Patent ID: 8666906

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, by one or more computer systems and in response to an order placed by a customer, a request for verification information from a merchant system; establishing, by the one or more computer systems, a voice connection between the one or more computer systems, the merchant system, and an issuing system associated with the customer; blocking, by the one or more computer systems, voice transmission to a merchant system portion of the voice connection; communicating, by the one or more computer systems, customer information to the issuing system while the voice transmission to the merchant system portion of the voice connection is blocked; unblocking, by the one or more computer systems, the merchant system portion of the voice connection; and after unblocking the merchant portion of the voice connection, communicating, by the one or more computer systems, the verification information associated with the order from the issuing system to the merchant system through the unblocked merchant portion of the voice connection.