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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1996
Joel Walter Zdepski, Mountain View, CA (US);
Howard Geza Page, Burlingame, CA (US);
Thomson Consumer Electronics, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
A transactional server system for transferring subscriber information requests to information service providers, and methods of operating the same result in discouraging reconstruction of the subscriber information. The transactional server system comprises a subscriber platform which transfers an encrypted identification and a message request block. A transaction server is coupled to the subscriber platform to initiate a subscriber information request in response to the message request block and the encrypted identification, and transfer the message request block to the information service providers in response to subscriber information. A database server coupled to the transaction server and having a plurality of subscriber information receives the subscriber information request and decrypts the encrypted identification to provide the subscriber information to the transaction server.