Product order method and system

• US 20020187774A1
• Filed: 05/14/2002
• Published: 12/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ipr Partner Ag
• Original Assignee: Ipr Partner Ag
• Inventors: Ritter, Rudolf, Lauper, Eric
• Granted Patent: US 7,194,253 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/102 applying security measure for e-commerce
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/126 the source of the received data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Method with which a mobile user in a mobile network can order products, with the following steps:

recording an image corresponding to the product to be ordered,

linking the image data with a personal identification of the mobile user,

transmitting the linked order message to a server in said mobile radio network,

comparing said image data with images stored in a product database, each of said image in said database being linked with an identification of the product provider,

sending a message containing an identification of the ordered product and of the ordering mobile user to said product provider.

Claims

1. Method with which a mobile user in a mobile network can order products,

an order message being transmitted to a server in said mobile radio network,

a message containing an identification of the ordered product and of the ordering mobile user being sent to a product provider,

comprising:

recording an image corresponding to the product to be ordered,

linking the image data with a personal identification of the mobile user in said order message,

comparing in said server said image data with images stored in a product database, each of said image in said database being linked with an identification of the product provider to which said message is sent.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said image is recorded with a camera connected with a mobile radio telephone.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said image is recorded with a scanner connected with a mobile radio telephone.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said image is an image of a two-dimensional identified part of said product.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said image is received by a radio receiver.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said image is recorded with an image recording device connected with a mobile radio telephone over a contactless interface at close range.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said identification of the mobile user is the IMSI.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said order message is a WAP message.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said mobile radio network is a UMTS network and said order message is transmitted by establishing a connection in the data channel.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said order message is signed electronically by said mobile radio user.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said identification of the product provider contains his address in a telecommunication network.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said telecommunication network is a TCP-IP network.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein said telecommunication network is the public telecommunication network.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said server comprises a user database in which additional mobile user attributes are stored and at least certain of these additional attributes are forwarded to said product provider.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein said additional attributes include the delivery address of the ordering mobile user.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein said additional attributes include the billing address of the ordering mobile user.

17. The method of claim 1, characterized in that the ordered product is billed by the operator of said server.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein said operator of said server is also the operator of said mobile radio network and the ordered product is billed like connections in said mobile radio network.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the ordered product is billed by debiting a prepaid account in the identification module of the mobile user.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the ordered product is billed with the telephone bill.

21. Server for use in a mobile radio network so that mobile users can send messages to it, comprising:

a product database in which product images are stored,

a user database in which mobile user specific attributes are stored,

a module for comparing image data in the order messages received from mobile users with said product images.

22. The server of claim 21, wherein said module is a software module.

23. The server of claim 21, wherein said module uses a neuronal network.

24. The server of claim 21, further comprising means for decompressing compressed image data in received messages.

25. The server of claim 21, further comprising means for decrypting image data in received order messages.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein said image recording device and said mobile radio telephone are connected over a contactless interface at close range.

26. System with a mobile radio telephone and an image recording device, such that images taken with said image recording device can be packaged in messages that can be sent by the mobile telephone in a mobile radio network, wherein the mobile radio telephone links the recorded image data with a user identification procured from the personal identification module in said mobile radio telephone before sending it in said mobile radio network.