Interactive Mobile Ticketing Validation System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic ticket validation methods are time-consuming and cumbersome, particularly in scenarios like public transit, events, or show ticketing, where speed and simplicity are crucial, and there is a risk of counterfeit mobile tickets due to lack of robust authentication.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device-based system that uses interactive digital content, where users or ticket takers interact with visually illustrative scenes on the screen to validate tickets, with conditions such as specific gestures or locations triggering further content, ensuring authenticity through dynamic and context-dependent validation processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional electronic ticket validation using QR codes is used, then ticket validation can be performed electronically, but the process becomes time-consuming and cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by transforming the static QR code validation process into a dynamic interactive experience. The ticket display evolves through multiple states (initial display, interaction detection, secondary content presentation) based on user actions. This dynamic approach maintains security while reducing validation time by enabling faster authentication through interactive elements that can be processed more quickly than traditional QR code scanning.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-loading multiple items of digital content (including backup validation elements and interactive elements) onto the mobile device before validation is needed. This ensures that all validation resources are readily available, eliminating delays associated with real-time generation or retrieval of validation data during the ticket checking process.
2Reliability
If simple ticket display is used, then user interaction is minimized, but security against counterfeiting is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements nesting by embedding multiple layers of validation within the ticket display. The primary ticket information contains nested interactive elements, which in turn contain secondary validation content. This nested structure allows security verification at multiple levels without requiring a separate complex validation system, as each layer reinforces the authenticity of the ticket while maintaining a relatively simple overall device architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary layer of interactive digital content between the basic ticket display and the security verification process. This intermediary layer includes interactive elements that mediate between the user and the validation system, providing enhanced security through user engagement while keeping the device complexity manageable by using standard mobile device capabilities.
3Reliability
If interactive digital content is added to mobile tickets, then security is enhanced, but the validation process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service by enabling the mobile device itself to perform the validation function through its existing touchscreen interface. The interactive digital content leverages the device's own capabilities (touchscreen, processor, display) to provide security verification without requiring external specialized equipment. This self-service approach enhances security through interactive elements while maintaining ease of operation by using familiar device interfaces that users already know how to operate.
4Reliability
If multiple items of digital content are used for validation, then authentication robustness is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic action by structuring the validation process as a sequence of discrete interaction stages rather than a continuous complex process. The ticket validation occurs in periodic phases: initial display presentation, user interaction detection, secondary content activation, and final verification. This periodic structure allows the system to process multiple items of digital content in manageable stages, maintaining authentication robustness while reducing overall processing time through efficient staged validation.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for interaction-based validation of electronic tickets. In some embodiments, the system renders a first visually illustrative scene on an interactive display screen of a mobile device, the first visually illustrative scene responsive to a pre-determined gesture performed at a predetermined location on the interactive display screen. Upon a user interacting with the first visually illustrative scene, an app on the user's mobile device extracts user interaction information. In response to determining that the user interaction information matches with a pre-determined gesture performed at the predetermined location, the system renders a second visually illustrative scene on the interactive display screen of the mobile device.