TW202324287A - Electronic apparatus for providing information related to mart order service and method - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are an electronic apparatus for providing information related to a mart order service and a method thereof. The electronic apparatus according to the present disclosure provides a plurality of order category icons including an order category icon corresponding to a mart order to a customer terminal through a first page, and if the customer selects an order category icon corresponding to a mart order, provides a second page including a plurality of item category icons for the mart order and an expected mart delivery time to the customer terminal.

Description

Electronic device and method for providing information about shopping mall order service

The present invention relates to an electronic device and its method for providing information about a shopping mall order service.

As the use of the Internet becomes common, the e-commerce market is expanding. In particular, with the rapid growth of food order services in the e-commerce market, attempts are being made to provide various additional services to customers through software providing food order services.

For example, a food order service is characterized by the delivery of food to a customer, and thus some software sometimes provides a mall order service that can deliver multiple items (not limited to deli) to a customer in conjunction with a food order service.

However, due to the lack of organic integration with the food order service, the current mall order service does not provide sufficient convenience to customers. Specifically, when ordering at a mall, there is inconvenience in selecting an item category and an item, and the expected delivery time is not very accurate. In addition, the interface for providing order details and delivery status after a mall order is completed is not intuitive, causing inconvenience to many customers.

In this regard, reference may be made to documents in the related art, such as KR101870190B1 or KR20050108168A.

[Technical target]

The present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, and the present invention is to provide a page through which a food order service is provided to enter a page on which a mall order service is provided, and provide a customer terminal with a page containing a mall order A method of general information on the category of items and an expected time required for delivery by a mall and its electronic equipment.

More specifically, the present invention aims to provide a method for providing a customer terminal with an item including a mall order when an order category icon corresponding to a mall order is selected on a page including a plurality of order category icons. A method of category icon and a page of an expected delivery time of the mall and its electronic equipment.

The technical matters to be achieved by the present invention are not limited to those as described above, and other technical matters can be inferred from the following example embodiments. [Technical solution]

According to an aspect, there is provided a method for providing information about a shopping mall order service in an electronic device, the method comprising: providing a customer terminal with a first one of a plurality of order category icons in an item delivery service page; receiving a selection input of an order category icon among the plurality of order category icons from the customer terminal; identifying whether the order category icon selected according to the selection input corresponds to a mall order; and if The selected order category icon corresponds to the mall order, and a second page including a plurality of item category icons of the mall order and an expected mall delivery time is provided to the customer terminal.

Specifically, providing the second page may include: if the selected order category icon corresponds to the mall order, setting a mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order based on a reference location applied to the mall order; The customer terminal provides the second page including icons of the plurality of item categories and the expected mall delivery time of the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order.

According to an example embodiment, the setting of the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall may be the setting of a mall corresponding to the delivery area among a plurality of malls to which a delivery area to which the reference location belongs is pre-assigned. The marketplace that fulfills the marketplace's order.

According to another example embodiment, the setting of the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall may be setting a mall among the plurality of malls that has a minimum expected delivery time required for delivery to the reference location as the one responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall the mall.

According to another example embodiment, the setting of the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall may be a mall setting among a plurality of malls with an expected mall delivery time required to deliver to the reference location within a preset reference time is the marketplace responsible for fulfilling the marketplace order, but if there are two or more marketplaces with an expected marketplace delivery time within that reference time, set those two or more marketplaces as responsible for fulfilling the marketplace and the method may further include that if the temporary mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall is set, after the order of the mall is completed, based on the details of the mall order of the customer terminal, the store responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall One of the temporary malls is finally set to be responsible for fulfilling the orders of the mall.

Meanwhile, according to an example embodiment, the expected mall delivery time of the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order can be determined based on status information that can be assigned to a delivery employee of the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order, and the delivery employee's The status information may include a distance between a location of the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order and a current location of the delivery employee and job details of the delivery employee.

Meanwhile, the method may further include: receiving a selection input from the customer terminal for an item category icon among the plurality of item category icons on the second page; and providing the customer terminal with a plurality of A reconfigured item category icon and a third page of an item list corresponding to the selected item category icon.

According to an example embodiment, the third page may display some of the plurality of item category icons, and the displayed item category icons change in response to a gesture event from the customer terminal.

According to an example embodiment, if an item category icon other than the selected item category icon among the reconfigured plurality of item category icons is newly selected, the third page may display A list of items in one of the category icons.

According to an example embodiment, the method may further comprise: receiving from the customer terminal a selection input of at least one item from the list of items on the third page; and adding the selected item to a mall shopping cart , wherein an item can be added to the mall cart based on the mall order independently of an item being added to a food cart based on a food order.

According to an example embodiment, the third page may additionally include a first type of interface for adding each of the items contained in the item list to the mall shopping cart, and the first type of interface is provided by The customer terminal selects, then switches to a second type of interface by which a quantity of an item to be added to the shopping cart of the mall can be adjusted.

At the same time, the method may further include: receiving a viewing request from the customer terminal on a fourth page of the payment information input to the mall order; and providing the fourth page to the customer terminal, wherein the The fourth page can provide at least a part of the payment information that can be used for the food order as an option of the payment information of the mall order.

According to an example embodiment, the fourth page may provide an address stored for the food order and at least a portion of a current location of the customer as an option for an address stored for the mall order and provide a payment stored for the food order At least part of the means is used as one of the payment means of the mall order.

At the same time, the method may further include: receiving a request from the customer terminal to view order details; and providing the customer terminal with a first column for displaying food order details and for displaying shopping mall order details. A second column and a fifth page.

According to an example embodiment, the second tab may include current marketplace order details and past marketplace order details, and the current marketplace order details may include the remaining time until delivery of the current marketplace order is completed.

According to an example embodiment, the second column may include the delivery status information of the current mall order or a call-to-action (CTA) object for viewing the sixth page on which the delivery status information is displayed, and the delivery status information May include a location of the marketplace responsible for fulfilling the marketplace order, a reference location applied to the marketplace order, and a current location of a delivery employee assigned to the marketplace responsible for fulfilling the marketplace order.

According to another aspect, an apparatus for providing information about a mall order service is provided, and the electronic apparatus includes: a transceiver; a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor, wherein the The processor is connected to the transceiver and the memory, and is configured to provide a customer terminal with a first page including a plurality of order category icons in an item delivery service, and receives a pair of orders from the customer terminal. A selection input of an order category icon among the plurality of order category icons, identifying whether the order category icon selected according to the selection input corresponds to a mall order, and if the selected order category icon corresponds to the mall order, provide the customer terminal with a second page containing a plurality of item category icons of the mall order and an expected mall delivery time.

