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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2005
Mihal Lazaridis, Waterloo, CA;
Scott D. Rose, Waterloo, CA;
Scott Totzke, Waterloo, CA;
Herb Little, Waterloo, CA;
Chris K. C. Leung, Richmond Hill, CA;
Benjamin W. Boomhour, Waterloo, CA;
Ryan Bayne, Waterloo, CA;
Mihal Lazaridis, Waterloo, CA;
Scott D. Rose, Waterloo, CA;
Scott Totzke, Waterloo, CA;
Herb Little, Waterloo, CA;
Chris K. C. Leung, Richmond Hill, CA;
Benjamin W. Boomhour, Waterloo, CA;
Ryan Bayne, Waterloo, CA;
Research In Motion Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
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.