Patent ID: 7616559

Claim:
A communications system for communicating an information, comprising: a client device, including a client linker; a server device, including a server linker; a first communications link for communicatively connecting the client device and the server device for communicating the information therebetween; a first security feature of the first communications link; a second communications link for communicatively connecting the client device and the server device for communicating the information therebetween; a second security feature of the second communications link; wherein the first communications link differs from the second communications link; wherein the client linker selects either of the first communications link and the second communications link for communications by the client device with the server device and the server linker selects either of the first communications link and the second communications link for communications by the server device with the client device; and wherein the client linker and the server linker maintain continuous communications of the information between the client device and the server device over: (i) the first communications link if the second communications link is unable to communicate the information; and (ii) the second communications link if the first communications link is unable to communicate the information.