Patent ID: 9704190
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A secure email checkout system for communicating between a customer device, a vendor website and a payment server, the system utilizing at least two emails to complete payment for at least one item to be purchased on the vendor website, the system comprising: the payment server comprising: a computer memory, operably connected to a processor, configured to store customer information, the customer information including a customer name, customer email address, customer shipping address, and customer billing information; a receiver, operably connected to the processor, configured to receive a request for a purchase from the vendor website, the request for purchase including an email address and transaction information regarding the at least one item to be purchased, the transaction information including at least an identification and price of the at least one item to be purchased; the processor configured to determine whether the received email address matches the customer email address stored in the computer memory; a transmitter, operably connected to the processor, configured to transmit a first email to the customer email address requesting authorization to complete a purchase of the at least one item including the transaction information, wherein the first email includes a mailto link that is encoded with a token; whereby selection of the mailto link by the customer generates a second email from the customer email address which includes the token; the receiver further configured to receive the second email, from the customer email address, the second email confirms at least a portion of the purchase and cancels at least a portion of the purchase; the processor further configured to authenticate the second email using the customer email address and the token; and in response to a valid result of the authentication, the processor completes a payment transaction corresponding to the confirmed portion of the purchase and the transmitter transmits a confirmation of the completed payment transaction corresponding to the confirmed portion of the purchase to the vendor website, wherein the vendor is a third party vendor.