Negotiated wireless peripheral systems
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Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in mobile network communication systems. A mobile unit such as a smart phone is preferably equipped with a wireless local area network connection and a wireless wide area network connection. The local area network connection is used to establish a position-dependent ecommerce network connection with a wireless product or service access device supplied by a vendor. A negotiation sequence is carried out to electronically contract the services of the negotiated wireless peripheral from the vendor using a prepaid ecommerce protocol. The negotiated wireless peripheral is a general product or service vending device and the mobile unit acts as a digital authentication and payment device with digital pre-paid payment capabilities. The techniques are useful in many applications to include ticketing and admission systems to events and other types of services that involve ticketing.
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96 Claims
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45. For use in a system comprising a vending management server and a customer-physical-access admission station that performs an admission-gate opening function and includes a wireless interface to communicate with one or more user wireless devices to include a particular user wireless device, a method of wirelessly selling admissions, the method comprising:
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wirelessly establishing a position-dependent ecommerce session with the particular user wireless device;
engaging in a handshaking sequence that includes wirelessly receiving via the position-dependent ecommerce session from the particular user wireless device a digital customer payment for providing the admission-gate opening function; and
if the digital customer payment is found to be valid in a testing, generating an admission-grant signal indicating to allow the customer to pass through an admission gate. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 77, 78, 79)
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64. For use in a system comprising a vending management server and a wireless-vending station that performs a product-dispensing function and includes a wireless interface to communicate with one or more user wireless devices to include a particular user wireless device, a method of wirelessly selling products, the method comprising:
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wirelessly establishing a position-dependent ecommerce session with the particular user wireless device;
engaging in a handshaking sequence that includes wirelessly receiving via the position-dependent ecommerce session from the particular user wireless device a digital customer payment for providing the product-dispensing function; and
if the digital customer payment is found to be valid in a testing, generating a product-grant signal indicating to dispense the product to the customer. - View Dependent Claims (65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76)
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71. The method of claim 617, further comprising:
the wireless-vending station interacting via the computer network with the vending management server which provides customer authentication support in establishing the position-dependent ecommerce session and database support in performing the testing.
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80. For use in a system comprising a vending management server and a wireless-service access station that performs a service-dispensing function and includes a wireless interface to communicate with one or more user wireless devices to include a particular user wireless device, a method of wirelessly selling services, the method comprising:
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wirelessly establishing a position-dependent ecommerce session with the particular user wireless device;
engaging in a handshaking sequence that includes wirelessly receiving via the position-dependent ecommerce session from the particular user wireless device a digital customer payment for providing the service-dispensing function; and
if the digital customer payment is found to be valid in a testing, generating a service-grant signal indicating to dispense the service to the customer. - View Dependent Claims (81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96)
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