RU166365U1 - AUTOMATIC PRODUCT AND / OR SERVICES TERMINAL - Google Patents

Abstract

1. The terminal for the automatic delivery of goods and / or services, containing built-in actuators, sequentially connected optical scanner, decoder and a control device for the specified terminal and actuators, characterized in that the optical scanner is configured to read a unique visual image from a material medium unique visual image, the decoder is configured to decode a unique visual image containing identifier information the terminal of the terminal for the automatic delivery of goods and / or services, the identifier of the goods and / or services, the amount of payment, as well as a unique code, moreover, the terminal is equipped with a logic device connected between the decoder and the specified control device, and equipped with a memory unit configured to store instructions for a unique visual image information processing algorithm. 2. The terminal according to claim 1, characterized in that said control device comprises a control module configured to transmit commands to actuators as well as a memory unit associated with the control module. The terminal according to claim 1, characterized in that the unique visual image is made in the form of a bar code. The terminal according to claim 3, characterized in that the logical device of the terminal for the automatic issuance of goods and / or services is configured to use a bar code to make only one purchase and / or within a given time interval. The terminal according to claim 1, characterized in that said material carrier of a unique visual image is made of paper.

Description

The utility model relates to the field of automated identification and payment systems, in particular to cash register systems, and can be used in the field of trade when organizing the sale of goods and services through trading terminals.

Nowadays, when information technology is increasingly entering our lives, the possibilities of realizing certain human needs are becoming more universal. An example is the use of identifying information in the most diverse fields of activity. Of particular popularity around the world today is the opportunity to pay for and purchase goods and services through trading terminals. Moreover, not only money, but also various carriers of identifying information can be used as means of payment. Of particular importance in such operations is the optimization of the interaction process between the buyer and seller of goods and services through the trading terminal, as well as the accuracy, completeness and protection of information identifying the payment and purchased goods and services.

Payment systems for goods / services sold through trading terminals are widely known, see, for example, [1, 2, 3]. As a rule, all such systems provide for payment either directly by money, or by card, or using mobile communication devices when, as a result of the interaction between the trading terminal for the sale of goods and services and a means of payment, the amount of money directly deposited by the buyer is taken into account to pay for the goods or debiting the corresponding purchase price from the buyer's account, identified by a card or mobile device. At the same time, the means of payment itself does not contain information about the amount paid for the goods / service (at best, the balance of funds after debiting) and the purchased goods / service, does not have sufficient protection, and also depends on whether the buyer has a mobile device and cellular conditions communication at the place of sale of goods and services through the trading terminal.

The invention is known "All in one card" (All in one card) according to US patent No. 8348155 [1]. The invention protects the organization and methods for the implementation of contact and contactless services, such as, for example, payments, money transfers, electronic tickets or identification cards. The card contains a cash register interface for communicating with this cash register, a card database, a mobile terminal interface for connecting the card to a mobile terminal compatible with a telecommunication network. The map database can be managed using the mobile terminal. The database is used to store data and access to this data can be done through the interface of the cash register. The data stored in the card database refers, for example, to bank cards, credit cards, identification, tickets, electronic money, and information about 15 cards can be stored. The invention also includes a mobile terminal configured to interact with the card described above.

The disadvantages of this invention are the following: a sufficiently long validity period of the card, the dependence of the system on the availability of a terminal compatible with a card of this type, and the fact that the card does not contain information about the amount paid for the purchased product / service and does not contain identifying information about the purchased product / service, and for making a payment, the buyer must manually dial a PIN code on the phone, which reduces the degree of protection and complicates the process of making a purchase. The disadvantage of this invention is also that the choice of the type of card and the purchased service is carried out through the user interface of the mobile phone from which information is transmitted to the card, i.e. the operation of the system depends on the availability of a mobile phone equipped with all applications that make it possible to operate various kinds of cards, on the quality of mobile communications in the place where the trading terminal is installed. This invention also protects the case of using the card in the absence of a mobile phone as a card with pre-loading e-money, however, the drawback in this case is that during such purchases the information is not transferred to the server of the supplier of goods and services.

The invention is known according to US patent No. 8600883 "System of mobile barcode generation and payment" (Mobile barcode generation and payment) [2]. The application on the user’s mobile device (containing the display) generates a special transaction barcode and displays it on the display, moreover, the barcode contains information about various sources of transaction financing and / or trade discounts, bonuses or membership numbers. In order to make a purchase through the trading terminal, the barcode is scanned from the display of the mobile device.

The disadvantage of this invention is: the dependence of the system on the presence of the buyer at the time of purchase of the mobile device, the quality of the cellular network at the place of installation of the trading terminal, as well as the absence in the barcode of information about the amount of payment and identifying information about the purchased product / service.

