OA19244A - Le distributeur 313 de cartes de crédits (11) 19245 téléphonique, de crédits téléphoniques numériques et de transfert d'argent - Google Patents

Abstract

La présente invention a pour objet un appareil de distribution de cartes de crédit téléphonique et de crédit téléphonique numérique permettant aux opérateurs de mobile d'éviter d'utiliser les intermédiaires tel que les revendeurs de carte que sont les marchands ambulants ou les boutiques. Le distributeur de cartes téléphonique se présente sous forme de boîtier dans lequel sont insérés : - un écran tactile - un système de sélection et d'impression de cartes téléphonique selon les identités des opérateurs de mobile et la valeur de la carte. - un système de mise à disposition des cartes. Le distributeur de carte de crédit téléphonique peut subsidiairement être utilisé comme vecteur dans le transfert d'argent.

Description

The present invention relates to an apparatus for distributing telephone credit cards, digital telephone credit and money transfer allowing mobile operators to avoid using intermediaries such as; wholesalers, card sellers such as street vendors or shops.

The device can also alternatively be useful for money transfer operations (sending, receiving).

THE PROBLEMS THAT THE INVENTION SEEKS TO SOLVE

Until now, especially in Africa, we know that phone credits in the form of cards can only be obtained from street vendors or managers of small distribution units for various consumer products. This situation is naturally the source of several drawbacks:

Cards issued by mobile operators and put on the market are stored in any means of packaging (plastic bag, empty tin can, cardboard box jetc.

- Cards can be purchased using fake tickets

- Cards can be stolen, or declared lost.

- Credit cards exposed to the air either because of shopkeepers or street vendors can deteriorate due to many manipulations, even if they are manufactured to cope with this situation.

- The fact of using intermediaries to sell their products obliges mobile operators to include in the selling price of the card the amount which constitutes the intermediary's remuneration, which penalizes the purchaser of the credit card.

Supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, airports, shopping centers, bus stops where many mobile phone users meet are excluded from the distribution chain for credit cards or telephone credit cards.

- Finally, the intermediaries themselves encounter difficulties in managing the credit cards given to them by the mobile operators.

II. STATE OF THE ART

The investigation of the state of the art relating to the subject of the invention only identified distributors of electronic chips including Free Mobile, Top UP, In touch etc. whose devices operate differently and do not solve the problems mentioned contrary to the object of the present invention: distributor of telephone credit cards and digital telephone credit.

III. DESCRIPTION

A. Presentation and constituent elements

The telephone credit card dispenser object of the invention is in the form of a box whose characteristics are:

- material of manufacture ... of good quality according to the manufacturer compared to materials such as cards, chip for telephone credits that he will put inside the distributors ............. ......

- length ............ 1.66M ..........................

- width ............... 0.99M .................

- weight ... according to the weight of the other devices that will be inside

On the case, openings are made to accommodate the following elements:

- touchscreen

- credit card receiving tray

- location for receiving means of payment for telephone cards (credit card money).

- money transfer device

Other distributor devices are placed inside the housing including, among others:

telephone card printing and selection system according to the operator, subordinately for money transfers, the distributor is equipped with a code reader and bill reader

B. Operation

The operation of credit card machines is based on the choice of menus (Plate I) by the buyer from a main menu displayed on the touch screen. This main menu is divided into secondary menus for:

- Value card cfa 1000, 2500, 5000, 10000

- Identification of the transfer operator of choice (for example Orange Tigo - espresso).

1. Phone card purchase case

As soon as the buyer chooses an item from the main menu, the system checks whether the required amount (secondary menu) is entered either by ticket or in currency ... If the amount is insufficient, the system asks him to either modify it or to add an additional sum.

- Once my choice is validated, the system automatically prints the telephone credit card which is collected by the buyer.

2. Case of money transfer by money operator

The process is as follows:

- Introduction of the customer's phone number and that of the recipient of funds in the touch screen

- Enter the amount to be sent in the secondary transfer menu

- Display by the system; the transfer code that the customer retrieves

- The same code is sent by SMS message to the recipient of the funds.

- The beneficiary once in possession of the transfer code goes to a place where the device is also located to withdraw his funds by entering the code received by the distributor.

IV. INTERESTS REPRESENTED BY THE INVENTION

The implementation of the Telephone Card Distributor invention helps to solve the problems mentioned, in particular the elimination of intermediaries. The invention, by its exploitation can be a job provider, because a single installed device requires at least 3 people

- 4 security guards morning and evening

- 2 maintenance and management agents

- 1 cleaning agent

For a potential market estimated at 10,000 devices, the number of jobs created is at least 70,000 agents.

Claims (3)

1. telephone card distributor intended to eliminate intermediaries between mobile telephone operators and owners of mobile telephones. 2. telephone card distributor according to claim 1 characterized in that it is in the form of a housing in which are inserted: - a touch screen - a system for selecting and printing telephone cards according to the identities of the mobile operators and the value of the card. - a system for providing cards 3. Telephone card dispenser according to claims 2 characterized in that the device can serve as a money transfer vector (sending and receiving)