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Customer Perceptions of a Thin-Client Micro-Payment System: Issues and Experiences

Overview Two fundamental payment methods exist for on-line information purchase: macro-payment and micro-payment. Traditional macro-payment methods, like credit and charge cards and digital currency, are suitable for large-value, low-volume transactions. However, large-volume, low-value commodities, such as discrete units of information from a web site, better-suit a micro-payment model. This paper gives an overview of the concept of micro-payment vs. macro-payment models of e-payment. This paper presents the software architecture and design for NetPay, a new micro-payment system that has been prototyped, for deployment with thin-client vendor interfaces for customers.

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Publisher	Idea Group	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	November 2003	Downloads	27
Format	White Papers
Topics	Thin Clients, Transaction Processing, Application Servers

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