摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an M-commerce virtual cash system which expands m-commerce applications using card technologies and infrastructures, and more specifically, expands m-commerce technologies to handle or replace cash and card transactions. <P>SOLUTION: A virtual cash system 10 has an account record containing a record of money amounts associated with a wireless device 12 and a transmitter 45 for wirelessly transmitting to the wireless device 12 predetermined information from the account record. Cash amounts can be spent for the account record directly from the wireless device 12 via a bar code on the display, a short range radio signal, a light beam, or the like. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT |