US 8,555,338 B2Granted

Apparatus and method for retrieving a boarding pass

AssigneeMobimate Ltd.

InventorsNadav Gur, Amir Kirshenboim

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Abstract

The subject matter discloses a computerized apparatus having a processor configured for providing an access to an authentication token, the authentication token is generated by a remote computing device, wherein a link to the remote computing device is embedded in a message sent to the computerized apparatus. the apparatus comprises a message detecting module configured for detecting the message; a transmitting module configured for sending a request to the remote computing device for receiving the authentication token, wherein the request is according to the link being extracted; a downloading module configured for downloading the authentication token being returned from the remote computing device; a storing module configured for storing the authentication token downloaded by the downloading module in a storage of the computerized device; and an access module configured for accessing the authentication token, stored in the storage, according to predetermined rules.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A mobile computer apparatus comprising:

a data storage device;
a display;
and
processing electronics comprising;
a message detecting module configured to monitor messages received by the mobile computer apparatus for boarding pass information from an entity issuing a boarding pass;
a transmitting module configured to send a request for a boarding pass to a remote server in response to detecting boarding pass information, wherein the request is based on the detected boarding pass information and includes a display characteristic of the mobile computer apparatus;
a downloading module configured to receive, from the remote server, a new boarding pass transformed according to the display characteristic of the mobile computer apparatus;
a storing module configured to store the new boarding pass in the data storage device;
and
an access module configured to retrieve the new boarding pass from the data storage device and present the new boarding pass via the display in response to an occurrence of an event, according to a predetermined rule;
wherein the occurrence of the event is crossing of a time threshold, wherein the time threshold is based on a time associated with the boarding pass and the predetermined rule comprises a rule which causes a graphical option for presenting the new boarding pass to be provided on the display in response to the current time crossing the time threshold.

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A computerized method for presenting a boarding pass on a mobile computer apparatus, the method comprising:

monitoring message received by the mobile computer apparatus for boarding pass information from an entity issuing a boarding pass;
extracting the boarding pass information, using hardware processor, from a message being monitored;
sending a request for a boarding pass to a remote serve in response to detecting boarding pass information, wherein the request is based on the detected boarding pass information and includes a display characteristic of the mobile computer apparatus;
retrieving, by the remote server using the boarding pass information received form the mobile computer apparatus, additional boarding pass information from the entity issuing the boarding pass;
generating, by the remote server using the display characteristic of the mobile computer apparatus, a new graphical boarding pass based on the additional boarding pass information retrieved from the entity issuing the boarding pass;
storing the new graphical boarding pass via a display of the mobile computer apparatus in response to an occurrence of an event, according to a predetermined rule;
wherein the occurrence of the event is crossing of a time threshold, wherein the time threshold is based on a time associated with the boarding pass and the predetermined rule comprises a rule which causes a graphical option for presenting the new boarding pass to be provided on the display in response to the current time crossing the time threshold.

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A system for retrieving and presenting a boarding pass, the system comprising:

a mobile computer apparatus configured to monitor incoming messages for boarding pass information from an entity issuing a boarding pass and send a request for a boarding pass to a remote server in response to detecting boarding pass information, wherein the request includes the detected boarding pass information and a display characteristic of the mobile computer apparatus;
and
a remote server configured to use the boarding pass information to retrieve additional boarding pass information from the entity issuing the boarding pass, in response to receiving the request, wherein the remote server is further configured to generate a new boarding pass formatted for presentation via the mobile computer apparatus based on the display characteristic of the mobile computer apparatus and the boarding pass retrieved from the entity issuing the boarding pass;
wherein the mobile computer apparatus is configured to store the new boarding pass in local non-volatile of the mobile computer apparatus and present the new boarding pass in response to an occurrence of an event, according to a predetermined rule;
wherein the occurrence of the event is crossing of a time threshold, wherein the time threshold is based on a time associated with the boarding pass and the predetermined rule comprises a rule which causes a graphical option for presenting the new boarding pass to be provided on the display in response to the current time crossing the time threshold.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.