Patent ID: 6195542
Filing Date: 2001-02-27
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method for conducting transactions by a wireless telephone under control of a central computer with a plurality of transaction units connected to a site computer, comprising the steps of: establishing a first telecommunication call to the central computer by the wireless telephone upon the wireless telephone preparing to engage in a transaction with one of the plurality of the transaction units; establishing a second telecommunication call to the site computer by the central computer in response to the first telecommunication call; transmitting a transaction number to the wireless telephone via the central computer and to the one of transaction units by site computer in response to the second telecommunication call; displaying the received transaction number by the one of the transaction units; displaying the received transaction number to the user of wireless telephone by the wireless telephone; transmitting an acceptance message to central computer by wireless telephone in response to an action by the user of the wireless telephone confirming that the received transaction number displayed bv the one of the transaction units is identical to the received transaction number displayed by the wireless telephone; and retransmitting the acceptance message to the site computer by central computer.