AU2003236476A1 - Voucher purchase and redemption system - Google Patents
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Invention Title: Voucher purchase and redemption system The following statement is a full description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to us: VOUCHER PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION SYSTEM The present invention relates generally to an automated method and system for purchasing goods and services via a telecommunications network, and in particular to a method and system that facilitates the purchase of a voucher and the subsequent redemption of that voucher at a merchant.
The provision of redeemable vouchers is a well known way for merchants to attract potential customers to their retail premises. Typically, a gift voucher or like redeemable voucher will be purchased from the merchant's retail premises, or via an intermediary agent. The voucher will then be offered by the purchasing party to another party and taken to the retail premises of the merchant for redemption.
Another technique used by merchants to encourage customers to purchase goods or services from a merchant retail premises, is the provision of redeemable coupons or vouchers that may be purchased or obtained free of charge by a customer, and then redeemed for a value of goods or services greater than the purchase price upon presentation of the redeemable voucher or coupon at the merchant retail premises. It is known to provide such redeemable vouchers or coupons by way of advertising material, for example printed on or included in consumer packaging or other print media. Upon presentation of that redeemable coupon or voucher at the merchant retail premise, a customer is rewarded with goods or services of a certain value. The merchant, having attracted the customer to its retail premise, seeks to encourage the consumer to purchase other goods or services in addition to the goods or services redeemed from the voucher or coupon.
However, the way in which such voucher purchase and redemption systems are facilitated and administered is cumbersome, costly and difficult to control.
Firstly, the production of printed vouchers or coupons and their distribution together with advertising material accessible to a large number of customers is difficult.
Moreover, the collection of redeemed vouchers at each of a merchant's retail premises, the collection of information relating to those redeemed vouchers at each Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) retail premises and the administration of that information at a central location is complex. It is also difficult to verify the authenticity of each of the redeemed vouchers.
It would therefore be desirable to provide a method and system of voucher purchase and redemption that ameliorates or overcomes one or more problems of known voucher purchase and redemption systems and methods.
It would also be desirable to provide a method and system of voucher purchase and redemption that was simple and efficient for both a customer and a merchant to use, and was simple to centrally administer.
With this in mind, one aspect of the invention provides a method of voucher purchase and redemption, the method including the steps: establishing a connection between a telecommunications device and a administration server via a telecommunications network, receiving at an administration server a request transmitted from a user telecommunications device to obtain a redeemable voucher, transmitting a redeemable voucher identifier from the administration server to the user telecommunications device, subsequently receiving at the administration server the redeemable voucher identifier transmitted from a merchant telecommunications device, validating the redeemable voucher identifier, and transmitting validation of the redeemable voucher identifier to the merchant telecommunications terminal to enable redemption of the redeemable voucher.
The method may further include the step of: purchasing the redeemable voucher in step and processing payment of the request.
The telecommunications network may include at least one voice telephone network.
The voice telephone network may include a public switched telephone network (PSTN).
Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) The voice telephone network may include a wireless communications network, such as a global system for mobile communications (GSM) network.
The telecommunications network may also include at least one data network, such as the Internet.
The request transmitted in step may include speech signals.
The method may include: interpreting the speech signals at a voice recognition device operatively connected to the sponsor server.
Alternatively, the request transmitted in step may include data signals.
The data signals may be generated by one or more keystrokes made via the user telecommunications device.
The request may be transmitted in step in response to one or more user prompts received at the user telecommunications device.
The user prompts may include voice prompts transmitted from a voice transmission device operatively connected to the sponsor server.
The voice transmission device and the voice recognition device may form part of an interactive voice response device.
Alternatively, the user prompts may include one or more user interfaces displayed to the user at the user telecommunications device.
The step of processing payment of the request may include: establishing a connection between the sponsor server and a user telecommunication service provider server, and transmitting the request from the sponsor server to the user telecommunication service provider server to debit a user telecommunication account for the purchase of the redeemable voucher.
The method may further include: identifying the network address of the user telecommunications device, and transmitting the network address to the user telecommunication service provider server to enable identification of the user telecommunications account.
The network address may be the calling party or A-number of the user Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) telecommunications device.
Alternatively, the network address may be the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the user telecommunications device.
In another embodiment, the step of processing payment of the request may include: receiving user payment information, and transmitting user payment information to a user financial services provider server to debit a user account for the purchase of the redeemable voucher.
The user payment information may include user credit card details or user bank account details.
The method may include: receiving at the sponsor server confirmation that the user payment has been authorised.
