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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dereck D Clark, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Innovonics, Inc., Phoenix, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
380 52 ; 380 23 ; 380 25 ; 380 49 ;
Abstract
An encryption module for encrypting financial and other sensitive data may be conveniently interposed in series between a personal computer and the keyboard associated therewith. An application program designed to run on the PC is configured to prompt the user to enter his PIN or other confidential data into the encryption module; consequently the confidential data need not be transmitted in an unencrypted fashion, and need not reside on the PC hard drive in an unencrypted form.