Patent ID: 8621199

Claim:
A method comprising: securely communicating, by a presentation appliance, with a wireless communication device such that the presentation appliance communicates data securely with a private network over a public wireless network; accessing a virtual file system for the presentation appliance to store data in a store of the wireless communication device, wherein the virtual file system provides a private data zone for securely storing data; providing, in the presentation appliance, a data containment environment that restricts applications executing on the presentation appliance from storing, other than transiently, or communicating data other than to the wireless communication device; via the wireless communication device, communicating data with the private network and storing data in the private data zone without storing the data in the presentation appliance; securely communicating data without storing the data in the presentation appliance; and wherein the data containment environment operates to trap requests to store data in a storage device available to the presentation appliance and temporally cache the data to only transiently store the data on the presentation appliance.