RU117671U1 - VIRTUAL TICKET SALES SYSTEM AND CHECK FOR THEIR VALIDITY - Google Patents

Abstract

1. A system for selling virtual tickets and checking their validity, containing a user's mobile device, an electronic storage medium; containing a server having a database of tickets and a website configured to sell tickets; containing a control and verification device containing a microprocessor and memory, and also made with the possibility of checking the validity of tickets according to information from the server database, the user's mobile device contains a display, a wireless communication device, a control system, and is made with the ability to access the Internet through it on a server having a website, characterized in that the control and verification device contains a high-resolution digital camera, and also contains software for character recognition or encrypted image. ! 2. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that the control and verification device additionally comprises a wireless communication device and is configured to access the Internet through it to a server having a website. ! 3. The system according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that a mobile phone, or a smartphone, or a PDA, or a communicator is used as the user's mobile device. ! 4. The system according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the control and testing device is mobile. !five. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that the control and testing device is stationary.

Description

This solution relates to systems for the formation and validation of virtual tickets of any kind that are purchased over the Internet. Such systems can be used to sell tickets for transport, to public places and any other form of user access using tickets.

To date, the use of paid vehicles, in particular, public passenger transport, is carried out mainly using tickets printed on paper. To check these tickets, the user presents them to the controller, who can check them simply by looking to see if they are valid for the travel distance. Since tickets printed on paper are relatively difficult to handle, and since they can be easily faked, over the years there have been various attempts in this area of technology to replace a ticket on paper with a so-called “electronic ticket”, i.e. ticket stored in a storage medium. These developments allow automatic detection and retention of fares. Some examples of these developments are described below. From PCT / NL01 / 00215, for example, a method is known in which a passenger uses a mobile device (e.g., a mobile phone or transponder) with a number allocated to that passenger to identify him when he is in a public transport vehicle for traveling over short distances. The vehicle automatically registers when a passenger gets in the vehicle and when he gets out of the vehicle. Typically, this data is transferred to a background system that determines the fare for a specific distance based on this data. Such systems are often referred to as “inside / outside” systems. From DE 19957660, there is also known another way of holding fare in public transport, in which a storage device such as a check card, which the user carries with him, has a loan. When using a public vehicle, the vehicle transmits counting pulses, and for each received counting pulse, a predetermined amount is retained from the credit found in the memory of the storage device.

A pilot project called “easyride” (lit., “easy ride”) is known from Switzerland, in which the passenger carries a transponder card with him, which registers him in the vehicle when he uses this vehicle, and which regularly repeats this registration .

In order to be able to check the electronic ticket, which is allocated to the user terminal and used in the automatic detection and accounting methods of any kind described above, special verification devices have been developed that the controllers carry with them. These verification devices are designed to read electronic tickets by contact or contactless means from the corresponding user terminals to verify their validity. The disadvantage of this solution is that the user is forced to buy an electronic ticket and carry with him in the form of a card or printout.

Those. the user still has with him the equivalent of a paper ticket, which is not very convenient and does not increase comfort.

There is a method of checking an electronic ticket allocated by a user terminal (patent RU 2382414), which is used in a system for automatically detecting the use of vehicles and (or) calculating a fee for using vehicles, which includes the following steps: providing the specified user terminal, which is used in the specified system, moreover, the user terminal has a display; providing a validity signal that can be verified without a separate test device; generating a telegram of verification data containing a valid signal; transmission of said telegram of verification data; receiving a telegram of verification data by the user terminal; giving the display an optical or acoustic signal of validity, which shows the validity of an electronic ticket. Moreover, the signals that confirm the validity of the electronic ticket can be checked using the verification device.

This method provides a validation of the electronic ticket allocated to the user terminal.

The disadvantage of the solution is that the organization of verification systems is possible only in transport, it cannot be organized when selling tickets for mass entertainment events (theaters, museums, concerts, exhibitions, etc.).

