Patent ID: 7536360

Claim:
A method for providing a database of a first party's transactions using a first device with a second party using a second device to purchase a good over a communications network linking the first and second devices, the first party having first information of a personal or private nature specific to the first party or the first device, the method providing payment to the second party while securing said first information of the first party with respect to the second party, comprising the steps of: altering first information from the first device directed to the second device to prevent the second party from determining said first information of the first party; providing for approval or disapproval by at least a third party of the purchase of the good by the first party from the second party based on financial information relating to the first party accessible by the third party, and if the purchase is approved, providing for payment to the second party while securing said first information of the first party with respect to the second party; providing at least certain communications between the first and the second parties to a third device and collecting said communications at the third device while securing said first information with respect to the second party; and providing a database with the collected communications which is not accessible by the second device or the third party.