Details of other example embodiments are included in the detailed description and drawings. [effect]

According to the present invention, an electronic device for providing information about a shopping mall order service provides an interface to a customer terminal by which a customer can easily enter a shopping mall order through a page providing a food order service A page of the service, so that even if the customer does not have a separate application dedicated to the mall order service, the customer can be provided with a series of information necessary for the mall order and can provide the customer with information such as mall order payment and View the order details of the mall order service.

The effects of the present invention are not limited to the effects mentioned above, and those skilled in the art will clearly understand other effects not mentioned from the description of the claims of the invention.

Terms used in the example embodiments are selected from general terms widely used at present as much as possible when considering functions in the present invention. However, these terms may vary depending on the intention of those skilled in the art or precedent, the emergence of new technologies, and the like. In addition, in specific cases, there are also terms arbitrarily selected by the applicant, and in such cases, meanings will be described in detail in the corresponding description. Therefore, the terms used in the present invention should be defined based on the meanings of the terms and the contents of the present invention rather than the simple names of the terms.

Throughout this specification, when a part is described as "comprising or comprising" an element, the part does not exclude another element, but may further include another element, unless stated otherwise. In addition, terms such as "... unit", "... group" and "... module" described in this specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which can be implemented as hardware, software, or One of the other combinations. Unlike used in the depicted embodiments, these terms may not be clearly distinguished in a particular operation.

The expression "at least one of a, b, and c" described throughout this specification may include: "only a", "only b", "only c", "a and b", "a and c", "b and c" or "all of a, b, and c".

In the present invention, a "terminal" can be implemented as, for example, a computer or a portable terminal capable of accessing a server or another terminal through a network. Here, the computer may include, for example, a notebook computer equipped with a web browser, a desktop computer and/or a laptop computer. The portable terminal can be a wireless communication device that ensures portability and mobility, and includes (but is not limited to) any type of handheld wireless communication device, such as a tablet PC, a smart phone, a communication-based Terminals such as International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), Long Term Evolution (LTE) or the like.

In the following description, the terms "transmit", "communicate", "send", "receive" and other similar terms refer not only to the direct transmission of a signal or information from one component to another, but may also include the transmission.

In particular, "transmitting" or "sending" a signal or information to a component may indicate an ultimate destination of the signal or information and may not imply a direction to the destination. The same applies to "receiving" a signal or information. In addition, in the present invention, when two or more pieces of data or information are "related", it indicates that when one piece of data (or information) is obtained, at least a part of other data (or information) can be obtained based on it.

Also, terms such as first and second may be used to describe various components, but the above components should not be limited by the above terms. The above terms may be used for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another.

For example, a first component may be called a second component without departing from the scope of the present invention. Similarly, the second component can also be referred to as the first component.

Hereinafter, example embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains can easily implement them. This invention, however, may be embodied in many different forms and is not limited to the example embodiments described herein.

Hereinafter, example embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In describing example embodiments, descriptions of technical contents that are well known in the technical field to which the present invention pertains and are not directly related to the present invention will be omitted. This is for the purpose of more clearly conveying the gist of the present invention without obscuring the gist of the present invention by omitting unnecessary descriptions.

For the same reason, some elements are exaggerated, omitted or schematically illustrated in the accompanying drawings. In addition, the size of each element does not completely reflect an actual size. In the figures, the same or corresponding elements are assigned the same reference numerals.

The advantages and features of the present invention and a method of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the example embodiments described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the example embodiments disclosed below, and may be implemented in various forms. Example embodiments are provided only so that this disclosure will be thorough, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art to which this invention pertains. The present invention is only limited by the scope of the invention patent scope. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

It will be understood that blocks of a flowchart, and combinations of a flowchart, can be implemented by computer program instructions. Computer program instructions may be embodied in a processor of a general purpose computer or a special purpose computer, or may be embodied in a processor of other programmable data processing devices. Thus, instructions executed by a processor of a computer or other programmable data processing device may result in portions for performing the functions described in the flowchart blocks. Computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory, which direct a computer or other programmable data processing device, in order to perform a function in a particular way. Accordingly, instructions stored in a computer-usable or computer-readable memory can be produced as an article of manufacture containing an instruction portion for performing the functions described in the flowchart blocks. Computer program instructions may be embodied in a computer or other programmable data processing device. Accordingly, a series of operations can be performed in a computer or other programmable data processing device to generate a computer-executable program, and the computer or other programmable data processing device can provide means for performing the functions described in the flowchart blocks. step.

Additionally, each block may represent a module, a segment, or a portion of code that includes one or more executable instructions for performing a specified logical function(s). It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions recited in the blocks may occur out of the order. For example, two blocks shown in succession may be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order according to a corresponding function.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system for providing information about a shopping mall order service according to an example embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 1 , a system 100 for providing information about a shopping mall order service according to an example embodiment may include an electronic device 110 , a customer terminal 120 and a shopping mall terminal 130 . As for the system 100 for providing information about mall order services shown in FIG. 1 , only components related to this example embodiment are shown. Accordingly, those skilled in the art of this example embodiment can understand that, in addition to the components shown in FIG. 1 , other common components may be further included.

On the other hand, although the entire example embodiments according to the present invention are described based on a mall order for food, example embodiments of this specification can be used to provide information about other items as well as a mall order for food.

The electronic device 110 can provide a shopping mall order service in the food order service platform. Specifically, the electronic device 110 can provide an application program for a food order service and a shopping mall order service to the customer terminal 120, and can execute the application program through the customer terminal 120 connected to the electronic device 110. Provide a food order service and a shopping mall order service. Through the corresponding service, store-related information and item-related information registered on the service can be provided. Meanwhile, the electronic device 110 may be a server providing a food order service and a shopping mall order service, or may be a device included in the corresponding server.

In this regard, the application program provided by the electronic device 110 may be installed in the customer terminal 120 to be driven such that some calculations for food order service and shopping mall order service are processed in the customer terminal 120 and external to the customer terminal 120 One of the servers handles the rest.

The customer terminal 120 (which is a terminal for accessing the food order service and the mall order service provided by the electronic device 110) can inquire, search or view information of various stores and items through a user interface on the corresponding service, and A request for at least some of the information, a request for a food order, a request for a mall order, etc. may be transmitted to the electronic device 110 .

The mall terminal 130 transmits information about items handled in the mall, information about the location of the mall, etc. to the electronic device 110, a server including the electronic device 110, or one of the storage spaces to be registered in the corresponding object A separate server, and can obtain an order request transmitted from the customer terminal 120 through the electronic device 110.

