GB2417356A - Building a composite picture message including a picture, text and a barcode - Google Patents

Building a composite picture message including a picture, text and a barcode Download PDF

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GB2417356A
GB2417356A GB0417962A GB0417962A GB2417356A GB 2417356 A GB2417356 A GB 2417356A GB 0417962 A GB0417962 A GB 0417962A GB 0417962 A GB0417962 A GB 0417962A GB 2417356 A GB2417356 A GB 2417356A
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    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/42—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for ticket printing or like apparatus, e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards
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    • G06Q20/32—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks using wireless devices
    • G06Q20/327—Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices
    • G06Q20/3274—Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices using a pictured code, e.g. barcode or QR-code, being displayed on the M-device
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    • 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
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Abstract

A mobile coupon/ticket including a logo/picture and barcode provides a brand recognisable message embedded with a secure machine readable barcode that may include coupon ID or ticket booking reference. This method describes an approach to composing this message to work with mobile phones supporting Nokia (RTM) Picture Messaging.

Description

Title of Invention
Method for building a composite Nokia/picture message to include a picture and or logo, text and redeemable barcode.
Definitions Short messaging service (SMS): Technology that enables the sending of short text messages to and or from and between mobile phones.
Enhanced messaging service (EMS): Enhancement to SMS that enables the addition of simple pictures, sounds and animations. Adopted by many major phone manufacturers Nokia picture message (NPM). Enhancement to SMS that enables the addition of simple pictures. Generally proprietary to Nokia.
Subscriber: user with a mobile phone subscribing to a service Mobile coupon and or ticket: Message sent to a mobile phone that includes a redeemable barcode.
Service Centre: central computer system receiving subscriptions and delivering content.
Service Centre Portal: interface to service centre that allows to definition of mobile coupons.
Service and or Content: information and or media that a user subscribes to.
Portal user: user of the Service Centre Portal.
Barcode: machine readable code including but not limited to public domain linear and 2 dimensional barcode formats.
Description
A portal user defines a mobile coupon with, but not limited to, a logo and or picture element and a barcode element. The logo element may be uploaded interactively or referenced from an existing media library.
When a subscriber registers (whether explicitly through a direct opt-in or implicitly by being in a database) for the mobile coupon the service centre creates a unique mobile coupon encapsulating the size of the media from the saved definition and a unique barcode.
The service centre then encodes the defined media into the mobile coupon following the
appropriate Nokia encoding specifications.
The service centre then generates a unique barcode and saves the generated code for later validation when the code is redeemed. The binary representation of the generated code is then rendered into the mobile coupon in the space left at creation time.
The text message associated with the coupon is then added to the encoding and the service centre transmits the code to the subscriber.

Claims (5)

  1. Claims 1. A mobile coupon and or ticket consisting of: a. a library
    reusable or specially selected logo and or picture; b. a dynamically created barcode; c. human readable text.
  2. 2. The mobile coupon and or ticket according to claim 1 is created to the correct size and format.
  3. 3. The logo and or picture is retrieved.
  4. 4. A barcode is generated.
  5. 5. The barcode and logo and or picture are dynamically combined to form a single layer graphic suitable for: a. transmission to a mobile phone; b. further encoding into a format suitable to transmit to a mobile phone.
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GB2501240A (en) * 2012-04-17 2013-10-23 Robert Frank Culyer Mobile device including a mobile voucher

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US20020112250A1 (en) * 2000-04-07 2002-08-15 Koplar Edward J. Universal methods and device for hand-held promotional opportunities
GB2379052A (en) * 2002-05-17 2003-02-26 Marc Lewis Feedback-Controlled Selective Signalling
WO2004027662A1 (en) * 2002-09-17 2004-04-01 Mobiqa Limited Optimised messages containing barcode information for mobile receiving device
JP2004104688A (en) * 2002-09-12 2004-04-02 Hitachi Maxell Ltd Information processing method and apparatus for bar code distribution

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JP2001256388A (en) * 2000-03-09 2001-09-21 Seiko Epson Corp Electronic commerce system
US20020112250A1 (en) * 2000-04-07 2002-08-15 Koplar Edward J. Universal methods and device for hand-held promotional opportunities
WO2002042926A1 (en) * 2000-11-20 2002-05-30 Ecrio Inc. Method for downloading bar code encoded information with a mobile communication
GB2379052A (en) * 2002-05-17 2003-02-26 Marc Lewis Feedback-Controlled Selective Signalling
JP2004104688A (en) * 2002-09-12 2004-04-02 Hitachi Maxell Ltd Information processing method and apparatus for bar code distribution
WO2004027662A1 (en) * 2002-09-17 2004-04-01 Mobiqa Limited Optimised messages containing barcode information for mobile receiving device

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2501240A (en) * 2012-04-17 2013-10-23 Robert Frank Culyer Mobile device including a mobile voucher

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