Patent ID: 9589268
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a computer comprising a secure element, a real account number, wherein the secure element is immune from being hacked by computer viruses installed on the computer, wherein the secure element comprises a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and an input/output controller coupled to the processor, and wherein the memory of the secure element stores a unique identifier identifying the secure element; obtaining the unique identifier identifying the secure element from the memory of the secure element; encrypting, the unique identifier identifying the secure element using an encryption key stored in the secure element, prior to sending the obtained unique identifier to a remote server; sending the real account number, and the encrypted unique identifier identifying the secure element to the remote server; receiving, in response to sending the real account number, and the encrypted unique identifier identifying the secure element to the remote server, a pseudo account number from the remote server, the received pseudo account number being different from the real account number and having the same form as the real account number; and storing, in the memory of the secure element, the received pseudo account number.