Method for maintaining anonymity of a purchaser
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Abstract
A method is provided for transacting an anonymous purchase over the Internet. The method comprises the steps of: (a) acquiring intermediary credit account information from a purchasing intermediary; (b) providing transactional purchase information, including the intermediary credit account information, to a retailer, where the transactional purchase information is provided by the purchaser using a first computing device of a computer-implemented purchasing system; and (c) transacting a purchase between the purchaser and the retailer using the intermediary credit account information, thereby maintaining the anonymity of the purchaser.
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43 Claims
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15. A method for maintaining anonymity of a purchaser during a purchase transaction, comprising:
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acquiring a purchase card from a purchase card provider, the purchase card having a non-personalized cardholder name and an account number;
providing purchase transactional information from the purchaser to a retailer, wherein the purchase transactional information includes the non-personalized cardholder name and the account number from the purchase card; and
transacting a purchase between the purchaser and the retailer using the non-personalized cardholder name and the account number, thereby maintaining the anonymity of the purchaser. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method for maintaining anonymity of a purchaser during a purchase transaction, comprising:
acquiring a purchase card from a purchase card provider, the purchase card having a non-personalized cardholder name embossed thereon;
providing purchase transactional information from the purchaser to a retailer, wherein the purchase transactional information includes the non-personalized cardholder name from the purchase card; and
transacting a purchase between the purchaser and the retailer using the non-personalized cardholder name, thereby maintaining the anonymity of the purchaser. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A method for maintaining anonymity of a purchaser during a purchase transaction, comprising:
acquiring a purchase card from a purchase card provider, the purchase card having a non-personalized cardholder name and an associated address for the purchase card provider;
providing purchase transactional information from the purchaser to a retailer, wherein the purchase transactional information includes the non-personalized cardholder name and the address from the purchase card; and
transacting a purchase between the purchaser and the retailer using the non-personalized cardholder name and the address, thereby maintaining the anonymity of the purchaser. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. A method for maintaining anonymity of a purchaser during a purchase transaction, comprising:
acquiring a purchase card from a purchase card provider, the purchase card having a non-personalized cardholder name, an account number, an expiration date and an associated address for the purchase card provider;
providing information relating to the purchase card from the purchaser to a retailer, wherein the information consisting of the non-personalized cardholder name, the account number, the expiration date and the associated address; and
transacting a purchase between the purchaser and the retailer using said information, thereby maintaining the anonymity of the purchaser.
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