EP1073980A1 - Procede permettant d'augmenter l'efficacite du commerce - Google Patents

Procede permettant d'augmenter l'efficacite du commerce

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EP1073980A1
EP1073980A1 EP99903707A EP99903707A EP1073980A1 EP 1073980 A1 EP1073980 A1 EP 1073980A1 EP 99903707 A EP99903707 A EP 99903707A EP 99903707 A EP99903707 A EP 99903707A EP 1073980 A1 EP1073980 A1 EP 1073980A1
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customer
server
identifier
trade
service
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Jarkko Valtanen
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Valtanen Jarkko
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06Q30/00—Commerce
    • G06Q30/06—Buying, selling or leasing transactions
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06Q20/00—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus

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  • the invention relates to a method for increasing the efficiency of trade, whereby the customer, in order to obtain a physical substitute needed for acquisition/exploitation or like of a product, service and/or like, gets contact by his/her own data processing apparatus, such as a personal computer, a data communicator or like via open data communications, such as through intranet, internet, modem or like with a server, whereby after getting connection, chooses, confirms and pays the desired product, service and/or like, whereafter the server, after verification of personal, communications, credit information and/or like confirms correctness of the trade occasion and transmits a receipt or like to the customer giving evidence at least of validity of the trade occasion.
  • his/her own data processing apparatus such as a personal computer, a data communicator or like via open data communications, such as through intranet, internet, modem or like
  • open data communications such as through intranet, internet, modem or like
  • the server after verification of personal, communications, credit information and/or like confirms correctness of the trade occasion and transmits a receipt
  • a crucial disadvantage of this type of activity is the fact, that the customer must first of all still go to get the actual ticket separately and on the other hand the fact, that the service supplier must first of all mail the ticket to the customer and on the other hand keep also those customers queuing, that have already reserved the tickets in advance, that is why the quality of custo- mer service suffers disproportionately much only because of a two-stage sale of tickets.
  • the method according to this invention is aimed to achieve a decisive improvement in the problems described above and thus to raise essentially the level of prior art in the field.
  • the method according to the invention is primarily characterized by, that the server forms during the connection at least an identifier relating to the customer and transmits the same after an accepted payment to the customer, whereafter the customer produces a physical substitute comprising at least the above identifier by means of his own data processing apparatus .
  • the most crucial advantages of the method according to the invention are first of all simplicity, reliability and usefulness of the same in most heterogeneous connections and purposes.
  • the method according to the invention may be exploited very well in connection with actual sale of tickets as well as e.g for selling of different kinds of products.
  • a crucial advantage of the method according to the invention is furthermore the fact, that whoever may carry out all needed purchasing measures, that is choose, confirm and carry out payment relating to e.g. the desired service or occasion by means of the nearest PC or by means of his own personal data communicator, such as e.g. by a GSM phone or e.g. by a so called pocket computer equipped with data communications, whereafter the server produces also the actual physical substitute or e.g.
  • the service supplier may advantageously check the identifier of the physical substitute being produced for the customer by exploiting e.g. an automatic reading device, which after notifying correctness e.g. of an EAN-code of the ticket being produced by the customer enables finishing of the trade or e.g. access to an exhition.
  • the invention relates to a method for increasing the efficiency of trade, whereby the customer, in order to obtain a physical substitute needed for acquisition/exploitation or like of a product, service and/or like, gets contact by his/her own data processing apparatus X, such as a personal computer, a data communicator or like via open data communications Y, such as through intranet, internet, modem or like with a server A, whereby after getting a connection, chooses, confirms and pays the desired product, service and/or like, whereafter the server A, after verification of personal, communications, credit information and/or like confirms correctness of the trade occasion and transmits a receipt or like to the customer, giving evidence at least of validity of the trade occasion.
  • his/her own data processing apparatus X such as a personal computer, a data communicator or like via open data communications Y, such as through intranet, internet, modem or like
  • open data communications Y such as through intranet, internet, modem or like
  • server A after verification of personal, communications, credit information and/or
