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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2001
Xinhong Yuan, San Jose, CA (US);
Stan J. Simon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert W. Pratt, Woodside, CA (US);
Gregory R. Whitehead, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Atul Tulshibagwale, San Jose, CA (US);
Xinhong Yuan, San Jose, CA (US);
Stan J. Simon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert W. Pratt, Woodside, CA (US);
Gregory R. Whitehead, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Atul Tulshibagwale, San Jose, CA (US);
VeriSign, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A first user () requests a service provider () to create () a record of a transaction. The service provider () creates () a digital receipt (), which includes a description () of the transaction understandable by humans, tamper-proof evidence () of the transaction, and a verification prompt (). A second user () who desires to verify the transaction displays () the digital receipt () and activates () the verification prompt (). Upon activation, the tamper-proof evidence () is verified without requiring further human interaction to identify the tamper-proof evidence.