System and apparatus for monitoring secure information in a computer network

US5903652A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventor

• Amit Mital · Bellevue, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 25, 1996
• Grant date: May 11, 1999
• Expiry date: Nov 25, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0607
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A secure transaction system apparatus and method provide for the auditing of secure messages in a computer network. The secure transaction system includes an electronic commerce service which is in communication with multiple consumer computers and multiple merchant computers. The consumer computers initiate consumer transactions between the consumer computers and the merchant computers. Each consumer transaction can include different items, different merchants, different shipping methods and different payment instructions. An order object within the consumer computer stores summaries about the different items, the different merchants, the different shipping methods and different payment instructions during creation of each commercial transaction. While generating transaction data, the consumer computer also generates related audit data. The consumer computers encrypt the transaction data and the audit data into different encryption formats and send the encrypted transaction data and the encrypted audit data to the electronic commerce service. The electronic commerce service decrypts the audit data and stores copies of the encrypted transaction data. The electronic commerce service…