Assa Abloy Ab

Activcard

Activcard Ireland Limited

Actividentity, Inc.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yves Louis Gabriel Audebert

Olivier Clemot

Eric Fernand Le Saint

Jason Hart

Dominique Louis Joseph Fedronic

Dominique Fedronic

A portable authentication system includes a security module, that may be a smart card, SIM (Subscriber Identity Module), USB controller with a secure chip, or similar module capable of storing one or more credentials, and an interface module such as a digital badge holder that is able to communicate with the security module, for instance by providing a smart card communication interface. The portable authentication system may be either a single integrated system or a dual system where the security module can be removed or disconnected from the interface system.

Configurable digital badge holder

Managing a Personal Security Device (PSD) includes retrieving proprietary information from a remote storage location using a first Remote Computer System, providing at least one Client as a host to the PSD and establishing a communications pipe over a first network between the PSD and the Remote Computer System. The communications pipe communicates with the PSD through the Client. Managing a PSD also includes transmitting the proprietary information from the Remote Computer System to the PSD by sending a PSD-formatted message through the communications pipe, where the proprietary information provided in the PSD-formatted message and passing through the Client is at least partially inaccessible by the Client, processing the PSD-formatted messages at the PSD to extract the proprietary information and storing the proprietary information in the PSD.

Method and system for remote activation and management of personal security devices

A method and a system is provided for establishing a communications path over a communications network between a personal security device (PSD) and a remote computer system without requiring the converting of high-level messages such as API-level messages to PSD-formatted messages such as APDU-formatted messages (and inversely) to be installed on a local client device in which the PSD is connected.

Method and system for establishing a communications pipe between a personal security device and a remote computer system

Method and System for remote activation and management of personal security devices

System and method for establishing a remote connection over a network with a personal security device connected to a local client without using a local APDU interface or local cryptography.

System and method for establishing a remote connection over a network with a personal security device connected to a local client without using a local APDU interface or local cryptography

The present invention provides a method for activating and/or managing at least one Personal Security Device PSD () with at least a first Remote Computer System () over a first network () using at least one Client () as a host to said at least one PSD (), said method comprising the steps of: a) establishing at least one communications pipe () over said first network () between said at least one PSD () and said at least first Remote Computer System (), b) retrieving proprietary information (I) by said at least first Remote Computer System () from a remote storage location (), c) transmitting said proprietary information (I) from said at least first Remote Computer System () said at least one PSD () through said at least one communications pipe (), and d) storing and/or processing said proprietary information (I) in said at least one PSD ().

The present invention provides a method and a system for establishing a communications path (the 'pipe') over a communications network () between a Personal Security Device (PSD) and a Remote Computer System () without requiring means for converting high-level messages such as API-level messages to PSD-formatted messages such as APDU-formatted messages (and inversely) to be installed on a local Client () in which a PSD () is connected.

A method and system for authenticating an end user to one or more remote computer systems using a communications pipe to send authentication codes from a personal security device to one or more remote computer systems and limiting authentication transactions to a secure hub.

Method and system for authentication through a communications pipe

The present invention provides a method for authenticating at least one Personal Security Device PSD () vis-&#xf4;-vis at least a first Remote Computer System () over a first network () using at least one Client () as a host to said at least one PSD (), said method comprising the steps of: a) establishing at least one communications pipe () over said first network () between said at least one PSD () and said at least first Remote Computer System (); and b) running a challenge/response process between said Remote Computer System () and said at least one PSD () through said at least one communications pipe ().

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Los Gatos, CA, United States of America

Yves Louis Gabriel Audebert