Patent ID: 7996884
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: G06Q,G07B

Abstract:
1. A method for server-controlled security management of services to be performed by an electronic system, comprising the steps of: establishing a communication connection between an electronic system and a service provider remote from said electronic system and, via said communication connection, transmitting a request for a service, as a requested service, from among a plurality of services to be performed at the electronic system, from the electronic system to the service provider, each of said services having a security category associated therewith that requires security data to satisfy the security category; in said electronic system, providing a plurality of logic channels respectively leading to different destinations in said electronic system for respective services in said plurality of services, and securing said logic channels respectively with different security levels; for each security category for each service available from said service provider, storing the security data required to satisfy that security category in a database at the service provider and, upon receipt of said request at said service provider, automatically identifying the security category the requested service and generating a data set containing service data for the requested service secured by the security data required to satisfy the security category of the requested service; at the service provider, dependent on the security category associated in the database with the requested service, controlling a selector of said server to select a logical channel, from among said plurality of logical channels, that designates a destination in said electronic system for said data set that has a security level associated therewith that is compatible with the security category associated with the requested service, and transferring said data set from said service provider to said destination in said electronic system via the selected logical channel over said communication connection; upon completion of the requested service at said electronic system, generating an authentication output at said electronic system; and at said service provider, waiting for receipt of a further service request, or said authentication output, from said electronic system.