Patent ID: 6842741

Claim:
An apparatus for redeeming electronic tickets for various services which comprises an issuer identifier recording part for recording an identifier of an electronic ticket issuer, a right information recording part for recording right information of said electronic ticket; a condition recording part for recording a redeem condition of said electronic ticket, an owner identifier recording part for recording an identifier of an electronic ticket owner, and a signature recording part for recording a signature of said issuer, said condition recording part having a qualification condition defining part for specifying, as said redeem condition, a ticket that an electronic ticket receiver is required to possess, said qualification condition defining part defining, as said redeem condition, a schema identifier which specifies the schema of a ticket that said electronic ticket receiver is required to possess, said redeeming apparatus comprising: means for verifying whether said electronic ticket receiver possesses said ticket specified by said schema identifier in said qualification condition defining part; and means for sending said electronic ticket to said electronic ticket receiver when it is verified by said verifying means that said electronic ticket receiver possesses said specified ticket.