System for accepting value from closed groups
First Claim
1. A system for facilitating a sequence of events, each event comprising a multiplicity of purchases made by a large, a priori known population, specific to that event, during a short, a priori known time interval at a known site, the population specific to an individual event comprising a multiplicity of a priori known users, the system comprising:
- an on-site event attendee data bank recording an ID and a pre-paid balance value for each individual user within the multiplicity of known users expected to attend an individual event;
a data bank loader operative to set up for each individual event by loading into the event attendee data bank, IDs and pre-paid balance values, for users expected to attend said individual event;
a multiplicity of portable receptacles issued to the multiplicity of known users respectively, at least one individual receptacle storing a user ID and a pre-paid balance value for a corresponding individual one of the known users;
a first plurality of e-cash filling stations incrementing the pre-paid balance values of individual users in the on-site data bank, to reflect pre-payments made thereby; and
a second plurality of mobile service provider workstations operative to read individual ones of said multiplicity of portable receptacles, to access the on-site data bank according to the user ID of each individual portable receptacle, to enter into a transaction having a value with an individual user if the user'"'"'s pre-paid balance value accessed from the on-site data bank is positive, and to decrement the transaction'"'"'s value from the individual user'"'"'s pre-paid balance value in the on-site data bank.
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Abstract
A system for facilitating a sequence of events and comprising a data bank loader operative to set up for each individual event by loading into an event attendee data bank, IDs and pre-paid balance values, for users expected to attend said individual event, a multiplicity of portable receptacles issued to known users and storing a user ID and a pre-paid balance value for a corresponding user, e-cash filling stations incrementing pre-paid balance values of users in an on-site data bank, and mobile service provider workstations reading portable receptacles, accessing the on-site data bank according to the user ID of each portable receptacle, entering into a transaction with a user if his pre-paid balance value accessed from the on-site data bank is positive, and decrementing the transaction'"'"'s value from the user'"'"'s pre-paid balance value in the on-site data bank.
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22 Claims
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1. A system for facilitating a sequence of events, each event comprising a multiplicity of purchases made by a large, a priori known population, specific to that event, during a short, a priori known time interval at a known site, the population specific to an individual event comprising a multiplicity of a priori known users, the system comprising:
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an on-site event attendee data bank recording an ID and a pre-paid balance value for each individual user within the multiplicity of known users expected to attend an individual event; a data bank loader operative to set up for each individual event by loading into the event attendee data bank, IDs and pre-paid balance values, for users expected to attend said individual event; a multiplicity of portable receptacles issued to the multiplicity of known users respectively, at least one individual receptacle storing a user ID and a pre-paid balance value for a corresponding individual one of the known users; a first plurality of e-cash filling stations incrementing the pre-paid balance values of individual users in the on-site data bank, to reflect pre-payments made thereby; and a second plurality of mobile service provider workstations operative to read individual ones of said multiplicity of portable receptacles, to access the on-site data bank according to the user ID of each individual portable receptacle, to enter into a transaction having a value with an individual user if the user'"'"'s pre-paid balance value accessed from the on-site data bank is positive, and to decrement the transaction'"'"'s value from the individual user'"'"'s pre-paid balance value in the on-site data bank. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer-controlled process for facilitating a sequence of events, each event comprising a multiplicity of purchases made by a large, a priori known population, specific to that event, during a short, a priori known time interval at a known site, the population specific to an individual event comprising a multiplicity of a priori known users, the system comprising:
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at an on-site event attendee data bank, recording an ID and a pre-paid balance value for each individual user within the multiplicity of known users expected to attend an individual event; setting up for each individual event by loading into the event attendee data bank, IDs and pre-paid balance values, for users expected to attend said individual event; issuing a multiplicity of portable receptacles to the multiplicity of known users respectively, at least one individual receptacle storing a user ID and a pre-paid balance value for a corresponding individual one of the known users; using, by an automated programmed computer, a first plurality of e-cash filling stations to increment the pre-paid balance values of individual users in the on-site data bank, to reflect pre-payments made thereby; and at a second plurality of mobile service provider workstations operative to read individual ones of said multiplicity of portable receptacles, accessing, by an automated programmed computer, the on-site data bank according to the user ID of each individual portable receptacle, to enter into a transaction having a value with an individual user if the user'"'"'s pre-paid balance value accessed from the on-site data bank is positive, and to decrement the transaction'"'"'s value from the individual user'"'"'s pre-paid balance value in the on-site data bank. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22)
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