Personal Electronic Access Permission System for Secure Event Entry
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Solution Overview
Problem
The current ticketing system lacks a secure digital solution that can prevent the unwanted 'resell for profit' secondary market, address counterfeit tickets, enable legitimate secondary market transactions, and validate the identity of ticket owners in a single efficient scanning event.
Innovation Solution
A method that generates a personal electronic access permission using a system comprising servers, databases, mobile communication devices, electronic ID services, and scanning devices. This system registers and authenticates customers using electronic ID services, pairs unique ID numbers with customer identities, and generates electronic access permissions that can be validated in a single scanning event.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual ID checking is implemented at the entrance, then security and identity validation are improved, but the entrance process becomes slow and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical manual ID checking process with an automated electronic scanning system. The scanning device captures images of the customer's ID document and ticket, automatically extracts data through OCR technology, and validates identity without human intervention. This substitution of mechanical manual verification with automated electronic processing resolves the contradiction by maintaining reliable identity validation while dramatically reducing entrance process time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-validating customer identity and ticket authenticity before the actual entrance event. The scanning device and system validate the ID and ticket in advance, cross-checking data against databases to confirm legitimacy. This preliminary validation ensures security requirements are met while the automated process keeps the actual entrance time minimal, resolving the time-efficiency contradiction.
2Ease of operation
If traditional ticketing systems are used, then ticket purchase is simple, but counterfeit tickets and unwanted secondary market reselling cannot be prevented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a composite authentication system that combines multiple verification layers: electronic ticket data, ID document information, biometric verification, and database cross-checking. This composite approach integrates various authentication mechanisms into a unified system that maintains ease of ticket purchase while significantly improving reliability by preventing counterfeit tickets and unauthorized secondary market reselling through multi-factor validation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously cross-checking ticket and ID data against centralized databases in real-time. The scanning device receives immediate feedback from the system regarding validation results, and the system adjusts authentication requirements based on risk assessment. This feedback loop ensures that counterfeit tickets are detected and rejected while maintaining a smooth purchase and entry process for legitimate customers.
3Reliability
If separate steps for ticket scanning and ID verification are used, then thorough validation is achieved, but the process becomes time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the previously separate ticket scanning and ID verification steps into a single integrated scanning event. The scanning device simultaneously captures both the ticket and ID document, the system processes both pieces of information together, and performs cross-validation in one unified operation. This merging maintains thorough validation by checking both ticket authenticity and ID legitimacy while dramatically improving entrance processing speed by eliminating the sequential nature of separate steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The scanning device and validation system are designed with multi-functionality to handle both ticket scanning and ID verification within a single operational framework. The system performs multiple functions simultaneously: capturing ticket data, capturing ID data, validating ticket authenticity, verifying ID legitimacy, and cross-checking both against databases. This universal design enables thorough validation across multiple dimensions while maintaining high processing speed through integrated operations.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention puts forward a personal electronic access permission (Figure B, 31) that can both check on the customer's identity (Figure A, step 2) and right to access an event/venue in one scanning event, and address the unwanted secondary market, still enabling a customer (Figure D, 5) to sell back an electronic access permission to the system (Figure D, 1) in case the customer is not able to attend the event.