Method of Providing Transactions Employing Advertising Based Verification
AssigneeImation Corp.
InventorsLaurence Hamid, Darren Krahn
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Abstract
A method of improving electronic security establishes a secure trusted path between a user and an institution seeking an electronic signature to verify a transaction before any request for signature and completing electronic transaction activities occurs. The secure trusted path providing the user with a first predetermined portion of a branded watermark, for instance an advertisement, provided from the institution in conjunction with the request, and a second predetermined portion of the branded watermark being provided upon a personalized device that cannot be intercepted or manipulated by malware, allowing the user to verify that the request as displayed upon the user's primary computing device is valid.
Claims20
A computer server comprising:
- a memory store for storing a plurality of branded watermarks;
- a suitably programmed processor for receiving transaction data, for selecting a first branded watermark from the plurality of branded watermarks, for producing first verification data comprising first data for verification and relating to the transaction and first watermark data relating to the first branded watermark for preventing tampering with the first data, and for providing second verification data comprising an indication of the selected first branded watermark;
- and,
- at least a transmitter for transmitting the first verification data to a destination system and for transmitting the second verification data to a second other destination system.
A secure processing system comprising:
- a memory having stored therein indications for branded watermarks of a plurality of known branded watermarks;
- a processor for receiving second verification data and for determining based thereon an indication of a branded watermark;
- and,
- a display for displaying the indication to a user of the secure processing system.
A method comprising:
- establishing a first communication path between a first system and a server;
- receiving from the first system data relating to a transaction for a known user;
- providing to the first system first verification data for verifying and authorizing the transaction, the first verification data comprising a branded watermark;
- establishing a second communication path between a second other system and the server, the second other system associated with the known user;
- and,
- providing to the second other system second verification data for use in providing an indication of the branded watermark.
A computer readable medium having stored therein data according to a predetermined computing device format for when executed resulting in:
- establishing a first communication path between a first system and a server;
- receiving from the first system data relating to a transaction for a known user;
- providing to the first system first verification data for verifying and authorizing the transaction, the first verification data comprising a branded watermark;
- establishing a second communication path between a second other system and the server, the second other system associated with the known user;
- and,
- providing to the second other system second verification data for use in providing an indication of the branded watermark.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.