METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO A SERVICE AMONGST A PLURALITY OF SERVICES

• US 20130290190A1
• Filed: 06/08/2011
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Johan Maris, Pay & Save NV
• Original Assignee: John Maris, Pay & Save NV
• Inventors: Maris, Johan, Van Campenhout, Sam, Verhetsel, Dirk
• Application Number:
  US13/701,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20130290190A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/02 involving a neutral party, e.g. certification authority, notary or trusted third party [TTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/227 characterised in that multiple accounts are available, e.g. to the payer
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/363 with the personal data of a user
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/385 using an alias or single-use codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4014 Identity check for transactions

Abstract

A method and system for providing universal access to a service amongst a plurality of services capable of storing a plurality of service accounts, each corresponding to a customer and a service the customer is subscribed to, receiving a request from a customer for using a service, determining a service account upon identification of such customer and the requested service or its service provider, consulting confidential service account content corresponding to the service account, characterized in that consulting the confidential service account content having real-time communicating with the service provider, the service provider providing real-time access to the confidential service account content. The system including means is adapted to communicate real-time with the service provider.

Claims

1. A method for providing universal access to a service amongst a plurality of services comprising:

storing a plurality of service accounts, each corresponding to a customer and a service said customer is subscribed to,

receiving a request from a customer for using a service, and

determining a service account upon identifying such customer and the requested service or its service provider, consulting confidential service account content corresponding to said service account, said consulting comprising real-time communicating with said service provider, said service provider providing real-time access to said confidential service account content,

wherein identifying such customer comprises hashing any available identification instrument of a number of identification instruments linked to said customer'"'"'s identification code.

2. The method for providing universal access to a service amongst a plurality of services according to claim 1, wherein identification of said customer comprises hashing a chip card, a magnetic strip card, an RFID card, an RFID tag, a telephone, a mobile phone, a Bluetooth device, a barcode, a MAC-address, and the like.

3. The method for providing universal access to a service amongst a plurality of services according to claim 1, further comprising associating said confidential service account content with a said customer'"'"'s financial account.

4. The method for providing universal access to a service amongst a plurality of services according to claim 1, wherein said service is a banking service, a loyalty program, a warranty service, a rental service, a pre-payment service, a coupon service, a ticketing service, a health care service, a governmental service and the like.

5. The method for providing universal access to a service amongst a plurality of services according to claim 1, further comprising transmitting new confidential service account content to said service provider.

6. The method for providing universal access to a service amongst a plurality of services according to claim 1, wherein said consulting further comprises communicating specific confidential service account data via communication dashboards to parties other than said costumer and said service provider and being involved to the service.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein said service is a multi-role loyalty program.

10. The system for providing universal access to a service amongst a plurality of services according to claim 7, wherein said service is a banking service, a loyalty program, a warranty service, a rental service, a pre-payment service, a coupon service, a ticketing service, a health care service, a governmental service, and the like.

14. The multi-role loyalty program using a method for providing universal access according to claim 1.

8. A system for providing universal access to a service amongst a plurality of services comprising:

a means for storing a plurality of service accounts, each corresponding to a customer and a service said customer is subscribed to,

a determination means for determining a service account upon identification of such customer and the requested service or its service provider,

an identification means for identifying said customer, and

a consulting means for consulting confidential service account content corresponding to said service account, said consulting means adapted to communicate real-time with said service provider, said service provider providing real-time access to said confidential service account content,

wherein said identification means are adapted for hashing any available identification instrument of a number of identification instruments linked to said customer'"'"'s identification code.

9. The system for providing universal access to services according to claim 8, wherein said identification means comprises any kind of tool to read a customer'"'"'s identification code from any identification instrument such as a chip card, a magnetic strip card, an RFID card, an RFID tag, a telephone, a mobile phone, a Bluetooth device, a barcode, a MAC-address, and the like.

11. The system for providing universal access to a service amongst a plurality of services according to claim 8, wherein said consulting means comprise communication dashboards for providing role-specific confidential service account data.

12. The system for providing universal access to a service amongst a plurality of services according to claim 11, wherein said service is a multi-role loyalty program.

13. A multi-role loyalty program using a system for providing universal access according to claim 8.

15. A multi-role loyalty program according to claim 13, wherein for each role a communication dashboard is provided.