Reliance manager for electronic transaction system

US7177839B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Certco, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Allen Claxton · New York, US
• Charles Thomas Montgomery · Severna Park, US
• Marcel Mordechay Yung · New York, US
• Richard Ankney · Davenport, US
• Richard Salz · Boston, US
• Thomas B. Titchener · Boston, US
• Peter Lieberwirth · Boston, US
• Andrew Konstantaras · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 27, 2000
• Grant date: Feb 13, 2007
• Expiry date: Jan 27, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An electronic transaction system includes an authority issuing electronic signals representing subscriber assurance of an attribute of a subscriber to the system; and a reliance server obtaining electronic signals representing information regarding the subscriber assurance issued by the issuing authority, the reliance server issuing electronic signals representing a signed warranty offer to a relying party, the signed warranty offer being based at least on the subscriber attribute assurance, wherein the reliance server only provides the signed warranty offer if the relying party is authorized to make a request for said warranty.