Patent ID: 9704148
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. An email payment gateway utilizing simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) and an exchange of SMTP emails, the email payment gateway comprising: a database configured to store a plurality of identifiers including an identifier of a customer, payment information of the customer, an email address of the customer and an identifier of an email marketing campaign; a security module for generating a plurality of universal unique identifiers (UUIDs), the security module associating one of said plurality of UUIDs with each of said plurality of identifiers; at least one processor configured to generate a first SMTP email message addressed to the email address of the customer and associated with the email campaign; the first SMTP email message including a visible SMTP mailto link, wherein the visible SMTP mailto link includes: non visible information including a destination address field that includes an email address of the email payment gateway, a first UUID that is associated with a product and a second UUID that is associated with identification of the customer, and an email body field that includes the identifier of the customer, an identifier of a product, and the identifier of the email campaign, wherein the visible mailto link is configured to, upon selection, generate a second SMTP email message, by a customer device, that includes said first and second UUIDs; a network interface configured to transmit the first SMTP email message to the customer; the network interface further configured to receive the second SMTP email message from the customer, the second SMTP email including the first and second UUIDs; wherein the second SMTP email message is automatically generated in response to the customer executing the visible SMTP mailto link of the first SMTP email message; and the at least one processor is further configured to process said first UUID to derive the product and the second UUID to derive the customer, and to process the purchase only if the first and second UUIDs are valid, on a condition of receiving the second SMTP email message from the customer device.