Patent ID: 7024394

Claim:
A system for assisting a user conducting a transaction on a secure site of a server to implicitly logoff from the secure site, comprising: the server including: a secure transaction protection module that tracks a user's access state to the server; a database in communication with the secure transaction protection module, for storing data to be accessed by the user; an identification module for validating the user's access to the database; and a notification module for notifying the secure transaction protection module of a user's request to initiate a session on the server; wherein if the user selects an insecure site while logged on to the secure site of the server, the notification module sends a warning notice to the user to alert the user of an impending logoff from the secure site, and further sends a termination command to the secure transaction protection module for implicitly logging off the user from the secure site; and wherein the secure transaction protection module causes the session to be terminated in response to the termination command, absent an instruction from the user to maintain a connection with the secure site.