Secure online banking transaction apparatus and method

US8799171B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Michael Baentsch · Thalwil, CH
• Peter Buhler · Horgen, CH
• Thomas Eirich · Wetzikon, CH
• Frank Hoering · Zürich, CH
• Thorsten Kramp · Adliswil, CH
• Thomas D. Weigold · Baden-Baden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 2008
• Grant date: Aug 5, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 15, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L63/18
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A secure online banking transaction apparatus to communicate with a server over a non-secure connection is provided and includes a selector configured to allow for a selection of a mode of the apparatus, a processing unit coupled to the selector and including a secure communication unit, which is configured to set up a secure connection, along which a secure transaction occurs, with the server via the non-secure connection in accordance with the mode, an input unit coupled to the processing unit and configured to allow for a input of data into the apparatus, which is at least partly related to the secure transaction, and an interface coupled to the processing unit and configured to convey at least a status of the secure transaction and the contents off the inputted data.