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7600692 Systems and methods for managing and using prepaid purchasing accounts  
The present invention extends to managing prepaid purchasing accounts and depositing funds therein. A kiosk and management system are connected over a network. The management system maintains...
7600680 Time delimited multiple admission method and system  
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a provision of access to services. A time delimited, multiple use ticket/admissions card is provided that controls admission to services offered by...
7590602 Electronic currency, electronic wallet therefor and electronic payment systems employing them  
Electronic currency consists of data in a form suitable to be stored in a user's data storage medium, comprising information on the data value, identification of each specific set of data or data...
7590591 Electronic value exchange system and electronic value exchange method  
When a portable terminal receives a condition for an exchange object from a portable terminal, it selects electronic values as exchange objects, out of lists constituting the condition. An IC card...
7580897 IC card and authentication method in electronic ticket distribution system  
Between an IC card ( 1 ) and a electronic ticket server ( 2 ), upon purchasing an electronic ticket a public key cryptosystem is employed for a mutual authentication to keep a strict security, and...
7562348 Method and system for obtaining device services on a self-service financial transaction terminal  
A method and system for obtaining ATM device services utilizes a service provider framework in which data is received by an ATM application that indicates there is a need for the performance of an...
7496540 System and method for securing digital content  
A system is disclosed for a digital rights management system which enforces license rights by incorporating a decryption key in a license rights package that further includes an account number...
7478747 Retail sales and dispensing fuel management system  
The present invention extends to managing the dispensing of petroleum products. A kiosk (e.g., at a gas station) and fuel management system are connected over a network. The fuel management system...
7447661 Electronic bearer bond online transaction system  
An electronic transaction system, comprising bearer bond means for providing an online electronic bearer bond having a monetary value, transaction means for performing monetary transactions with...
7353206 Literary work royalty accounting method, network system therefor and recording medium on which control program therefor is recorded  
A literary work royalty meter rate accounting method is provided by which a royalty based on the frequency of use of literary works such as music data distributed through a communication circuit is...
7337949 System for marketing leisure activity services through prepaid tickets  
One-time-use tickets containing a unique identification code that allow for prepayment of entertainment or personal services are distributed and sold. When a ticket is sold, it is activated by the...
7287162 System and method for platform activation  
A platform discrimination indication register is stored in a wireless network card. This register holds a platform discrimination indication that indicates whether the wireless network card can be...
7280982 System and method for a fee address system  
A system relating to a fee address is described. A method of directing mail to a public mailbox, determining a fee based upon the preferences of the mail recipient, receiving the fee and forwarding...
7231526 System and method for validating a network session  
A system and method for preventing interception and decryption of information by an unauthorized party when that information is transmitted over a network is provided. A token is used to encrypt...
7222108 Electronic cash implementing method and equipment using user signature and recording medium recorded thereon a program for the method  
A user registers a user public key PKU as a pseudonym at a trustee or issuer and obtains an signature for the pseudonym as a license. The sends the pseudonym, PKU identification information IdU and...
7222107 Method for inter-enterprise role-based authorization  
A Transaction Authorization Method operating over a computer network comprising a plurality of interconnected computers and a plurality of resources, each computer including a processor, memory and...
7209889 Secure system for the issuance, acquisition, and redemption of certificates in a transaction network  
A transaction network contains a networked certificate authority, by which one or more virtual certificates may be remotely defined and stored, such as by an issuer user through a issuer web portal...
7203657 General packet-based payment and transaction method and system  
A method and system to enable data packets to engage in two-way transactions with various facilities, electronic equipment, and data sources, performing various services. This is accomplished by...
7143062 Electronic cash eliminating payment risk  
A system and method for permitting gold or other commodities to circulate as currency requires a network of system users that participate in financial transactions where payment is made in units of...
7136838 Digital license and method for obtaining/providing a digital license  
To obtain a digital license for rendering a piece of digital content, a license requester contacts a license provider and sends a license request. The license provider checks the license request...
7120608 Systems and methods for implementing person-to-person money exchange  
Systems and methods for effecting online financial transactions between individuals or between individuals and entities such as banks, merchants and other companies. Each user accesses a fund...
7047405 Method and apparatus for providing secure processing and data storage for a wireless communication device  
Techniques for providing secure processing and data storage for a wireless communication device. In one specific design, a remote terminal includes a data processing unit, a main processor, and a...
7020638 System and method for flexible micropayment of low value electronic assets  
An electronic asset system mints a stick of electronic assets that can be spent by the user with multiple vendors. Assets sticks are issued anonymously or non-anonymously in a way without requiring...
6993652 Method and system for providing client privacy when requesting content from a public server  
Method and system for providing client privacy on the Internet when the client requests content from a public application server. The method is well-suited to key management protocols that utilize...
6978250 System and method for automated electronic scrip transactions  
A system and method for performing and settling an electronic scrip transaction between a merchant and a member includes a database storing accounts for one or more participating merchants, scrip...
