Method and system for ordering, loading and using admission tickets

• US 7,823,193 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2006
• Issued: 10/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ICEPAT Ltd.
• Original Assignee: ICEPAT Ltd.
• Inventors: Ritter, Rudolf, Lauper, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Zand; Kambiz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wyszynski; Aubrey H
• Application Number:
  US11/490,238
• Publication Number:
  US 20070022472A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,558 Days
• Field of Search: 726/7, 713/176, 713/182, 713/185
• US Class Current: 726/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/045 using payment protocols involving tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3226 Use of secure elements separate from M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3255 using mobile network messaging services for payment, e.g. SMS
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/327 Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/363 with the personal data of a user
• 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: G07F 17/0014 for vending, access and use of specific services not covered anywhere else in G07F17/00 meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity G07F15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/0866 by active credit-cards adapted therefor G07F7/1008 takes precedence

Abstract

Method and system for ordering, loading and using admission tickets for access to access-controlled service devices, in which admission tickets are ordered from a reservation center through transmission of order data via an order channel, the order data comprising the call number of a mobile communications terminal to which the ordered admission tickets are transmitted via a mobile network and are stored there in a memory module. The data exchange between this memory module and a reading device of a said service device takes place over a contactless interface. Decisions about the access authorization of the user of the said communications terminal are made, for example in the reading device or in the communications terminal, taking into account the ticket information contained in the said admission ticket, for example limited to a digitally signed ticket number or with indications about the respective service device, and, in accordance with the decision, access to the service device is given or denied to the user through an access device connected to the said reading device.

Claims

1. A method for ordering, loading, and using an admission ticket for access to an access-controlled service device, the method comprising:

ordering an admission ticket from a reservation center;

receiving the ordered admission ticket at a mobile communications terminal via a mobile network;

storing the admission ticket in a memory module of the mobile communications terminal;

exchanging information between the memory module and a reading device of the access-controlled service device by a contactless interface, the exchanged information including a device identification of the reading device;

deciding, in the mobile communications terminal, about access authorization of a user of the mobile communications terminal based on the device identification of the reading device;

transmitting the result of the deciding to the reading device; and

granting or denying access of the user to the respective service device based on the result of the deciding.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the admission ticket includes ticket information about the access-controlled service device;

and wherein the deciding about the access authorization of the user is further based on the ticket information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein with a positive result of the deciding, the admission ticket stored in the memory module is marked used.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the admission ticket is assigned to a particular user, the memory module includes a user identification, and the deciding about the access authorization of the user further includes checking whether the admission ticket is assigned to the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the admission ticket is stored in a memory module of a SIM card.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein deciding about access authorization is performed by a decision-making module in a SIM card.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the reading device transmits a digitally signed device identification to the mobile communications terminal, and the reading device is authenticated in the mobile communications terminal based on the device identification.

8. A mobile communications terminal, comprising:

a communications module configured to receive an admission ticket from a reservation center via a mobile radio network;

a loading module configured to store the admission ticket in a memory module of the mobile communications terminal;

a contactless interface configured to exchange information between the memory module and a reading device of an access-controlled service device, the exchanged information including a device identification of the reading device; and

a decision-making module configured to decide, in the communications terminal, about access authorization of a user of the mobile communications terminal based on the device identification of the reading device, and transmit the result of the deciding to the reading device.

9. The mobile communications terminal of claim 8, wherein the admission ticket includes ticket information about the access-controlled service device, and the decision-making module is configured to further decide about the access authorization of the user based on the ticket information.

10. The mobile communications terminal of claim 8, further including a cancellation module configured to mark the admission ticket as used, with a positive result of the deciding.

11. The mobile communications terminal of claim 8, wherein the admission ticket includes a user identification, the memory module includes a user identification, and the decision-making module is configured, in deciding about the access authorization, to check whether the user identification of the admission ticket coincides with the user identification in the memory module.

12. The mobile communications terminal of claim 8, wherein the loading module is configured to store the admission ticket in a memory module of a SIM card of the mobile communications terminal.

13. The mobile communications terminal of claim 8, wherein the decision-making module is located in a SIM card of the mobile communications terminal.

14. The mobile communications terminal of claim 8, wherein the mobile communications includes an authentication module configured to authenticate the reading device based on a digitally signed device identification received from the reading device.

15. A system for ordering, loading, and using admission tickets, the system comprising:

a reservation center connected to a mobile network;

at least one access-controlled service device with a reading device; and

at least one mobile communications terminal including

a communications module configured to receive an admission ticket from the reservation center via the mobile radio network,

a loading module configured to store the admission ticket in a memory module of the mobile communications terminal,

a contactless interface configured to exchange information between the memory module and the reading device of the access-controlled service device, the exchanged information including a device identification of the reading device, and

a decision-making module configured to decide, in the communications terminal, about access authorization of a user of the mobile communications terminal based on the device identification of the reading device, and transmit the result of the deciding to the reading device, the access-controlled service device being configured to grant or deny access of the user to the respective service device based on the result of the deciding.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the admission ticket includes ticket information about the access-controlled service device, and the decision-making module is configured to further decide about the access authorization of the user based on the ticket information.

17. The system of claim 15, further including a cancellation module configured to mark the admission ticket as used, with a positive result of the deciding.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the admission ticket includes a user identification, the memory module includes a user identification, and the decision-making module is configured, in deciding about the access authorization, to check whether the user identification of the admission ticket coincides with the user identification in the memory module.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the loading module is configured to store the admission ticket in a memory module of a SIM card of the mobile communications terminal.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the decision-making module is located in a SIM card of the mobile communications terminal.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein the reading device further includes an identification module configured to transmit a digitally signed device identification to the mobile communications terminal, and the mobile communications terminal further includes an authentication module configured to authenticate the reading device based on the digitally signed device identification.