System and method for electronic money end of life management
AssigneeThe Roberto Giori Company Ltd.
InventorFrancis PINAULT
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a system and method for transferring electronic money. More particularly, it relates to improving the checking method used to validate the transfer at a central server. Furthermore the proposed solution improves the traceability of the operations. It is also proposed a data record to implement efficiently the electronic money. Its purpose is to make the check of the consistency of the history of transactions related to a particular electronic banknote easier. The proposed solution minimizes the access to the database by embedding the history of transaction within the coding of the electronic banknote itself.
Claims18
A method for managing the end of life of an electronic banknote represented by a data record comprising a unique identifier of said banknote, characterized in that it comprises:
- determining if the electronic banknote is at the end of life;
- generating a new electronic banknote in case the electronic banknote is determined as being at the end of life;
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- substituting the electronic banknote determined as being at the end of life by the new electronic banknote.
A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions of a computer program for implementing a method according to.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.