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Technology Stocks : Open Market (OMKT)
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To: Frank Ferrari who wrote (1606)6/2/1999 7:58:00 AM
From: Hans-Erik Eriksson  Read Replies (2) of 2004
 
Open Market has a new patent. Sounds like this is a patent on
"CommerceTone" which they will be launching with Lycos.

From the patent registration:

"Network sales system

A network-based sales system includes at least one buyer computer
for operation by a user desiring to buy a product, at least one
merchant computer, and at least one payment computer. The buyer
computer, the merchant computer, and the payment computer are
interconnected by a computer network. The buyer computer is
programmed to receive a user request for purchasing a product,
and to cause a payment message to be sent to the payment
computer that comprises a product identifier identifying the
product. The payment computer is programmed to receive the
payment message, to cause an access message to be created that
comprises the product identifier and an access message
authenticator based on a cryptographic key, and to cause the
access message to be sent to the merchant computer. The
merchant computer is programmed to receive the access message,
to verify the access message authenticator to ensure that the
access message authenticator was created using the cryptographic
key, and to cause the product to be sent to the user desiring
to buy the product."

/Hans-Erik
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