Patent ID: 8590025

Claim:
In a computerized client device, a method of accessing a backup system, the method comprising: receiving a logon command to logon a user to a website of the backup system, the backup system including (i) a backup server and (ii) a web server which hosts the website to enable the user to control settings of the backup server; in response to receiving the logon command, sending a token request to the backup server through a pre-established secure data pathway between the computerized client device and the backup server, data being periodically backed up from the computerized client device to the backup server through the pre-established secure data pathway in a secure manner; and in response to sending the token request, acquiring a logon token from the backup server through the pre-established secure data pathway between the computerized client device and the backup server, the website hosted by the web server being constructed and arranged to communicate with the backup server to determine whether the logon token is authentic when the website receives the logon token during a logon operation; and after the computerized client device acquires the logon token, providing the logon token to the website during the logon operation to logon the user to the website of the backup system, wherein providing the logon token to the website during the logon operation includes transmitting the logon token from the computerized client device to the web server through a second pathway which is different than the pre-established secure data pathway between the computerized client device and the backup server.