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Patent US10217102
Issued 2019-02-26
Issuing An Account To An Electronic Transaction Device
Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers.
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- 1. A method of issuing an account to an electronic transaction device, comprising:
disposing an ecommerce server of a transaction service provider on a first side of a first network communication firewall that controls access by the transaction service provider to a banking network, the firewall connecting on a second side to at least one bank of a plurality of banks connected to the banking network; disposing an ecommerce server of the transaction service provider on a first side of a second network communication firewall that controls access to the transaction service provider by electronic transaction devices on a network that is separated from the banking network; electronically transmitting an application for a banking account associated with a bank of the plurality of banks connected to the banking network from the ecommerce server to one of the electronic transaction devices via the second firewall; electronically receiving a banking account initiation request at the ecommerce server via the second firewall, wherein the banking account initiation request includes confidential and non-confidential information about a user of the one of the electronic transaction devices; coupling the ecommerce server via the first firewall over the banking network with at least one bank identified in the banking account initiation request; providing banking account initiation information derived from the received banking account initiation request to the at least one bank; receiving an indication of banking account application approval at the ecommerce server; downloading banking account activation information to the electronic transaction device for activating the approved account on the electronic transaction device; providing with the transaction service provider initiation, registration, and maintenance of the approved account and tracking and storing all transactions conducted via the approved account; and operating the transaction service provider as an intermediary between the banking network and the electronic transaction devices.
