Patent ID: 7342918

Claim:
A method for retrieving selected transaction card information associated with a transaction card in a standard format over a public interconnected network via a provider web service, comprising the steps of: formulating a simple object access protocol (SOAP) request for transaction card information; transmitting said SOAP request to said provider web service over the public interconnected network; receiving said SOAP request at said provider web service; reading said SOAP request to determine the transaction card information being requested; retrieving the transaction card information from a storage location and forwarding the transaction card information to said provider web service; formatting said transaction card information in an extensible markup language (XML) format and formulating a SOAP reply; and transmitting said SOAP reply over the public interconnected network to a consumer web server application; generating and transmitting an out-of-band message to a selected third party application indicating that said SOAP request was sent to said provider web service; generating and transmitting an out-of-band message to said selected third party application acknowledging that said SOAP request was received at said provider web service; generating and transmitting an out-of-band message to said selected third party application indicating that said SOAP reply was sent to said consumer web server application; and generating and transmitting an out-of-band message to said selected third party application acknowledging that said SOAP reply was received at said consumer web server application; whereby said third party application stores a plurality of received messages confirming that said SOAP request and said SOAP reply were transmitted and received by a consumer and provider network.