International Business Machines Corporation

Amir Herzberg

Eldad Shai

Yosi Mass

Dalit Naor

Yossi Mass

Yehiel Yochai

Ilan Zisser

Boaz Binnun

Boaz Barak

A method for deposit of an electronic payment order by a first intermediary processor among a plurality of intermediary processors linked by a communication network. A routing message is received at the first intermediary processor, the message identifying one or more deposit target processors accessible through the network via the second intermediary processor and providing a respective secure identifier for each of the accessible deposit target processors. When the first intermediary processor receives the electronic payment order drawn on a specified one of the deposit target processors conveyed over the network from a depositing processor, it clears the payment order intermediary processor by checking the payment order against the secure identifier of the specified deposit target processor provided in the routing message. Responsive to clearing the order, the first intermediary processor transfers payment to the depositing processor, while conveying the payment order over the network to the specified deposit target.

Decentralized electronic certified payment

A method for electronic advertising by an advertiser includes posting an advertisement for an item offered to a buyer for purchase from a merchant on a page per fee basis at a predetermined price via a network link to a network address represented in the advertisement by an alias, which conceals the network address from the buyer. Upon receiving an invocation of the link from the buyer, an order is transmitted to the merchant for supply of the item to the buyer in exchange for payment of the price by the buyer. The item is conveyed, responsive to the order, from the merchant to the buyer, and the advertiser receives a predefined portion of the price paid by the buyer in consideration for posting the advertisement.

Micro payment-based advertising

A system for trusting sites in a communication network, the communication network including a plurality of user nodes inter-linked through a proxy node to a site server. The system includes the proxy that is associated with an advanced policy being responsive to input certificates for verifying one or more declarations. Each one of the declarations is associated with a symbol. A user accessing from a user node, through a proxy node to a server site. The proxy node authenticating the site and then the server site providing to the proxy node, through said communication network, one or more credentials that refer to the site. The proxy node testing the credentials against the advanced policy in order to verify the declarations and displaying in respect of each verified declaration the corresponding symbol.

User policy for trusting web sites

A method for providing a proactive security in proactive operating environment. The proactive operating environment includes a group of proactive servers communicating over a network. Each proactive server (PS) includes a storage that includes a non erasable part that stores a public, non proactive related, key V. The storage further includes an erasable part for storing private and public data. The proactive server has a discardable one-time private key Sthat corresponds to the public key V. The proactive server further has configuration data C. There is further provided a processor for providing a proactive services to applications. The proactive server has a group public proactive key Vcommon to the group of proactive servers and a share Sof a corresponding private proactive key S. The method further includes the steps of invoking initialization procedure for generating restore related information, and invoking a restore procedure for utilizing the public, non proactive related, key Vand the restore related information for restoring the public proactive key V.

Method for operating proactively secured applications on an insecure system

System for continuous display and navigation in a virtual reality world comprising display means, a server, a computer including browsing means for communicating with the server, storage means for storing a plurality of files defining three dimensional virtual spaces which can be displayed on display means on request of browsing means, and virtual reality managing means for, upon receiving coordinates of the current viewpoint of the user from browsing means, directly requesting to server appropriate files, the selection of which is based on an evaluation of which three-dimensional virtual space will be most needed and loading these files into browsing means for displaying this three-dimensional space.

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Ramat Efal, Israel

Amir Herzberg