RU63574U1 - DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION PRODUCTS USING COMPUTER NETWORKS - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to means of communication and information technology, specifically to the sale of information using computer networks, including the Internet.

The tasks of creating a utility model are to ensure the protection of copyright and related rights and the full automation of the sale of information products.

The solution of these problems was achieved in a device for implementing information technology using computer networks, containing a trading system with trading computers. organizations connected to the Internet and consumer computers also connected to the Internet, characterized in that the software company’s server, the company’s host server and the bank’s server are connected to the Internet. On the software company’s server, consumer simulation programs, the Expert Assessment program, a program for interacting with a bank account, and the legislative framework of the countries of company registration are installed.

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Description

The utility model relates to means of communication and information technology, specifically to the sale of information using computer networks, including the Internet.

In recent years, more and more automated devices have been appearing in our country for making purchases of goods with cashless payments through banks, for example, the client-bank system.

In banking, consumers have begun to rely more on the convenience and speed of automated cash registers or ATMs. Consumers began to trust the security of electronic money transfers. The speed, convenience and good reputation of wire transfers compared to cash payments are the sources that should be used in automated shopping devices. Apparently, therefore, gas stations, grocery and gastronomic shops, restaurants and fast food cafes, cinemas and airports, along with other retail outlets, additionally introduced automated shopping devices into their standard business schemes. Automated shopping devices have certain advantages that are becoming more familiar to people and, of course, the number of these devices in our country will increase over time.

Automated shopping devices have many advantages. First of all, automated shopping devices are convenient and reduce latency. For example, automatic refueling pumps enable the consumer to refuel the car and complete the transaction without leaving the area near

your car. Secondly, such automated devices offer an additional payment option. For example, many devices in the control unit of the grocery stores have devices for reading or entering information from punch cards, which makes it possible for the consumer to pay for the purchase by bank account or by letter of credit. Thirdly, automated devices reduce labor intensity. For example, ATMs allow banks to reduce the number of cashiers. And finally, automated devices increase productivity in all areas of service. Automated fuel pumps, for example, reduce the time that cars spend waiting in line at a gas station.

New in the world of automatic cash registers is the automatic scanning control introduced in various grocery and gastronomic shops. Carrying out control using automatic scanning enables customers to scan, package and pay for goods with little or no help from store personnel. The customer enters the store and selects retail items in the usual way. Instead of the standard control carried out by the cashier, the buyer turns to automated control by means of automatic scanning, in which a single cashier observes the effect of several cash registers. The buyer scans the items selected by him and pays for them by inserting a check, credit card, payment card or cash into the cash register.

For example, in the United States, before using an automatic fuel pump, a consumer must go to a grocery or deli store or to a store associated with a gas station. Although this is inconvenient for the buyer, a forced visit to the grocery or grocery store to pay (the old retail outlet) contributes to the purchase of confectionery products such as chewing gum, sweets, soft drinks, etc., as well as non-consumer

goods such as newspapers and magazines. Automatic fuel filling pumps have moved the retail outlet to petrol stations where retail is not located or advertised. In grocery stores and supermarkets, control by automatic scanning is also supported for a number of reasons by reducing the number of on-site payment points. Firstly, the consumer is provided with scanned products and he does not have much time to carefully consider and select the point of purchase of products (point for making payments at places of shopping). Secondly, one main advantage is that in grocery stores or in supermarkets, control by automatic scanning reduces the area of the sales area. For example, for four devices of control points with automatic scanning, approximately 70% of the area required by four standard control devices is necessary. Similarly, the area of shelves for goods, which are usually connected with standard control devices, representing points of purchase of products, is also reduced. The devices of the control unit with automatic scanning are forced to reduce the height, width and number of racks on the control line of grocery stores and supermarkets. Reducing the area of shelves necessarily dictates a reduction in the exhibited retail goods. Merchants' sellers typically need to capitalize on the rapid growth of automated retail devices. Due to the fact that the point of purchase of products in various retail areas is increasingly moving from the control counter to automatic retail devices, there is a need to equip the new point of purchase of products with a unit, as well as a method for placing and providing this point with retail products. In particular, there is a need to provide grocery stores, grocery stores and supermarkets with a device and

in a way that involves the placement and provision of a point of purchase of products, as well as control nodes for automatic scanning.

