Patent ID: 8719165

Claim:
A method for completing, by a customer secure computing device, a secure transaction between a customer and a merchant, wherein the customer is associated with the customer secure computing device and a delegate mobile device, the method comprising: acquiring customer delegate mobile device identification information and secure transaction data, by the customer secure computing device, comprising: receiving, by the customer secure computing device, secure transaction data associated with a delegated transaction, the secure transaction data comprising a merchant identification associated with the merchant; receiving, by the customer secure computing device, customer delegate mobile device identification information associated with a customer delegate mobile device authorized by the customer for the delegated transaction with the merchant; and storing, by the customer secure computing device, the secure transaction data and customer delegate mobile device identification information; and subsequent to acquiring customer delegate mobile device identification information and secure transaction data by the customer secure computing device, automatically completing the secure transaction, by the customer secure computing device, in response to receiving a communication from the identified previously authorized customer delegate mobile device, comprising: receiving, by the customer secure computing device, a communication from the identified previously authorized customer delegate mobile device; checking, by the customer secure computing device, a status identifier in the communication from the identified previously authorized customer delegate mobile device; and automatically initiating, by the customer secure computing device, using the secure transaction data, payment to the merchant by the customer secure computing device in response to receiving the communication from the identified previously authorized customer delegate mobile device, when the status identifier indicates that the delegated transaction is complete.