METHOD AND SYSTEM USING IDENTIFICATION CODES TO PAY FOR AND RECEIVE COMMODITIES AND SERVICES

摘要

FIELD: automation of commercial transactions. SUBSTANCE: proposed method and system can be used for retail trade and rendering of various services, primarily of informational and consulting character, and also for organizing universal payment system enabling payments for commodities and services including those through Internet, for international calls, cellular communications, satellite television, for telephone-ordered commodities and services, etc.; proposed method and system may be also found useful for municipal-services payments and mutual payments. System has identification code submitting devices 1₁...1_N, request-shaping and reply-receiving devices 3₁...3_N, and executing devices 4 that function to execute operations for serving commodities or rendering services to User. Upon purchasing commodity or service identification code medium applicant addresses request-shaping and reply- receiving device 3 to pass commodity or service identification code to central control device 2. Identification code of commodity or service transmitted by user is checked for compliance with specified criteria and if results are positive, response message is conveyed to device 3 which initiates commodity serving or service rendering operation. EFFECT: facilitated procedures, enlarged functional capabilities. 26 cl, 4 dwg