Electronic money transaction system with a radio transmitter and receiver using a portable telephone

• US 6,016,956 A
• Filed: 09/09/1997
• Issued: 01/25/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Kenji, Takami, Yutaka, Itoh, Shigeyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Michael G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, Diane I.
• Application Number:
  US08/925,621
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 235/380, 235/381, 902/492, 902/26
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/06 Private payment circuits, e.g. involving electronic currency used among participants of a common payment scheme
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/065 using e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3226 Use of secure elements separate from M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/04 comprising devices to free a barrier, turnstile, or the like turnstiles with registering means G07C9/10; coin-freed aspects G07F17/00

Abstract

A terminal 2 held by the user with a radio transmitter and receiver 3. Electronic money information is transferred via the radio transmitter and received. By using a portable telephone, it is unnecessary to directly insert an IC card 1 into service supply equipment 17. In addition to the service supply equipment 17, a device 9 for storing electronic money information in a lump is provided. Since the electronic money information is transferred into the device 9 for storing the electronic money information in a lump, it is unnecessary to collect the electronic money information stored in terminals one by one.

Claims

1. An electronic money transaction system comprising;

an IC card storing electronic money information;

a terminal for reading and/or writing information of the IC card;

a portable telephone terminal as a first communicating means for transmitting and receiving electronic information to/from outside by using electromagnetic waves for performing transactions of the electronic money information in said IC card, having storage means for storing particular information, and sending means for sending the stored particular information;

a second communicating means for receiving and transmitting electronic information to/from said first communicating means;

an which can store at least electronic money in the electronic information transmitted and received via at least one of said first and second communicating means;

a service supply equipment operated by a signal sent from said electronic money storing means, having means for generating time information, and a storage means for storing said time information and said particular information sent from said first communicating means;

wherein at least a signal instructing a service supply is sent from said electronic storing means to said , and the service is supplied based upon the signal, said time information and said particular information through said service supply equipment.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein electronic money storing means and the service supply equipment are seperately provided.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein an operator of the terminal performs an operation at least once to show desire of receiving the service from the service supply equipment before completion of the transaction of the electronic money.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein a display is provided and a display by which the operator performs the operation to show the desire of receiving the service is executed.

5. The system according to claim 3, wherein a display is provided at a position so that the operator to receive the service of the service supply equipment and can easily discriminate the contents.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the terminal has an input means of a character string, a number, or a code, wherein said character, number, or code is displayed on the display, and the operator inputs the displayed character string, number, or code from the input means, thereby performing the operation to show the desire of receiving the service.

7. The system according to claim 4 or 6, wherein after the operator performs the operation to show the desire of receiving the service, the electronic money storing means receives electronic information indicative of the operation via the first communicating means, and the electronic money storing means generates a confirmation signal indicative of receipt of the electronic information indicative of the operation.

8. The system according to claim 7, further comprising a confirmation signal display means for displaying the confirmation signal showing the receipt of the electronic information indicative of the operation.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the confirmation signal display means is provided at a position so that the operator to receive the service by the service supply equipment can easily discriminate the contents.

10. An electronic money transaction system according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for specifying a location of said first communicating means;

said service supply equipment further having means for storing the specified location of said first communicating means in said storage mans, thereby managing the service supply with said specified location.

11. An electronic money transaction system comprising:

a first IC card storing electronic money information;

a transmitter and receiver that is connected to the first IC card and transmits and receives the electronic money information via space;

a second transmitter and receiver for transmitting and receiving the electronic money information via the transmitter and receiver;

a terminal for controlling transfer of the electronic money information via the second transmitter and receiver;

a connecting unit for passing the electronic money information from the terminal; and

a second IC card which can record the electronic money information passed through the connecting unit,

wherein the first IC card has a memory for storing electronic information indicative of the IC card, the electronic information in the memory can be transferred to the terminal via the transmitter and receiver and the second transmitter and receiver, the terminal has a passing means for transmitting the electronic information of the first IC card which passed the transmitter and receiver to the second IC card via the second transmitter and receiver and electronic information which is recorded in the second IC card to specify another IC card is compared with the electronic information sent from the first IC card, and when the electronic information sent from the first IC card and the electronic information recorded in the second IC card satisfies a certain condition, the electronic money information is transferred from the second IC card to the first IC card.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the electronic money information can be transferred from the first IC card to the second IC card irrespective of the result of the comparison of the electronic information sent from the first IC card with the electronic information recorded in the second IC card.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein the electronic information sent from the first IC card is compared with the electronic information recorded in the second IC card by an information processing unit in an IC card for controlling the second IC card.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein a portable telephone terminal has particular information, the particular information is sent from the portable telephone terminal, and a service supply equipment manages supply of service on the basis of the transmitted particular information.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the portable telephone terminal has particular information, the particular information is sent from the portable telephone terminal, the service supply equipment is provided with means for generating time information, there is provided time storing means for storing the particular information sent and the time information as an output from the time information generating means, and the service supply equipment records the information into the time storing means, thereby managing the service supply.

16. An electronic money transaction system comprising:

a first IC card in which electronic money information is stored;

a transmitter and receiver that is connected to the first IC card and transmits and receives the electronic money information via space;

a second transmitter and receiver for transmitting and receiving the electronic money information via the transmitter and receiver;

a terminal for controlling transfer of the electronic money information sent via the second transmitter and receiver;

a connecting unit for passing the electronic money information from the terminal; and

a second IC card which can record the electronic money information passed through the connecting unit,

wherein the first IC card has a memory of electronic information indicative of the IC card, the electronic information in the memory can be transferred to the terminal via the transmitter and receiver and the second transmitter and receiver, the electronic information in the memory is a code which cannot be easily formed ordinarily, the terminal has a decoding and passing means for decoding the encoded electronic information of the first IC card passed through the transmitter and receiver and transmitting the decoded electronic information of the first IC card to the second IC card via the second transmitter and receiver, electronic information which is recorded in the second IC card to specify another IC card is compared with the electronic information sent from the first IC card, and when the electronic information sent from the first IC card and the electronic information recorded in the second IC card satisfies a certain condition, the electronic money information is transferred from the second IC card to the first IC card.