other services through any known or convenient protocol such as but is not limited to the tcp ip protocol open system interconnections osi ftp upnp iscsi nsf isdn pdh rs 232 sdh sonet etc the network 106 can be any collection of distinct networks operating wholly or partially in conjunction to provide connectivity to the client devices 102 a d and the host server 100 and may appear as one or more networks to the serviced systems and devices in one embodiment communications to and from the client devices 102 a d can be achieved by an open network such as the internet or a private network such as an intranet and or the extranet in one embodiment communications can be achieved by a secure communications protocol such as secure sockets layer ssl or transport layer security tls in addition communications can be achieved via one or more networks such as but are not limited to one or more of wimax a local area network lan wireless local area network wlan a personal area network pan a campus area network can a metropolitan area network man a wide area network wan a wireless wide area network wwan enabled with technologies such as by way of example global system for mobile communications gsm personal communications service pcs digital advanced mobile phone service d amps bluetooth wi fi fixed wireless data 2g 2 5g 3g 4g imt advanced pre 4g 3g lte 3gpp lte lte advanced mobile wimax wimax 2 wirelessman advanced networks enhanced data rates for gsm evolution edge general packet radio service gprs enhanced gprs iburst umts hspda hsupa hspa umts tdd 1xrtt ev do messaging protocols such as tcp ip.