Meanwhile, the electronic device 110 , the customer terminal 120 and the mall terminal 130 can communicate with each other in the network 140 . The network 140 includes a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), a value-added network (VAN), a mobile radio communication network, a satellite communication network and one of them combined and tied together in a A data communication network in a comprehensive sense, which enables the network constituent entities shown in Figure 1 to communicate smoothly with each other, and may include a wired Internet, a wireless Internet, and a mobile wireless communication network . Wireless communication can be, for example, Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, Zigbee, Wi-Fi Direct (WFD), Ultra Wide Band (UWB), Infrared Data Association (IrDA), Near Field Communication (NFC), etc. , but not limited to this.

Regarding the above, it will be described in more detail with reference to the following drawings.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of an operation of a method of providing information about a shopping mall order service according to an example embodiment.

In operation S210, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a first page including a plurality of order category icons in an item delivery service.

In the present invention, "the first page" means that when a customer using a food order service or a shopping mall order service first accesses the service through the customer terminal 120, it is displayed on the customer terminal 120 before the search result page one of the pages. For example, the first page may be a main page showing a main screen of a service, or a Category Listing Page (CLP) in which various menu category icons for food orders are displayed, but, in addition, multiple order categories are displayed on it One of the illustrated pages may correspond to the first page described in the present invention.

According to an example embodiment, the plurality of order category icons can be displayed on the first page in the form of text, an image, or a combination of text and image. For example, an icon corresponding to a shopping mall order may be displayed in a combination of an image representing a shopping cart and an icon representing the text "mall", and an icon corresponding to a food order may be displayed in combination representing one of a menu The image is displayed in the form of an icon with a name of the menu.

According to an example embodiment, a plurality of order category icons can be displayed on the first page according to a predetermined direction. For example, icons of various categories may be sequentially displayed in a direction across the first page, or may be displayed in a checkerboard shape on the first page.

According to an example embodiment, the icon corresponding to the shopping mall order may be displayed before the icon corresponding to the food order based on the display direction of each category icon on the first page.

According to another example embodiment, a graphic effect different from the icon corresponding to the food order on the first page may be applied to the icon corresponding to the mall order. For example, an icon corresponding to a mall order may be displayed larger than an icon corresponding to a food order, may be displayed at a brighter intensity, or may be displayed at a deeper saturation. As another example, the text contained in the graphic corresponding to a mall order may be displayed larger in size than the text contained in the graphic corresponding to a food order, bold text may be applied, or a separate font may be used show.

In operation S220, the electronic device 110 may receive a selection input from the customer terminal 120 for an order category icon among the plurality of order category icons.

In operation S230, the electronic device 110 may identify whether the order category icon selected according to the received selection input corresponds to a mall order.

In operation S240, when the selected order category icon corresponds to a mall order, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a second page including a plurality of item category icons of the mall order and an expected mall delivery time.

In the present invention, the "second page" refers to a gateway page displayed on the customer terminal 120 when the customer accesses the mall order service through the customer terminal 120 .

In the following, an example embodiment is disclosed in which the second page is provided based on a situation in which the customer terminal 120 selects an icon corresponding to a mall order, but similarly, when the customer terminal 120 selects an icon corresponding to a food order When an icon is displayed, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a page including a store list corresponding to the icon of the selected food order category and an expected food delivery time of each store. That is, in other words, the electronic device 110 can distinguish the type of the order (for example, a shopping mall order or a food order) according to the category icon selected by the customer terminal 120, and accordingly, can selectively determine the information provided to the customer terminal 120 . Meanwhile, the expected food delivery time on the above page can be determined based on the status information of the delivery staff that can be assigned to each store, and in this case, the status information of the delivery staff can include (1) the location of each store and the location of the delivery staff. A distance between current locations, and (2) delivery employee's job details (eg, current job details or past job details).

3 to 8 are each a flow diagram illustrating the operation of a method of providing information about a shopping mall order service according to an additional example embodiment.

First, FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an example embodiment of setting up a mall responsible for fulfilling orders from a mall before providing a second page.

In operation S310, the electronic device 110 may provide a first page including a plurality of order category icons to the customer terminal 120 in an item delivery service.

In operation S320, the electronic device 110 may receive a selection input from the customer terminal 120 for an order category icon among the plurality of order category icons.

In operation S330, the electronic device 110 may identify whether the order category icon selected according to the received selection input corresponds to a mall order.

In operation S340, when the selected order category icon corresponds to a mall order, the electronic device 110 may set a mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order based on a reference location applied to the mall order.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may set a location input or selected by the customer through the customer terminal 120 as a "reference location". For example, the electronic device 110 may set the customer's current location as the reference location, or set the customer's registered address (eg, the customer's home address, a company address, etc.) as the reference location.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may set a mall corresponding to the delivery area from among the plurality of malls to which the delivery area to which the reference location belongs is pre-allocated as the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall. That is, on the premise that a delivery area is pre-assigned to each shopping mall, the electronic device 110 can set a shopping mall responsible for fulfilling orders from the shopping mall according to which delivery area belongs to the reference location.

According to another example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may set a mall among the plurality of malls with the minimum expected delivery time required for delivery to a reference location as the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order.

According to another example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may set a mall among the plurality of malls that has an expected delivery time to a reference location within a preset reference time as the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order. In this regard, when there are two or more malls whose delivery times are expected to be within the reference time, the electronic device 110 can set the two or more malls as temporary malls responsible for fulfilling orders from the malls, and the orders in the malls After completion, based on the store order details of the customer terminal 120, the store responsible for fulfilling the store order can be finally set among the two or more temporary stores responsible for fulfilling the store order. For example, when the reference time is 10 minutes, if malls A, B, and C are malls with expected mall delivery times within 10 minutes, the electronic device 110 does not immediately determine the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall's order and may send malls A, B, and C B and C are set as temporary malls responsible for fulfilling mall orders until the mall orders are completed by customers. Then, considering the mall order details of the customer terminal 120 (eg, the type, quantity, etc.) of the ordered item, the electronic device 110 can finally set the mall A with the most inventory as the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order. However, this is only one example, and the criteria for selecting the marketplace responsible for fulfilling marketplace orders among temporary marketplaces responsible for fulfilling marketplace orders may also be applied differently, in addition to the inventory of items.

In operation S350, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a second page including a plurality of item category icons and an expected mall delivery time of the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order set in operation S340.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may determine an expected marketplace delivery time for the marketplace responsible for fulfilling the marketplace order based on status information assignable to delivery employees of the marketplace responsible for fulfilling the marketplace order. In this case, the delivery employee's status information may include (1) the distance between a location of the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall's order and the current location of one of the delivery employees, and (2) the delivery employee's job details.

