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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2003
Andreas Martschitsch, Herzogenbuchsee, CH;
Eric Lauper, Bern, CH;
Swisscom Mobile AG, Bern, CH;
Abstract
Proposed is a transaction method between a customer and one of a plurality of service terminals ( ) which supply selectable products and/or services, subject to costs, on location, as well as a sales system for carrying out the transaction method, whereby, by means of a portable mobile device ( ) of the customer, an order record ( ), comprising a service terminal identification ( ) of the service terminal ( ), is transmitted via a mobile radio network ( ) to a service center ( ), the service center ( ) checking the credit worthiness of the customer from whom the order record was transmitted, and, in the case of positive credit worthiness, transmitting a credit record comprising a credit value via a communication network ( ′) to the service terminal ( ) identified through the service terminal identification ( ), and whereby, on the basis of the received credit record, the service terminal ( ) releases the selection of a product and/or of a service and supplies the desired product or the desired service corresponding to the selection made by the customer, and a supply confirmation comprising a cost amount for the supplied product or the supplied service is transmitted to the service center ( ) which debits the cost amount to an account of the customer.