A hosting client of ours, www.universal-escrow.com who can't post here himself for obvious reasons just sent me this:
United States Patent Application 20020004772 Kind Code A1 Templeton, James E. ; et al. January 10, 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------------System and method for verifying a financial instrument I will quote one of the claims: 1. A method of verifying a customer's authority to use a financial instrument, comprising: initiating one or more transactions using a financial instrument identified by a customer; storing one or more attributes of said one or more transactions; receiving a set of proffered attributes; comparing said proffered attributes to said stored attributes; and accepting use of the financial instrument by the customer if said proffered attributes match said stored attributes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If they are being granted that patent (and I can't see why they wouldn't considering that Amazon.com got the one-click purchase patenteted years after hundreds of sites had and used 'prior art'), then it is likely that they will actually try to enforce it as well. After all, they are known crooks. So, maybe Omnipay and a few others should start contesting the application while there is still time? Cheers, Robert. budget & privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net budget & privacy domain registrations + mail http://www.u2planet.com/cfdomaintrust.html --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
