Patent ID: 8117133

Claim:
A method for providing a regional community-based membership service, comprising: registering customers visiting a certain region as a membership service customer such at least one customer is a native and customers other than the at least one customer are classified into at least one of a regional resident, a quasi-regional resident, and a foreigner according to a degree of private relation with the region or according to whether the customer is a foreigner; authenticating a membership of the membership service customer by a service terminal linked to a membership service system server via on-line communication; processing provision of various services by the service terminal, the various service including reservation and commodity purchase ordered from the authenticated membership service customer; and settling or storing details of the services provided to the membership service customer in a database of the service system server; wherein, if the customer is a native, the registering step comprises: sending customer information input by the customer to the database of the service system; registering the customer as a regional resident membership service customer of the region by analyzing an address and a postal code among the customer information; and registering the customer as a quasi-regional resident membership service customer of the region or as a native membership service customer by analyzing a resident registration number among the customer information.