Patent ID: 8281123

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: an intermediate node operative to receive a first communication from a semi-trusted node, append private information to the first communication, and send the first communication and the private information to a trusted node, or to receive a second communication from the trusted node, remove private information from the second communication, and send the second communication with the private information removed to the semi-trusted node, wherein the appending and the removing of private information are performed by a security module of the intermediate node and the private information is inaccessible to the semi-trusted node, the intermediate node is arranged to store the private information and the security module is arranged to manage the private information across a plurality of semi-trusted nodes, wherein the intermediate node comprises a mobile device having wireless communication capabilities and wherein communications between the intermediate node and the semi-trusted node utilize a first wireless communication protocol and communications between the intermediate node and the trusted node utilize a second wireless communication protocol that is different than the first wireless communication protocol.