Patent ID: 7080044

Claim:
A transaction evidencing system, comprising a personal computer (PC), an unsecured printer and vault means removably coupled to said PC, said PC including a processor, memory and storage means, said storage means including at least one application program that is selectively run on said PC, said application program generally being run for other than transaction evidencing, said unsecured printer connected to said PC for printing in accordance with at least said application program, said vault means including digital token generation means and transaction accounting means, the system comprising: vault interface means in said PC for effecting communications between said vault means and said application program and for performing transaction evidencing functions to supplement transaction evidencing functions performed in said portable vault means, said vault interface means comprising: an application interface module for interfacing with said application program; a communications module for communicating with said vault means; and an image creation module for generating image bitmaps, wherein said vault interface means is a dynamic link library module in said PC.