Method and apparatus for communicating over a public computer network

Inactive Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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However, the leased lines required are often expensive.
However, such networks are inappropriate for corporate communications since there are no limits on who can access the network.
The Internet is a public network and is very difficult to impose control over.
Internet users can "cloak" their identity by surfing the net through anonymous proxy servers, easily distribute viruses and other damaging micro programs, perform credit card fraud, and damage computer Systems through hacking activities.
The current state of the Internet can therefore be characterized as chaotic, uncontrolled and insecure.
The visible Internet chaos stems from the difficulty in identifying hosts that are on the Internet at a given time.
The IP is a highly effective protocol for providing connectivity between various computer networks, but it is extremely ineffective for determining who injected a virus onto a network or who was hacking into a network.
Though this particular transaction system works rea

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[0103] 1. Purchaser visits a web store, does shopping, and brings a shopping cart to check out. The shopping cart holds a list of items and their respective prices. The price is tallied, and the site asks for a payment method. Purchaser selects his preferred payment method

[0104] 2. The "clicking" of button, which is used to end the shopping activity on the merchant's web page, initiates a "request to log on" signal from the merchant's server to the Safe Net Server. This process involves sending to the Safe Net server the SNAP ID of the Merchant's SNAP. Safe Net sends back to the seller a live permit (see the end of this document for the description of the live permit) encrypted using the merchant's secret key (Kerberos). Merchant's SNAP modifies the live permit in a predetermined manner and sends it back encrypted in the same manner immediately. The Safe Net central server checks to verify if the modification to the live permit was in the pre-approved manner, as set forth more fully be

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A method of processing a credit card transaction between a seller and a buyer over a network using a credit company. The method comprises the seller sending a sender identification and a product ID to the buyer. The buyer sends a buyer ID, the seller ID, the product ID and a price to the credit company. The credit company sends a bill to the buyer. The credit company sends payment to the seller, and the seller sends the product to the buyer.

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