Method for providing secured commerical transactions via a networked communications system

Abstract

In a networked communications system comprising a client unit, a secured host server, and a company subscriber unit, a method for providing secured commercial transactions via the networked communications system. The method includes the steps of providing a secured transmission path via the networked communications system between the client unit and the secured host server, presenting the client unit with an order form in which commercial information is to be entered via the secured transmission path, receiving the commercial information transmitted via the secured transmission path by the client unit at the secured host server, maintaining the commercial information solely in the dynamic memory of the secured host server, encrypting the commercial information in response to the step of receiving the commercial information, erasing the dynamic memory of the secured host server in response to the step of encrypting the commercial information, and forwarding the encrypted commercial information via the communications network from the secured host server to the company subscriber unit.

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