A system and method for authorizing access to goods and/or services at a point of sale is disclosed. An access voucher may be issued and presented to a reading means of the point of sale. At least one good and/or service of the point of sale can be selected by the user and the corresponding identification can be transferred to the internal processing unit. A comparison can be performed. If the transferred identification of the user matches an identification of the user, and if the transferred identification of the goods and/services matches an identification of the goods/and services, the user profile data and the access parameter can be retrieved. An authorization can be transferred to the point of sale if the user profile data correspond to the access parameter for the goods and/or services.
G06F 7/08 - Sorting, i.e. grouping record carriers in numerical or other ordered sequence according to the classification of at least some of the information they carry
G07F 17/00 - Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articlesCoin-freed facilities or services
G07F 11/62 - Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles in which the articles are stored in compartments in fixed receptacles
G07F 17/14 - Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articlesCoin-freed facilities or services for fastenings for doorsCoin-freed apparatus for hiring articlesCoin-freed facilities or services for turnstiles
G07F 7/10 - Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card together with a coded signal
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHORISING ACCESS TO GOODS AND/OR SERVICES AT A POINT OF SALE AND CORRESPONDING POINT OF SALE
The present invention relates to a method for authorising access to goods and/or services (11, 12) at a point of sale (10), in which access to goods and/or services (11, 12) is authorised based on an identification of the user, in which an access voucher (AV), comprising at least an identification of the user is issued by a voucher issuing means (22), the access voucher (AV) is presented to a reading means (16) of the point of sale (10), at least the identification of the user being read and transferred by the reading means (16) to an internal processing unit (18) of the point of sale (10), at least one good (11) and/or service (12) of the point of sale (10) is selected by the user and the corresponding identification is transferred to the internal processing unit (18), the identification of the user and the identification of goods and/or services (11, 12) is transferred by the internal processing unit (18) to a centralised processing unit (30) which compares the transferred identification of the user with the at least one stored identification of the user (31) and the transferred identification of the goods and/or services with the at least one stored identification of goods and/or services (32), and in which, if the transferred identification of the user matches an identification of the user stored in the centralised processing unit (30) and if the transferred identification of the goods and/services matches an identification of the goods/and services stored in the centralised processing unit (30), the centralised processing unit (30) retrieves user profile data and the access parameter for the goods and/or services (11, 12), and an authorisation for accessing the selected goods and/or services (11, 12) is transferred to the point of sale (10) by the centralised processing unit (30) if the user profile data correspond to the access parameter for the goods and/or services (11, 12). Also, the present invention relates to a corresponding system and a corresponding point of sale (10).
A method for authorizing access to goods and services, including issuing an access voucher by a voucher issuing device, the access voucher having identification of the goods and services and an identification of the point of sale, presenting the access voucher to a reading device of the point of sale, transferring the identification of the goods and services and the identification of the point of sale by the reading device to a processing device of the point of sale, the processing device having access to a database with stored identification of goods and services and to a database with stored identification of the point of sale, comparing the transferred identification of goods and services and the transferred identification of the point of sale by the processing device with the stored identification of the goods and services and the stored identification of the point of sale, and authorizing access to the goods if the identification matches.
G06Q 20/34 - Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
The present invention relates to a method for authorising access to goods and/or services (11, 12) at a point of sale (10), in which access to goods and/or services (11, 12) is authorised based on an access voucher (40, 50), wherein that the access voucher (40, 50), comprising at least an identification (31) of the goods and/or services and an identification (32) of at least one point of sale, is issued by a voucher issuing means (30), the access voucher (40, 50) is presented to a reading means (16) of the point of sale (10), at least the identification (31) of the goods and/or services and the identification (32) of the point of sale being transferred by the reading means (16) to a processing unit (20) of the point of sale (10). The processing unit (20) comprises a database (201) with at least one stored identification (21) of goods and/or services and a database (202) with a stored identification (22) of the point of sales (10), and the processing unit (20) compares the transferred identification (31) of the goods and/or services and the transferred identification (32) of the point of sale with the at least one stored identification (21) of goods and/or services and the stored identification (22) of the point of sale, the access to goods and/or services (11, 12) being authorised if the transferred identification (31) of the goods and/or services matches one identification (21) of goods and/or services stored in the database (201) and if the transferred identification (32) of the point of sale matches the identification (22) of the point of sale stored in the database (202). The present invention also relates to a corresponding system and a corresponding access voucher(40, 50).
This invention relates to a method and to a system for operation and/or for control of service terminals (2, 201, 202, 203, 204), wherein a service terminal (2, 201, 202, 203, 204) is allocated to one point-of-sale, and wherein at the point-of-sale, products and/or services are selected for purchase by a user. In said method and system, credit receipt data are saved in a receipt data memory (151) of a mobile terminal (1) of the user and the credit receipt data are transmitted from the mobile terminal (1) over a nearby interface (11) of the mobile terminal (1) to a nearby interface (21) of the service terminal (2, 201, 202, 203, 204). At the service terminal (2, 201, 202, 203, 204), based on the credit receipt data and based on the products and/or services selected for purchase, debiting data are created and the debiting data are transmitted from the service terminal (2) over the nearby interfaces (21, 11) to the mobile terminal (1), and the service terminal (2, 201, 202, 203, 204) is operated such that due to the transfer of the debiting data, a signal to enable the purchase of the selected products and/or services is switched on by means of the service terminal (2, 201, 202, 203, 204). In addition, this invention also relates to the apparatus suitable for the method or for the system.
