Patent ID: 8126815
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for carrying out verification processes with regard to authorization of payment processes via a mobile telephone terminal, the method comprising the steps of: providing an identifier, which can be called-up and is associated with a particular party who is at least one of an authorized payer, for display on a display device of a mobile telephone terminal associated with the particular party; displaying the identifier on the display device and optically scanning the identifier at an interrogation station on instructions of the particular party; upon successful identification of the scanned identifier, transmitting to the mobile telephone terminal a control message from the interrogation station or from a matching device in communication with the interrogation station, the control message including a request for confirmation of an authorization of a payment process; and in response to receiving the control message at the mobile telephone terminal, the mobile telephone terminal automatically displaying a confirmation message on the display device of the mobile telephone terminal and optically scanning the displayed confirmation message at the interrogation station; evaluating, by the interrogation station, the control message and the scanned confirmation message; in response to a positive evaluation, authorizing said payment process; such that the payment process requires two separate optical scans of different information displayed on the mobile telephone terminal display device at the interrogation station, namely, the optical scan of the identifier displayed on the mobile telephone terminal display device and the additional, separate optical scan of the confirmation message displayed on the mobile telephone terminal display device, wherein both optical scans are performed during the payment process at the interrogation station.