Patent ID: 7398398

Claim:
A communications control system, the system comprising: an access point for coupling data packets to a network; a computing subsystem for executing a first software application; wherein the first software application comprises a user operative portion and a hidden program portion; wherein the user operative portion provides for sending data packets for controlled transmission through the access point; wherein the hidden program portion provides a security signal representative of the hidden program portion that is coupled to a controller for controlling coupling of the data packets via the access point to the network responsive to the security signal from the hidden program portion; wherein the access point couples to the hidden program portion, information about ordering of a current data packet comprising at least one of: a secure time-stamp, a sequence number signal, a sequence of security tags, a UTC (Universal Coordinated Time) signal, a sequence time-stamp generated responsive to a UTC (Universal Coordinated Time) signal; and wherein the security signal is generated responsive to the ordering information about ordering of the current data packet and the hidden program portion.