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Apr 10, 2003
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Oct 4, 2001
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Oct 4, 2001
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A virtual ticket control system that controls admission of customers to a public facility. The virtual ticket control system comprises: 1) a plurality of terminal devices disposed at entry points to the public facility, a first one of the terminal devices for establishing a communication link to a virtual ticket device used by a customer and receiving a virtual ticket transmitted by the virtual ticket device; and 2) a virtual ticket authentication controller for receiving the received virtual ticket from the first terminal device and determining if a unique identifier associated with the received virtual ticket matches one of a plurality of stored unique identifiers associated with a plurality of authorized virtual ticket records stored in a memory associated with the virtual ticket authentication controller. In response to a determination that the unique identifier associated with the received virtual ticket matches one of the plurality of stored unique identifiers, the virtual ticket authentication controller transmits to the first terminal device an authorization message indicating that the received virtual ticket is valid.
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