Step may include: transmitting a redeemable voucher identifier to the user telecommunications device, and storing the redeemable voucher identifier in a database operatively connected to the sponsor server.
The redeemable voucher identifier may be a string of one or more alphanumeric characters.
The redeemable voucher identifier may be transmitted to the user telecommunications device as a voice signal.
The voice signal may be transmitted by the voice transmission device.
Alternatively, the redeemable voucher identifier may be transmitted to the user telecommunications device as a data.
The data may be displayed to the user via the user telecommunications device.
The data may be transmitted as a text message, such as an email message or short message service (SMS) message.
The redeemable voucher identifier may be transmitted in step as a speech Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) signal.
The method may include: interpreting the speech signals at the voice recognition device.
Alternatively, the redeemable voucher identifier may be transmitted in step as a data signal.
The data signals may be generated by one or more keystrokes made via the merchant telecommunications device.
Step may include: at the sponsor server, comparing the redeemable voucher identifier maintained in the database with that transmitted from the merchant telecommunications device in step The method may includes: deleting the redeemable voucher identifier from the database when the validation of the redeemable voucher identifier to the merchant telecommunications terminal is transmitted in step Another aspect of the invention provides a voucher purchase and redemption system, including a sponsor server including a processing unit and a memory device for storing computer program code to cause the sponsor server to: receive a request transmitted via a telecommunications network from a user telecommunications device to purchase a redeemable voucher, process payment of the request, and transmit a redeemable voucher identifier from the sponsor server to the user telecommunications device; and a merchant telecommunications device for subsequently transmitting the redeemable voucher identifier to the sponsor server; whereupon the computer program code causes the sponsor server to validate the redeemable voucher identifier, and transmit validation of the redeemable voucher identifier to the merchant telecommunications terminal to enable redemption of the redeemable voucher.
Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) The voucher purchase and redemption system may further include: a database operatively connectable to the sponsor server to store the redeemable voucher identifier for subsequent validation.
Yet another aspect of the invention provides a sponsor server for use in a voucher purchase and redemption system, the sponsor server including a processing unit and a memory device for storing computer program code to cause the sponsor server to: receive a request transmitted via a telecommunications network from a user telecommunications device to purchase a redeemable voucher, process payment of the request, transmit a redeemable voucher identifier from the sponsor server to the user telecommunications device, and upon receipt from a merchant telecommunications device of the redeemable voucher identifier, validate the redeemable voucher identifier, and transmit validation of the redeemable voucher identifier to the merchant telecommunications terminal to enable redemption of the redeemable voucher.
A further aspect of the invention provides a computer program including computer program code for use with a sponsor server forming part of a voucher purchase and redemption system, the sponsor server including a processing unit and a memory device for storing computer program code, the computer program code causing the sponsor server to: receive a request transmitted via a telecommunications network from a user telecommunications device to purchase a redeemable voucher, process payment of the request, transmit a redeemable voucher identifier from the sponsor server to the user telecommunications device, and upon receipt from a merchant telecommunications device of the redeemable voucher identifier, validate the redeemable voucher identifier, and transmit validation of the redeemable voucher identifier to the merchant telecommunications terminal to enable redemption of the redeemable voucher.
Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) The following description refers in more detail to the various features of the voucher purchase and redemption method and system of the present invention. To facilitate an understanding of the invention, reference is made in the description to the accompanying drawings where the invention is illustrated in a preferred embodiment. It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the preferred embodiment as illustrated in the drawings.
In the drawings: Figure 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating one embodiment of a voucher purchase and redemption system according to the present invention; Figure 2 is a flow chart illustrating the operation of the system of Figure 1 during the purchase of a redeemable voucher; and Figure 3 is a flow chart showing the operation of the system of Figure 1 during the redemption of a redeemable voucher.
Referring now to Figure 1, there is shown generally a voucher purchase and redemption system 1 including an administration server 2 and associated database 3 operatively connected to the administration server 2, an interactive voice response unit 4, including a voice recognition device 5 and a voice transmission device 6.
User telecommunication devices, in this figure represented by a user telephone handset 7 and a user mobile telephone 8 are able to establish a connection with the administration server 2 via a telecommunications network, in this case including at least one voice telephone network. The user telephone handset 7 establishes a connection with the administration server 2 via a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) 9 whereas the mobile telephone handset 8 establishes a connection with the administration server 2 via a wireless communications network, such as a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network Alternately, a user may establish a connection with administration server 2 via a data network, such as the Internet 11, and a user terminal 12 operatively connected to the data network.
