Method of electronic payment by means of a uniform resource identifier (URI)

A computerized method allowing payments between a buyer and a seller using electronic monetary tokens to be made based on a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), which identifies a resource in a computer network, the method comprising steps of:

• including, by a seller server, a payment request in a URI;
• transmitting, by the seller server, the included payment request to a buyer's device;
• receiving, by the buyer device, the transmitted payment request from the seller server;
• parsing, by the buyer device, the received URI resulting in a string representing a request for payment;
• altering, by the buyer device, the URI by including a string comprising of the buyer's unique user identification string and one or a multiplicity of electronic monetary tokens;
• requesting, by the user device, using the altered URI a resource from the seller server;
• receiving, by the seller server, the request from the user device;
• parsing, by the seller server, the received request by parsing the altered URI resulting in a string representing the electronic monetary token or set of electronic monetary tokens and the unique user identification string;
• and
• requesting, by the seller server, an indication of ownership of the electronic monetary token or set of electronic monetary tokens by the user identified by the unique identification string from a trusted third party.