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Electronic online commerce card with customer generated transaction proxy number for online transactions

  • US 6,000,832 A
  • Filed: 09/24/1997
  • Issued: 12/14/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/24/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for facilitating online commerce, comprising the following steps:

  • issuing an electronic commerce card to a customer during a registration phase, the commerce card having a customer account number and a customer-related secret associated therewith; and

    during an online commerce transaction phase, generating at the customer a proxy number suitable for the online commerce transaction, the proxy number resembling the customer account number but having embedded therein a code number derived at least in part on the customer-related secret.

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