In supermarkets and grocery stores, the widespread adoption of automated scanning monitoring devices is currently underway. Modern automated scanning control devices are designed to reduce the number of points of sale of products, because: the buyer is pre-provided with scanned products and he does not have much time to carefully consider and select the point of sale; the area of the sales area required for standard points of sale is reduced; as well as the architecture of currently popular automated scanning monitoring devices, the height of standard display cases must be reduced. When using currently existing automated scanning control devices, the buyer actively summarizes the cost of the items delivered to them at the point of sale. That is, instead of standing in line and, while the cashier enters the cost of the items selected by the buyer, looking at the window, now the buyer, who is near the automated scanning control device, puts the selected items from a cart or from another container, scans each item individually, checks on a video monitoring device, the accuracy of introducing items and their prices, packs the scanned items in packages and pays for them. In short, the buyer has much less time to follow the receipt on the display for the purchased products, and, which is also important, he may not remember the need to do this. The problem of the area suitable for the point of sale of products for the modern automated control seems to be double-digit. Firstly, this area is smaller. Secondly, the available area is not located directly at the shopping center. This means that the counters should be placed on the opposite side or separately from the currently used scanner, monitor, device for receiving payments, as well as from the zone

packaging, that is, away from the shopping center. Reducing the area of the counters means that the degree of competition of suppliers at the point of purchase of products will be higher. Retailers who use automatic scanning installations for inspection carefully select products for the available counter space, which is now becoming even more valuable. It seems that a large share of the counters will be occupied by fast-selling products, essential goods, as retailers cannot afford the risk of storing goods from an unsuccessful manufacturer or even a mid-range manufacturer. The result will be a reduction in new product offerings, and this trend will continue.

Both the product supplier and the retailer will suffer from lower sales at the point of sale of products. Brand approval will begin to erode, and the retailer will lose additional sales. Thus, at present, retailers are forced to choose between ensuring the effectiveness associated with the control of automated scanning and between maintaining a system of payment for sales on the spot.

Fast food restaurants create similar, but different problems for consumers. These restaurants also have a limited sales area for a point of sale. The area of the counter in fast-food restaurants is also limited and free access is necessary in order to conduct an indivisible operation of fast-cooking. It is necessary that the area in front of the counter is open for the purpose of compiling a list of goods, and so that the buyer can make the choice of individual food products. The placement of the rack of a standard point of sale of products in the center of the premises of a fast food company, as well as the fact that the buyer must deliver the purchase receipt to the counter simply does not go well with the additional fast food counter. Many fast-food restaurants also lack skilled labor.

These restaurants tend to have high staff turnover as well as high training costs. Reducing the weight of products during cooking (shrinking) is also a problem for fast-food restaurants. Therefore, fast-food restaurants are looking for technologies that mitigate the limited space and labor problems, as well as increase productivity and reduce shrinkage. One of the well-known solutions is a kiosk, which is a point of sale, which eliminates the need for a conventional cash register. Another solution is a high-speed payment system, which provides the buyer with a barcode reader. The specified device operates at a frequency of radio waves, this is done so that information on the process of preparing fast food is sent to the credit / payment card account. Such a high-speed payment system is compact, it requires a small counter area, it does not require a sales area, works faster and is more efficient in business terms than the standard system of work in fast-food restaurants. The requirement that fast-food restaurants place on the supplier of a point of sale is to provide a solution that works with standard fast-food payment systems, such as cash registers, cash registers, etc. A point-of-sale system is preferable in any case, t .to. more convenient for use by a client and an employee working in a fast food system; does not increase or significantly reduce labor costs; It requires a small counter area and does not need a trading floor space; reduces shrinkage of products; integrates with any primary payment system for fast food products; and also contributes to the management of material and technical supply by introducing data from the point of sale into the specified system.

