Patent ID: 6847998

Claim:
An apparatus for control and certification of the delivery of goods by means of Internet, Intranet, Extranet connections or the like and for the concurrent control and certification of the execution of the related payment, comprising: a) a system for reading an electronic card and for managing authorization processes by the electronic card issuing company; b) an apparatus for monitoring and interpretation of application protocols for network data transmission systems connected to said system for reading an electronic card and comprising: b1) a data packets monitoring device at a layer corresponding to the OSI layer 2 , said data packets comprising control frames and information frames, wherein the control and information frames contain a header portion and a body portion, said header portion for the distinction between an information frame and a control frame; b2) a control unit receiving as an input the data coming from the monitoring device and comprising means for the discrimination of the control frames from the information frames; b3) a dating unit connected to the control unit and associating a monitoring time to the control frames and to the information frames; b4) a discriminated data storing unit storing the control and the information frames and the monitoring time thereof, bidirectionally connected to the control unit; b5) a predetermined data storing unit, bidirectionally connected to the control unit, said predetermined data representing possible interpretations of the information frames contained in the discriminated data storing unit; b6) means for comparing, by the control unit, said predetermined data stored in the storing unit with the data contained in the body portion of the information frames stored in the discriminated data storing unit, thus reconstructing the information frames according to their specific application syntax; b7) means for ordering, according to the time and kind of communication, the information frames reconstructed according to their specific application syntax, thus reconstructing application sequences occurred between a determined source processor and a determined destination processor; and b8) means for ordering said information frames ordered according to the time and kind of communication also according to a logical criterion, thus reconstructing the logical path of said application sequences occurred between a determined source processor and a determined destination processor, and c) a data storing unit of the various transactions object of electronic commerce monitored and interpreted by means of said apparatus for monitoring and interpretation of application protocols.