Patent ID: 8892891

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium, that contains software that establishes a communications pipe between at least one personal security device (PSD) and at least one remote computer system over a network using at least one client device, the software comprising: executable code that converts a request to access the at least one PSD from said high-level messaging format to a PSD-formatted request message; executable code that encapsulates the PSD-formatted request message with a packet-based communications protocol, thus producing an encapsulated PSD-formatted request message; executable code that transmits via the network the encapsulated PSD-formatted request message, using the packet-based communications protocol, from the at least one remote computer system to the at least one client device; executable code that extracts the PSD-formatted request message from the encapsulated PSD-formatted request message; executable code that transmits the PSD-formatted request message from the at least one client device to the at least one PSD; executable code that processes the PSD-formatted request message, thus producing a PSD-formatted response message; executable code that transmits the PSD-formatted response message from the at least one PSD to the at least one client device; executable code that encapsulates the PSD-formatted response message with the packet-based communications protocol, thus producing an encapsulated PSD-formatted response message; executable code that transmits the encapsulated PSD-formatted response message, using the packet-based communications protocol, from the at least one client device to the at least one remote computer system via the network; executable code that extracts the PSD-formatted response message from the encapsulated PSD-formatted response message; executable code that converts the PSD-formatted response message into a high-level response message; and executable code that processes the high-level response message in the at least one remote computer system.