Electronic wallet system
First Claim
1. Electronic wallet system comprising:
- n devices capable of conducting electronic business transaction on an open network and containing a smart card reader, wherein n is greater or equal to 1, said devices being interconnected through a local network;
a plurality of smart cards representing electronic purses of said electronic wallet system, said smart cards being able to contain tokens;
wherein one of said devices comprises an entity, called the server, which contains a list of data entries, each entry corresponding to a purse of said electronic wallet system liable to receive tokens from other purses of said system, the tokens transferred between purses being stored temporally by said server, and wherein tokens are transferred from one first purse to a second purse in two stages;
tokens assigned to said second purse being deposited with said server from said first purse during the first stage, andtokens being credited to said second purse from said server during the second stage.
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Abstract
The electronic wallet system comprises a plurality of devices interconnected through a local network and capable of conducting electronic business transaction on an open network (40). Each device contains a smart card reader. A plurality of smart cards (31–3p) represent the electronic purses of the system. One of the devices comprises an entity called the server which contains a list of purses liable to receive tokens from others purses of the system. The tokens transferred between purses are stored temporally by said server.
Application to a family wallet system allowing children to participate to electronic commerce.
The system makes it possible to transfer tokens from one first purse to a second purse without having in hands the smart card corresponding to the second purse.
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18 Claims
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1. Electronic wallet system comprising:
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n devices capable of conducting electronic business transaction on an open network and containing a smart card reader, wherein n is greater or equal to 1, said devices being interconnected through a local network; a plurality of smart cards representing electronic purses of said electronic wallet system, said smart cards being able to contain tokens; wherein one of said devices comprises an entity, called the server, which contains a list of data entries, each entry corresponding to a purse of said electronic wallet system liable to receive tokens from other purses of said system, the tokens transferred between purses being stored temporally by said server, and wherein tokens are transferred from one first purse to a second purse in two stages; tokens assigned to said second purse being deposited with said server from said first purse during the first stage, and tokens being credited to said second purse from said server during the second stage. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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