Patent ID: 7260380

Claim:
A method for accessing data for use on a mobile device, the method comprising: receiving credentials from a user of a mobile device; transferring an encrypted set of data to the mobile device from a removable storage medium in communication with the mobile device in response to instructions from an application associated with the data; decrypting the encrypted set of data based on the credentials, with the decryption performed by the application; automatically erasing the decrypted set of data from the mobile device; disconnecting the removable storage medium from the mobile device; connecting the removable storage medium to a proxy device; receiving the credentials from a user of the proxy device; transferring the encrypted set of data from the removable storage medium to the proxy device in response to instructions from a second application on the proxy device; and decrypting the encrypted set of data based on the credentials using the proxy device, with the decryption performed by the second application.