Providing services from a remote computer system to a user station over a communications network

• US 9,484,078 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2010
• Issued: 11/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TMI Solutions LLC (Strategic Intellectual Solutions, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Reisman, Richard R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rashid, Harunur
• Application Number:
  US12/893,259
• Publication Number:
  US 20110016193A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,225 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/218, 709/227, 705/14.1, 705/26.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/025 Coordination of plural reservations, e.g. plural trip segments, transportation combined with accommodation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/123 Tax preparation or submission
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 8/18 Address timing or clocking circuits; Address control signal generation or management, e.g. for row address strobe [RAS] or column address strobe [CAS] signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A method includes receiving the second information at the remote computer system during a second user initiated communication session from the user station automatically, wherein the user station triggers automatically sending the second information to the remote computer system, retrieving the previously stored third information at the remote computer system and matching at least a portion of the received second information with the stored third information.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method, comprising:

receiving by a remote computer system over a communications network, first information identifying a user station not previously identified to the remote computer system during a first user initiated communication session;

sending from the remote computer system to the user station second information that is a function of and different from the first information during the first user initiated communication session;

storing third information based on the first information at a location remote from the user station and accessible to the remote computer system;

receiving the second information at the remote computer system during a second user initiated communication session from the user station automatically, wherein the user station triggers automatically sending the second information to the remote computer system, wherein the second information was automatically stored at the user station;

retrieving the previously stored third information at the remote computer system; and

matching at least a portion of the received second information with the stored third information;

wherein the second information is used by the remote computer system as a station identifier, and wherein the station identifier is used by the remote computer system as a surrogate for a user identifier.

2. A computer implemented method, comprising:

receiving by a remote computer system over a communications network, first information identifying a user station not previously identified to the remote computer system during a first user initiated communication session;

sending from the remote computer system to the user station second information that is a function of and different from the first information during the first user initiated communication session;

storing third information based on the first information at a location remote from the user station and accessible to the remote computer system;

receiving the second information at the remote computer system during a second user initiated communication session from the user station automatically, wherein the user station triggers automatically sending the second information to the remote computer system, wherein the second information was automatically stored at the user station;

retrieving the previously stored third information at the remote computer system; and

matching at least a portion of the received second information with the stored third information;

wherein the second information is used by the remote computer system as a station identifier, wherein the station identifier is used by the remote computer system as a surrogate for a user identifier, and wherein the surrogate for the user identifier may not be used to authenticate a user of the user station.

3. A computer implemented method, comprising:

receiving by a remote computer system over a communications network, first information identifying a user station not previously identified to the remote computer system during a first user initiated communication session;

sending from the remote computer system to the user station second information that is a function of and different from the first information during the first user initiated communication session;

storing third information based on the first information at a location remote from the user station and accessible to the remote computer system;

receiving the second information at the remote computer system during a second user initiated communication session from the user station automatically, wherein the user station triggers automatically sending the second information to the remote computer system, wherein the second information was automatically stored at the user station;

retrieving the previously stored third information at the remote computer system;

matching at least a portion of the received second information with the stored third information; and

requesting a password to authenticate the user of the user station after the retrieving the previously stored third information at the remote computer system and before authorizing use of a portion of the third information for the user;

wherein the second information is used by the remote computer system as a station identifier, wherein the station identifier is used by the remote computer system as a surrogate for a user identifier, and wherein the surrogate for the user identifier may not be used to authenticate a user of the user station.