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7603102 Banded billing system for data communication service  
A banded billing system for data communication service is disclosed. A carrier's billing system maintains in data storage a banded-pricing schedule that divides a continuum of increments of data...
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...
7593898 Method and system for payment transactions and shipment tracking over the internet  
A method for completing a transaction in response to a determination that goods have been acceptably delivered to a buyer. The method is particularly suitable for use in an online commerce system...
7590559 Information providing system for processing data in accordance with order  
This invention provides an information processing system which executes settlement processing for a plurality of orders all at once. To implement this system, an estimated amount is calculated by...
7587753 Methods, systems, and storage mediums for implementing issue notification and resolution activities  
Exemplary embodiments include methods, systems, and storage mediums for implementing issue notification and resolution activities. The method includes receiving a request for access to a network...
7580899 Offline code based reloading system  
An offline code-based reload device and method for adding value to a reconfigurable memory storage means in a portable storage medium. Reload is effected using a reload device not directly...
7529370 Digital media-playing device and a method of playing digital media therein  
An aspect of the present invention is a digital media-playing device. The digital media-playing device includes a controller and a compensation-enabled component for playing digital media coupled...
7523302 Electronic recipe management  
In accordance with the present invention, ingredients for a particular electronic recipe accessible at a particular web site are encrypted, wherein the encrypted ingredients may be decrypted by a...
7519993 Information processing terminal and information security and protection method therefor  
The present invention is an information processing terminal capable of preventing leakage of identification information while adopting a general-purpose OS to provide development environment for a...
7516091 System and method for electronic settlement using keyboard having multiple card identification and charging functions  
An electronic settlement system/method includes a keyboard having multiple card identification and charging functions. The electronic settlement may include charges with a smart card, an RF card,...
7512991 Methods, systems, signals and media for encouraging users of computer readable content to register  
A method and system for encouraging users of computer readable content to register. The method involves embedding in the computer readable content, instruction codes operable to direct a processor...
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...
7469234 Value information management system and method therefor  
A value information management system includes, a value exchange card, user terminal, and management server. The value exchange card stores value information representing the value of a...
7469230 Method and system for automatically distributing fees, including a reseller commission, during a digital file transaction  
A method and system for enabling electronic delivery of files is disclosed. The method and system include maintaining a data repository for storing information relating to the files available in...
7447662 Transaction processing system  
A method of operating a transaction processing system ( 19 ) for confirming orders placed over a public data network ( 1 ), comprising: receiving first order references from a number of different...
7444588 Methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing multi-media content storage and management services  
Exemplary embodiments include methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing multi-media content storage and management services. From a single user interface, the method includes creating a...
7437331 Short message service (SMS) e-commerce  
A method for making a purchase of products or services via the Internet by a customer from a vendor includes transmitting, by the customer, a purchase request and mobile subscriber identification...
7433848 System for carrying out a transaction  
A system is proposed for performing transactions with terminals which fundamentally allow a plurality of different transactions to be performed. The terminals ( 10, 11 ) are connected for this...
7426638 Controlling access to information on a network using an extended network universal resource locator  
Systems and methods for controlling access to information on a network where a first network entity receives a message requesting access to stored information via a network communication. The...
7421583 System, method and article of manufacture for determining a price of cryptograph IC services based on a computational burden thereof  
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for pricing a cryptographic service. A request for a cryptographic service is received. An identification is made of one or more of a...
7415610 Facilitating access to information stored on a network using an extended network universal resource locator  
Systems and methods for facilitating access to stored information associated with a user, where a service provider receives, from a network entity controlling access to the stored information, a...
7412424 Third party certification of content in electronic commerce transactions  
A system for providing third-party certification of content in an electronic commerce transaction includes one or more servers operating on one or more computers. The one or more servers receive a...
7412423 Charging system and charging method  
A user, in requesting a service provider to provide predetermined service, sends to a service provider data and signature data created based upon the data. The service provider calculates a fee...
7406472 Integrated import/export system  
An integrated import/export system includes a database of records relating to a plurality of shipments of goods, a database server and an application server. The application server communicates...
7401052 Method for validating warranty compliance and ink compatibility assurance  
A method for validating warranty compliance for compatible fluid use of a printing system entails fluidly engaging a replaceable fluid container with a print station. The container includes a smart...
7349541 Method and apparatus for controlling content consumption  
A method and apparatus is provided in which playable content is transmitted in response to a playable-content request; a key for the playable content is separately transmitted in response to a key...
7346587 Intelligent method of order completion in an e-commerce environment based on availability of stored billing information  
An intelligent method of e-commerce order completion automatically completes an order using either stored billing information, or information supplied at purchase if none is stored. User sends an...