For example, the electronic device 110 may calculate the expected time required for the delivery staff to handle all the tasks in consideration of the work details of the delivery staff, and may take into account the distance between the location of the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall and the current location of the delivery staff. Calculate the expected time required for delivery employees to move to one of the marketplaces responsible for fulfilling orders for the marketplace. Then, the electronic device 110 may determine the expected mall delivery time by adding the two expected times to the expected required time for delivery from the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order to the reference location. However, this is an example, and the electronic device 110 may further consider additional factors when determining the expected delivery time of the mall, and may use the above (1) or (2) for calculation in another way.

According to an example embodiment, the second page provided by the electronic device 110 to the customer terminal 120 may further include a search window for directly searching for an item, an icon for moving to the first page and an indication of being in the mall At least some of the representations of an item are present in the shopping cart.

Meanwhile, FIG. 4 is a flowchart of an example embodiment of providing a third page according to selection of an icon on the second page.

In operation S410, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a first page including a plurality of order category icons in an item delivery service.

In operation S420, the electronic device 110 may receive a selection input from the customer terminal 120 for an order category icon among the plurality of order category icons.

In operation S430, the electronic device 110 may identify whether the order category icon selected according to the received selection input corresponds to a mall order.

In operation S440, when the selected order category icon corresponds to a mall order, the electronic device 110 provides the customer terminal 120 with a second page including a plurality of item category icons of the mall order and an expected mall delivery time.

In operation S450, the electronic device 110 may receive a selection input from the customer terminal 120 for an item category icon among the plurality of item category icons on the second page.

In operation S460, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a third page including a plurality of reconfigured item category icons and an item list corresponding to the item category icon selected in operation S450.

In the present invention, the "third page" refers to a product list page (PLP) displayed on the customer terminal 120 when the customer accesses the mall order service through the customer terminal 120 .

According to an example embodiment, on the third page provided by the electronic device 110 to the customer terminal 120, at least some of the plurality of item category icons may be configured and displayed at the top of the item list.

According to an example embodiment, the third page provided by the electronic device 110 to the customer terminal 120 may be a page in which some of the plurality of item category icons are displayed, and the displayed item category icons are in response to a response from the customer terminal One of 120 gesture events is changed.

Specifically, the item category icon displayed on the third page can respond to a tap, a pair of taps, a long tap, a drag and a drag and drop, tap, swipe, multi-swipe, At least one gesture event of pinching, long pressing (touch & hold), shaking and rotating is changed, and the gesture event is an input from the customer terminal 120 . For example, when a customer drags one of the item category icons to the right to display a part on the third page output on the screen of the customer terminal 120, the item category icon hidden on the right side of the existing third page At least some may be newly displayed on the third page, and at least some of the item category icons displayed on the existing third page may be hidden on the left side of the third page. However, this is just an example, and the gesture events that can be input from the customer terminal 120 are not limited to the above-mentioned events.

According to an example embodiment, when an item category icon other than the selected item category icon among the reconfigured plurality of item category icons is newly selected, the electronic device 110 provides the customer terminal 120 with the first The third page may be one on which a list of items corresponding to the newly selected item category icon is displayed. Through this, the customer can change the item category to be viewed through the third page without returning to the first or second page from the third page.

Meanwhile, FIG. 5 is an operation flowchart for explaining an example embodiment of adding an item to a shopping cart of a mall according to an item selection on the third page.

In operation S510, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a first page including a plurality of order category icons in an item delivery service.

In operation S520, the electronic device 110 may receive a selection input from the customer terminal 120 for an order category icon among the plurality of order category icons.

In operation S530, the electronic device 110 may identify whether the order category icon selected according to the received selection input corresponds to a mall order.

In operation S540, when the selected order category icon corresponds to a mall order, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a second page including a plurality of item category icons of the mall order and an expected mall delivery time.

In operation S550, the electronic device 110 may receive a selection input from the customer terminal 120 for an item category icon among the plurality of item category icons on the second page.

In operation S560, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a third page including a plurality of reconfigured item category icons and an item list corresponding to the item category icon selected in operation S550.

In operation S570, the electronic device 110 may receive from the customer terminal 120 a selection input of one of at least one item from the item list on the third page.

According to an example embodiment, a selection input for an item may be made by selecting a specific interface in each item card of the item list.

According to another example embodiment, a selection input for an item may be made by selecting an arbitrary field in each item card of the item list.

In operation S580, the electronic device 110 may add the selected item to the mall shopping cart. In this case, the mall cart may indicate that an item is added to an order schedule based on a mall order independently of an item being added to a food cart based on a food order. Through this, the menu added by the customer for ordering food is added to the food cart, and the items to be added for the mall order are added to the mall cart, whereby the customer can prevent food shopping when the customer wants to complete a mall order The food orders of the menu contained in the cart are completed together.

According to an example embodiment, the third page provided by the electronic device 110 to the customer terminal 120 may include a first type of interface for adding each item included in the item list to the mall shopping cart. In this case, when the customer terminal 120 selects, the first type of interface can be switched to a second type of interface that can adjust the quantity of items to be added to the mall shopping cart.

Specifically, the second type of interface may differ from the first type of interface in at least a portion of its character, shape, color, and location such that a customer can easily recognize that the first type of interface has been switched.

For example, when the interface of the first type is a graphic object in the form of a circle, compared with the interface of the first type, the interface of the second type may be a graphic in the form of an ellipse extending to the left and right object. Additionally, the second type of interface may include a control for adjusting the quantity of the item in the extension object, and text indicating the quantity of the item to add to the mall cart. However, this is only an example and one of the ways to adjust the quantity of items to be added to the mall cart through the interface of the second type can be set in various ways.

As another example, when the interface of the first type is a graphical object in the form of a circle, the interface of the second type may be one in which a number indicating the quantity of an item to be added to a shopping cart is displayed within the circle A graphical object, thus maintaining the same circular shape as the first type of interface. In this case, the adjustment of the quantity of items to be added to the mall cart may be performed by selecting (eg, touching, clicking, etc.) inside the circular graphical object.

According to an example embodiment, when continuously selected by the customer terminal 120 for more than a preset time (for example, a long tap gesture), the interface of the first type included in the third page can be switched to the interface of the second type And when less than a preset time is selected, the first type of interface can be maintained without switching.

Meanwhile, FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of an example embodiment providing a fourth page in which payment information of a mall order can be input.

In operation S610, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a first page including a plurality of order category icons in an item delivery service.

In operation S620, the electronic device 110 may receive a selection input from the customer terminal 120 for an order category icon among the plurality of order category icons.

In operation S630, the electronic device 110 may identify whether the order category icon selected according to the received selection input corresponds to a mall order.

In operation S640, when the selected order category icon corresponds to a mall order, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a second page including a plurality of item category icons of the mall order and an expected mall delivery time.

