Method for editing a ticket of limited duration, system therefore and resulting ticket

• US 20050015347A1
• Filed: 10/30/2002
• Published: 01/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Parkeon
• Original Assignee: Parkeon
• Inventors: Mandy, Damien, Mougin, Thierry
• Application Number:
  US10/496,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20050015347A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/67
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3674 involving authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/24 for parking meters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/42 for ticket printing or like apparatus , e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards

Abstract

The invention concerns a method for editing a ticket providing access to a product or a service with specific duration and or expiry date, characterised in that it comprises a step of recording (EIA) on the ticket an authenticating information encrypted at least partly in accordance with a specific encryption law.

Claims

1. A method for editing a ticket providing access to a product or a service with specific duration and or expiry date, said method comprising the step of recording on the ticket an authenticating information encrypted at least partly in accordance with a specific encryption law.

2. Method set forth in claim 1, wherein the step of recording the authentication information further comprises a step of generating a first part of the encrypted authentication information.

3. Method set forth in claim 2, wherein the step of generating the first part of the authentication information includes generating a code according to a parameter relative to the validity of the ticket, a validity start and/or end date of the ticket, according to a specific key algorithm.

4. Method set forth in claim 3, further comprising a step of configuring the encrypting key modifications at specific times.

5. Method set forth in claims 2, wherein the step of generating the first part of the authentication information includes generating a graphic device whose form and/or colour is specific according to the parameter relative to the validity of the ticket.

6. Method set forth in claim 5, wherein the step of configuring further comprises a step of defining the relation between the graphic device and the parameter relative to the validity of the ticket.

7. Method set forth in claim 1, wherein the step of recording the authentication information further comprises a step of generating a second part of the authentication information which is an identification number of the ticket.

8. Method set forth in claim 7, wherein the step of generating the second part of the authentication information is an increment starting from the editing of the previous ticket.

9. Method set forth in claim 8, wherein the step of generating the second part of the authentication information is a transaction number specified by an external system of transaction authentication.

10. Method set forth in claim 2, wherein the step of recording the authentication information further comprises a step of generating a third part of the authentication information on the basis of a specific signature function, according to the first part and/or the second part of the authentication information.

11. Method set forth in claim 1, further comprising at least one controllable step of recording the authentication information on the ticket.

12. Method set forth in claim 1, wherein the step of recording includes the printing of the authentication information on a ticket.

13. A system of editing a ticket, of type implementing a method set forth in claim 1, comprising at least one blank ticket, and a means of editing the ticket and having a device of recording at least partly the encrypted authentication information.

14. System set forth in claim 13, wherein the device of recording the authentication information comprises:

a device of defining a first part of the encrypted authentication information;

a device of defining a second part of the authentication information by generating a unique identification number of the ticket;

a device of defining a third part of the authentication information by encoding the first part of the authentication information with the second part of the authentication information.

15. System set forth in claim 14, wherein the device of generating the second part of the authentication information is linked to a system of transaction authorisation and generating of a transaction identifier, which is independent of the system.

16. System set forth in claim 15, wherein the device of editing a ticket further comprises a system of recording the authentication information on the ticket.

17. System set forth in claim 16, wherein the system of recording is a system of printing tickets.

18. A ticket produced and used by a method and generated by a system set forth in claim 13, wherein at least partly the encrypted authentication information is printed on at least one side of the ticket.

19. Ticket set forth in claim 18, wherein a first part of the authentication information is encrypted according to a parameter relative to the validity of the ticket according to a specific key algorithm.

20. Ticket set forth in claim 19, wherein the first part of the authentication information is a graphic device whose form and/or colour is specified according to the parameter relative to the validity of the ticket.

21. Ticket set forth in claim 20, wherein a second part of the authentication information is an identification number of the ticket.

22. Ticket set forth in claim 21, wherein the identification number of the ticket is an increment number.

23. Ticket set forth in claim 22, wherein the identification number of the ticket is a transaction number specified by an external system of transaction authentication.

24. Ticket set forth in claim 21, wherein a third part of the authentication information is specified by combining the first part and the second part according to a specific signature function.