Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Patent
1998-06-05
2000-04-25
Swann, Tod R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
705404, 705405, 713168, G06F 1500, H04L 900
Patent
active
060555084
ABSTRACT:
A method for secure accounting and auditing of a communications network operates in an environment in which many servers serve an even larger number of clients (e.g. the web), and are required to meter the interaction between servers and clients (e.g. counting the number of clients that were served by a server). The method (metering process) is very efficient and does not require extensive usage of any new communication channels. The metering is secure against fraud attempts by servers which inflate the number of their clients and against clients that attempt to disrupt the metering process. Several secure and efficient constructions of this method are based on efficient cryptographic techniques, are also very accurate, and preserver the privacy of the clients.
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Naor Moni
Pinkas Binyamin
Myhre James W.
Swann Tod R.
Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd.
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