In operation S650 , the electronic device 110 may receive a request to view one of the fourth pages of the payment information in which the shopping mall order may be input from the customer terminal 120 .

According to an example embodiment, payment information for a mall order may include the reference location of the customer to whom the item will be delivered from the mall, the customer's payment method, the customer's delivery request, whether the customer is using a coupon they have and whether the customer is using At least some of the credits they have.

According to an example embodiment, the request to view the fourth page may be made by selecting a specific object included in at least one of the pages provided by the mall order service application for the corresponding request. For example, a request to view the fourth page may be made by selecting a specific CTA object contained in the third page.

In operation S660, the electronic device 110 may provide a fourth page to the customer terminal 120 in response to the received viewing request. In this case, the fourth page may be one of the pages that provides at least a part of the payment information usable for the food order as one of the options for the payment information of the mall order.

According to an example embodiment, the fourth page provided by the electronic device 110 to the customer terminal 120 may provide an option to store an address for the food order and at least some of a current location of the customer as an address for the mall order, and may Providing at least some of the payment means stored for the food order as one of the options for the payment means for the mall order.

According to an example embodiment, when providing an option of payment information for a mall order, the fourth page provided by the electronic device 110 to the customer terminal 120 may use a list box, a circle button (radio button) and a Checking any of the boxes provides a page of options.

Meanwhile, FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of an example embodiment of providing a fifth page displaying order details of each tab.

In operation S710, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a first page including a plurality of order category icons in an item delivery service.

In operation S720, the electronic device 110 may receive a selection input from the customer terminal 120 for an order category icon among the plurality of order category icons.

In operation S730, the electronic device 110 may identify whether the order category icon selected according to the received selection input corresponds to a mall order.

In operation S740, when the selected order category icon corresponds to a mall order, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a second page including a plurality of item category icons of the mall order and an expected mall delivery time.

In operation S750, the electronic device 110 may receive a request from the customer terminal 120 to view order details.

In the present invention, "order details" refers to information about the name, quantity, price, order date and time, payment information, etc. of ordered food or items, which is generated after a food order or a mall order is completed.

According to an example embodiment, a request to view order details may be made by selecting a specific object included in at least one of the pages provided by the mall order service application for the request. For example, a request to view order details may be made by selecting a specific CTA object included in my page.

In operation S760, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a fifth page including a first column for displaying food order details and a second column for displaying shopping mall order details.

According to an example embodiment, it is characterized in that the first tab and the second tab included in the fifth page may not become an active state at the same time, only one of the two tabs may become an active state state, and the tabs selected by the customer through the customer terminal 120 may become an active state, and non-selected tabs may become an inactive state. Additionally, order details corresponding to the tab may be displayed on the active tab.

According to an example embodiment, the second column on the fifth page provided by the electronic device 110 to the customer terminal 120 may include current mall order details and past mall order details. In this case, the current marketplace order details may include a remaining time until delivery of the current marketplace order is completed.

Specifically, current mall order details and past mall order details may be displayed as separate interface toolsets on the second column. In more detail, the interface toolset for displaying details of current mall orders may be placed above the interface toolset for displaying details of past mall orders.

Meanwhile, FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of an example embodiment of providing a sixth page displaying delivery status information.

In operation S810, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a first page including a plurality of order category icons in an item delivery service.

In operation S820, the electronic device 110 may receive a selection input from the customer terminal 120 for an order category icon among the plurality of order category icons.

In operation S830, the electronic device 110 may identify whether the order category icon selected according to the received selection input corresponds to a mall order.

In operation S840, when the selected order category icon corresponds to a mall order, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a second page including a plurality of item category icons of the mall order and an expected mall delivery time.

In operation S850, the electronic device 110 may receive a request from the customer terminal 120 to view order details.

In operation S860, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a fifth page including a first column for displaying food order details and a second column for displaying shopping mall order details.

In operation S870, the electronic device 110 may receive a selection input from the customer terminal 120 for a preset CTA object included in the second tab of the fifth page.

According to an example embodiment, the CTA object contained in the second column may be applied with a different graphic effect than other objects in the second column, so that the customer can know that the CTA object contained in the second column is used for Check out one of the objects on page six.

In operation S880, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a sixth page on which delivery status information is displayed in response to a selection input on the CTA object. In this case, the delivery status information may include the location of the marketplace responsible for fulfilling the marketplace order, the reference location applied to the marketplace order and the current location of the delivery staff assigned to the marketplace responsible for fulfilling the marketplace order.

According to an example embodiment, the sixth page provided by the electronic device 110 to the customer terminal 120 may include a map on which the location of the mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order, the reference location, and the current location of the delivery staff are displayed. At the same time, on the sixth page, in addition to the map, an expected time for completing the delivery from the mall can also be displayed.

The methods depicted in FIGS. 2-8 may be performed by, for example, the electronic device 110 described above. In addition, in the flowcharts of FIGS. 2 to 8 , the method is described by dividing the method into a plurality of operations, but at least some of the operations may be performed in a different order, performed in conjunction with other operations, or omitted. Or it can be performed by being divided into detailed operations, or one or more operations not shown can be added and performed.

9A and 9B are exemplary views illustrating a first page.

Referring to FIG. 9A , a first page 900a according to an example embodiment may be provided as a main page that comprehensively provides a food order service and a shopping mall order service. A category icon 910 corresponding to a mall order can be displayed on the main page, so that a customer using the service can immediately use the mall order service on the home page.

Although the text "Mall" is depicted in circular icon 910 of FIG. At the same time, the text "Mall" can be placed at the top or bottom of the image.

In addition, the circular icon 910 of FIG. 9A is shown with an icon highlighted on the left side of the category icon corresponding to the food order ("New Famous Restaurant", "One Serving", "Korean Food", etc.). a border, but this is exemplary and according to an example embodiment, it may be placed between category icons corresponding to food orders, on the far right, or at a separate location on the first page 900a, and The border emphasis effect may not be applied, and a separate graphic effect may be substituted.

Meanwhile, referring to FIG. 9B , a first page 900b according to another example embodiment may be provided as a category list page of an application comprehensively providing a food order service and a shopping mall order service.

Various example embodiments regarding the features, configurations, graphical effects, and the like of a circular diagram 920 of FIG. 9B are the same as or similar to the example embodiments described above with reference to FIG. 9A , and descriptions thereof will be omitted. Repeat description.

FIG. 10 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a second page.

Referring to FIG. 10 , a second page 1000 according to an example embodiment may be provided as a gateway page for providing a mall order service. In order to recognize that a customer using the service has entered a page providing a mall order service, text 1060 indicating that the second page 1000 is a page providing a mall order service may be displayed on the second page 1000 . In addition, in order to make customers using the service return to the first page 900a or 900b from the second page 1000, an interface 1050 for moving to a previous page or an interface 1070 for moving to a home page may be displayed on the second page 1000 . However, this is only an example, and according to example embodiments, the characteristics, shape, text, configuration, location, etc. of the interface 1050 or 1070 for page movement or the text 1060 indicating the current page type can be set in various ways.

