Patent ID: 8402275
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
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 device, said method comprising: providing, in said at least one remote computer system, a request to access said at least one PSD, said request being in a high-level messaging format; converting, in said at least one remote computer system, said request from said high-level messaging format to a PSD-formatted request message; encapsulating, in said at least one remote computer system, said PSD-formatted request message with a packet-based communications protocol, thus producing an encapsulated PSD-formatted request message; transmitting said encapsulated PSD-formatted request message, using said packet-based communications protocol, from said at least one remote computer system to said at least one client device via said network; extracting, in said at least one client device, said PSD-formatted request message from said encapsulated PSD-formatted request message; transmitting said PSD-formatted request message from said at least one client device to said at least one PSD; processing, in said at least one PSD, said PSD-formatted request message, thus producing a PSD-formatted response message; transmitting said PSD-formatted response message from said at least one PSD to said at least one client device; encapsulating, in said at least one client device, said PSD-formatted response message with said packet-based communications protocol, thus producing an encapsulated PSD-formatted response message; transmitting said encapsulated PSD-formatted response message, using said packet-based communications protocol, from said at least one client device to said at least one remote computer system via said network; extracting, in said at least one remote computer system, said PSD-formatted response message from said encapsulated PSD-formatted response message; converting, in said at least one Remote Computer System, said PSD-formatted response message into a high-level response message; and processing said high-level response message in said at least one remote computer system.