  • the server A forms during the connection at least an identifier 1 relating to the customer and transmits the same after an accepted payment to the customer, whereafter the customer produces a physical substitute 2 comprising at least the above identifier by means of his/her own data processing apparatus X.
  • the server may be carried out in addition to present server solutions also by means of a concrete part entirety belonging e.g. to the apparatus of e.g. the net server supplier or of the actual service supplier or alternatively solely by a softwa- re solution, that is connected to a suitable point in the process described above, starting from the contact takers device all the way to the device of the final service supplier.
  • the identifier 1 of the physical substitute 2 having been produced by the customer is being checked in connection with exploitation or like of the product, service and/or of the like acquisition prefera- bly by means of an automatic reading device B, which after establishing validity of the physical substitute 2 enables finishing of the trade, such as delivering the article being bought or enabling access to the resort, that the customer is entitled to by the payment.
  • the server A produces an optically readable verifier, such as an EAN-code la or like, that is included in the physical substitute 2, that is being produced by the customer by a printer Z of his/her own data processing apparatus. It is on the other hand possible to operate in such a manner as well, that the server A collects the identifier 1 regarding the customer as a graphic page, that is being printed by the printer Z of the customers' own data processing apparatus. Furthermore as an advantageous embodiment of the method the identifier 1 being transmitted by the server A is being written out by means of the customers' data processing apparatus to a memory means, that is to be carried along, such as a memory card, a smart card or like.
  • a memory means that is to be carried along, such as a memory card, a smart card or like.
  • the server A is placed physically between the service supplier T and the customer X, whereby the server is during the same connection Y advantageously in connection with the service supplier T, also, in order to inform about the purchase occasion.
  • the validity of the identifier 1 being given to the customer is being checked e.g. according to the principle shown in fig. la in a way, that the reading device B gets contact with the server A or alternatively as shown in fig. lb by a contact of the reading device B directly with the service supplier T.
  • the solution shown in fig. 2a differs from the solution being presented in fig.
  • the identifier 1 is booked directly to the customers' data communicator X, which in this connection acts thus, also, as the actual physical substitute 2, the validity of which may be checked by the automatic reading device B after connection with the server A and/or with the service supplier T.
  • the solution being represented furthermore in fig. 2b differs from the above primarily in such respect, that the customer server A, e.g. particularly a program being developed for this purpose, is placed in an integrated manner to the device environment of the service supplier T.
  • checking of the physical substitute such as of a ticket or like
  • remote reading principle such as by means of an iductive, capasitive and/or like remote reading device operating by electromagnetism or by means of one operating e.g. on radio frequency and/or accordingly.
  • optical solutions may possibly come into question as well or solutions based on infrared radiation.
  • a very fluent checking of tickets is enabled by means of a device entirety, which is able to monitor continuously the stream of customers and to let e.g. one customer at a time through a passage gate without the need for checking each single ticket visually.
  • the type of method described above enables also collecting of wider information than before and gathering even of totally new kind of information about customers immediately during the purchase occasion, because all the services are being sold exploiting the same system, whereby most heterogeneous profile information may be collected about the customer e.g. with a view to customer follow-up, marketing, statistical or the like purposes.
  • the method being described above is applicable for arranging of most heterogeneous public occasions, e.g. of exhibitions, festivals, concert hall occasions, sport events, the Olympics etc.
  • the method may be exploited in centralized sale of tickets furthermore for activities of e.g. airline companies, shipping companies, bus companies etc.
  • the method may be furthermore exploited also in so called tax free selling or in mail-order business and in deliveries of the same as well.
  • the method may be applied for in internal services of companies as well e.g. concerning employment benefits etc.
  • the method may be applied for on the other hand also in public administration, e.g. in health care as well as in transmit- ting of both medicine and operational diagnostics, or on the other hand in social services e.g. in transmitting of financial aids or the like.
  • the service supplier may use e.g. traditional visual checking, optical reading or other e.g. electromagnetically operated, such as iductive, capasitive or the like remote reading devices in order to check the customers ' physical substitute or e.g. ticket.