The closest analogue in the set of essential features to the claimed solution is the invention of US Pat. No. 8,438,063, “Payment system via a mobile communication device using image forwarding” selected as a prototype [3]. The specified system provides for payment from a mobile phone by sending a message containing a unique visual image with a payment code to the supplier of goods and services. The system of US Pat. No. 8,438,063 uses a mobile device with the ability to connect to a mobile network server. After user authentication, the server generates a payment code, converts this code into a unique visual image, such as a bar code, and transfers this image to a mobile device. The user brings the display of the mobile device to the optical scanner POS (cash register at the point of sale). The logic device on the POS terminal retrieves the payment key from a unique visual image and uses this payment key to bill the user. The POS terminal then passes the invoice with the payment key to the network server. The server checks the activity of the key and deducts money from the user's account in the amount specified in the account. The payment key is deactivated after a certain period of time or after its first use, depending on what happens earlier.

The disadvantage of this system is the very short period of validity of the payment key, the dependence of the payment on the buyer’s presence of an active mobile device with access to the server and on the status and conditions of mobile communication at the place of installation of the trading terminal, as well as the absence of information on the payment amount and identifying information about the purchased product / service.

The task to which the claimed utility model is directed is to create such a trading terminal in the system of interaction between the buyer and seller of goods and services, in which the implementation of the purchased goods and services occurs through a trading terminal that has the ability to work when the check is used as a means of payment, including visual information limited in duration and protected by a unique code about the amount of payment and the paid product / service.

The task in the terminal for the automatic delivery of goods and / or services, containing built-in actuators, sequentially connected optical scanner, decoder and system, or rather, the device (hereinafter referred to as the device, because, according to, for example, the RUSSIAN LANGUAGE Ozhegov [4] the term “SYSTEM” is a synonym for the term “Technical device, construction”), control of the indicated terminal and actuators, it is decided that the optical scanner is capable of reading a unique visa In order to decode a unique visual image containing information about the identifier of the terminal for automatic delivery of goods and / or services, the identifier of goods and / or services, the amount of payment, as well as a unique code, the terminal is provided with a logical a device connected between the decoder and the specified control device, and provided with a memory unit configured to store instructions for the algorithm mu processing information unique visual image

The control device of the terminal for the automatic issuance of goods and / or services preferably contains a control module configured to transmit commands to executive elements, as well as a memory unit associated with the control module

The unique visual image is preferably in the form of a bar code.

The logic device of the terminal for the automatic issuance of goods and / or services is configured to use a bar code, preferably for only one purchase and / or for a given time interval.

The specified material carrier of a unique visual image may be made of paper.

The technical result of using the inventive cash register system is as follows:

- improving system performance by reducing query operations,

- reducing the error of the system due to the reduction of query operations and due to the possibility of eliminating the use of an external communication network in the payment process,

- increase the validity period of the payment code.

The described execution and connection of the elements of the declared trading terminal ensures its structural unity.

A non-limiting example of the implementation of the claimed trading terminal as part of a cash register system is presented in figure 1.

A cash register system using the claimed trading terminal comprises a cash register device 1, an automatic goods and / or services delivery terminal 2, an accounting server 3, a data transmission network 4, and also a carrier of a unique visual image, for example paper, made in the form of check, for example, cash receipt 5.

The cash register device 1 includes a unique visual image encoder 6, a fiscal device 7, and a printer 8.

The terminal 2 for the automatic delivery of goods and / or services includes a sequentially connected optical scanner 9 for reading a bar code from a check 5, a decoder 10 configured to recognize information contained in a bar code, the optical scanner 9 reading and transmitting barcode data -code to the decoder 10 through the interface 11, for example RS232 or another connection interface, a logical device 12, configured to generate signals containing all the original information received from the media is unique th visual image, and transferring it to storage in the memory unit 13 of terminal 2 of automatic delivery of goods and / or services, as well as through modem 14 of said terminal 2 via data transfer network 4 to accounting server 3. Terminal 2 of automatic delivery of goods and / or services also contains a terminal control device 15, which in turn contains a control module 16 and a memory unit 17, configured to store information about the amount of payment by check and the identifier of the paid product and / or service.

The control device 15 of the terminal 2 for automatic dispensing of goods and / or services contains a control module 16 integrated therein, as well as a memory unit 17 connected to the modulator 16. The logical device 12 of the terminal 2 for automatic dispensing of goods and / or services and the control device 15 for the terminal 2 interconnected via an interface cable 18, for example MDB, eva-dts. The accounting server 3 comprises a memory unit 19, configured to store all the information obtained from the carrier of the unique visual image, and a modem 20 for communication via a data transmission network 4, which is, for example, a global Internet network, with a modem 14 of the terminal 2 for automatic dispensing of goods and / or services and the submission of the specified information between the server 3 accounting and terminal 2 of the automatic issuance of goods and / or services.

The operation of this system is as follows.

