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Secure authentication and payment system

  • US 9,530,129 B2
  • Filed: 05/19/2015
  • Issued: 12/27/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for facilitating electronic transactions between a first party and one or more second parties, comprising:

  • establishing a first relationship with the first party, the first relationship defining a dynamically controllable and selectable selection of;

    at least one user-specified and user-specific authentication method selected from a plurality of stored authentication methods of different types operating on an authentication device over a plurality of different communication channels and useable to authenticate the identity of the first party in a non-predictable and anonymous manner; and

    a preferred electronic communication channel selected from one or more suitable communication channels for completion of one or more of the plurality of stored authentication method using the authentication device;

    establishing a second relationship with at least one of said one or more second parties;

    storing one or more associations between payment methods and transactions, the one or more associations specified by the first party; and

    upon receiving an authentication request related to a transaction with one or more of the second parties;

    controlling the authentication device to validate the identity of the first party by presenting the first party with at least one of the previously selected user-specified and user-specific stored authentication methods on the authentication device over the preferred communication channel; and

    upon successful authentication using the at least one of the previously selected user-specified and user-specific stored authentication methods on the authentication device over the preferred communication channel, initiating the transaction with said one or more second parties using one or more payment methods associated with the transaction.

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