Patent ID: 7823770

Claim:
A system for maintaining confidentiality of personal information during E-commerce transactions, said system comprising: an electronic depository utilized for storing a profile of personal information for at least a first party to an E-commerce transaction; a server affiliated with said depository and having a processor that executes program code for: a registration utility for assigning said first party a unique transaction identifier (TID) linked to said profile for use during said E-commerce transaction; and a transaction process for completing said E-commerce transactions utilizing said electronic depository in response to said first party providing said transaction identifier to a second party to said E-commerce transaction, wherein said second party receives only a portion of said personal information of said first party required to complete the transaction; wherein, when said transactions requires a transfer of an item from the second party to the first party, said transaction process further includes program code that is executed by the processor to complete the functions of: assigning a security routing identifier (SRID) for utilization by said second party to identify a shipment of said item by a shipping service affiliated with said electronic depository, wherein the shipping service is independent of said second party and is utilized to complete said transfer of said item to an address of said first party, and wherein said SRID is initially provided to the second party, who forwards the item along with said SRID and said TID; receiving said transaction identifier along with said security routing identifier at said depository; and forwarding at least an address portion of said profile associated with said TID to said shipping service along with said SRID, wherein said shipping service receives the item from said second party tagged with only said SRID and said TID for identification purposes and subsequently sends said item to said first party utilizing at least said address portion of the profile.