Technique for secure network transactions

US6178510A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• GTech Rhode Island Corporation · US

Inventors

• William Y. O'Connor · Saddle River, US
• Donald L. Stanford · Central Falls, US
• Tariq Khan · Riyadh, SA
• Michael A. Hutton · East Greenwich, US
• Steve W. Beason · Fresno Street, US
• Robert C. Angell · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 4, 1997
• Grant date: Jan 23, 2001
• Expiry date: Sep 4, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2221/2129
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system for performing regulated transactions is used with a network that is commonly accessible by a plurality of communication terminals. A gatekeeper, coupled to the network, permits access to the system only if authorization information, as indicated by an authorization signal received by the gatekeeper from a communication terminal via the network, complies with at least one predetermined criterion. The authorization information includes information independent of information supplied by a communication terminal user and independent of information indicative of a communication line coupled to the user's communication terminal. A host, coupled to the gatekeeper, receives a first signal from the user's communication terminal through the network and sends a second signal through the network to the user's communication terminal in response to the first signal.