Paperless Ticket Wallet Authentication Without Visible Serial Numbers
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Solution Overview
Problem
The transition to electronic ticketing has been hindered by concerns over fraud and security in government-managed lottery tickets, while consumers face issues with managing and organizing printed tickets, and there is a desire to increase online sales.
Innovation Solution
A paperless ticket management system that generates a hash value for electronic tickets without unique serial numbers, linking device identifiers to these values, and maintaining records for authentication and redemption, ensuring secure and organized electronic ticket handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If printed lottery tickets are used, then consumers can physically possess and redeem tickets, but tickets can be lost, stolen, or mismanaged without recovery options
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates digital copies of lottery tickets stored in a centralized database accessible via the lottery system. These electronic ticket representations replace physical printed tickets, allowing consumers to access, manage, and redeem tickets through the digital platform without risk of loss or theft of physical copies.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a centralized database and lottery system as an intermediary between the consumer and the physical ticket. This intermediary manages ticket storage, tracking, and redemption processes, providing consumers with recovery options and management capabilities while maintaining ticket security through centralized control.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If electronic tickets without unique serial numbers are used, then fraud risk is reduced, but ticket authentication and verification become more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical authentication methods (unique serial numbers, barcodes, and physical verification) with a centralized database verification system. The authentication process substitutes physical ticket inspection with electronic database queries that verify ticket validity, ownership, and redemption status without relying on unique serial numbers printed on physical tickets.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the unique serial number from the physical ticket and stores it exclusively in the centralized database. This separation removes the security-sensitive identification data from the physical or electronic ticket presentation layer, preventing fraud while maintaining authentication capability through database verification.
3Productivity
If online ticket sales are increased, then government revenue increases, but concerns about online theft and fraud increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized database and secure electronic ticket system as intermediaries between online sales platforms and ticket redemption. This intermediary layer enables increased online sales by providing secure electronic ticket delivery and management, while simultaneously preventing online fraud through centralized verification and control of ticket validity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates secure electronic copies of tickets that can be delivered and managed online without physical distribution risks. These digital ticket representations enable scalable online sales while maintaining security through centralized database control, preventing duplication or theft that would compromise fraud prevention.
4Reliability
If printed tickets are provided to consumers, then ticket possession is confirmed, but tickets cannot be recovered if lost or stolen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates digital copies of tickets stored in a centralized database that can be instantly accessed and recovered. When a consumer loses a physical ticket, the system can verify ownership through the database and provide recovery or reissuance of the ticket electronically, eliminating the permanent loss associated with physical ticket destruction.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the centralized database continuously tracks ticket status, ownership, and redemption information. This real-time feedback system enables immediate verification of ticket possession and facilitates quick recovery actions when tickets are lost or stolen, reducing the time and effort required for ticket recovery.
Data Source
AI summary
When an electronic ticket is purchased, the ticket is maintained electronically (paperless format) on a consumer-operated device via a ticket wallet application (app). Wallet app obtains ticket details via a scan of an image of the ticket captured from a display of a ticket vendor terminal. Only the wallet app maintains ticket details of the ticket; however, a ticket service cooperates with the wallet app to validate the ticket, to track redemption of the ticket, to authorize printing of the ticket, and to manage the ticket with other tickets of a consumer associated with consumer-operated device.