US 11,941,637 B2
Electronic apparatus for processing item sales information and method thereof
Zee Young Min, Seoul (KR); Ki Hyun Jeong, Seoul (KR); Il Hyun Seo, Seoul (KR); Hyun Ju Cho, Seoul (KR); Jin Hwan Kim, Seoul (KR); Hyun Yong Jung, Seoul (KR); Min Yong Yuk, Seoul (KR); Ho Hyun Lim, Seoul (KR); and Jin Hyuk Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Coupang Corp., Seoul (KR)
Filed by Coupang Corp., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Mar. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/209,696.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0028282 (KR), filed on Mar. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0284430 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/40 (2012.01); G06Q 40/03 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 20/405 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/4037 (2013.01); G06Q 20/407 (2013.01); G06Q 40/03 (2023.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of processing item sales information by an electronic apparatus, the method comprising:
acquiring a purchase request including item information related to an item selected by a user and information related to a payment means;
providing a purchase response, the purchase response including approval information when the information related to the payment means satisfies a first condition, the approval information corresponding to the purchase request before proceeding with payment through the payment means;
determining that process of payment by a second sever is in an unavailable state, the second server corresponding to a first payment method designated based on the payment means;
determining that the item does not belong to a specific category;
in response to: i) the information related to the payment means satisfying the first condition, ii) determining that the process of payment by a second sever is in the unavailable state, and iii) determining that the item does not belong to the specific category, transmitting a release request for the item to a first server to cause a fulfillment center to deliver the item to a delivery destination associated with the user;
determining that the process of payment by the second sever has changed from the unavailable state to an available state;
in response to determining that the process of payment by the second server has changed to the available state, transmitting, to the second server, a payment request for at least some of an amount corresponding to one or more purchase requests related to the payment means according to an arrival of settlement timing corresponding to the payment means; and
in response to determining that payment failure information is received from the second server in response to the payment request:
canceling an approval corresponding to the purchase request;
providing information including cancellation of the approval; and
based on receiving, from the first server, information notifying that delivery of the item is in progress or has been completed, transmitting information requesting a return of the item,
wherein, the specific category comprises a first category including one or more items whose delinquency rate exceeds a preset threshold, and
wherein the delinquency rate corresponds to a rate of payment not being successful regarding cases that, for each of the one or more items, the electronic apparatus transmitted the release request to the first server while a corresponding server for a payment method was in the unavailable state.