Patent ID: 6105012
Filing Date: 2000-08-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for transmitting transactions between at least one client computer and at least one server computer interconnected by a communications link, the method comprising the steps of:(a) receiving one or more HTML documents at the client computer from the server computer, a subset of the documents including a header record and also including one or more HTML FORM tags, the one or more HTML FORM tags being distinct from the header record, a first subset of the HTML FORM tags having an outformat field indicating a specified outgoing transmission cryptographic protocol;(b) receiving at the client computer input form data corresponding to the HTML FORM tag;(c) generating secure form data by applying the specified outgoing transmission security cryptographic protocol of the HTML FORM tag to the input form data; and(d) transmitting a return message including the secure form data to the server computer.