Patent ID: 8689297

Claim:
A mobile communications device comprising: a communications subsystem for communicating over a wireless network; a short-range communications subsystem for short-range communications; a processor, in communication with the communications subsystem and the short-range communications subsystem; a secure memory store, in communication with the processor; and, wherein the processor is operative to enable the device to: receive authentication data through the communications subsystem, the authentication data comprising information to identify on-line resource log-in credentials stored in the secure memory store, and comprising instructions to be executed by the device, the instructions comprising encryption security information; process the authentication data and execute the instructions to render the processor further operative to process the information to locate the identified on-line resource log-in credentials and secure the identified on-line resource log-in credentials using the encryption security information to create processed authentication data; and, transmit the processed authentication data to a computing device through the short-range communications subsystem.