Abstract: A system and method to perform an out-of-band authenticated authorization of an activity. A requesting system initiates an authorization request for an activity which is signed using a key pair managed by a transaction server. The authorization request is asymmetrically encrypted for the intended authorizing system and is communicated to the server and stored. The authorizing system receives notification of the request and communicates with the transaction server to retrieve the request, decrypt it and verify the signature. The authorizing system interprets the request and generates an authorization response which is signed and encrypted such that only the requesting system can decrypt it. The response is communicated back to the transaction server which notifies the requesting system. The requesting system communicates with the server to retrieve the response, decrypt it, verify the signature and interpret the response to take action on the activity that initiated the request.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to marketing and provide a novel and non-obvious method, computer system and computer program product for collecting information at experience marketing events. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for collecting information from participants at an experience marketing event is provided. The method can include collecting written information from a participant at a computer terminal and collecting location information from the participant in a defined location of the experience marketing event, wherein the location information is collected from an electronic marker worn by the participant. The method may further include collecting game play data from the participant via a video game provided at the experience marketing event and recording the written information, the location information and the game play data in a record associated with an identity of the participant.