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Method of electronic settlement with a mobile terminal

  • US 7,197,448 B2
  • Filed: 12/13/2002
  • Issued: 03/27/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of electronic settlement comprising:

  • setting a system in which commodity information display units installed at sites for payment, a sales control server for controlling the display units, a server for controlling mobile terminals each incorporating therein an electronic camera or an artificial retina chip, and an authentication server for authenticating the mobile terminals, are connected through a network, and also in which the authentication server and the sales control server are connected to each other through a dedicated communication line and wherein electronic settlement is performed by using the mobile terminals, said method comprising the steps of;

    photographing by a mobile terminal commodity information including characters which are displayed on the display unit;

    transmitting photographed image data taken by the mobile terminal via the mobile terminal server to the authentication server;

    authenticating the mobile terminal and restoring the image data to the commodity information including characters at the authentication server; and

    transmitting authenticated personal information and the commodity information via the dedicated communication line from the authentication server to the sales control server.

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