Patent ID: 7103573
Filing Date: 2006-09-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A multi-party financial system, comprising: at least one vendor computer including the ability to uniquely identify itself in an electronic communication; a credit card issuer computer; a broad bandwidth communications medium; and an intermediary computer communicatively connected to said at least one vendor computer and said credit card issuer computer via said communications medium, wherein said intermediary computer receives credit card application information from a uniquely identified vendor computer and transmits that information to a credit card issuer, further wherein the capability for the vendor computer to uniquely identify itself to the intermediary computer is in the form of a hardware component connected to a parallel port of each of said plurality of vendor computers, and further wherein said hardware component is a hardware HASP (Hardware Against Software Piracy) that includes a unique HASP identification code and said hardware HASP is uniquely and permanently associated with said vendor computer at installation and cannot be moved to another vendor computer after installation.