Claims
- 1. A PDA portal which facilitates securing at least a portion of content from a source to a PDA, wherein said PDA portal is configured to:
receive a signal from said PDA indicating content to be at least one of refreshed and downloaded; identify said PDA; interrogate source containing said portion of said content to determine if secure content is included in said portion of said content; connect to an encryption device which is configured to isolate imbedded links; receive encrypted content from said encryption device; and, transmit encrypted content to said PDA.
- 2. The PDA portal of claim 1, wherein said PDA portal is further configured to transmit content to said PDA for storage at least one of after each source is completed and after all content is collected.
- 3. The PDA portal of claim 1, wherein said encryption device is configured to isolate imbedded links by facilitating secure connection to said source using a negotiated encryption key, securing said portion of content, receiving an encrypted portion of said content, decrypting said content, interrogating said content, isolating imbedded links, re-encrypting said content and transmitting said encrypted content to said PDA portal.
- 4. A PDA device which facilitates securing at least a portion of content from a source to said PDA, wherein said PDA is configured to:
transmit a signal to a PDA portal, wherein said signal represents content to be at least one of refreshed and downloaded to said PDA; provide identification signals to said PDA portal, wherein said PDA portal is configured to interrogate sources containing said portion of said content to determine if secure content is included in said portion of said content, connect to a hardware encryption device which is configured to isolate imbedded links, receive encrypted content from said hardware encryption device, and transmit encrypted content to said PDA; receive said encrypted content from said PDA portal; and, receive a pass-phrase from said user to authenticate said user and decrypt said content.
- 5. The PDA device of claim 4, wherein said PDA device is configured to store said content in an encrypted state and receive a pass-phrase from said user for each access to said content.
- 6. A method for securing at least a portion of content from a source to a PDA, said method comprising:
synchronizing said PDA to a PDA portal; transmitting a signal to said PDA portal, wherein said signal represents content to be at least one of refreshed and downloaded to said PDA; providing identification signals from said PDA to said PDA portal, wherein said PDA portal is configured to interrogate sources containing said portion of said content to determine if secure content is included in said portion of said content, connect to a hardware encryption device which is configured to isolate imbedded links, receive encrypted content from said hardware encryption device, and transmit encrypted content to said PDA; receiving said encrypted content from said PDA portal; storing said encrypted content in encrypted form; and, receiving a pass-phrase from said user to authenticate said user and decrypt said content.
- 7. The method claim 6, wherein said step of receiving a pass-phrase includes receiving a pass-phrase from said user for each access to said encrypted content.
- 8. A method for facilitating secure collection of at least a portion of content from a source using a PDA portal, said method comprising:
receiving a signal indicating content to be at least one of refreshed and downloaded; interrogating said source containing said portion of said content to determine if secure content is included in said portion of said content; connecting to an encryption device which is configured to isolate imbedded links; and, receiving encrypted content from said encryption device.
- 9. The method of claim 8, further comprising said encryption device isolating imbedded links by facilitating secure connection to said source using a negotiated encryption key, securing said portion of content, receiving an encrypted portion of said content, decrypting said content, interrogating said content, isolating imbedded links, re-encrypting said content and transmitting said encrypted content to said PDA portal.
- 10. The method of claim 9, wherein said step of re-encrypting further comprises re-encrypting with the encryption key of a PDA user.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims priority to, and the benefit of, U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/271,457, entitled “System and Method for Securing Data through a PDA Portal” filed on Feb. 26, 2001 and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/836,213, entitled “System and Method for Networked Loyalty Program”, filed on Apr. 17, 2001, which itself claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Serial No. 60/279,817, entitled “System and Method for Networked Incentive Awards Program” filed Mar. 29, 2001, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.
Provisional Applications (2)
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60279817 |
Mar 2001 |
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60271457 |
Feb 2001 |
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Continuation in Parts (1)
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