SCART-card (secure consumer advantaged retail trading)

A payment system for Internet merchandise or media, comprising:

• a retail point of sale establishment;
• a customer access point at said all point of sale establishment;
• URL information that is an Internet transaction location of said merchandise or media on a selling computer on a network;
• means for accepting payment through an in person transaction with a customer;
• means for storing and retrieving a record on or in one or more physical media corresponding to said Internet transaction location or to said merchandise or media;
• means for transfer of said one or more physical media from said retail point of sale establishment to said customer;
• means for Internet transaction authorization or other Internet transaction security on, in, or actuated from said physical media to facilitate transfer of ownership or rights in said Internet merchandise or media to said customer;
• and
• means to activate said authorization at point of sale, wherein said means to activate comprises:
• a physical medium with a first identification number that identifies said product and associates said product with said URL information that is an Internet transaction location of said merchandise or media and a second identification number that identifies said physical medium solely;
• means for reading of said first identification number to complete an activation or deactivation of said physical medium;
• means for reading said second identification number to transfer ownership of a product from a physical retail point of sale location to a consumer;
• and
• means for causing said selling computer on said network as a result of activation of said physical medium to authorize means for reading of said second identification number to transfer ownership.

A transaction authorization method for virtual network based merchandise or media over a public or private network comprising:

• placing specific information on a plurality of distribution nodes on a distribution network that comprises a specific product offered through said distribution network, said product comprising line itemized networked merchandise or line itemized downloadable media material objects on said distribution network;
• specifying a price wherein said price is specific to said product wherein payment of said price is through an in-person transaction at a retail point of sale location wherein said payment is designated for said product through said in-person transaction;
• and
• sending a message of said payment over said network causing transfer of ownership rights in said product to an end-user device on said network through authorization said network as a result of said associating of said payment.

A method of vending a voucher to a purchaser, the method comprising:

• providing customer access to a customer at a retail point of sale location;
• creating a voucher containing specific information on, in, or actuated from said voucher where said information is a specification of a product, said product comprising line itemized networked merchandise or line itemized downloadable media material objects on a selling computer on a network;
• accepting payment for said voucher through an in-person transaction at said retail point of sale location wherein said payment is at least zero;
• sending a payment message as a response to said in-person transaction either directly or through other computers on said network to said selling computer on said network;
• causing an authorization message to be created on said selling computer in or as a result of said payment message;
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• vending said voucher at said retail point of sale to said customer;
• wherein vending the voucher to said customer transfers ownership of said product comprising line itemized network merchandise or line itemized downloadable media material objects to said customer.

A method of virtual Internet based merchandise or media exchange for payment, comprising:

• providing customer access to a customer at a retail point of sale location;
• specifying a product, said product comprising line itemized networked merchandise or line itemized downloadable media material objects on a selling computer on a network;
• accepting payment for said product through an in-person transaction at said retail point of sale location wherein said payment is at least zero;
• sending a payment message as a response to said in-person transaction either directly or through other computers on said network to said selling computer on said network;
• causing an authorization message to be created on said selling computer in or as a result of said payment message;
• and
• transferring ownership of said product to said customer wherein said product can be engaged by a customer device on said network.

A method of virtual Internet based merchandise or media exchange for payment, comprising:

• specifying a product, said product comprising line itemized networked merchandise or line itemized downloadable media material objects on a selling computer on a network wherein payment for said product is through an in-person transaction at a retail point of sale location wherein said payment is at least zero;
• receiving a payment message on said selling computer on said network as a response to said in-person transaction either directly or through other computers on said network;
• causing an authorization message to be created on said selling computer in or as a result of said payment message;
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• transferring ownership of said product to said customer.