Patent ID: 7069249

Claim:
A system for a first party using a first device to order a good from a second party using a second device over a communications network linking the first and second devices, the first party having information of a personal or private nature specific to the first party or the first device including the first party's name and a first address associated therewith, the system providing for payment to the second party while securing said first party's name and first address from to second party, comprising: a proxy device altering information of a personal or private nature including at least the first party's name and first address directed from the first device to the second device to prevent the second party from determining said information of a personal or private nature specific to the first party of the first device; at least a third device communicating with the proxy device for approving or disapproving the purchase based on financial information of the first party available to the third device, and if the purchase is approved, for electronically crediting an amount to the second party and electronically debiting a payment from the first party and electronically crediting the proxy device with a transaction fee, wherein the third device divides the payment electronically debited from the first party into at least said amount credited to the second party and said transaction fee credited to the proxy device.