Patent ID: 8613107

Claim:
A system for protecting sensitive data associated with a RFID tag comprising: a remotely located server having a storage manager and a secure storage that stores the sensitive data associated with the RFID tag; a RFID tag reader that obtains RFID data from the RFID tag, wherein the RFID data comprises one or more pointers to the sensitive data associated with the RFID tag stored in the secure storage and the sensitive data was extracted from the RFID data and replaced with the one or more pointers to the sensitive data before the RFID data was embedded within the RFID tag; an application resident on a client and communicably coupled to the RFID tag reader and the storage manager, wherein the application receives the one or more pointers from the RFID tag reader and requests the sensitive data associated with the RFID tag from the storage manager using the one or more pointers; and the storage manager communicably coupled to the secure storage, wherein the storage manager receives the one or more pointers from the application, retrieves the sensitive data associated with the RFID tag from the secure storage using the one or more pointers, and provides the sensitive data associated with the RFID tag to the application.