System and method for audio tickets
OwnerPhilip Hawkes, Gregory G. Roseinventors
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Abstract
A system and method for digital tickets. An issuer provides a digital ticket to a portable wireless devices such as a sonic token, e.g., acoustic key fob or wireless telephone. The ticket can include a ticket index that may be encrypted. When entry is desired into an entity (such as a movie theater) whose access is controlled by a verifier, a user manipulates the token to wirelessly (e.g., acoustically) transmit the ticket index to the verifier, which grants access if the ticket is valid and has not previously been used or voided.
Claims42
A method for access management, comprising:
- generating at least one digital ticket associated with a verifier;
- providing at least a portion of the digital ticket to a portable mobile device;
- using the mobile device to acoustically transmit at least a portion of the digital ticket to the verifier;
- and
- using at least the portion, selectively granting, to a user of the mobile device, access to an entity associated with the verifier.
The method of 2, further comprising encrypting at least one of:
- a ticket index associated with the ticket, and ticket data associated with the ticket, prior to the act of encoding.
A system for selectively granting access using digital tickets, comprising:
- at least one issuer issuing digital tickets;
- and
- at least one mobile device receiving at least one digital ticket, the mobile device transmitting the digital ticket to a verifier to gain access to an entity associated with the verifier if the verifier determines at least that the ticket is valid.
The system of 18, wherein the issuer encrypts at least one of:
- the ticket index, and the ticket data, prior to encoding the ticket index.
A system comprising:
- at least one ticket management function (TMF) including means for issuing digital tickets, each digital ticket including at least a ticket index;
- and
- at least one mobile device including means for receiving at least one digital ticket, the mobile device further including:
- means for transmitting the digital ticket to the TMF to gain access to an entity associated with the TMF.
The system of 30, further comprising means for encrypting at least one of:
- the ticket index, and the ticket data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.