The voucher purchase and redemption system 1 also includes one or merchant telecommunication devices, such as a merchant telephone handset 13 Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) connected to the administration server 2 via the PSTN network 9. A merchant terminal 14 is connected to the administration server 2 by means of the Internet 11.
A financial services provider server, in this instance represented by a bank server 15, and associated database 16, is connected to the administration server 2 by the Internet 11. A telecommunication service provider server 17, and associated database 18 is also connected to the administration server 2, in this case by the PSTN network 9. In other embodiments, both the bank server 15 and telecommunications service provider server 17 may be connected to the administration server 2 by means of the Internet 11, PSTN network 9 or another telecommunications network.
The administration server 2, bank server 15 and telecommunications service provider server 17 each includes a processing unit and memory device for storing computer program code to cause each of these servers to perform the functionality that will now be described.
As can be seen in Figure 2, the method of voucher purchase and redemption is initiated in step 30 by the distribution of advertising material informing customers of the availability for purchase of a redeemable voucher. The advertising material may be produced in a printed, electronic or any other format. The advertising material is typically generated by an advertising agency engaged by one or more merchants desiring to attract customers their various physical or virtual retail outlets.
The advertising material displayed at step 30 includes the network address of the administration server 2. For example, the advertising material may include a telephone number that may be dialled by a customer from either the user telephone handset 7 or the mobile telephone. In this case, the customer may chose to contact the administration server 2 at step 31 by establishing a connection between the user telephone handset 7 or mobile telephone 8 and the PSTN network 9 and/or GSM network 10. The telephone number provided may be a "1900" telephone number or "1300" telephone number, or like telephone number for which billing is processed by a telecommunications service provider in a separate manner from conventional Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) timed or fixed price telephone calls. It will be appreciated that the charge applied for a "1900" telephone call may be either a timed charge or fixed "drop charge".
Upon establishment of a connection with the administration server 2, the interactive voice response unit 4 (which may be constituted by an intelligent peripheral forming part of an intelligent network) is instructed by the administration server 2 to direct one or more voice prompts to the user, at step 32. The user may respond to these voice prompts either by the entry of data via a keypad included in the user telephone handset 7 or mobile telephone 8, or by responding with voice instructions. In this latter case, the speech signals from the user are interpreted by the voice recognition device 5 and corresponding signals forwarded to the administration server 2.
Alternatively, the network address included in the advertising material displayed at step 30 may include a world wide web or like data network address to enable a connection to be established at step 33 from the user terminal 12 to the administration server 2. In this case, a series of one or more user interfaces may be displayed to the user at the user terminal 12 in order to enable the purchase of a redeemable voucher.
Once the option of purchasing a redeemable voucher has been selected by the user at either step 32 or 34, the administration server 2 acts to generate a redeemable voucher number of other identifier at step 35, and stores this Redeemable Voucher Number (RVN) in the database 3. It will be appreciated that in other embodiments, the redeemable voucher need not be obtained by purchasing, but may be obtained free of charge.
At step 36, the administration server determines whether a connection was established by dialling a "1300" number. If this was the case, the user is prompted by the voice transmission device 6 to enter their credit cart details or other user payment information at step 37. At step 38, the user payment information is transmitted to the bank server 15. At step 39, the user payment information is used to debit a user's credit card or other user account for the purchase of the redeemable voucher.
Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) At step 40, the user payment information is validated by the bank server and if the credit details are incorrect, the processing of the voucher purchase is stopped at step 41. If, however, the redeemable voucher purchase is authorised, an authorisation signal is then sent at step 42 to the administration server 2.
However, if it was determined by the administration server 2 at step 36 that connection was not established by means of dialling a "1300" telephone number, the payment for the redeemable voucher is processed by debiting of an existing account maintained by the telecommunications service provider. At step 43, the calling party or A number is captured by the administration server 2 in those instances where a connection was established from either the user telephone handset 7 or mobile telephone 8. Where a connection was established from the user terminal 12, the user may be prompted to enter a user name or other account identifier. At step 44, the captured A number or user name is then transmitted, together with the RVN generated at step 35 to the telecommunications service provider server 17.
At step 45, the telecommunications service provider server determines whether the party associated with the A number or user name has an established telecommunications account. If this is the case, the purchase of the redeemable voucher will be authorised at step 46, and the user account debited with the purchase price of the redeemable voucher. If the transaction is not authorised at step 46, processing of the payment will be stopped at step 47.