In addition, the user is also forced to buy an electronic ticket and carry with him in the form of an electronic card. Those. the user still has with him the equivalent of a paper ticket, which is not very convenient and does not increase comfort.

The closest solution is (http://domodedovo.ru/ru/main/infopass/web/) method of registration using a mobile phone for the flight. Mobile check-in is available to passengers of Air Berlin, Austrian Airlines, bmi, British Airways, Lufthansa, Qatar Airways, S7 Airlines and Transaero. At the end of the registration procedure, the user receives an SMS message, a 2D barcode read at the airport by a special device for printing your boarding pass - the Reprint terminal. Reprint terminals are installed in front of each of the boarding gate sectors at Moscow Domodedovo Airport. To receive a boarding pass you must: Go to one of the “Reprint” terminals. The user’s attention should be drawn to the purple sticker that says “Mobile Check-in”. The user must open an SMS message containing a 2D barcode on his mobile phone. Then bring the screen of the mobile phone, which displays a 2D barcode to the information reader. Printing a boarding pass is automatic.

The disadvantage of the solution is that the user is still forced to take a boarding pass and carry on boarding. Those. the user still has with him the equivalent of a paper ticket, which is not very convenient and does not increase comfort.

The purpose of this utility model is to completely eliminate the need for the user to have any equivalent ticket in the form of a card, printout or ticket itself.

The technical result is a system for selling virtual tickets and verifying their validity, which allows the user to obtain maximum comfort by purchasing a ticket remotely (remotely) with the exception of the need for the user to receive and carry with him any equivalent of a ticket in the form of a card, printout or the ticket itself.

The specified technical result is achieved due to the fact that the system of selling virtual tickets and verifying their validity, comprising a user's mobile device, an electronic storage medium; comprising a server having a ticket database and a web site configured to sell tickets; containing a control device containing a microprocessor and memory, and also configured to verify the validity of tickets according to information from the server database, the user's mobile device contains a display, a wireless device, a control system, and is configured to access the Internet via a server having a website, characterized in that the test device contains a high-resolution digital camera, and also contains software for distributing znavaniya characters or the encrypted image. It is possible that the control and verification device further comprises a wireless communication device and is configured to go through it to the Internet to a server having a website.

As a user's mobile device, a mobile phone or smartphone, or a PDA or communicator can be used.

Testing device can be performed mobile.

Testing device can be made stationary.

The utility model is illustrated by drawings.

Figure 1 shows a block diagram of a system for organizing the sale of virtual tickets and checking them, where 1 is the user's mobile device, 2 is the display of the mobile device, 3 is the ticket information database server accessible via the Internet, 4 is the Internet zone, 5 is image of the control verification code and / or control encrypted image of the virtual ticket; 6 - camera of the control and verification device - 7, 8 - zone for photographing or scanning, 9 - microprocessor of the control and verification device, 10 - memory of the control and verification device stroystva, 11 — wireless communication device of a test device.

Figure 2 shows a diagram of the algorithm of the principle of the organization of the sale of virtual tickets and their verification.

A utility model can be implemented as follows.

The most convenient for the user and comfort is provided by such a system of organizing and selling tickets and checking their validity, in which the user does not need to have additional devices, except for those that he already usually has.

Most users of the planet today always have with them mobile phones, smartphones, PDAs, communicators.

If you enable the user to purchase a ticket with their help via the Internet, which is technically possible in itself, and then do not require the user to take any steps to print out the ticket information, and at the same time check the validity of the ticket against the downloaded ticket information that is stored in the memory of a mobile device, such a system of buying a ticket and checking it will create maximum comfort and convenience for the user.

Technically, this is implemented as follows.

