Digital Wallet Barcode Validation for Age-Restricted Sales
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for selling age-restricted products face challenges in preventing underage purchases, especially in online sales, where age verification checks may not be consistently enforced, leading to potential legal and regulatory issues for sellers and manufacturers.
Innovation Solution
A controlled dispensing system that requires age verification during account setup and links the consumer's identity and personal electronic device to the purchase, ensuring that the product can only be used when in range of the linked device, with additional biometric verification for activation, thus restricting access to authorized individuals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If online sales of age-restricted products are enabled, then convenience and reach are improved, but verification reliability deteriorates due to inconsistent age verification enforcement
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs age verification in advance during account setup before any product purchase can occur. The consumer's identity is verified and stored in the account profile, and their personal electronic device is registered and linked to the account. This preliminary verification ensures that when products are purchased online, the age restriction has already been enforced, maintaining reliability while enabling convenient online sales.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors and tracks product usage through the linked personal electronic device. NFC validation and biometric verification provide feedback mechanisms to confirm that the authorized user is the one actually using the product. This ongoing feedback loop ensures verification reliability is maintained throughout the product lifecycle, not just at purchase.
2Reliability
If live person verification is required at point of sale, then verification reliability is improved, but operational efficiency deteriorates due to manual processes
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated verification processes where the consumer's registered personal electronic device performs NFC validation and biometric verification independently. The linked device communicates with the dispensing system to confirm the user's identity and authorization status without requiring a live person to manually check ID or verify age. This self-service approach maintains verification reliability while dramatically improving operational efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces manual mechanical verification processes (live person examining physical ID) with electronic and optical verification methods. NFC communication between devices and biometric scanning automatically verify the consumer's identity and age, substituting the mechanical human verification process with automated technological systems that are both reliable and efficient.
3Loss of information
If account registration is required for purchase, then tracking capability is improved, but user accessibility deteriorates due to registration barriers
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs account setup and device linking in advance, during which the consumer provides necessary information for tracking. Once the account is established with the personal electronic device linked, subsequent purchases and usage can be tracked automatically without requiring the user to re-enter information or undergo additional registration steps. This preliminary action captures the tracking data upfront while maintaining easy accessibility for future transactions.
Data Source
AI summary
A browser application of a mobile device receives an instruction from a web page to obtain identity and/or age data from a digital wallet application of the mobile device, obtains the requested data upon successful biometric authentication, transmits the requested data to the server system, receives a graphic barcode from the server system corresponding to a determination by the server system that the requested data satisfies an identity or age-based restriction or regulation, and causes the graphic barcode to be displayed on a display of the mobile device. A verifying device scans the graphic barcode and transmits it to the server system. The server system transmits a validation decision to the verifying device based on a determination that the graphic barcode transmitted to the mobile device corresponds to the graphic barcode received from the verifying device.