Patent ID: RE41210

Claim:
A method comprising: transmitting authentication information from a client computer to a server computer to authorize access to restricted data, wherein transmitting authentication information further includes executing a web browsing application program in the client computer to transmit the authentication information to the server computer; transmitting invocation information from the server computer to the client computer in response to the authentication information , the invocation information including a link identifier that defines a communications link between the server computer and the web browsing application, wherein the link identifier comprises at least one of a session identifier and a combination including a port number for the web browsing application and a network address ; invoking a first application program in the client computer using the invocation information, said first application program being a different application from said web browsing application program; and transmitting the restricted data from the server computer to the first application program in the client computer based on the access authorized by the authentication information through the communications link defined by the invocation information .