Using a mobile device 1, for which you can use, for example, a mobile phone or smartphone, or a PDA or communicator that have access to the Internet 4 based on wireless communications, the user logs on to the ticket sales server 3, which has its own website, where can purchase 12 virtual tickets by credit card, for virtual money or from a mobile phone account, or in another way. A virtual ticket is information about the ticket in electronic form that does not need to be printed or presented on a medium separate from the user's mobile device.

Having bought a virtual ticket for transport or a mass-entertainment event, the user, in addition to information about the ticket to the memory of his mobile device (electronic storage medium), downloads 13 and writes from the server an image of a control verification code and / or control encrypted image of a virtual ticket, hereinafter referred to as “CODE” ".

For example, an arbitrary set of numbers and the like can be used as an image of a control verification code of a virtual ticket, and, for example, an encrypted picture or an image such as a QR code can be used as a control encrypted image of a virtual ticket.

Downloading “CODE” 5 to the memory of a mobile device in automatic or semi-automatic mode is possible, for example, by sending an MMS message containing an attachment in the form of a graphic file with “CODE” to a user’s mobile device, or by sending an e-mail to e-mail the user’s mail of the message containing the attachment in the form of a graphic file with “CODE”, and the user will have to read the MMS message or from his electronic mailbox to extract the code and display it on the display of his mobile device you.

To verify the validity of a virtual ticket, it is necessary to use a control and verification device 7.

In this case, the user does not need anything but to activate the “CODE” image 5 on the display 2 of his mobile device 1, and holding it at a certain distance, bring the mobile device with the display to the control and verification device, providing a visual representation of 14 “CODE” a. The task of the verification device 7 is to capture an image from the display of a user's mobile device or scan it. For this purpose, for example, a high-resolution digital camera 6 can be used in a test device.

Photographing 15 should occur so that the image with "CODE" ohm 5 falls into the zone 8 of the survey.

After receiving the image by the verification device, the next task is to recognize it 16. This can be done using recognition programs, such as FineReader for character recognition, Nokia barcode reader, i-Nigma, QuickMark for recognizing QR codes.

Recognition is made in the microprocessor of the test device. After that, the recognized “CODE” is compared with the codes from the server database, where information about all tickets sold is stored.

Comparison 18 can be made on the same microprocessor 9 of the control and testing device 7, for which purpose, all information about the ticket codes is loaded into the memory 10 of the control and testing device previously.

Comparison 18 can also be made on server 3, by sending the recognized "CODE" a 5 through the wireless device 11 of the control and checking device 7 and the Internet 4 to the server 3, where after checking the information about the validity of the virtual ticket is transferred back to the control and checking device 7. With this form of verification in the test device, the presence of a wireless device 11 to access the Internet 4 is required.

After comparing 18 “CODE” with codes from the database, conclusion 19 is made about the validity or invalidity of the virtual ticket. This information can be issued either in the form of simple audio signals, or simple optical signals of the “green” type - valid ticket, “red” - invalid.

If the control and verification device is present at the validator or turnstile, then it can activate them or, on the contrary, block them depending on the received data on the validity of the virtual ticket.

Thus, the user can directly purchase a virtual ticket directly from his mobile device and at the same time should not show anything to the control and verification device, except for the display with the image of the control “CODE” a, which he receives when buying a ticket.

Claims (5)

1. A system for selling virtual tickets and verifying their validity, comprising a user's mobile device, an electronic storage medium; comprising a server having a ticket database and a web site configured to sell tickets; containing a control device containing a microprocessor and memory, and also configured to verify the validity of tickets according to information from the server database, the user's mobile device contains a display, a wireless device, a control system, and is configured to access the Internet via a server having a website, characterized in that the test device contains a high-resolution digital camera, and also contains software for distributing znavaniya characters or the encrypted image. 2. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that the test device further comprises a wireless communication device and is configured to go through it to the Internet to a server having a website. 3. The system according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the mobile phone, or smartphone, or PDA, or communicator is used as the user's mobile device. 4. The system according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the test device is made mobile. 5. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that the test device is stationary.