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US 6,789,189 B2Granted
Managing account database in ABDS system
AssigneeFirst Data Corporation
InventorsLynn Henry Wheeler, Anne M. Wheeler
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Abstract
A method of managing accounts in a database in an ABDS system includes recording information pertaining to each of the accounts in the database, (b) assigning a respective unique identifier to each account such that information pertaining to each respective account is retrievable from the database based on its unique identifier, and associating the same public key of a public-private key pair with a plurality of unique identifiers.
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A method of managing in a database, by an account authority, a plurality of accounts, comprising the steps of:
- (a) recording information pertaining to each of the accounts in the database;
- (b) assigning a respective unique identifier to each account such that information pertaining to each respective account is retrievable from the database based on its unique identifier;
- (c) associating the same public key of a public-private key pair with a plurality of unique identifiers such that the public key is retrievable based on any one of the plurality of unique identifiers, but not associating the private key of the public-private key pair with the plurality of unique identifiers, whereby the private key is not retrievable, the private key residing within a device used to generate a digital signature of an electronic message;
- (d) receiving, by the account authority, one of the plurality of unique identifiers;
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- (e) retrieving from the database, by the account authority, said recorded information and said associated public key based on said received unique identifier.
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