System and method for providing a secure network on another secure network

摘要

The present invention provides a system and method for providing a closed or secure network on another closed or secure network. The system enables linking at least one acquirer network operating a closed network to at least one operator by a central server. The acquirer network includes one or more terminals and optionally an acquirer server. The central server is linked to the acquirer network and to the operator. The central server is configurable to communicate with at least a subset of the one or more terminals, and also with the operator, and to establish one or more serve; communication links between the operator and the one or more terminals. The central server acts as a trusted intermediary between the acquirer network and the operator for enabling the operator to communicate with the one or more terminals via the closed acquirer network.

主权项

1. A network comprising:
a first computer network including at least one network device and a first network server; a second computer network including a second network server and having a security requirement incompatible with that of the first computer network; and a computer server trusted by the computer networks and configured to provide the at least one network device with at least one transaction set, the at least one transaction set when authenticated by the at least one network device facilitating end-to-end communications between the at least one network device and the second computer network via the computer server and the first computer network and implementing on the at least one network device via the end-to-end communications a network service offered by the second computer network, wherein the first computer network is configured to authenticate the at least one network device, and one of the computer server and the second computer network is configured to authenticate a user of the at least one network device from user authentication information received from the at least one network device, wherein the second computer network is configured to provide the network service to the at least one network device and the computer server is configured to pass the end-to-end communications of the network service between the at least one network device and the second computer network both only after the first computer network authenticates the at least one network device and the one of the computer server and the second computer network authenticates the user of the at least one network device from the received user authentication information, and wherein the computer server is configured to maintain communications between the at least one network device and the first network server confidential from communications between the at least one network device and the second network server.