A known system for managing transactions according to the certificate of the Russian Federation for utility model No. 17744, IPC 7 G 06 F 17/60, containing customer control devices configured to connect to store control devices and

an authorization server management device, with the possibility of paying by credit cards, with the possibility of generating a basket of goods and services, generating a readiness signal for payment and transmitting it to the store management device, store management devices configured to connect to customer control devices and the authorization server management device , with the possibility of registration in the authorization server, with the possibility of forming a basket of ordered goods and services, with the possibility of transfers to the authorization server of the store’s name, order number and amount, with the possibility of providing the ordered goods and services with a positive authorization result, an authorization server control device configured to connect to customer’s control devices, store control devices, bank control device and processing center control device, with the possibility of receiving a denial of authorization signal from the processing center and the corresponding formation and transfer of purchases I give the refusal signal with a description of the reason for informing and transmitting the refusal signal to the store indicating the order number, with the possibility of receiving an authorization permission signal from the processing center and correspondingly generating and transmitting to the buyer an authorization signal and generating and transmitting the permission signal to the store with the order number, with the possibility of transmitting to the device management of the bank of the list of orders for authorized authorizations, a processing center control device configured to connect to the control device of the authorization server and the control device of the bank, with the ability to control the registration of the store in the system, control transactions, control the limit of the buyer's card and, with negative control results, with the possibility of generating and transmitting an authorization refusal signal to the authorization server, with positive control results, with the possibility generating and transmitting an authorization permission signal to the authorization server and with the possibility of generating and transmitting to the bank control device

a permission signal for transferring funds to the store’s account from the relevant customer’s account, a bank control device configured to connect to the authorization server control device and processing center control device, with the possibility of receiving from the control server of the authorization server a list of orders for authorized authorizations, with the possibility of crediting funds to the store’s account by a transfer authorization signal from the control unit of the processing center. The system is characterized in that the customer control devices are configured to work with the authorization server via a secure protocol, with the possibility of receiving a customer referral signal to the authorization server from the store control device, correspondingly generating customer card data and transferring them to the control device of the authorization server, store control device configured to work with the authorization server via a secure protocol using electronic-digital signatures, with the possibility of requesting a permission signal for a trade operation and with the possibility of receiving a permission signal for a trade operation from an authorization server control device, with the possibility of generating a customer direction signal to an authorization server, an authorization server control device is configured to work with a buyer via a secure protocol, with the possibility of work with the store using a secure protocol using an electronic digital signature, with the possibility of generating and transmitting drove the permission of the trade operation to the store’s control device, with the possibility of accepting credit card parameters of customers, with the possibility of generating and sending an authorization request to the processing center control device, with the possibility of generating a payment prohibition signal and transmitting it to the customer’s control device and store control device.

A known method of registering sales according to the patent of the Russian Federation for the invention No. 2266562, IPC 7 G 06 F 17/60, publication date 12/20/2005, This invention relates to the field of control of trading places in small retail street trade. The technical result consists in increasing the accuracy of accounting for sales revenue and simplifying sales registration. In the method, sellers are registered at a registration center that generates seller identifiers, transfers them to a database, and writes them to fiscal memory. Before the start of sales, the seller’s terminals generate accounting documents on a medium containing information on the receipt of funds and contact information of the registration center. When paying for goods or services, buyers receive accounting documents with an identifier. Merchants submit to the registration center the identifiers of these accounting documents and messages about the amounts transferred to the seller.

Disadvantage: the system is not tested for the sale of information support.

