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Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2001

Filed:

Jun. 17, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jay C. Weber, Menlo Park, CA (US);

David A. Berger, San Mateo, CA (US);

Atul Arora, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

VeriFone, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 ; G06F 1/760 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 ; G06F 1/760 ;
Abstract

A server communicates bidirectionally with a gateway over a first communication link, over which service requests flow to the server for one or more merchants and/or consumers. Service requests are associated with a particular merchant based on storefront visited by a consumer or credentials presented by a merchant. Service requests result in merchant specific transactions that are transmitted to the gateway for further processing on existing host applications.

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