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AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsRoger A. Hurwitz, Tim M. Carver, Carl M. Ellison
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A person-to-person electronic commerce system that protects the anonymity of buyers and sellers. Embodiments of the present invention interpose a trusted intermediary between the buyer and seller during the transaction fulfillment process. Buyer and seller may disclose their personal information to the trusted intermediary. The trusted intermediary then arranges payment and shipping on behalf of the parties. In this way, neither buyer nor seller need know anything about the other in order to fulfill the transaction. The system may include an auction web site for holding an electronic auction of goods resulting in a transaction between a buyer and a seller, and a trusted intermediary, coupled to the auction web site, to obtain transaction, buyer, and seller information from the auction web site, to arrange for shipment of the goods with a selected shipper, to generate an encrypted mailing label, at least part of the transaction, buyer, and seller information being included as part of the encrypted mailing label, to send the encrypted mailing label to the seller, to receive notification of acceptance by the buyer once buyer receives the goods from the seller via the shipper, and to send payment for the goods to the seller.
A method of protecting anonymity of buyer and seller during fulfillment of a person-to-person electronic commerce transaction by a trusted intermediary comprising:
An article comprising:
A person-to-person electronic commerce system protecting anonymity of buyers and sellers comprising:
A method of operating an auction web site to protect anonymity of parties to a person-to-person electronic commerce transaction comprising:
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