Secure Online Marketplace
AssigneeDoubleChecked Credentials LLC
InventorKristopher Raney
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Abstract
A networked service for providing secure access to an online marketplace by sellers and buyers. A secure member server interacts with an online classified advertisement website to allow for a selling member of the website to interface securely with a prospective buying member. Various methods are taught that allow the members to interact without exchanging personal information that could possibly be used in a fraudulent manner.
Claims26
A method for providing secure access by selling member users and buying member users to an online marketplace, the method steps comprising:
- accepting, on a secure member server, a request for membership to an online marketplace from an unauthenticated buying member user, the membership request including a plurality of buying member user personal identity data;
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- restricting the unauthenticated buying member user's access to a selling member user's personal identity data with regard to an advertised offering placed by the selling member on the online marketplace, the restriction conditioned upon the outcome of at least one test for authentication of the buying member user.
A system for providing secure access by selling member users and buying member users to an online marketplace, the system comprising:
- providing an online secure membership server in network communication with an online marketplace, the secure membership server adapted to accept a request for membership to an online marketplace from an unauthenticated buying member user, the membership request including a plurality of buying member user personal identity data, and to restrict the unauthenticated buying member user's access to a selling member user's personal identity data with regard to an advertised offering placed by the selling member on the online marketplace, the restriction conditioned upon the outcome of at least one test for authentication of the buying member user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.