Research in Motion Corporation

Chris K C Leung

Scott Douglas Rose

Ryan Mitchell Bayne

Benjamin William Boomhour

Mihal Lazaridis

Scott William Totzke

Herb A Little

Herbert Anthony Little

A reader device includes a housing for receiving a smart card, a processor in electronic communication with an integrated circuit chip of the smart card when the smart card is received in the housing, a wireless communications device in electronic communication with the processor for enabling the reader device to transmit first encrypted information wirelessly and to receive second encrypted information wirelessly, and a memory in electronic communication with the processor that includes one or more routines executable by the processor. The one or more routines include a cryptographic module adapted to encrypt first information to create the first encrypted information and decrypt the second encrypted information to obtain second information. In addition, a communication system that includes the reader device and a computing device, wherein the reader device and computing device are able to wirelessly exchange information in a secure manner.

Portable smart card reader having secure wireless communications capability

Card reader

Handheld device

Handset

Growing community of inventors

Waterloo, Canada

Chris K C Leung