Negotiated wireless peripheral systems

A method of selling admissions via pre-payment, comprising:

• at a merchant web site:
• (i) offering for sale via the merchant web site a ticket for admission to a physical area;
• (ii) receiving via a communications network an order for the ticket from a customer;
• and
• (iii) initiating a cryptographic algorithm that results in an encryption-protected ticket and transmitting the encryption-protected ticket to the customer via the communications network;
• and
• at a customer-physical-access admission station:
• (iv) receiving via a short range wireless air interface protocol the encryption-protected ticket;
• (v) if the encryption-protected ticket is found to be valid in a testing, generating an admission-grant signal indicating to allow the customer to pass a physical customer admission point.

A method of selling products via pre-payment, comprising:

• at a merchant web site:
• (i) offering for sale via the merchant web site a product token for use in purchasing one or more corresponding products from one or more vending machines which each employ a short range wireless air interface protocol for establishing position dependent ecommerce sessions;
• (ii) receiving via a communications network an order for the product token from a customer;
• and
• (iii) initiating a cryptographic algorithm that results in an encryption-protected product token and transmitting the encryption-protected product token to the customer via the communications network;
• and at a particular vending machine:
• (iv) receiving via the short range wireless air interface protocol the encryption-protected product token;
• (v) if the encryption-protected product token is found to be valid in a testing, generating a product-grant signal indicating to provide the product to the customer.

A method of selling services via pre-payment, comprising:

• at a merchant web site:
• (i) offering for sale via the merchant web site a service token for use in purchasing one or more corresponding services;
• (ii) receiving via a communications network an order for the service token from a customer;
• and
• (iii) initiating a cryptographic algorithm that results in an encryption-protected service token and transmitting the encryption-protected service token to the customer via the communications network;
• and at a particular service access point:
• (iv) receiving via a short range wireless air interface protocol the encryption-protected service token;
• (v) if the encryption-protected service token is found to be valid in a testing, generating a service-grant signal indicating to provide the service to the customer.