USB AUTORUN DEVICE

摘要

A portable, application-specific USB autorun device, following connection to a computer terminal, automatically initialises or presents itself as a known type of device and then automatically sends to the terminal a sequence of data complying with a standard protocol, that sequence of data automatically causing content to be accessed or a task to be initiated. The device (i) includes a standardised USB module that includes a USB microcontroller, the standardised module being designed to be attached to or embedded in multiple types of different, application specific packages but (ii) excludes mass memory storage for applications or end-user data.

主权项

1. A method of making an online payment using a computing device and a remote payment server, comprising the steps of:
(a) a user inserting or connecting a USB autorun peripheral device into the computing device; (b) the USB autorun peripheral device sending to the computing device a sequence of data complying with a standard protocol; (c) the sequence of data being processed at the computing device to automatically open a secure connection to the remote payment server; and (d) in which the sequence of data, without any prior input of a website address or login data for that website or prior input of unique data identifying the device at any earlier time by a user, automates the direct access, over the internet, to the remote payment server.