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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1997
Jacob Y Wong, Goleta, CA (US);
Roy L Anderson, Glendale, CA (US);
Jaesent Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for providing secure credit card transactions over the Internet generates a personal charge number from a user account number by inserting a user key into the user account number in accordance with an algorithm that uses a user insertion key and a permutation variable. After the personal charge number is used, the permutation variable is changed, and a new personal charge number is generated. A money source repository verifies the validity of the personal charge number by using the personal charge number and a user identifier to access a file with the user account number, the user key and the user insertion key, taking into account which permutation variable is valid at a given point in time. Alternatively, the money source repository could generate a string of valid personal charge numbers for a user which are sequentially accessed according to usage.