Patent ID: 8762725

Claim:
A system for securely communicating requests and responses between a workstation and a machine using a task list server, the system comprising: the machine communicatively coupled to the task list server that receives, from the task list server, an instruction corresponding to a request from the workstation, the instruction being a task instruction or a status instruction corresponding to the request and develops a response to the instruction without human operator intervention; and the task list server having executable instructions that when executed by a processor of the task list server cause the task list server to: establish a first communication session between the task list server and the workstation, the first communication session mutually authenticated and encrypted, wherein the first communication session communicates the request from the workstation to the task list server and the request includes at least one of a task request or a status request, wherein the task list server receives priority information for the request stored at the task list server; and asynchronously to the first communication session, establish a second communication session, according to the received priority information, between the task list server and the machine, the second communication session mutually authenticated and encrypted, wherein the second communication session communicates the response to the instruction to the task list server.