Meanwhile, on the second page 1000, a category 1010 of an item that a customer can order from a mall and an expected mall delivery time 1020 may be displayed. According to the illustrated content, as the category 1010 of items that can be ordered at the mall, there are fruits/vegetables, meal kits, meat/fish, ramen/noodles, rice/bento, snacks, milk, bread/ Jam and bottled water/coffee, but this is exemplary and according to an example embodiment some of these could be omitted or other item categories could be added. In addition, the expected mall delivery time 1020 is calculated in a range of 10 to 15 minutes, but according to an example embodiment, it can be set differently whether the expected mall delivery time is calculated as a single time or as a range, or whether it is allowed A specified range of error in calculations in the form of a range.

Meanwhile, on the second page 1000, a mall shopping cart interface 1040 indicating whether there is an item currently contained in the mall shopping cart and the number of types of the contained items may be displayed. According to an example embodiment, the mall shopping cart interface 1040 may be displayed on the second page 1000 when there is an item currently contained in the mall shopping cart. Also, as shown, the numbers displayed on the upper right of the mall cart interface 1040 indicate that a type of item is currently contained in the mall cart. However, this is only an example, and according to example embodiments, the characteristics, shape, text, arrangement position, etc. of the shopping mall shopping cart interface 1040 can be set in various ways.

Meanwhile, on the second page 1000, a search interface 1030 including a search window 1031 and a search button 1032 can be displayed, so that a customer can directly search for a necessary item. The customer can select the category 1010 of the item by operating the search interface 1030 through the input device (for example, virtual keyboard, microphone, touch sensor, gesture recognition sensor, etc.) of the customer terminal 120, and can directly inquire about a Detailed information on the desired item without entering the third page. In this regard, it will be described later below with reference to FIGS. 11A , 11B and 12 .

FIG. 11A, FIG. 11B and FIG. 12 are exemplary views illustrating an item search procedure on a second page.

11A and 11B are the search pages 1100a and 1100b provided to the customer terminal 120 when the search window 1031 of the second page 1000 shown in FIG. Search items.

According to an example embodiment, a search interface 1110 including a search window 1111 and a search button 1112 corresponding to the search interface 1030 shown in FIG. 10 may be displayed on the search pages 1100a and 1100b. In addition, the interface 1140 for moving to a previous page or the interface 1150 for moving to a main page can be displayed on the search pages 1100a and 1100b, so that customers using the service can return to the first page 900a from the search pages 1100a and 1100b Or 900b or 1000 for the second page. However, this is just an example, and according to an example embodiment, the features, shapes, characters, arrangement positions, etc. of the interface 1140 or 1150 for page movement or the search interface 1110 can be set in various ways.

According to an example embodiment, the search pages 1100a and 1100b may display a popular search item 1120 based on a selected mall order at a current point in time. Through this, customers can easily understand which items are popular when ordering at the mall, refer to those items when making decisions, and instantly identify search results for each search term by selecting the area in which it is displayed . However, this is only one example, and according to an example embodiment, temporal criteria for deriving popular search terms, types of statistical variables, number of displayed popular search words, etc. may be set in various ways.

According to an example embodiment, a virtual keyboard 1130 can be displayed on the search pages 1100a and 1100b so that customers can enter a search keyword into the search window 1111 . The virtual keyboard 1130 is provided in response to when the customer selects the search window 1111 through the customer terminal 120, and depending on the example embodiment, the size, key arrangement method, color, font, etc. of the virtual keyboard can be set in various ways.

As shown in FIG. 11B , when a customer inputs a search keyword "fruit" in the search window 1111 through the virtual keyboard 1130, the entered search keyword is displayed in the search window 1111. Thereafter, the customer selects an execution button (for example, an input button or a search icon, etc.) of the virtual keyboard 1130 or selects the search button 1112 in the search interface 1110, thereby requesting one of the corresponding search keywords based on the electronic device 110 Item search.

Fig. 12 is a search result page 1200, wherein the search result based on a search keyword "fruit" is displayed in response to the above-mentioned item search request, and includes a search window 1211 and a search interface 1210 of a search button 1212 and is used for actions An interface 1230 or an interface 1240 of the page is the same as or similar to FIG. 11A and FIG. 11B , but instead of the popular search word 1120 or the virtual keyboard 1130, an item list 1220 corresponding to the search result can be displayed.

According to an example embodiment, the item list 1220 of the search result page 1200 may include an item card displaying therein information about at least a part of an image, price, name, and quantity of an item corresponding to a search keyword.

According to an example embodiment, each of the item cards in item list 1220 may further include a first type of interface 1221 for adding each item to a mall cart.

13A and 13B are exemplary views illustrating a third page.

Specifically, FIGS. 13A and 13B illustrate third pages 1300 a and 1300 b including a plurality of reconfigured item category icons 1310 and an item list 1320 corresponding to the selected item category icon (fruit/vegetable), FIG. 13A A third page 1300a is shown comprising a first type of interface 1321 for adding an item to the mall cart, and FIG. A third page 1300b of the second type interface 1322. Specifically, FIG. 13B shows that the interface 1321 of the first type is selected and switched to the interface 1322 of the second type, the item "American Cherry 250g" is added to the shopping cart of the mall, and a shopping cart interface of the mall is displayed at the bottom right of the page 1370.

According to an example embodiment, the item category icons 1310 included in the third pages 1300a and 1300b are partially displayed on the third pages 1300a and 1300b, and these displayed item category icons may be responded to from the customer terminal 120 One of the gesture events changes. For example, when the customer inputs a drag gesture from right to left in the area corresponding to the item category icon 1310 on the screen of the customer terminal 120, the fruit/vegetable category icons currently displayed in FIGS. 13A and 13B A rice/coffee category icon hidden from the left and from the upper right may be displayed positioned within the area of the item category icon 1310 .

According to an example embodiment, text 1340 indicating a currently selected item category icon may be included in the third pages 1300a and 1300b. Specifically, when the customer selects a new item category icon, the text 1340 can be changed to the corresponding text.

According to an example embodiment, an item search button 1350 may be included in the third pages 1300a and 1300b to allow a customer to directly search for a desired item. At this time, when the item search button 1350 is selected, the electronic device 110 may provide a search page 1100a to the customer terminal 120 in the form shown in FIG. 120 provides a separate search page for performing a search within the currently selected item category (fruits/vegetables).

