Patent ID: 8170957

Claim:
A method for managing digital interactions comprising: receiving a digital vector at a receiving Relationship Nexus Agent, resident on a machine, via a negotiated traversal path formed through a network of other Relationship Nexus Agents, the received digital vector being associated with a plurality of terms for a relationship between a requester endpoint and a recipient endpoint and having the property of being authenticated using secure digital keys that are usable only by the requester and the recipient under agreed terms; authenticating the received digital vector via the receiving Relationship Nexus Agent using the secure digital keys; and relaying the digital vector from the receiving Relationship Nexus Agent to a role associated with the recipient; wherein the secure digital keys are exchanged and the agreed terms are determined via a process comprising: establishing an ephemeral secure channel between the requester and the recipient via a process comprising: preparing a channel request package, wherein the requester selects requester credentials to disclose, selects recipient credentials to require of the recipient, and selects proposed attributes of a channel between the requester and the recipient, and wherein the requester credentials selected, the recipient credentials selected, and the proposed attributes selected are included by a requesting Relationship Nexus Agent, resident on a machine, in the channel request package; creating a first requester created random key pair by the requesting Relationship Nexus Agent; sending the channel request package from the requester by the requesting Relationship Nexus Agent; receiving the channel request package at the recipient by the receiving Relationship Nexus Agent; creating a first recipient created random key pair; and establishing a secure communication channel via an ephemeral key exchange using the first requester created random key pair and the first recipient created random key pair; and establishing the agreed terms and the secure digital keys by the requesting and receiving Relationship Nexus Agents, the establishing comprising: reviewing, at the recipient, terms proposed by the requester; sending a response to the requester through the ephemeral secure channel by the receiving Relationship Nexus Agent, the response comprising one of an acceptance of the proposed terms and counter-proposed terms for the relationship; receiving, at the requester, the response from the recipient; sending from the requester, through the ephemeral secure channel, one of an acceptance of the counter-proposed terms and a revised proposed terms for the relationship; creating a second requester created random key pair; transmitting to the recipient, through the ephemeral secure channel one key of the second requester created random key pair; creating a second recipient created random key pair; and transmitting to the requester, through the ephemeral secure channel one key of the second recipient created random key pair.