Appeal No. 2003-2165 Page 3
Application No. 09/067,093
storing in a portable card a sporting ticket comprising event-related
information including date of said sporting event said sporting ticket is
valid for;
subsequently coupling the card to a sporting event admission
database including an access control module, and uploading by the card
the ticket to the control module;
verifying the uploaded ticket by the control module; and if
successful, then automatically compiling an admission stamp by the
database;
downloading by the database the stamp into the card and admitting
by the control module the ticketholder [sic] to said sporting event based
upon said admission stamp; and
subsequently cancelling including automatically earmarking by the
card said sporting ticket with said admission stamp to prevent multiple
admissions to said sporting event via the same ticket.
53. A method for automatically determining if the sale of a good or service
is conditioned, comprising:
earmarking with a restricted merchandise code goods or services
including said good or service requiring fulfillment of a specific condition
when sold;
storing the restricted code also into a merchandise list included in a
merchant database;
subsequently presenting a particular good or service for sale and
automatically capturing a merchandise code previously attached to said
particular good or service; and
automatically uploading said merchandise code into the database
and comparing by the database the captured code against said
merchandise list comprising said restricted merchandise code; and
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