Patent ID: 8156324

Claim:
A method for providing text chats for a game console-based online financial institution service, the method comprising: executing, on a game console device, an online financial institution service application; receiving, at the game console device, a user request to initiate a text chat session via the online financial institution service; establishing one of a Secured Socket Layer (SSL) protocol tunneled network connection or a Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol tunneled network connection between the game console device and a network entity associated with the financial institution, wherein the network connection is established by communicating of a game console identifier from the game console device to the network entity and bi-directional exchanging of digital certificates between the game console device and the network entity; accessing and controlling a text input mechanism associated with the game console device and a text output mechanism associated with the game console device based on receipt of the user request; receiving, at the text input mechanism, user text inputs for the text chat session; encrypting and hashing, at the game console device, the user text inputs; and communicating the user text inputs via one of the SSL protocol tunneled network connection or the TLS protocol tunneled network connection to the network entity associated with the financial institution.