7340436 Communication network charging method and system  
A method and system for changing subscribers in communications networks. In communications networks, more and more information providers (referred to as content providers) are making available...
7334128 Accessing information on a network using an extended network universal resource locator  
To facilitate access to information on a network, an extended network universal resource locator is generated. The generated extended network universal resource locator has (i) a network address,...
7324973 Gaming system and method of securely transferring a monetary value  
A cashless gaming system and method of securely transferring a monetary value. When “cashing-out” of a first terminal of the system, the monetary value is encrypted with an encryption key and...
7272582 Fee determination device  
Methods and electronic architectures for volume based handling and processing electronic data, for which a fee is determined based on a selectable metric, are provided. One embodiment includes...
7263491 On-line degree and current enrollment verification system and method  
The present invention provides a new and useful system and method for processing on-line degree and current enrollment verification inquiries. The system includes a requestor computer and an...
7254562 Rule-based packet selection, storage, and access method and system  
A rule-based selection, storage and access method and system for processing packets from network traffic. First, packet intercepted from network traffic are selected based on at least one rule....
7249112 System and method for assigning a funding source for a radio frequency identification device  
A transponder-reader payment system includes a RFID reader for interrogating a transponder, and a fob including a transponder which is associated with fob data file funded by one or more funding...
7249097 Method for ordering goods, services, and content over an internetwork using a virtual payment account  
A virtual payment system for ordering and paying for goods, services and content over an internetwork is disclosed. The virtual payment system comprises a commerce gateway component ( 52 ) and a...
7240031 Bill payment system and method with a master merchant database  
A method and system for paying bills. A service provider receives, via a network, a request to pay a bill on behalf of a consumer. The consumer can request that any merchant be paid. The service...
7225163 Recording/reproducing device and recording/reproducing method  
A high-speed dubbing unit 10 for dubbing digital data from an optical disk 15 to a hard disk 16 at a high speed is connected via a public telephone line to a payment imposing unit 20 . A...
7184989 Staged transactions systems and methods  
Systems and methods for accepting payments for goods and services provided by a merchant. In one embodiment, a method for accepting payments from a consumer for a good or service provided by a...
7177849 Method for validating an electronic payment by a credit/debit card  
Method for validating an electronic payment by a credit card in a transaction system comprising a seller terminal ( 12 ) for registering a sale of one or several articles by a buyer ( 10 or 11 )...
7165052 Payment service method and system  
A payment service method and system involve a payment service provider, a customer/payor and a client/payee. The customer/payor enrolls in the service and is provided the unique identifier which...
7162455 Unique time generating device and authenticating device using the same  
In an authentication-data issuing system based on unique time, a master computer ( 1 ) creates authentication data on the basis of an elapsed time measurement indicated by an unique time generating...
7159116 Systems, methods and devices for trusted transactions  
The invention discloses a system for enhancing trust in transactions, most particularly in remote transactions between a plurality of transactional parties, for instance a seller and buyer(s) of...
7146342 Payment system and method for use in an electronic commerce system  
A method and system of payment of goods and services in an electronic commerce system reduces the transfer and processing costs for each purchase made by a customer from a merchant. A customer...
7136841 Centralized authorization and fraud-prevention system for network-based transactions  
A system and method for authorizing certain aspects of network based transactions between a customer and a merchant is disclosed. At a credit card authorization system, merchant information,...
7117183 Airline ticket payment and reservation system and methods  
A method for accepting payments from a consumer for a travel ticket from a travel company comprises receiving at a point of sale device a transaction request that includes a transaction identifier...
7113926 Secure media on demand system whereby charge is determined in part from the periodicity of an encryption key  
An object of the invention is to provide a transmitting system of which data is difficult to be tapped and which is suitable for flexibly determining a watching and listening fee. In order to...
7110987 Secure online purchasing  
In a method of purchasing online, a client device of a customer communicates a purchase selection which is received by a vendor computer system. The vendor computer system, in response,...
7107249 Electronic identifier payment systems and methods  
Systems and methods for accepting payments for goods and services provided by a consumer provider. The methods can include associating consumers and consumer providers with a payment provider. The...
7103579 Internet based check cashing and clearing method, apparatus and article of manufacture  
A method apparatus and article of manufacturing for using a computer to electronically clear and cash a check submitted to an on-line merchant from an on-line consumer by electronic means is...
7103577 Systems and methods for staging transactions, payments and collections  
The present invention relates to systems and methods for staging transactions and facilitating payments by consumers to a lender or merchant to consummate a financial transaction and/or to maintain...
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