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  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Accounting & Taxation (AREA)
  • Strategic Management (AREA)
  • Finance (AREA)
  • General Business, Economics & Management (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Development Economics (AREA)
  • Economics (AREA)
  • Marketing (AREA)
  • Management, Administration, Business Operations System, And Electronic Commerce (AREA)
  • Financial Or Insurance-Related Operations Such As Payment And Settlement (AREA)
  • Control Of Vending Devices And Auxiliary Devices For Vending Devices (AREA)
  • Cash Registers Or Receiving Machines (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé permettant d'augmenter l'efficacité du commerce. Pour obtenir, selon ce procédé, un substitut physique nécessaire à l'acquisition/l'exploitation ou équivalent d'un produit, d'un service et/ou équivalent, un client entre en contact avec un serveur (A) à l'aide de son propre appareil de traitement de données (X), tel qu'un ordinateur personnel, un communicateur de données ou équivalent, et par des communications de données ouvertes (Y), telles que par intranet, Internet, modem ou équivalent. Une fois la connexion obtenue, le client choisit, confirme et paie le produit, le service et/ou équivalent désiré. Puis après vérification des informations personnelles, des informations communications, des informations crédit et/ou équivalent, le serveur (A) confirme l'exactitude du cas de commerce et transmet un accusé de réception ou équivalent au client donnant la preuve au moins de la validité du cas de commerce. Pendant la connexion, le serveur (A) créée au moins un identificateur (1) concernant le client et transmet ce dernier au client après un paiement accepté. Ensuite, le client produit un substitut physique (2) contenant au moins l'identificateur susmentionné à l'aide de son propre appareil de traitement des données (X).
EP99903707A 1998-04-29 1999-02-12 Procede permettant d'augmenter l'efficacite du commerce Withdrawn EP1073980A1 (fr)

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FI980939 1998-04-29
FI980939A FI980939A (fi) 1998-04-29 1998-04-29 Menetelmä kaupankäynnin tehostamiseksi
PCT/FI1999/000109 WO1999056231A1 (fr) 1998-04-29 1999-02-12 Procede permettant d'augmenter l'efficacite du commerce

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EP1073980A1 true EP1073980A1 (fr) 2001-02-07

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EP (1) EP1073980A1 (fr)
JP (1) JP2002513187A (fr)
CN (1) CN1299491A (fr)
AU (1) AU761068B2 (fr)
BR (1) BR9909457A (fr)
CA (1) CA2328090A1 (fr)
DE (1) DE19983191T1 (fr)
FI (1) FI980939A (fr)
GB (1) GB2353384B (fr)
IL (1) IL138986A0 (fr)
NO (1) NO20005322D0 (fr)
RU (1) RU2000128115A (fr)
TR (1) TR200003169T2 (fr)
WO (1) WO1999056231A1 (fr)

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FI20002102A0 (fi) * 2000-09-25 2000-09-25 Moom Solutions Ltd Oy Menetelmä tuotteen, palvelun, maksun ja/tai vastaavan lunastukseen/luovutukseen
RU2174707C1 (ru) * 2000-10-31 2001-10-10 Закрытое акционерное общество "Дженерал Текнолоджис" Способ торговли за безналичный расчет с использованием коммуникационной сети (варианты)
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FI980939A0 (fi) 1998-04-29
DE19983191T1 (de) 2001-05-17
AU761068B2 (en) 2003-05-29
CA2328090A1 (fr) 1999-11-04
FI980939A (fi) 1999-10-30
WO1999056231A1 (fr) 1999-11-04
GB2353384A (en) 2001-02-21
BR9909457A (pt) 2000-12-12
GB2353384B (en) 2002-02-20
RU2000128115A (ru) 2002-10-27
CN1299491A (zh) 2001-06-13
TR200003169T2 (tr) 2001-04-20
IL138986A0 (en) 2001-11-25
AU2426799A (en) 1999-11-16
JP2002513187A (ja) 2002-05-08
NO20005322D0 (no) 2000-10-23
GB0023991D0 (en) 2000-11-15

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