Patent 7499889 was granted and assigned to Cyota on March, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
As part of the present invention, there is provided a financial transaction system having a set of transaction facilitating protocols, each of which may be used either in conjunction with a 3D Secure system, environment or protocol, or on a standalone basis, within a conventional credit card processing system or environment, or with any other association standard which may be used in commerce.