment identity number (IMEI) or a self-defined account, however is not limited to these. When setting up a buying group, the first mobile communication device  11  executes the group-buying APP  112  and inputs the device identification code S of the other mobile communication device through the buying group set-up module  1121 . For example, when the second device identification code S 2  such as 0911-567-567 of the second mobile communication device  12  is inputted, the buying group set-up module  1221  of the group-buying APP  122  of the second mobile communication device  12  will receive the invitation coming from the buying group of the first mobile communication device  11  when executed. In the invitation information, the buying group set-up module  1221  of the group-buying APP  122  of the second mobile communication device  12  will show the first device identification code S 1  of the first mobile communication device  11  for user&#39;s confirmation. When the second mobile communication device  12  accepts the invitation coming from the first mobile communication device  11 , the first mobile communication device  11  and the second mobile communication device  12  will form a same buying group. Furthermore, the user issuing the invitation of the buying group (the first mobile communication device  11  herein) plays the role of the initiator of the group-buying, while the people accepting the invitation of buying group are the role of group participants. 
         [0026]    Continuing from above and also referring to  FIG. 3 , when at least one buying group is formed, it is recorded by the buying group recording module  103  of the group-buying server  10  and a buying group list T 1  is thus formed which includes the data of buying group serial number, buying group sponsor and group participants and the other data associated with the group, such as the group establishment date, enrollment date of each participant. Group serial number is numbered by the group recording module  103  according to the sequential order of set-up of buying group, for example A-01, A-02 . . . . However, numbering method is only an example and need not to be limited to this. The group sponsor and the group participants are indicated by their device identification code S, for example, the first mobile communication device  11  which issues the invitation of buying group is marked as the group sponsor by the first device identification code S 1  (for example 0981-123-123), whereas another mobile communication devices ( 12 ,  13 ,  14 ,  15 ) (not shown) which accept the invitation of the buying group are indicated as group participants by their individual device identification code S (such as 0911-567-567, 0916-541-134, 0953-877-877, 0929-145-741). Referring further to  FIG. 4 , when a buying group of the present invention is established, it is preferred that invitation of new attendants from any of the group-buying participants (group participants) to join the group of the same serial number is not accepted. For example, the second mobile communication device  12  cannot issue an invitation of joining the group of serial number A-01 to the sixth mobile communication device  16 . However, the second mobile communication device  12  (its device identification code S is 0911-567-567) still can be a role of an initiator of group-buying (i.e., a buying group sponsor) to issue an invitation from a buying group with serial number A-02 to the sixth and the seventh mobile communication devices ( 16 , 17 ). In other words, the 2 nd  to the 5 th  mobile communication devices ( 12 ,  13 ,  14 ,  15 ) in the same group of serial number A-01 are all invited by the 1 st  mobile communication device  11 , whereas the 6 th  and the 7 th  mobile communication devices ( 16 , 17 ) in the same group of serial number A-02 are all invited by the 2 nd  mobile communication device  12 . In this way, it can be ensured that the group sponsor and the group participants in the buying group are in a first layer relationship so as to maintain participation rate of group-buying. Therefore, the case of worse participation rate in conventional group-buying system due to permission of mass introduction of new comers into a buying group without acquaintance with the group sponsor can be improved. 
         [0027]    Continuing from above and also referring to  FIG. 5A ˜ 5 B, when a group sponsor knows a commodity and wants to launch group-buying, he can execute the group-buying information creating module  1122  of the group-buying APP  112  of the first mobile communication device  11  so as to create actively a group-buying information P concerning the target commodity he wants to launch a group-buying. The group-buying information P may include trade name, group-buying time, picking address, commodity introduction and condition into the group. Furthermore, information associated with group-buying commodity such as commodity price and commodity photo can also be incorporated. Moreover, a variety of kinds of commodity and commodity websites can also be included, but is not limited to these. The group-buying time is the deadline of the group-buying information P, while the condition into the group is the minimum condition the group-buying information P is established, such as requirement to reach a certain number of attendants or more. Further referring to  FIG. 6 , when the group-buying information P is accomplished, it is listed in the group-buying APP  112  of the first mobile communication device  11  (as shown in  FIG. 5B ), the group sponsor (i.e., the first mobile communication device  11 ) can select specific group-buying information P and send it to specific buying group by the group-buying information transmitting module  1123  of the group-buying APP  112 . The group-buying information P will be sent to the group-buying server  10  and is sent to each group participant, i.e., the 2 hd  to the 5 th  mobile communication devices ( 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ) of the buying group by the group-buying server  10  for group buying attendance. It is preferred that each group participant receiving the group-buying information P can also transfer the group-buying information P to his own buying group, for example, the second mobile communication device  12  can transfer the group-buying information P transmitted from the first mobile communication device  11  to his own buying group of serial number A-02 (as shown in  FIG. 3 ). Further referring to  FIG. 7 , the group-buying information recording module  102  of the group-buying server  10  will record the group-buying behavior of each device identification code S, in which the group personnel recording unit  1021  of the group-buying information recording module  102  records whether each device identification code S is the group sponsor or group participant. For example, the device identification code S of 0981-123-123 is the sponsor of the buying group (marked by Y), but is not a group participant of the buying group (marked by N). Further, the group commodity recording unit  1022  of the group-buying information recording module  102  records the commodities launched or purchased by each device identification code S, such as the device identification code S of 0981-1223-123 has launched group-buying commodities named “classic Nagasaki cake” or “Pacific wild black pomfret”. The information recorded by the group-buying information recording module  102  will generate a group-buying record list T 2 . 