Meanwhile, since an interface 1330 or an interface 1360 for moving a page shown in FIGS. 13A and 13B performs the same or similar functions as those shown in FIGS. 10 to 12 , redundant descriptions thereof will be omitted.

14A and 14B are exemplary views illustrating a fifth page.

Specifically, FIGS. 14A and 14B show fifth pages 1400a and 1400b, which include a first column 1410 for displaying food order details and a second column 1420 for displaying mall order details, and which etc. all indicate a page where the mall order details are displayed while the second tab 1420 is in an active state. In more detail, FIG. 14A shows a fifth page 1400a where past marketplace order details 1440 are displayed, and FIG. 14B shows a fifth page 1400b where current marketplace order details 1450 are displayed on top of past marketplace order details 1440 .

First, referring to FIG. 14A, the past mall order details 1440 displayed on the fifth page 1400a may include: order information 1441, which includes the order date and time, name, quantity and total amount of the ordered item; a CTA object 1442, which for a reorder request; and a button 1443 for a receipt view request. However, this is an example, and according to an example embodiment, some of the elements described above may be omitted or other elements may be added to past marketplace order details 1440 .

According to an example embodiment, when selecting the CTA item 1442 for a re-order request, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a shopping cart in one of the states in which the items ordered in the past shopping mall order details are contained in the shopping mall shopping cart page.

According to an example embodiment, when the button 1443 for receipt viewing request is selected, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a receipt according to the past mall order details in the form of a pop-up window.

The example embodiment with reference to FIG. 14A will be described later below with reference to FIGS. 15 and 16 .

At the same time, referring to FIG. 14B, the current mall order details 1450 displayed on the fifth page 1400b may include the remaining time 1451 before the delivery is completed, the date and time of the order, the name and quantity of the ordered item, the order information 1452 including the total amount, A CTA object 1453 for a request to view delivery status information and a button 1454 for a request to view order detail information. However, this is an example, and according to an example embodiment, some of the elements described above may be omitted, or other elements may be added to the current marketplace order details 1450 .

According to an example embodiment, when the CTA object 1453 for the request to view delivery status information is selected, the electronic device 110 may provide the customer terminal 120 with a sixth page on which the delivery status information is displayed, the delivery status information including the responsible The location of the marketplace fulfilling the marketplace order, the reference location applied to the marketplace order and the current location of the delivery staff assigned to the marketplace.

FIG. 15 is an exemplary view showing a procedure of viewing a receipt through the fifth page.

Referring to FIG. 15, when the button 1443 for a receipt viewing request of FIG. 14A is selected, a receipt window 1500 provided as a pop-up window on the fifth page 1400a is displayed.

According to an example embodiment, the receipt information displayed on the receipt window may include the date and time of the order, the name and quantity of the items ordered, the price according to the quantity of each item ordered, the price according to all the items ordered, a delivery fee , a total amount obtained by adding the prices and delivery charges based on all ordered items and a means of payment based on the details of past mall orders.

For example, in the receipt window 1500 shown in FIG. 15 , the order date and time (9:08 pm on May 20, 2021), the name and quantity of the ordered items (1 bottle of 474 ml yogurt, 1 chicken breast Meat), the price according to the quantity of each ordered item (₩10,000 each), the total price of the ordered item (₩20,000), the delivery fee (₩2,000), the total amount (₩22,000) and the payment method (OO card) can be displayed for the receipt information.

However, this is only an example, and according to an example embodiment, some of the elements described above may be omitted or other elements may be added to the receipt information displayed on the receipt window.

FIG. 16 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a reorder procedure through the fifth page.

Referring to FIG. 16 , when the CTA object 1442 for a reorder request of FIG. 14A is selected, a mall cart page 1600 is displayed in a state where an item already ordered in past mall order details is displayed in the mall cart.

According to an example embodiment, the type and quantity of items contained in the mall cart on the mall cart page 1600 may be displayed on the same interface widget as the CTA object selected for the reorder request on the fifth page thing. For example, when the type and quantity of items displayed on the same interface tool set on the fifth page with the CTA object selected for the call mall shopping cart page 1600 are "1 bottle of 474 milliliters (ml) yogurt" and " 1 piece of chicken breast", a shopping cart containing a bottle of "474 ml yogurt" and a piece of "chicken breast" is displayed on the shopping cart page 1600 of the mall.

According to an example embodiment, the reference location for item delivery in the marketplace shopping cart page 1600 may be where the item is delivered in the past order with respect to the past order specified by the CTA item selected for the reorder request on the fifth page the location. For example, the reference location "570 Songpa-daero, Songpa-gu, Seoul" displayed on the mall shopping cart page 1600 may be a location where an item was delivered in a past order.

FIG. 17 is a block diagram illustrating an electronic device for providing information about a shopping mall order service according to an example embodiment.

According to an example embodiment, the electronic device 110 may include a transceiver 111 , a processor 113 and a memory 115 . The electronic device 110 can be connected to the customer terminal 120, the shopping mall terminal 130 and other external devices through the transceiver 111, and can exchange data.

The processor 113 may execute at least one method described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 16 . The memory 115 can store information for performing at least one method described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 16 . The memory 115 can be a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory.

The processor 113 can control the electronic device 110 to execute a program and provide information. Program code executed by processor 113 may be stored in memory 115 .

The processor 113 is connected to the transceiver 111 and the memory 115 to provide the customer terminal 120 with a first page including a plurality of order category diagrams in an item delivery service, and receives a pair from the customer terminal 120 from a plurality of One of an order category icon selection input among the order category icons, identifying whether the order category icon selected according to the selection input corresponds to a mall order, and if the selected order category icon corresponds to a mall order, then to the customer terminal The machine 120 provides a second page including a plurality of item category icons for the mall order and an expected mall delivery time.

Furthermore, the electronic device 110 according to an example embodiment may further include an interface for providing information to a user.

In the electronic device 110 shown in FIG. 17, only components pertaining to this example embodiment are shown. Therefore, those skilled in the art of this example embodiment can understand that, in addition to the components shown in FIG. 17 , other common components may be further included.

Electronic devices according to the above example embodiments may include a processor, memory for storing and executing program data, a permanent storage such as a disk drive, and/or a user for communicating with an external device Interface devices (such as a communication port, a touch panel, a key and/or a button). The methods implemented as software modules or algorithms can be stored in a computer-readable recording medium as computer-readable codes or program instructions executable on a processor. Here, the computer-readable recording medium includes a magnetic storage medium (eg, ROM, RAM, floppy disk, and hard disk) and an optically readable medium (eg, CD-ROM and DVD). The computer readable recording medium can be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable program codes are stored and executed in a distributed fashion. The medium can be read by a computer, stored in a memory and executed on a processor.

