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eBay, uBID, Yahoo and other Internet Auction Websites do not give it a formal name, but if you desire to bid there, you have to register as a user by submitting a valid credit card information, for verifying your identity, address etc (infringing US Patent 6665797, claim 21). Of course, the credit card is not charged.

From one of their news releases.
In their plan, Pat-rights' first step in business will be selling PC games thru' Internet.

Patent this idea before they do! You'll make millions!

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Wanna cry some more? Check out this other patent of theirs: here.

There isn't any sort of intention to do anything with it, in fact that's their selling point -- rather than bet on a particular implementation, bet on the underlying principle that all implementations will have to share!

Excuse me while I weep for our race...

I see now that they point mainly to their claim 21, which does make a lot more sense, but is also so broad to be absurd. How can they pretend that this was novel in 1998?

They say they are entitled to trebledamages. Next thing they'll be asking for bass damages.

Check out the "Pat-rights" website -- their slogan: "We innovate, we share and we gain".
From the site:
Early in 1995, Founder of Pat-rights, Mr. Philip H.K. Tse visualised Internet as the most promising environment for digital content distribution and began to develop ideas and technologies essential for these changes.

As a result of his long term efforts, several national patents are being issued. And, some of them are being infringed by Global Industrial giants.

Dripping with sincerity, isn't it? Shakespeare was right when he said, "All the world's a stage, it's people only players." If he were alive to watch some of the painfully transparent performances on the patent-piracy stage, I don't know if he would laugh or cry.

check out their patent for mobile commerce (PDF).

What amazes me is that anyone can put together a couple of badly drawn diagrams, and not even explain EXACTLY HOW they are going to achieve what they are talking about.

in http://www.pat-rights.com/InternetUserIdentityVeri fication.html, they claim that eBay is an example of an infringing website. eBay has had that system in place since before their patent was applied for. It seems to me like they have just provided everything you need to prove prior art on their page.

But ... but ... Have you seen their motto? They _must_ be on our side!

http://www.pat-rights.com/nsD03_01_2005_T1235.htm

Read the part at the bottom that says "demanding Apple a reasonable license fee, 12% of gross sales of iTunes music tracks and iPods". They don't just want ipods - they want itunes because money because of apple's method of verifying user accounts before they purchase a song. Read the linked page.

Specifically, information of a transaction, such as transaction amount, is being supplied from a data input terminal such as internet computer or a POS terminal, to a transaction control centre, then transmitted back to its originating location, to a user through a portable receiver which may be a mobile phone or the like.

And the better part is:

The scope of patent protection may seem to be incredibly broad, but this is what we exactly own

which refers to this patent: Patent 6,665,797