         [0028]    Referring to  FIG. 8  and simultaneously to  FIG. 1 , the implementing method of the mobile group-buying system of the present invention comprises the following steps: 
         [0029]    a buying group set-up step S 101 : the first mobile communication device  11  having first device identification code S 1  executes the group-buying APP  112 , and sends an invitation of a group-buying through the group set-up module  1121  after inputting a second device identification code S 2 , so that a second mobile communication device  12  having the second device identification code S 2 , after accepting the invitation, accompanies the first mobile communication device  11  to form the members of the buying group. The first mobile communication device  11  issuing the invitation is the buying-group initiator (or group sponsor), whereas the second mobile communication device  12  accepting the invitation is the buying-group participant (group participant) (as shown in  FIG. 3 ); 
         [0030]    a group-buying information creating step S 102 : after the set-up of a buying group is finished, the group sponsor knows a commodity and wants to launch group-buying, he can create actively a group-buying information P concerning the target commodity he wants to launch a group-buying through the group-buying information creating module  1122  of the group-buying APP  112  of the first mobile communication device  11 . The group-buying information P may include trade name, group-buying time, picking address, commodity introduction, condition into the group, commodity price, commodity photo, a variety of kinds of commodity choice and commodity websites, but is not limited to these (as shown in  FIG. 5A ). At least one group-buying information P may be listed in the group-buying APP  112  of the first mobile communication device  11  (as shown in  FIG. 5B ); 
         [0031]    a group-buying information transmitting step S 103 : when the group-buying information P is accomplished, the group sponsor can select a specific group-buying information P and send it to a specific buying group by the group-buying information transmitting module  1123  of the group-buying APP  112  of the first mobile communication device  11 . The group-buying information P will be sent to the group-buying server  10  and is sent to each group participant, i.e., the 2 nd  to the  5   th  mobile communication devices ( 12 ,  13 ,  14 ,  15 ) of the buying group by the group-buying server  10  for group buying attendance (as shown in  FIG. 6 ); 
         [0032]    a group-buying information recording step S 104 : the group-buying information recording module  102  of the group-buying server  10  will record the group-buying behavior of each device identification code S, in which the group personnel recording unit  1021  of the group-buying information recording module  102  records whether each device identification code S is the group sponsor or group participant, while the group commodity recording unit  1022  of the group-buying information recording module  102  records the commodities launched or purchased by each device identification code S. Finally, a group-buying record list T 2  is generated (as show in  FIG. 7 ). 
         [0033]    Referring to  FIG. 9 , still another system of the present invention will be described. Simultaneously referring to  FIGS. 1, 5A and 5B , the mobile group-buying system  1  of the present invention can further comprise a group-buying platform  20  which is connected to the group-buying server  10  and each of the mobile communication devices ( 11 , 12 , . . . ) through interne. Furthermore, the group-buying platform  20  has an analyzing module  201 , a personalized recommending module  202  and a group-buying commodity database  203 . The group-buying commodity database  203  has at least one group-buying commodity (not shown) stored therein so as to be browsed by each of the mobile communication device ( 11 , 12 , . . . ) through the execution of the group-buying APP ( 111 , 121 , . . . ) and to be formed into the group-buying information P after direct selection through the group-buying information creating module ( 1122 ,  1222 , . . . ). Simultaneously referring to  FIG. 10 , the group-buying commodity database  203  further has a commodity data list T 3  stored therein which has commodity serial number, commodity category and commodity name of at least one group-buying commodity, but is not limited to these. Furthermore, the analyzing module  201  is provided for capturing the device identification code S of the mobile communication device connected to the group-buying platform  20 , and fetches associated group-buying records at the group-buying record list T 2  stored in the group-buying information recording module  102  of the group-buying server  10 , and conducts the analysis and comparison between the fetched records and the commodity data list T 3  so as to generate a personalized analysis result (not shown). For example, when the first mobile communication device  11  is connected to the group-buying platform  20 , the analyzing module  201  will capture the first device identification code S 1  of the first mobile communication device  11  and analyze the group-buying record list T 2  within the group-buying server  10 , such as to know that the first device identification code S 1  has the record of launching group-buying of commodity entitled “Classic Nagasaki cake”, “Pacific wild pomfret”, and analyze the commodity data list T 3  of the group-buying commodity database  203  which has group-buying of at least one commodity (for example, “selected frost steak” and “classic raw chocolate”) of C1 (for example, food) category, so that a personalized analysis result of recommending commodity serial number P1 and commodity serial number P3 is generated. Therefore, the personalized recommending module  202  recommends the commodities having commodity serial number P1 and P3 in the group-buying commodity database  203  for the browsing of the first mobile communication device  11 . In this manner, the present invention can provide group-buying commodity in line with the user&#39;s preference according to the analysis on his historical group-buying records. 
