| 摘要 |
<p>Anonymous delivery and payment techniques for use in conjunction with electronic commerce are disclosed. A user, upon entering into an electronic transaction with a merchant, provides the merchant with a unique identifier. For each transaction entered into by this user, the unique identifier provided to various merchants changes. Upon receipt of the identifier, the merchant places the identifier on a label on a package containing the goods to be delivered to the user and provides the package to a trusted third party shipper. The shipper accesses a database to associate the identifier with a particular user's address. The shipper thereafter replaces the label with a label containing the user name and address and delivers the package to the user. Various techniques are disclosed for the generation, storage, and use of the unique identifiers by the user and shipper. Further, an anonymous payment technique may be coupled with the anonymous delivery technique which allow the shipper to authenticate the payment amount agreed to by the user so that the shipper can pay the merchant for the goods and recover the amount paid from the user. <IMAGE></p> |
