Mobile commerce system

摘要

A mobile commerce system including a multiplicity of Mobile Device-Point of Sale Communication (MPC)-equipped mobile devices, a plurality of MPC-enabled Point-of-Sale (POS) devices, at least one POS configuration server for configuring the plurality of MPC-enabled POS devices, at least one MPC-equipped mobile device configuration server for configuring the plurality of MPC-equipped mobile devices and at least one mobile marketing platform server operative to introduce Transaction Value Certificate (TVC)-related functions and to communicate both with the at least one POS configuration server and the at least one MPC-equipped mobile device configuration server to coordinate operation thereof so that the MPC-enabled POS devices will be “tap-ready” for carrying out the TVC-related functions.

主权项

1. A mobile commerce system comprising:
a first multiplicity of Transaction Value Certificate (TVC) wallets operative in conjunction with a second multiplicity of Mobile Device-Point of Sale Communication (MPC)-equipped mobile devices; a third multiplicity of MPC-enabled Point-of-Sale (POS) devices operated by a first plurality of unaffiliated retailers, said third multiplicity of MPC-enabled POS devices having TVC wallet interface functionality and being configurable by a second plurality of POS configuration servers; at least one TVC wallet configuration server for configuring said first multiplicity of TVC wallets; and at least one mobile marketing platform server operative to introduce Transaction Value Certificate (TVC)-related functions which are used to coordinate operation of said second plurality of POS configuration servers and said at least one TVC wallet configuration server, whereby: a first set of TVC offer data is stored in at least one of said first multiplicity of TVC wallets; a second set of TVC offer acceptance data is pre-stored in said third multiplicity of MPC-enabled POS devices, prior to a TVC transaction and prior to communication between said MPC-enabled POS devices and said MPC-equipped mobile devices; a first selected subset of said first set of TVC offer data is stored in a TVC wallet of a first selected customer; a second selected subset of said second set of TVC offer acceptance data is stored in a selected one of said third multiplicity of MPC-enabled POS devices; and when said first selected customer interacts with said selected one of said third multiplicity of MPC-enabled POS devices, interaction between said TVC wallet of said first selected customer and said selected one of said third multiplicity of MPC-enabled POS devices identifies at least TVC offer data in said first selected subset which matches TVC offer acceptance data in said second selected subset and enables transactions based thereon, and wherein said TVC offer acceptance data is determined by the manufacturer.