Apparatus, system and method for electronic ticket management and electronic ticket distribution authentication

摘要

An electronic ticket management system includes an event organizer for planning an event, an electronic ticket seller for distributing electronic ticket information which authenticates the right to attend the event, an information storage chip for storing the electronic ticket information, and an electronic ticket platform center for managing the distribution of the electronic ticket information. The electronic ticket platform center forms an electronic ticket information master based on event information registered by the event organizer, and relates ticket issuing information registered by the electronic ticket seller to the electronic ticket information master. The electronic ticket platform center also issues the tickets by writing the electronic ticket information into the corresponding information storage chip based on ticket issuing information. A determination as to whether the user is permitted to enter the event venue is made according to the integrity of the event information stored in the information storage chip.

主权项

1. An electronic ticket management method comprising:
(a) providing:
(i) an event organizer apparatus;(ii) an electronic ticket platform center which is separate from the event organizer apparatus; and(iii) an electronic ticket distribution authentication apparatus; (b) causing the event organizer apparatus to form event information unique to an event; (c) causing the event organizer apparatus to form seller information authorizing the electronic ticket distribution authentication apparatus to sell electronic tickets to the event; (d) causing the event organizer apparatus to register the event information and the seller information in the electronic ticket platform center; (e) causing the electronic ticket distribution authentication apparatus to receive a request to distribute electronic ticket information concerning a plurality of electronic tickets for the event from a first user of a first information storage chip, which is mounted on a first portable device; (f) causing the electronic ticket distribution authentication apparatus to determine whether the electronic ticket information is to be distributed to the first user by performing distribution authentication processing; (g) causing the electronic ticket distribution authentication apparatus to register an authentication result in the electronic ticket platform center as ticket issuing information; (h) causing the electronic ticket platform center to form an electronic ticket information master based on the event information registered by the event organizer apparatus; (i) causing the electronic ticket platform center to relate the ticket issuing information registered by the electronic ticket distribution authentication apparatus to the electronic ticket information master; and (j) causing the electronic ticket platform center to write the electronic ticket information concerning a plurality of electronic tickets for attending the event into the first information storage chip based on the ticket issuing information by performing ticket issuing processing; and (k) causing the electronic ticket platform center to:
(i) receive identification information of a second information storage chip, which is designated at the first information storage chip as specified by the first user of the first information storage chip, and receive a password, which is designated at the first information storage chip as specified by the first user of the first information storage chip to be entered by a second user of the second information storage chip, for writing at least one of the plurality of electronic tickets from the first information storage chip mounted on the first portable device into the second information storage chip which is separate from the first information storage chip and mounted on a second portable device which is different from the first portable device;(ii) assign the at least one of the plurality of electronic tickets from the first information storage chip to at least the second information storage chip;(iii) delete or nullify the at least one of the plurality of electronic tickets from the first information storage chip in response to said at least one of the plurality of electronic tickets being assigned from the first information storage chip to the second information storage chip; and(iv) write the at least one of the plurality of electronic tickets to the second information storage chip after the user of the second information storage chip enters the password specified by the user of the first information storage chip and after the electronic ticket platform center authenticates the user of the second information storage chip using the password and the identification information specified by the user of the first information storage chip, wherein the first information storage chip is mounted on the first portable device that performs non-contact communication, and the second information storage chip is mounted on the second portable device that performs non-contact communication.