6947966 System and method for influencing dynamic community shared elements of audio, video, and text programming via a polling system  
A system and method for interactively affecting the course of a program or programming content. Viewer purchase electronic tokens which can be used to vote on the sequence of content in a broadcast...
6938019 Method and apparatus for making secure electronic payments  
In accordance with the present invention, consumers and merchants use computing devices connected to a network, such as the Internet, through wired and wireless means, wherein the consumer connects...
6889213 E-service to manage contact information with privacy levels  
A method of providing an electronic business card (EBC) access and organization service on the Web. The cardholder database is accessible and searchable from any browser connected to the Internet...
6793135 Electronic payment system using multifunctional prepaid cards and method of selling prepaid cards  
There are provided an electronic payment system using a multifunctional prepaid card which is commonly used in payment for use of services and purchase of goods, and a method of selling the...
6748367 Method and system for effecting financial transactions over a public network without submission of sensitive information  
A method and system for effecting a financial transaction over a public network without the submission of sensitive information. The system comprises a common controller in data communication with...
6636969 Digital signatures having revokable anonymity and improved traceability  
A method of authenticating electronic data is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, when a Receiver makes a request to a Signer (e.g., a bank customer asks the bank to issue E-Coin), the Receiver...
6611819 Electronic money apparatus, method, card and computer readable record medium having electronic money processing program recorded thereon  
An IC card incorporates a processor, a memory, etc. The memory stores therein a general electronic money balance having an unlimited use range, a specific electronic money balance having a limited...
6604679 Payment management method and system using an IC card  
A payment management method and system for performing suitable payment management, wherein a user of a credit IC card can store a transaction history in the IC card, collate the transaction history...
6553351 System with and method of cryptographically protecting communications  
A value transfer system of at least one VCD (Value Carrying Device) ( 1 ) and at least one VAD (Value Accepting Device) ( 2 ), the VAD ( 2 ) having a memory ( 53 ) for storing at least an aggregate...
6529884 Minimalistic electronic commerce system  
The present invention provides a system for electronic commerce that reduces the amount of data needed to be stored on a user computer or electronic device. A bank processor stores information...
6499019 Electronic payment device using unbalanced binary tree and the method of the same  
An electronic payment device and its method using an unbalanced binary tree are disclosed. The total unit n of the amount of money that user purchases is decomposed first into a Matrix of p rows×q...
6487542 Method and apparatus for managing electronic money and storage for storing an electronic money management program  
According to the present invention, when electronic money is sent from a given network to another network, a money change apparatus performs a money change process to change electronic money...
6446052 Digital coin tracing using trustee tokens  
A system and method for obtaining traceable anonymous digital cash from a bank using a trustee as a trusted third-party. A user establishes her identity with the trustee using a secret known by the...
6438691 Transmitting messages over a network  
A method of transmitting a message over a network from a sender to a receiver, comprises the steps of: taking a message (Coin) to be signed by the sender; signing the message into a digital...
6341352 Method for changing a security policy during processing of a transaction request  
A method for changing a user password is preferably operative as a Web server impersonates a Web client to obtain access to files stored in a distributed file system space of a distributed...
6260027 Electronic ticket system, collecting terminal, service providing terminal, user terminal, electronic ticket collecting method and recording medium  
A collecting agency supplies a collecting agency name and a money bag number to a service providing terminal. In response to dealing requests from user terminals, the service providing terminal...
6205435 Self-contained payment system with circulating digital vouchers  
A self-contained payment system uses circulating digital vouchers for the transfer of value. The system creates and transfers digital vouchers. A digital voucher has an identifying element and a...
6157920 Executable digital cash for electronic commerce  
The invention provides techniques for implementing secure transactions using an instrument referred to as "executable digital cash." In an illustrative embodiment, a first user generates a piece of...
6148084 Restrictedly blindable certificates on secret keys  
A method for an issuer party to issue DSA-like secret-key certificates that can be blinded only restrictively. The method includes the step of generating a secret key (x 0 ,y) and a public key...
6108644 System and method for electronic transactions  
A system and method for performing an electronic transaction, including registration, audit and trusted recovery features. A transaction request message is received from a registered user that...
6105862 Method for performing a double-signature secure electronic transaction  
A method for performing electronic transactions between a card, a service provider having at least one terminal configured to accept the card and a centralized system configured to be connected to...
6076078 Anonymous certified delivery  
A number of fault-tolerant methods for purchasing digital goods with a digital token over a network in which the token's value resides either with a customer or a merchant are disclosed. One...
6064990 System for electronic notification of account activity  
Disclosed is a system for notifying a user of account activity, such as a withdrawal from a savings or checking account. A computer system maintains information on financial accounts and electronic...
6052467 System for ensuring that the blinding of secret-key certificates is restricted, even if the issuing protocol is performed in parallel mode  
A cryptographic method is disclosed that enables the issuer in a secret-key certificate issuing protocol to issue triples consisting of a secret key, a corresponding public key, and a secret-key...
6023508 Polymorphic data structures for secure operation of a virtual cash system  
A system for transferring value carrying data packets representative of cash between transferor and transferee terminals without the intervention of a centralized database provides for data packets...
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