SECURE FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS
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Abstract
A primary account number (“PAN”) of a conventional credit or debit account with a bank or other financial institution is emulated or simulated, which incorporates, in encrypted form, the actual account number. The simulated PAN may also incorporate an amount to be debited from that account. Thus, an account number and an amount are encrypted and mapped into a string of digits which appears to be a valid PAN. The actual account number and the transaction amount are thus embedded in the simulated PAN. The simulated PAN is then processed by existing financial transacting infrastructure, with the issuing bank knowing that it is not a PAN and that the appropriate digits are to be decrypted to provide the embedded account number and the embedded amount.
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Citations
56 Claims
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1-17. -17. (canceled)
- 18. A financial institution processing facility for processing a financial transaction number that simulates a conventional credit or debit card primary account number and which has incorporated therein an account number of a transactor, which includes an extractor for extracting from the simulated primary account number the account number.
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29-43. -43. (canceled)
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44. A method of processing a financial transaction, which includes receiving an ostensible financial transaction number that simulates a conventional credit or debit card primary account number and which has incorporated therein an account number of a transactor, together with a request to authorize payment of a deal amount;
- and extracting from the simulated primary account number the account number.
- View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
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55. A method of facilitating a financial transaction in which an encrypted financial transaction number that simulates a conventional credit or debit card primary account number and which has incorporated therein an account number of a transactor is generated by a transactor, which includes providing the transactor with a memory module which has the transactor'"'"'s account number and an encryption algorithm stored therein.
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56-60. -60. (canceled)
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