Negotiated wireless peripheral systems

• US 20090077258A1
• Filed: 08/11/2008
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Rpx-Nw Acquisition LLC (RPX Corporation)
• Inventors: Dowling, Eric Morgan
• Granted Patent: US 7,856,508 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/237
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/085 involving remote charge determination or related payment systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/326 Payment applications installed on the mobile devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/327 Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3672 initialising or reloading thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3674 involving authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0239 Online discounts or incentives
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0272 Virtual private networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0807 using tickets, e.g. Kerberos cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using tickets or tokens H04L9/3213
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/164 at the network layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/166 at the transport layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 : specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 : Negotiation of communication capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 : including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 : Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 : Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 : Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/16 : Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 : Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 : Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 : Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 : Accounting or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 : Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 : WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in mobile network communication systems. A mobile unit such as a smart phone is preferably equipped with a wireless local area network connection and a wireless wide area network connection. The local area network connection is used to establish a position-dependent ecommerce network connection with a wireless product or service access device supplied by a vendor. A negotiation sequence is carried out to electronically contract the services of the negotiated wireless peripheral from the vendor using a prepaid ecommerce protocol. The negotiated wireless peripheral is a general product or service vending device and the mobile unit acts as a digital authentication and payment device with digital pre-paid payment capabilities. The techniques are useful in many applications to include ticketing and admission systems to events and other types of services that involve ticketing.

Claims

1-44. -44. (canceled)

45. A method for use in a management server that controls a system that includes of a multiplicity of geographically dispersed wireless service devices that each respectively provide a negotiated wireless service to a multiplicity of users of respective wireless handheld devices, the method comprising:

executing, via a particular one of the wireless service devices, in response to a wireless interaction between the management server and a particular one of the wireless handheld devices, a handshake sequence to verify that the user of the particular wireless handheld device is authorized to receive a particular negotiated wireless service provided by the particular wireless service device; and

in the event of an affirmative result of the handshake sequence, the management server transmitting to the particular negotiated wireless service device, an indication to provide the particular negotiated wireless service to the user of the particular wireless handheld device.

46. The method in accordance with claim 45, wherein the particular negotiated wireless service device is a peripheral augmentation device that comprises a negotiated wireless peripheral device, and the handshake sequence occurs within a position-dependent ecommerce session between the particular one of the wireless handheld devices and the management server via the negotiated wireless peripheral device, the method further comprising:

submitting, via the position-dependent ecommerce session, an access credential;

the management server validating the access credential; and

in response to the validating, the particular one of the wireless handheld devices receiving an indication that the negotiated wireless peripheral device will grant access to use a non-area-constrained display.

47. The method in accordance with claim 46, wherein the access credential is a member of the group consisting of an indication of a credit account, a debit payment from a debit account, a digital cash instrument, and a verification that the particular one of the wireless handheld devices is associated with a registered user of the peripheral augmentation device.

48. The method in accordance with claim 45, wherein the handshake sequence is implemented, at least partially, via a wireless local area network in accordance with a Bluetooth protocol.

49. The method in accordance with claim 45, wherein the handshake sequence is implemented, at least partially, via a wireless local area network in accordance with an IEEE 802.11 protocol.

50. The method in accordance with claim 45, wherein the particular one of the wireless service devices is a peripheral augmentation device that comprises an external wireless display peripheral device controlled by a user of the particular one of the wireless handheld devices.