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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86 Claims
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1-44. -44. (canceled)
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45. A method of selling admissions via pre-payment, comprising:
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at a merchant web site;
(i) offering for sale via the merchant web site a ticket for admission to a physical area;
(ii) receiving via a communications network an order for the ticket from a customer; and
(iii) initiating a cryptographic algorithm that results in an encryption-protected ticket and transmitting the encryption-protected ticket to the customer via the communications network; and
at a customer-physical-access admission station;
(iv) receiving via a short range wireless air interface protocol the encryption-protected ticket;
(v) if the encryption-protected ticket is found to be valid in a testing, generating an admission-grant signal indicating to allow the customer to pass a physical customer admission point. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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63. A method of selling products via pre-payment, comprising:
at a merchant web site;
(i) offering for sale via the merchant web site a product token for use in purchasing one or more corresponding products from one or more vending machines which each employ a short range wireless air interface protocol for establishing position dependent ecommerce sessions;
(ii) receiving via a communications network an order for the product token from a customer; and
(iii) initiating a cryptographic algorithm that results in an encryption-protected product token and transmitting the encryption-protected product token to the customer via the communications network; and
at a particular vending machine;
(iv) receiving via the short range wireless air interface protocol the encryption-protected product token;
(v) if the encryption-protected product token is found to be valid in a testing, generating a product-grant signal indicating to provide the product to the customer. - View Dependent Claims (64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74)
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75. A method of selling services via pre-payment, comprising:
- at a merchant web site;
(i) offering for sale via the merchant web site a service token for use in purchasing one or more corresponding services;
(ii) receiving via a communications network an order for the service token from a customer; and
(iii) initiating a cryptographic algorithm that results in an encryption-protected service token and transmitting the encryption-protected service token to the customer via the communications network; and
at a particular service access point;
(iv) receiving via a short range wireless air interface protocol the encryption-protected service token;
(v) if the encryption-protected service token is found to be valid in a testing, generating a service-grant signal indicating to provide the service to the customer. - View Dependent Claims (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86)
- at a merchant web site;
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