Once authorisation of the purchase of the redeemable voucher has been transmitted to the administration server 2 at step 42, a detennrmination is then made by the administration server 2 at step 48 as to whether the initial connection was established by means of a voice network, such as via the PSTN network 9 and/or GSM network 10. If this was the case, then the RVN is transmitted by the voice transmission device 6 to the user telecommunications device as a voice signal at step 49. Alternatively, if it determined at step 50 that the A number identifies a mobile communications device supporting text messaging, the RVN may be transmitted at step 51 as a text message to the user telecommunications device.
Alternatively, the RVN may be transmitted at step 52 as a data message, for Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) example as an email message or HTML page for display to the user at the user terminal 12. The RVN may take any suitable form, and may typically consist of a string of one or more alpha numeric characters.
Having purchased the redeemable voucher, and then having been provided with the RVN to enable redemption of the voucher, the user then presents themselves to the merchant in question. A connection is then established between a merchant telecommunication device, such as the merchant terminal 14 or the merchant telephone 13, and the administration server 2. As seen in Figure 3, the RVN is entered by the user at step 60. In the case of the merchant telephone 13 being used, the RVN may be transmitted to the administration server 2 as a speech signal, and interpreted by the voice recognition device 6. The RVN may also be transmitted as a data signal, by entry of one or more key strokes via a keypad associated with the merchant telephone 13 or the merchant terminal 14.
Upon entry of the RVN, and transmission of the RVN at step 61 to the administration server, the RVN entered by the user is then compared to the RVN maintained in the database 3 for validation. If the RVN entered is found to match an RVN maintained in the database 3, the administration server 2 will authorise redemption of the voucher. In order to ensure that the redemption of a voucher occurs a single time only, the database 3 is updated at step 63 to delete the RVN. A confirmation signal is then sent at step 64 to the merchant telecommunications device in question. Upon receipt of the confirmation signal from the administration server 2, the merchant then redeems the voucher at step 65 to the user, for example, by the provision of the relevant goods, services or cash to that user. The value of the goods or services redeemed may be greater than the purchase price (if any) of the redeemable voucher.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that there may be many variations and modifications of the above-described method and system which are within the scope of the present invention. For example, in an alternative embodiment to that described above, the redeemable voucher may be purchased by reverse SMS billing.
The reverse SMS billing may also be charged via a consumer's telephone account, be it either a mobile or fixed account.
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1. A method of voucher purchase and redemption, the method including the steps: establishing a connection between a telecommunications device and a administration server via a telecommunications network, receiving at an administration server a request transmitted from a user telecommunications device to obtain a redeemable voucher, transmitting a redeemable voucher identifier from the administration server to the user telecommunications device, subsequently receiving at the administration server the redeemable voucher identifier transmitted from a merchant telecommunications device, validating the redeemable voucher identifier, and transmitting validation of the redeemable voucher identifier to the merchant telecommunications terminal to enable redemption of the redeemable voucher.
2. A method according to claim 1, and further including the step of: purchasing the redeemable voucher in step and processing payment of the request.
3. A method according to either one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the telecommunications network includes at least one voice telephone network.
4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the voice telephone network includes a public switched telephone network (PSTN). A method according to claim 3, wherein the voice telephone network includes a wireless communications network.
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6. A method according to claim 5, wherein the wireless communications network is a global system for mobile communications (GSM) network.
7. A method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the telecommunications network includes at least one data network.
8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the data network is the Internet.
9. A method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the request transmitted in step includes speech signals.
A method according to claim 9, and further including the step of: interpreting the speech signals at a voice recognition device operatively connected to the sponsor server.
11. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the request transmitted in step includes data signals.
12. A method according to claim 11, wherein the data signals are be generated by one or more keystrokes made via the user telecommunications device.
13. A method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the request is transmitted in step in response to one or more user prompts received at the user telecommunications device.
14. A method according to claim 13, wherein the user prompts include voice prompts transmitted from a voice transmission device operatively connected to the sponsor server.
15. A method according to claim 14, wherein the voice transmission device and Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) the voice recognition device form part of an interactive voice response device.
16. A method according to claim 13, wherein the user prompts include one or more user interfaces displayed to the user at the user telecommunications device.
17. A method according to claim 2, wherein the step of processing payment of the request includes: establishing a connection between the sponsor server and a user telecommunication service provider server, and transmitting the request from the sponsor server to the user telecommunication service provider server to debit a user telecommunication account for the purchase of the redeemable voucher.
