System, method and article of manufacture for a gateway system architecture with system administration information accessible from a browser
US6304915A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 17, 1999 |
| Grant date | Oct 16, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 17, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q20/00
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Secure transmission of data is provided between a plurality of computer systems over a public communication system, such as the Internet. Secure transmission of data is provided from a customer computer system to a merchant computer system, and for the further secure transmission of payment information from the merchant computer system to a payment gateway computer system. The payment gateway system receives encrypted payment requests from merchants, as HTTP POST messages via the Internet. The gateway then unwraps and decrypts the requests, authenticates digital signatures of the requests based on certificates, supports transaction types and card types as required by a financial institution, and accepts concurrent VPOS transactions from each of the merchant servers. Then, the gateway converts transaction data to host-specific formats and forwards the mapped requests to the host processor using the existing financial network. The gateway system architecture includes support for standard Internet access routines which facilitate access to system administration information from a commercial web browser.
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