MMCDC Gold Award: Mobile E-Credit card System

Speaker:        1)      Xing JIN 
                        Department of Computer Science, HKUST
                2)      Chunya GENG 
                        Department of Physics and Materials Science
                        City University of Hong Kong
                3)      Peifeng HU 
                        Department of Computer Science
                        University of Hong Kong

Title:          "MMCDC Gold Award: Mobile E-Credit card System"

Date:           Monday, 13 October 2003

Time:           4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Venue:          Lecture Theatre F
                (Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
                HKUST


ABSTRACT:

Mobile E-credit Card System (MECS) is designed to integrate all the
necessary functions in personal finance service. The system includes
"Real-time" Credit Transaction subSystem (RCTsubS) and "Infinite" Finance
Management subSystem (IFMsubS), which will bring many benefits to people's
life with an entirely new idea and great convenience. MECS can be
installed to many kinds of personal wireless terminals such as color
mobile phone (Motorola T720), PDA (Palm TM), and so on. As an integrated
software system, MECS is developed on the platform of J2ME, and it
utilizes the high-speed wireless network (e.g. GPRS, 3G) to ensure
transmitting information with high speed, stability, and efficiency.

The Real-time Credit Transaction subSystem (RCTsubS) can be used when a
user wants to pay for an item he/she wants to buy while shopping. Having a
mobile phone connected to our system, the user doesn't need to use cash or
credit cards at all. He only needs to authorize himself to the server and
legalize the assigned bill with two private numbers (ID number and
transaction random number), and the whole transaction can be finished
within a short time.

The Infinite Finance Management subSystem (IFMsubS) can provide the users
with all the necessary functions on personal daily finance management. It
integrates all the current self-service methods such as ATM, bank online,
bank on phone, and hence brings great conveniences to the users. IFMsubS
currently offers five sets of functions as follows: Account Query Service,
Account Transfer Service, Pay Bill Service, Interactive Information
Service and Personal Details Service.

This design won the gold award in MMCDC2003 (Mobile Multimedia
Communication Design Contest), which is held by the Hong Kong Institute of
Engineers. A team of 3 PG students from different departments contributed
to it.

Biography:

The awarded team is made up of 3 persons. Jin Xing received his B.Eng
(2002) in computer science from Tsinghua University. He is now a Ph.D.
student in Computer Science Department of HKUST. Geng Chunya received his
B.Eng (2002) in material science and engineering from Tsinghua University.
He is now a PG student in Department of Physics and Materials Science of
CityU. Hu Peifeng received his B.Eng (2000) and M.S (2002) in computer
science from Tsinghua University. He is now a PG student in Computer
Science Department of HKU.