A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BROWSER-BASED ACCESS TO SMART CARDS

摘要

A client-side application extension executable on a host computer from within a web-browser having the capability of executing at least one web-browser add-on to provide a user access to a smart card, connected to the host computer having a smart card resource manager, via the web-browser. The web-browser extension has instructions to direct the central processing unit toaccess data on the smart card via a web-browser and platform independent interface module and a web-browser and platformdependent wrapper module connected to the web-browser and platformindependent interface module and to the smart card resource manager having a function processing module operable to receive a call to the at least one function for accessing data on the smart card and for transforming the function call into a corresponding call to the smart card resource manager.