System and method for providing electronic ticket, and electronic ticket vending apparatus and mobile telephone therefor

摘要

An electronic ticket providing system capable of distributing and browsing information relating to a ticket can be realized while maintaining security and transferability of an IC card. The electronic ticket information is divided into formal ticket data and provisional ticket data. The formal ticket data includes authentication information for admission, ticket notation item, authentication information for acquisition of information for a ticket owner. The provisional ticket data includes the ticket notation item, and authentication information for acquisition of information for a ticket purchase requester. The electronic ticket information is distributed from an electronic ticket vending server to a mobile telephone over a communication network. In the mobile telephone, the formal ticket data is stored in a removable storage medium such as an IC card, etc. having high security and transferability, and the provisional ticket data is stored in the internal memory. In the electronic ticket vending server, ticket related information is transmitted if it is confirmed that the provisional ticket data is stored according to authentication information for acquisition of information for a ticket purchase requester in the provisional ticket data.