A known system for the sale of food products according to the patent of the Russian Federation No. 2266561. According to this invention, it is possible to prepare a check for the purchased products while the buyer pays for other retail products that he selected and delivered to the point of purchase of the products. Immediate preparation of the check takes place and at the point of purchase of products it is issued to the buyer. The cost of prepared products is summed up with the cost of other retail items. The buyer makes a single payment for both the prepared product and other retail items. One embodiment of this invention is a device that allows a customer to pay for products, with no need for a cashier. The specified device contains a housing that defines the boundaries of the inner part. This device includes a controller. The specified controller is connected to the scanning node and communicates with it. This scanning unit allows the buyer

scan the items on sale that he delivered to the specified node, as well as sum the cost of these items. The product to be distributed is stored in the housing, and there is also a distribution device in it that dispenses the product from the said housing to the customer at his request. The controller sums up the cost of this product with the cost of other items.

The disadvantage of the invention is that this system is adapted only for the sale of food products. It can be adapted for the sale of information resources recorded on media, such as CD-R or DVD, but it is absolutely not applicable for the sale of information via telecommunication channels.

One of the technical solutions in this area is disclosed in the patent of the Russian Federation No. 2191482. This patent describes how to offer for sale, place orders and sell goods and services using an offer server associated with computer terminals of sellers of goods or services. According to this document, the seller or the offer server forms the identification of offers for the sale of goods or services, which is a combination of alphanumeric characters, that is, a conditional index that carries information about the seller, the offered product, as well as possible other information. Such indexes are distributed among users of mobile electronic communications devices. A user who decides to use the offer, enters the appropriate index on his mobile electronic communications device and, on its basis, transmits a request for ordering or purchasing the corresponding product or service to the offer server. If the specified product is available, a special marker is sent to the user's mobile electronic communication device confirming the order process. This marker, which corresponds to a specific sample of the product, is stored in the memory of a mobile electronic communication device so that it can subsequently be presented, for example, as proof of payment for receiving the corresponding product or as an entrance ticket to some event.

The use of markers according to this patent allows you to streamline the process of placing orders by creating a mechanism to control the availability of a particular type of goods or services. However, the patent of the Russian Federation No. 2191482 does not provide technical means that would insure the user against fraud or errors in entering the offer index. In particular, when entering the offer index on a mobile electronic communication device, the user is forced to act “blindly”, because from the cashless payment system or the offer server he does not receive information about what exactly and to whom he pays, since the offer index is a code , clear only to the offer server. As a result, a situation may arise when the user receives incorrect information about the offer index or simply makes an input error, and the incorrectly entered index may correspond to another offer. In both cases, in the well-known system, the order will be placed and the sale completed, and the user, initiating the payment, is not able to verify whether the goods that he wants to buy, the seller from whom he wants to buy these goods, and the amount that he is ready to pay. Moreover, a token received from the server of the system and displayed on the screen of a mobile electronic communication device cannot be considered as legally valid proof of payment, which can be especially important in disputed situations.

Known universal access to services for St. RF for utility model No. 25613. The system contains a processing center connected to Internet access channels with subscribers and service delivery services, the processing center includes an ASP-site of operator’s service applications and an ISP-site of operator’s service applications contains Internet access systems, an authorization, authentication and billing server (systems calculations), medical consultations, special libraries, a utility payment server, electronic commerce system and Secury Phon (Secure Internet Telephony). Service delivery services contain a medical service

consultations, legal advice service, transport service service, electronic commerce service, tax inspection service and state traffic safety inspection service. As utility service providers were used, including: water utility, power supply, gorgaz and other life support services.

Disadvantages: this system is intended only for the provision of services, primarily household services and is not adapted for the implementation of an information product. The system does not provide for the protection of copyrights, creators of information products.

A device and method for converting data in a copyright protection system according to the patent of the Russian Federation No. 2216793, publ. November 20, 2003. The device relates to a copyright protection system for digital data. Formatted for super distribution data includes audio content and attribute information. The latter represents, at least, the terms of payment, allowing you to get a copy of the audio content.

The disadvantage of this system is that there is no specific mechanism for transferring royalties.

Known "Improvements in the distribution of content and related operations" according to the patent of the Russian Federation No. 2265961, publ. December 27, 2004, which provides a mechanism for protecting against unauthorized copying and transfer of copyright objects over the Internet. This contributes to some extent to the protection of copyright, but does not allow authors to receive timely due royalties for legally realized works.

Also known "Method and device for processing data with copyright" according to the patent of the Russian Federation No. 2249245, publ. 03/27/2005. The system is designed to process copyright data distributed through a communications network. The technical result is the development of a device for processing data distributed over a network in

internal format suitable for further processing. The device comprises means for storing and processing rights information.

The disadvantage of this method and device, as well as the previously described systems is the lack of a mechanism that really and timely lists the royalties to all authors. In addition, the interests of subjects of related rights are not protected at all and their records are not kept.

There is a known system for providing paid services in a telecommunication network according to St. RF for utility model No. 14687 (prototype of the method and device). The system contains a server, user computers, at least one seller’s server of information resources, and a payment system server.

The disadvantages of the system is that:

- the system does not provide for the protection of copyright and related rights,

- the system does not provide a mechanism for calculating remuneration by the author and subjects of related rights,

- in order to conduct the purchase of the copyright object over a computer network (Internet), the user must spend considerable time searching for the necessary information.

The objectives of the invention are to ensure the protection of copyright and material interests of subjects of related law.

The solution of these problems was achieved in a device for implementing an information product using computer networks, containing a trading system with computers of trade organizations connected to the Internet and consumer computers also connected to the Internet, so that the software company’s server and server are connected to the Internet host companies and bank server. On the server of the software company, programs for simulating consumer actions, the Expert program, are installed

assessment ”, a program of interaction with a bank account and the legislative framework of the countries of registration of the company.

The proposed technical solution has novelty and industrial applicability. The novelty is confirmed by patent research, the inventive step is the presence of a set of essential features that provide a new property: complete automation of the purchase process and copyright protection of creators of information resources and subjects of related rights.

Industrial applicability is due to the fact that the development of the project does not require the development of special electronic tools, but it is enough to use only Pentium-type personal computers of any configuration commercially available in many countries of the world and standard operating systems and programs installed on computers of this class.

The essence of the utility model is illustrated in figure 1 ... 5, where:

- figure 1 shows a schematic diagram of a device with a server software company,

- figure 2 is a schematic diagram of a device with a server of the host company,

- figure 3 shows the software for implementing the proposed method,

- figure 4 shows a simplified algorithm for implementing the method,

- figure 5 shows the algorithm for implementing the method.

The device (figure 1) contains the server of the software company "1, connected to the Internet 2, servers of banks 3, also connected to the communication channel, for example, the Internet 2. The servers of trade organizations 5 are also connected to the Internet 2. Trade organizations 4 contain servers of trade organizations 5 connected to the Internet 2 implement an information product: programs, databases, references, books,

films, pictures, games and other information that can be transmitted to the consumer through telecommunications, for example, over the Internet 2 almost instantly. Computers of consumers 6 are connected to the Internet 2. These are usually Pentium computers of any configuration with the operating system WINDOWS-95, -98, -2000, -Me, -XP. Consumer computers 6 standard software that comes with the operating system.

An embodiment is possible when the server of the host company 7 is also connected to the Internet 2 (Figure 2). In this case, the database and all or part of the software is installed on the server of the host company 7.

Any operating system 8 can be installed on the server of the software company 1 (Fig. 3), in addition: a program for simulating user actions 9, the Expert System program - 10, a program for interacting with a bank account 11 and the legislative base of the countries of company registration 12. The Expert Assessment 10 program is intended for the automatic execution of high-risk transactions in the FOREX markets and stock exchanges. The program of interaction with bank account 11, for example, “client-bank”. An order execution program is also provided 13.

Programs developed by applicants, and their algorithms are shown in figure 4 and 5.