Example embodiments may be represented by functional block elements and various processing steps. Functional blocks may be implemented in any number of hardware and/or software configurations that perform the specified functions. For example, an example embodiment may employ an integrated circuit configuration that may perform various functions, such as memory, processing, logic, and/or look-up tables, by controlling one or more microprocessors or other control devices. Similar to those elements that can be implemented as software programming or software components, the example embodiments can be implemented in a programming or scripting language such as C, C++, Java, assembly language, etc., including implementation as data structures, procedures, routines or a combination of other programming constructs of various algorithms. Functional aspects may be implemented in an algorithm running on one or more processors. In addition, example embodiments may employ existing techniques for electronic environment setting, signal processing, and/or data processing. Terms such as "mechanism", "element", "member" and "configuration" are used broadly and are not limited to mechanical and physical elements. These terms may include the meaning of a series of software routines associated with a processor or the like.

The example embodiments described above are examples only, and other embodiments may be implemented within the scope of the invention claims to be described later.

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FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system for providing information about a shopping mall order service according to an example embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of an operation of a method of providing information about a shopping mall order service according to an example embodiment.

3 to 8 are each a flow diagram illustrating the operation of a method of providing information about a shopping mall order service according to an additional example embodiment.

9A and 9B are exemplary diagrams illustrating a first page.

FIG. 10 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a second page.

FIG. 11A, FIG. 11B and FIG. 12 are exemplary diagrams illustrating an item search procedure on a second page.

13A and 13B are exemplary diagrams illustrating a third page.

14A and 14B are exemplary diagrams illustrating a fifth page.

FIG. 15 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a procedure for viewing a receipt through the fifth page.

FIG. 16 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a reorder procedure through the fifth page.

FIG. 17 is a block diagram illustrating an electronic device for providing information about a shopping mall order service according to an example embodiment.

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Claims (18)

A method for providing information about a shopping mall order service in an electronic device, the method comprising: providing a customer terminal with a first page containing a plurality of order category icons in an item delivery service; receiving a selection input from the customer terminal for an order category icon of the plurality of order category icons; identifying whether the order category icon selected according to the selection input corresponds to a mall order; and If the selected order category icon corresponds to the mall order, a second page including a plurality of item category icons of the mall order and an expected mall delivery time is provided to the customer terminal. If the method of claim 1, Where this second page is provided includes: If the selected order category icon corresponds to the marketplace order, setting the marketplace responsible for fulfilling the marketplace order based on a reference location applied to the marketplace order; and providing the customer terminal with the second page including icons of the plurality of item categories and the expected mall delivery time of the marketplace responsible for fulfilling the marketplace order. For the method of claim 2, The setting of the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall is to set the mall corresponding to the delivery area among the plurality of malls to which a delivery area to which the reference location belongs is pre-assigned as the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall mall. For the method of claim 2, Wherein, the setting of the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall is setting the mall that has a minimum expected delivery time required for delivery to the reference location among the plurality of malls as the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall. For the method of claim 2, Wherein the setting of the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall is setting a mall among the plurality of malls that has an expected mall delivery time required to deliver to the reference location within a preset reference time as the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall the marketplace, but if there are two or more marketplaces with an expected marketplace delivery time within that reference time, set those two or more marketplaces as temporary marketplaces responsible for fulfilling orders for that marketplace, The method further includes, If the temporary mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order is set, after the mall order is completed, based on the mall order details of the customer terminal, the temporary mall responsible for fulfilling the mall order is finally set among the temporary malls responsible for fulfilling the mall order. a mall. For the method of claim 2, wherein the expected mall delivery time of the marketplace responsible for fulfilling the marketplace order is determined based on status information that can be assigned to a delivery employee of the marketplace responsible for fulfilling the marketplace order, The status information of the delivery employee includes a distance between a location of the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall and a current location of the delivery employee and work details of the delivery employee. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving from the customer terminal a selection input of an item category icon among the plurality of item category icons on the second page; and A third page including a plurality of reconfigured item category icons and an item list corresponding to the selected item category icon is provided to the customer terminal. For the method of claim 7, Wherein the third page displays some of the plurality of item category icons, and the displayed item category icons change in response to a gesture event from the customer terminal. For the method of claim 7, Wherein, if an item category icon other than the selected item category icon among the reconfigured plurality of item category icons is newly selected, the third page displays an item corresponding to the newly selected item category icon list. The method of claim 7, further comprising: receiving a selection input from the customer terminal for at least one item from the list of items on the third page; and Add the selected item to a shopping cart, Wherein an item is added to the mall shopping cart according to the mall order independently of an item being added to a food cart thereof according to a food order. For the method of claim 7, wherein the third page additionally includes a first type of interface for adding each of the items contained in the item list to the mall shopping cart, Wherein the interface of the first type, if selected by the customer terminal, switches to an interface of the second type by which a quantity of an item to be added to the shopping cart of the mall can be adjusted. The method of claim 1, further comprising: Receive a view request from the customer terminal for viewing the payment information of the mall order entered into one of the fourth pages thereof; and providing the fourth page to the customer terminal, Wherein the fourth page provides at least a part of the payment information that can be used for the food order as an option of the payment information of the mall order. As in the method of claim 12, Wherein the fourth page provides at least a part of an address stored for the food order and a current location of the customer as an option of an address of the mall order, and at least a part of a payment method stored for the food order is provided as the An option for one of the payment methods for an order in the mall. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a request from the customer terminal to view order details; and A fifth page comprising a first tab for displaying food order details and a second tab for displaying shopping mall order details is provided to the customer terminal. As in the method of claim 14, The second column contains the details of current mall orders and past mall orders, The current mall order details include the remaining time before delivery of the current mall order is completed. As in the method of claim 14, Wherein the second column contains the delivery status information of the current mall order or is used to view one of the call-to-action (CTA) objects on the sixth page displaying the delivery status information, The delivery status information includes a location of the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall, a reference location applied to the order of the mall, and a current location of a delivery employee assigned to the mall responsible for fulfilling the order of the mall. A computer-readable non-transitory recording medium in which a program for executing one of the methods according to any one of claims 1 to 16 is recorded in a computer. An electronic device for providing information about a shopping mall order service, the electronic device includes: a transceiver; a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor, Wherein the processor is connected to the transceiver and the memory, and is configured to provide a customer terminal with a first page comprising a plurality of order category icons in an item delivery service, receiving a message from the customer terminal A selection input for one of the order category icons among the plurality of order category icons, identifying whether the order category icon selected according to the selection input corresponds to a mall order, and if the selected order category icon corresponds to For the mall order, provide the customer terminal with a second page containing a plurality of item category icons of the mall order and an expected mall delivery time.

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