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Identrus, LLC

Charles Dulin

Mack Hicks

Mark Stirland

David Solo

Jackson Brandenburg

Larry Nepomuceno

Narasimhan Krishnamacharii

System and methods for facilitating electronic commerce by securely providing certificate-related and other services, including certificate validation and warranty services. The system services include a certificate status check service and a warranty service. The certificate status check service allows a relying customer to validate a subscribing customer's digital certificate. The warranty service allows the relying customer to receive a collateral-backed warranty that the subscribing customer's digital certificate is valid, and also confirms the ability of the subscribing customer to pay. All participants and a root entity are provided with a transaction coordinator for combining services and operations into a single transaction having the qualities of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. The transaction coordinator provides a single consistent interface for certificate-status messages and requests, as well as messages and requests relating to other services.

Transaction coordinator for digital certificate validation and other services

A system and method are disclosed for facilitating access to a plurality of certificate-related and other services including certificate validation. A seller is provided with digital signature messaging software for accessing these services. Two preferred implementations are disclosed for integrating a seller's existing Web server and applications with this software. The first preferred implementation is referred to as 'passive integration' because it requires little or no modification to a seller's existing e-commerce Web application. In this first implementation, the seller's Web site is preferably provided with five additional components: a Web filter for redirecting HTTP requests, a second Web server for parsing the redirected HTTP requests, a servlet that runs applications based on the requested URL, a filter engine that identifies pages from a buyer that require the buyer's signature as well as pages that require access to system services, and a bank interface that receives requests to access system services from the filter engine, and processes those requests. The second preferred implementation is referred to as 'active integration' because it requires the seller to rewrite code of its Web applications to provide the functionality necessary to access system services. In active integration, the seller's Web site is preferably provided with the bank interface described above but the functionality provided by the other digital signature messaging software components is instead provided by modifying directly the seller's Web application.

System and method for facilitating access by sellers to certificate-related and other services

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Montclair, NJ, United States of America

Charles Dulin