The client determines the choice of the purchased product / service, transfers money to the operator for them, the operator accepts the necessary amount of money and pays the check 5 through the cash register device 1. The cash register device 1 forms a protected unique visual image using the encoder 6 included in it in the form of a bar code, and due to the fiscal device 7 included in it, containing, for example, paper tape, and a printer 8, this unique visual image is printed in the form of a bar code for printing, thereby forming instantly cash receipt 5. The specified cash receipt 5 contains information on the date and time of payment, on the amount of payment, as well as identification codes of the outlet, terminal for automatic delivery of goods and / or services installed at this outlet, paid goods and / or services, as well as a unique combination of numbers formed by the encoder of the cash register device, and may also contain other information.

The client brings the check 5 to the optical scanner 9 of unique visual images installed in the terminal 2 of the automatic delivery of goods and / or services. The optical scanner 9 reads a unique visual image from the check 5 and converts it into a binary electric signal, which is then transmitted via an interface 11, for example RS232 or another connection interface, to a decoder 10, which is built into the indicated terminal 2, which in turn receives this binary electric signal from an optical scanner 9, decrypts it and transfers it to a logical device 12, which can be performed, for example, in the form of an LPC1754FBD80 microcircuit or its analogue. The logic device 12 receives from the decoder 10 a decrypted signal containing information read by the optical scanner 9 from the check 5, and, using instructions on the algorithm for processing information received from the material carrier of the unique visual image requested from the memory unit 13, generates signals based on it containing information on the date and time of payment, the amount of payment, as well as identification codes of the outlet, terminal for the automatic issuance of goods and / or services installed at this outlet, chennogo goods and / or services, respectively.

The logical device 12, using instructions on the information processing algorithm requested from the memory unit 13, carries out control operations of the identification code of the terminal 2 for automatic delivery of goods and / or services, as well as the validity time of the cash register.

If the identification code of the terminal 2 for the automatic issuance of goods and / or services, recognized when reading from the cash receipt 5, is different from the identification code belonging to the terminal 2 for the automatic delivery of goods and / or services to which the client contacts, the cash receipt is invalid.

Logic device 12 is equipped with a time reference element (not shown in the drawing), similar to those in personal computers, which makes it possible to control the validity period of check 5, so that if the current reading of the indicated time reference element differs from information obtained when reading from cash receipt 5, more than for a given period of time (optimally - for 24 hours), the check is recognized as invalid.

With the positive results of these control operations, the logical device 12 transmits the indicated generated signals about the paid product and / or service and the amount of payment for storage to the control device 15 of the terminal 2 for automatic delivery of goods and / or services via an interface cable 18, for example, an MDB or eva- cable dts, to form a command for executive elements (not shown in the drawing) of terminal 2 for automatic delivery of goods and / or services for issuing the goods or services corresponding to the check.

The same data on the goods issued or the service rendered is stored in the memory block 17 of the device 15 for controlling the terminal 2 for automatic dispensing of goods and / or services.

In addition, data on the goods or services provided, the date and time of payment, the amount of payment, as well as the identification codes of the outlet, terminal 2 for automatic delivery of goods and / or services installed at this outlet are transmitted via modem 14 via network 4 data transfer to the accounting server 3 for further accounting.

Thus, in the claimed terminal, the claimed technical result is achieved:

- improving system performance by reducing query operations,

- reducing the error of the system due to the reduction of query operations and due to the possibility of eliminating the use of an external communication network in the payment process,

- increase the validity period of the payment code.

Information sources

1. US patent No. 8348155 "All in one card", publ. 03/26/2009

2. US patent No. 8600883 "System for mobile barcode generation and payment", publ. 07/19/2012

3. US patent No. 8438063 "Payment system through a mobile communication device using image forwarding", publ. 03/01/2012 (prototype)

4. DICTIONARY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE SI. Ozhegov: 70,000 words / ed. N.Yu. Swede. - 22 ed., Rev. - M .: RUSSIAN LANGUAGE, 1990: SYSTEM - 3. Something whole, which is a unity of the parts that are naturally located and interconnected. 6. Technical device, design.

Claims (5)

1. The terminal for the automatic delivery of goods and / or services, containing built-in actuators, sequentially connected optical scanner, decoder and a control device for the specified terminal and actuators, characterized in that the optical scanner is configured to read a unique visual image from a material medium unique visual image, the decoder is configured to decode a unique visual image containing identifier information the terminal terminal of the automatic delivery of goods and / or services, the identifier of the goods and / or services, the amount of payment, as well as a unique code, and the terminal is equipped with a logic device connected between the decoder and the specified control device, and equipped with a memory unit configured to store instructions for a unique visual image information processing algorithm. 2. The terminal according to claim 1, characterized in that said control device comprises a control module configured to transmit commands to actuators, as well as a memory unit associated with the control module. 3. The terminal according to claim 1, characterized in that the unique visual image is made in the form of a bar code. 4. The terminal according to claim 3, characterized in that the logical device of the terminal for the automatic issuance of goods and / or services is configured to use a bar code to make only one purchase and / or within a given time interval. 5. The terminal according to claim 1, characterized in that said material carrier of a unique visual image is made of paper.

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