Patent ID: 7853789
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for establishing a communications pipe between at least one personal security device (PSD) and at least one Remote Computer System over a network using at least one Client as a host to said at least one PSD, said at least one Client and said at least one Remote Computer System being in functional communications using a packet-based communications protocol over said network, said method comprising: generating, retrieving or receiving, in said at least one Remote Computer System, an Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) request message, encapsulating, in said at least one Remote Computer System, said APDU request message with said packet-based communications protocol, thus producing an encapsulated APDU request message, transmitting said encapsulated APDU request message, using said packet-based communications protocol, from said at least one Remote Computer System to said at least one Client via said network, extracting, in said at least one Client, said APDU request message from said encapsulated APDU request message, transmitting said APDU request message from said at least one Client to said at least one PSD, processing, in said at least one PSD, said APDU request message, thus producing a APDU response message, transmitting said APDU response message from said at least one PSD to said at least one Client, encapsulating, in said at least one Client, said APDU response message with said packet-based communications protocol, thus producing an encapsulated APDU response message, transmitting said encapsulated APDU response message, using said packet-based communications protocol, from said at least one Client to said at least one Remote Computer System via said network, extracting, in said at least one Remote Computer System, said APDU response message from said encapsulated APDU response message, and processing said APDU response message in said at least one Remote Computer System.