In fig. 4 shows that when the consumer 6 is accessed from the computer, a program is simulated to simulate the actions of consumer 9, namely:

- the name of the product is entered into the search engine,

- there is a selection of sites found that mention the ordered information product,

- the cost of the ordered information product is allocated from all selected sites,

- all sites highlight special delivery conditions, for example, the availability of prepayment, payment after receiving the ordered information product, payment in several

stages, the presence or absence of VAT, etc. In this case, it is possible to refer to the legislative database of the countries in which the proposed system is registered,

- compares the cost of the information product on all sites,

- an information product with a minimum cost is selected, taxes, duties and costs of services are calculated,

- Calculation of royalties for each copy. information product sold, this information is entered into the register,

- the calculation of deductions to subjects of related rights,

- the final price of the information product is determined, necessarily taking into account deductions for royalties. The system provides a database of addresses and accounts of the authors of the realized information products. The funds allocated for the payment of royalties are accumulated in a special account at the bank and periodically, for example, are sent once a year to the authors of information products that were sold by the proposed method.

Then the program “Expert System” 10 is launched, which has the ability (Figure 5) using digital data on the cost of the information product received from the sites:

When working, the buyer from the computer of user 6 makes a request via the Internet 2 to the server of the software company 1 about the need for the necessary information product. The software server 1 software company finds in the trading system servers of trading organizations 5, on the websites of which there is information about the availability of the necessary information product, compares prices and other delivery conditions, referring simultaneously to the Legislative Base of the company’s registration countries 12 for clarification of taxation and duties bans on export or import, etc. After the consumer transfers the funds from his account on the server of the bank

2 to the account of the software company 1, from the server of the trading organization 5, the information product is transferred to the consumer's computer 6.

Rates of remuneration to authors and subjects of related law will be established either on the basis of agreements with the authors, or on the basis of the “Regulation on the minimum rates of royalties for the public performance of works”. Appendix No. 1 to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated March 21, 1994 No. 218, a fragment of which is shown in Table 1.

Tab. Type of work - play Rates,% Multi-act one act In prose eleven 5.5 - to the author of the play 8 2,5 - to the shorthand artist - costume designer 3 3 In verse 13 6 - to the author of the play 10 3 - stenographer and costume designer 3 3

The following information should be entered in the database for each author:

- surname, name, patronymic (pseudonym) of the author, name of the author’s work,

% - royalties for royalties,

- address of the author,

bank account details of the author.

The following information must be entered in the database for each subject of related rights:

- surname, name, patronymic of the subject of related rights, name of the copyright work,

% - deductions for remuneration,

- address of the subject of related rights, details of the account of the subject of related rights in a bank.

At certain intervals, for example, once a year or quarterly, the amounts of royalties and deductions to subjects of related rights through the servers of banks 3 are transferred to their personal accounts, which are entered in the respective registers. Information about authors who do not have bank accounts is stored on the server of the software company 1.

Application of the utility model allowed:

1. Realistically observe the copyrights of all creators of the information product by including deductions for royalties in the final price, maintaining the Register of authors and deductions of royalties included in the price of the product. Periodically, for example, once a year, royalties after the implementation of the system will be transferred to the authors.

2. It is also realistic to observe the substantive rights of the subjects of related rights by taking into account all the subjects of related rights in the database and deducting the due remuneration from each transaction.

3. Speed up the process of purchasing an information product.

4. To buy information products at the lowest prices.

5. Fully automate the process of purchasing an information product.

Claims (4)

1. A device for the implementation of information products using computer networks, containing a trading system with computers of trade organizations connected to the Internet, and consumer computers also connected to the Internet, characterized in that the software company server and bank servers are connected to the Internet . 2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the host company server is connected to the Internet. 3. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that programs of simulating consumer actions, the Expert System program, a program for interacting with a bank account and the legislative base of the countries of company registration are installed on the software company’s server. 4. The device according to claim 2, characterized in that programs of simulating consumer actions, the Expert System program, a program for interacting with a bank account and the legislative base of the countries of company registration are installed on the host company’s server.