Electronic ticket management system

• US 7,703,681 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2007
• Issued: 04/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Li-Wei Li, Shao-Hsuan Lee, Ying-Chun Chen
• Original Assignee: Li-Wei Li, Shao-Hsuan Lee, Ying-Chun Chen
• Inventors: Lee, Shao-Hsuan, Chen, Ying-Chun, Li, Li-Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Thien M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vo; Tuyen K
• Application Number:
  US11/724,269
• Publication Number:
  US 20080223940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,139 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/382, 235/383, 235/462.01, 235/487, 705/5
• US Class Current: 235/462.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00

Abstract

An electronic ticket management system mainly includes a vendor module, a ticket process module, a Web module, a ticket order module, a delivery module and a ticket verification module. After a consumer has purchased a ticket through a communication network, a service center transmits the information of the electronic ticket to a designated mobile communication device equipped with graphic display capability. When in use the consumer displays bar code graphics of the electronic ticket. Through a scanner at a ticket verification end the graphics of the electronic ticket on the mobile communication device can be captured, and identification result is verified online. Thus the total process does not have physical contact. The risk of carrying the currency can be prevented. The costs of manual operation and paper ticket can be saved. Therefore ticket processing efficiency increases.

Claims

1. An electronic ticket management system, comprising:

a vendor module to allow business owners to manage and register information of electronic tickets;

a ticket process module to generate newly added related data and electronic ticket content according to the information of the vendor module in a total database;

a Web module to allow the business owners to perform service register and management of the electronic tickets through a network, and allow consumers to perform register, order and management of the electronic tickets through the network;

a ticket order module to receive information of the Web module, and through the ticket process module to generate and store preset electronic ticket content and bar code graphics in the total database;

a delivery module which is connected to the total database through the ticket process module and sends the electronic ticket content and the bar code graphics through a telecommunication service center to designated devices that have graphic display capability; and

a ticket verification module to perform identification process of the electronic ticket content on mobile communication devices at a ticket verification end and perform online certification of identification result with the total database;

wherein the delivery module sends a reminding message through the telecommunication service center to the mobile communication devices designated by the consumers for the certified electronic tickets to prevent the electronic tickets from being replicated;

wherein the devices that have graphic display capability are the mobile communication devices and computer display devices;

wherein the consumers identify and capture the bar code graphics on a Web page of the display devices through an image capturing means included in the mobile communication devices;

wherein the consumers perform physical online transmission through the mobile communication devices and computers.

2. The electronic ticket management system of claim 1, wherein the vendor module includes executing confirmation of account numbers and passwords of the business owners and permits the business owners to perform the register and management after the confirmation is valid.

3. The electronic ticket management system of claim 1, wherein the bar code graphics are selectively two-dimension bar codes or three-dimension bar codes.

4. The electronic ticket management system of claim 1, wherein the Web module includes at least activity information, activity period, ticket number, and bulletin board Website links registered by the business owners.

5. The electronic ticket management system of claim 4, wherein the Web module provides content of chosen charged electronic tickets required by the consumers only after verification of payment account numbers and passwords is valid.

6. The electronic ticket management system of claim 1, wherein the ticket verification module captures the bar code graphics on the mobile communication devices through a scanner at the ticket verification end, the identified content being verified online with the total database to check validity.

7. The electronic ticket management system of claim 6, wherein the scanner further is connected to a decryption input device to prevent the electronic tickets from being replicated and pilfered.

8. The electronic ticket management system of claim 6, wherein the ticket verification end includes a sub-database to exchange data required at the ticket verification end with the total database so that the verification of validity is performed locally when the scanner has captured the bar code graphics on the mobile communication devices.

9. The electronic ticket management system of claim 8, wherein the scanner further is connected to a decryption input device to prevent the electronic tickets from being replicated and pilfered.