ES2540122A1 - Method and system of generation and exchange of digital purchase tickets (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Method and system of generation and exchange of digital purchase tickets. System and method of generation and exchange of digital purchase tickets, where a point of sale terminal (1) is available in a store and a portable electronic device (5) of user/buyer, and which comprises generating by means of a processor of the terminal point of sale (1) a digital purchase ticket and send it and stored it on a remote server (2) to later download it in an electronic tablet (3) to preview said electronic ticket and simultaneously sent from the point of sale terminal (1) in a device with near field technology (nfc), to send it to the portable electronic device (5) of the buyer. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

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In addition, the system has an electronic tablet (3) where the purchase ticket generated as a pre-shipment phase (10) by the NFC device (7) is displayed by the buyer. The copy of the purchase ticket shown by the electronic tablet (3) is downloaded (9) from the remote server (2) automatically.

The digital ticket is sent (11) from the POS (1) to the NFC device (7) and then it is sent (10) to the user's electronic device (5) when said device (5) is close enough. Thus the buyer has the digital copy of the purchase ticket related to the purchase he has just made.

In parallel, the buyer can download (14) from the remote server (2), at any time and without the need to be at the point of sale where he made the purchase, a copy of the digital purchase ticket associated with the identification code of the transaction made.

In addition to the electronic tablet, it is also planned that it can be replaced by a “phablet” giving the same results.

The system is additionally connected to a conventional printer (4) so that the ticket can be printed on paper if requested by the buyer or if after a period of time previously established from the moment the ticket is generated in the POS ( 1) it is detected that the digital purchase ticket has not been sent, either because the user's mobile phone (5) does not have NFC technology for receiving the files or because the user simply has not approached the mobile (5) to the NFC device (7). When this occurs, the NFC device (7) sends (12) a print request to the POS (1), which forwards it (13) to the printer

(4) for digital ticket printing.

In this way, the purchase ticket will be printed for those users who do not have either the mobile phone at that time or even if they do not have the necessary technology to exchange the files. It will also be printed for those users who request it.

A button (6) will also be available on the tablet (3), for use by the user / buyer, to cancel the process of exchanging the digital purchase ticket and sending it directly to the printer (4). This will be very useful in order to speed up the

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process for those users who do not wish or who cannot have the digital copy of the purchase ticket in their terminals. This button may also be available at the point of sale terminal for operation by the seller.

The generation of the digital purchase ticket, that is to say the digitalization of the conventional document, is carried out by means of a point of sale terminal processor. Said digital ticket, in addition to the information related to the items purchased, will include the store and sales position data. This data is sent on the remote server (2) or in the cloud, stored in a database. In this database, each purchase ticket (15) is associated with the unique identification number (16) also generated at the point of sale terminal (1) together with an identification of the store and the POS (1) from which The purchase ticket is generated.

The electronic tablet (3) has software that will be configured depending on the point of sale in which it is installed and it will detect when a new ticket has been generated. When the tablet (3) receives a purchase ticket from the remote server

(2) shows it on the screen for the buyer to view.

When the buyer brings his phone (5) to the NFC device (7), he is expected to send (10) two data to the phone (5), the first is a URL of the type http://miserver.com/miticket ? id = KLASDKA1238DASB34B91B23U & trade = 6 & therefore toventa = 2 in which it has been indicated that the ticket is the one with the unique identification number: KLASDKA1238DASB34B91B23U, indicates the trade No. 6, and the sales post or box that made the sale is No. 2. As a second piece of information, a photo of the ticket is sent to preview the screen. These two data are sent (10) from the NFC device (7) to the buyer's mobile phone (5) using NFC technology, but previously they will have been converted into a text string than the mobile (5), using a specifically designed software To do this, it will interpret as a new ticket.

Both the POS (1), the NFC device (7) and the printer (4) are essential elements that must be in the store (17) where the purchase is made while the mobile phone (5) will be carried by the buyer himself . Optionally, a tablet (3) or similar may be additionally available for displaying the ticket at the store (17).

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Figure 2 shows an exemplary embodiment in which a flow chart of the process of downloading a digital purchase ticket is shown on the mobile phone of the buyer. So in the first place once (18) the customer is in the queue of the box in a store and is ready to make a purchase, the first thing is to check (19) that the mobile phone has NFC technology. If you did not have this technology, the ticket would be printed on paper (31) as usual. The POS would detect that, after the pre-established time, the ticket has not been sent to the user's mobile phone, so it would be printed (31) on paper.

If, on the other hand, the mobile phone has integrated NFC technology, it is checked (20) that the mobile phone has the software, a mobile application, suitable for receiving the digital ticket. If you do not have it, either proceed to download (21) of the corresponding application through the internet or proceed as described in the previous paragraph.

If the phone has NFC technology and the application designed for the receipt of digital tickets, then proceed, after making the purchase to send the corresponding purchase ticket from the NFC device to the buyer's mobile phone. To do this after generating (22) the digital purchase ticket on the POS, it is sent (27) to the NFC device for later sending (29) to the user's electronic device, provided that the user's electronic device has approached Enough to the NFC device. In addition, said POS sends (23) a copy of the digital ticket to the cloud or remote server where it is stored. Subsequently, the remote server sends (24) a copy of said ticket to the digital tablet from where it is shown (25) on the screen for previewing it. At this point in the process, the user has the option to cancel the digital purchase ticket exchange process (26) by pressing an existing button on the tablet. When pressed, the digital ticket is sent directly to the printer for printing on paper (31).

If, on the contrary, the user / buyer does not wish to cancel the exchange process, said user must approximate his mobile phone to the NFC device sufficiently so that the digital ticket can be sent from the NFC device, even posing ( 28) the phone on it. If the user, at this point, did not approximate the NFC device sufficiently, the POS would detect that, after the pre-established time, the ticket has not been sent to the user's mobile phone, so it would automatically send a copy of the ticket for printing (31) on paper.

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