Patent ID: 9722999
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for accessing a secure host device using a personal security device (PSD) of a user, comprising: providing the PSD with a credential for accessing the secure host device, wherein the credential is only readable from or operable with the PSD when a secure channel is established between the PSD and the secure host device after presenting the PSD in a non-contact field of a reader monitored by the secure host device, wherein the secure host device includes a secure access module (SAM); establishing the secure channel with the PSD using keys stored and operated on the secure host device, wherein the establishing of the secure channel is performed in at least one of: a tethered mode of operation or a roaming mode of operation, wherein, for the tethered mode of operation, the PSD releases the credential to the secure host device only when the PSD is cryptographically bound to the secure host device, and, wherein, for the roaming mode of operation, the PSD releases the OS credential to any secure host device activated for a specific group of PSDs; and securely releasing the credential of the PSD to a requesting component of the secure host device to achieve access by the user to the secure host device when the PSD is presented in the non-contact field.