Abstract: E-commerce which secures private and personal information of purchaser/users. E-commerce which may include delivery of a good ordered or purchased over a network (e.g., the Internet) to a purchaser/user, and/or arranging for electronic payment of the good is accomplished while securing private and personal information of purchaser/users, which may include the user's identity and address (and those of the user's computer), and financial information. E-commerce transactions include the purchasing or otherwise ordering of goods electronically by user, who may be a consumer or retail customer, and for delivery of goods to a shipping or electronic address designated by the user or to a physical or virtual depot for pick-up by the user, while providing complete anonymity of the user with respect to an electronic vendor, who may be a merchant or retailer.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 19, 2003
Publication date:
January 1, 2004
Applicant:
iPrivacy
Inventors:
Salvatore J. Stolfo, Yechiam Yemini, Leonard P. Shaykin