Patent ID: 7424616
Filing Date: 2008-09-09
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for integrating a seller's Web site with a public key infrastructure, wherein: the public key infrastructure comprises a buyer computer having a Web browser adapted to invoke a signing interface to digitally sign electronic messages and a seller's bank computer system adapted to receive service requests from the seller and to respond to those requests; and the seller's Web site comprises: a filter adapted to redirect HTTP requests received from the Web browser; coupled to the filter, a Web server; coupled to the Web server, an Internet server application adapted to receive redirected HTTP requests from the filter and to process the redirected HTTP requests; and coupled to the Internet server application, a filter engine adapted to receive processed HTTP requests from the Internet server application and to identify which HTTP requests require a digital signature by the buyer computer and which requests do not require a digital signature by the buyer computer.