Abstract: A trusted gateway system for a proof-of-postage system. The system includes a postage meter system, a secure accounting and financial system for providing secure information to the meter, a secure connection between the meter and accounting and financial system providing at least authentication and encryption between the meter and the financial system and accounting, and a user interface, remotely coupled to the meter and adapted to allow a user to access the meter functionality with respect to the accounting and financial system.

Abstract: A data storage system includes a storage manager, a crypto engine, and a data store. The storage manager operates to present information to the crypto engine for providing encrypted information and further operates to present the encrypted information to the data store for storage.

Abstract: A method and system within which products in the field may receive both predefined services and support as well as unknown services and support is described. The system embodied according aspects of the invention includes communicating with client applications to determine what services the client may request, to proceed to interact with those service requests, and to modify, update or provide new client services without user/customer intervention. Through the use of various web service protocols, the client is able to access infrastructure web services without requiring a priori knowledge of the services. This allows the client to adapt to changes in the provisioning of services without the prerequisite of a software upgrade or other a priori knowledge of such changes.