18. A method according to any one of the preceding claims, and further including the step of: identifying the network address of the user telecommunications device, and transmitting the network address to the user telecommunication service provider server to enable identification of the user telecommunications account.
19. A method according to claim 18, wherein the network address is the calling party or A-number of the user telecommunications device.
A method according to claim 18, wherein the network address is the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the user telecommunications device.
21. A method according to claim 2, wherein the step of processing payment of the request includes: receiving user payment information, and transmitting user payment information to a user financial services provider server to debit a user account for the purchase of the redeemable voucher. Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23)
22. A method according to claim 21, wherein the user payment information includes user credit card details or user bank account details.
23. A method according to any one of the preceding claims, and further including: receiving at the sponsor server confirmation that the user payment has been authorised.
24. A method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein step (c) includes: transmitting a redeemable voucher identifier to the user telecommunications device, and storing the redeemable voucher identifier in a database operatively connected to the sponsor server.
A method according to claim 24, wherein the redeemable voucher identifier is a string of one or more alpha-numeric characters.
26. A method according to either one of claims 24 or 25, wherein the redeemable voucher identifier is transmitted to the user telecommunications device as a voice signal.
27. A method according to claim 26, wherein the voice signal is transmitted by the voice transmission device.
28. A method according to claim 26, wherein the redeemable voucher identifier may be transmitted to the user telecommunications device as data.
29. A method according to claim 28, wherein the data is displayed to the user via Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) the user telecommunications device.
A method according to either one of claims 28 or 29, wherein the data is transmitted as a text message.
31. A method according to claim 30, wherein the text message is an email message or short message service (SMS) message.
32. A method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the redeemable voucher identifier is transmitted in step as a speech signal.
33. A method according to claim 32, and further including the step of: interpreting the speech signals at the voice recognition device.
34. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 31, wherein the redeemable voucher identifier is transmitted in step as a data signal.
A method according to claim 34, wherein the data signals are generated by one or more keystrokes made via the merchant telecommunications device.
36. A method according to any one of claims 24 to 31, wherein step includes: at the sponsor server, comparing the redeemable voucher identifier maintained in the database with that transmitted from the merchant telecommunications device in step
37. A method according to claim 36, and further including the step of: deleting the redeemable voucher identifier from the database when the validation of the redeemable voucher identifier to the merchant telecommunications terminal is transmitted in step Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23)
38. A voucher purchase and redemption system, including a sponsor server including a processing unit and a memory device for storing computer program isntructions to cause the sponsor server to: receive a request transmitted via a telecommunications network from a user telecommunications device to purchase a redeemable voucher, process payment of the request, and transmit a redeemable voucher identifier from the sponsor server to the user telecommunications device; and a merchant telecommunications device for subsequently transmitting the redeemable voucher identifier to the sponsor server; whereupon the computer program instructions causes the sponsor server to validate the redeemable voucher identifier, and transmit validation of the redeemable voucher identifier to the merchant telecommunications terminal to enable redemption of the redeemable voucher.
39. A voucher purchase and redemption system according to claim 38, and further including: a database operatively connectable to the sponsor server to store the redeemable voucher identifier for subsequent validation.
A sponsor server for use in a voucher purchase and redemption system, the sponsor server including a processing unit and a memory device for storing computer program instructions to cause the sponsor server to: receive a request transmitted via a telecommunications network from a user telecommunications device to purchase a redeemable voucher, process payment of the request, transmit a redeemable voucher identifier from the sponsor server to the user telecommunications device, and upon receipt from a merchant telecommunications device of the redeemable voucher identifier, validate the redeemable voucher identifier, and Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23) transmit validation of the redeemable voucher identifier to the merchant telecommunications terminal to enable redemption of the redeemable voucher.
41. A computer program including computer program instructions for use with a sponsor server forming part of a voucher purchase and redemption system, the sponsor server including a processing unit and a memory device for storing computer program code, the computer program code causing the sponsor server to: receive a request transmitted via a telecommunications network from a user telecommunications device to purchase a redeemable voucher, process payment of the request, transmit a redeemable voucher identifier from the sponsor server to the user telecommunications device, and upon receipt from a merchant telecommunications device of the redeemable voucher identifier, validate the redeemable voucher identifier, and transmit validation of the redeemable voucher identifier to the merchant telecommunications terminal to enable redemption of the redeemable voucher. Dated: 26 August, 2003 FREEHILLS CARTER SMITH BEADLE Patent Attorneys for the Applicant JOAN BARKLEY Melbourne\004352984 Printed 26 August 2003 (15:23)
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