         [0034]    Referring to  FIG. 11  and simultaneously to  FIGS. 1 and 10 , the implementing method of the mobile group-buying system of the present invention also comprises the following steps: 
         [0035]    an analyzing step S 201 : after the first mobile communication device  11  is connected to a group-buying platform  20 , the analyzing module  201  of the group-buying platform  20  will capture the first device identification code S 1  of the first mobile communication device  11 , and analyze a group-buying record list T 2  owned by the group-buying server  10 . Simultaneously, the analyzing module  201  will also analyze a commodity data list T 3  of the group-buying commodity database  203  of the group-buying platform  20  so as to generate a personalized analysis result; 
         [0036]    a personalized recommendation step S 202 : after analysis is finished, the personalized recommending module  202  of the group-buying platform  20 , according to the personalized analysis result made by the analyzing module  201 , recommends the commodities stored in the group-buying commodity database  203  for the browsing by the first mobile communication device  11 . 
         [0037]    It is apparent from the above descriptions, the mobile group-buying system of the present invention comprises a group-buying server, a group-buying platform and a plurality of mobile communication devices. The group-buying server has a group-buying information transceiving module and a group-buying information recording module. The group-buying platform is connected to the group-buying server by internet, and has an analyzing module, a personalized recommending module and a group-buying commodity database. The group-buying commodity database has a commodity data list stored therein, and the commodity data list has at least one commodity for group-buying. Furthermore, each of the mobile communication devices is connected to the group-buying platform and the group-buying server through internet. Moreover, each of the mobile communication devices has a group-buying APP installed therein, and each of the group-buying APPs has a buying group set-up module, a group-buying information creating module and a group-buying information transmitting module. On the other hand, in the implementing method of the mobile group-buying system of the present invention, one buying group can be formed between at least two mobile communication devices by inputting a device identification code of a mobile communication device, after the group set-up module of the group-buying APP is executed, wherein the inviter issuing the invitation for a buying group is a group-buying initiator (or group sponsor), whereas the people accepting the invitation for group-buying are group-buying participant (or group participant). The group sponsor can further execute the group-buying information creating module of the group-buying APP so as to create a group-buying information concerning the target commodity he wants to launch a group-buying. The group-buying information may include trade name, group-buying time, picking address, commodity introduction and condition into the group. Furthermore, the finished group-buying information is transmitted to the group-buying server through the group-buying information transmitting module, so that the group-buying transceiving module can release the group-buying information to each group participant of a specific buying group so as to conduct group-buying. Furthermore, the group-buying information recording module of the group-buying server will record group-buying behavior of each mobile communication device (each device identification code) so as to generate a group-buying record list. Furthermore, after the mobile communication device is connected to the group-buying platform, the analyzing module can capture the device identification code of the mobile communication device, and analyze the group-buying record list of the group-buying server. Simultaneously, the analyzing module can conduct analysis and comparison between the group-buying records and the commodity data list of the group-buying commodity database so as to generate a personalized analysis result. 
         [0038]    The personalized recommending module of the group-buying platform recommends the commodities according to the personalized analysis result for personalized browsing of the mobile communication devices. In this manner, the present invention, after implementation according to the abovementioned, surely can provide a mobile group-buying system and its implementing method which allows users to launch a group-buying actively on a specific commodity and recommends appropriate item in line with his demand for group-buying according to the analysis result made on group-buying records. 
         [0039]    While the preferred embodiment has been described and illustrated in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, it should be understood that the embodiment is merely for descriptive purpose, not intended for restriction of the scope of the present invention. Equivalent variations and modifications made by the person skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention should be considered to be still within the scope of the present invention.