Patent ID: 7591425
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A system for authenticating a transaction, the system comprising: a card reader unit configured to receive a card from a user and an input from the user to verify whether the user is authorized based on a verification of the input with corresponding information in the card, wherein, upon authorization of the user, the card reader is configured to generate a signal to be sent to a server or another party for the purposes of verification of the transaction; a device configured to perform the transaction coupled directly to the device, communications between the card reader and the device being secured, wherein the card reader unit is operationally independent from the device; wherein the device is further configured to initiate a transaction request with a server or another party; wherein the card reader is further configured to authenticate a user of the device exclusively in the card reader unit, wherein the card reader is not involved to encrypt a transaction between the device and the server, but provides optical or multi-tone acoustical signals from the card reader unit to the transaction between the device and the server or another party, and the optical or multi-tone acoustical signals include authenticated information about the user of the device, and are received in the server or another party via the device.