Kakao Corporation

Mi Ran Kang

Jun Hwan Lee

Jin Young Choi

Hyun Hee Park

Yeon Hee Shin

Ji Yeon Shin

Chang Sung Ban

Dong Wha Yuk

Ji Eun Kim

Ji Yoong Choi

Sheung Min Shin

Kyoung Jin Han

Do Yon Hwang

Woo Yeol Baek

Yun Ji Koh

Du Hyeong Kim

An apparatus that provides a cooperative shopping service in association with a chat application includes a friend information receiving unit configured to receive, from a host device, information about at least one friend or chat room selected from a list of multiple friends or multiple chat rooms managed by the chat application; an invitation unit configured to transmit an invitation message to a guest device corresponding to the friend or a member of the chat room through the chat application; and a cooperative shopping service providing unit configured to provide, both to the host device and the guest device, a list of products that are capable of being put into a shopping cart of the host device and receive order information about product selected from the list of products by at least one of the host device and the guest device, wherein the list of products provided to the host device and the guest device is generated based on a location of a delivery destination determined by the host device.

Apparatus and method for providing cooperative shopping service in association with chat application

Growing community of inventors

Yongin-si, South Korea

Mi Ran Kang