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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185478 | Systems and methods for conducting transactions and communications using a trusted third party Systems and methods are provided for managing the transfer of electronic files. In one embodiment, a sender transfers an encrypted version of a file (such as a digitally encoded audio track, movie, document, or the like) to someone who wishes to receive it. The rece... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181021 | Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection The present invention provides systems and methods for electronic commerce including secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers employed in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that informa... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8104075 | Trust management systems and methods Systems and methods are presented for facilitating the configuration of a trust management framework for use in conjunction with web services, digital rights management systems, and/or other applications. A method for configuring a trust management framework involve... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7987514 | Systems and methods for retrofitting electronic appliances to accept different content formats Systems and methods are disclosed for using an arbitrary fixed channel to carry third-party information. In one embodiment, the present invention provides systems and methods for enabling existing content rendering devices to accept content encoded in a proprietary ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7971055 | Trust management systems and methods The present invention provides systems and methods for making efficient trust management decisions. A trust management engine is provided that processes requests for system resources, authorizations or certificates, and the identity of one or more root authorities t... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7933829 | Systems and methods for pricing and selling digital goods Some of the embodiments provided herein disclose receiving a plurality of bids, each bid being submitted by a bidder, and each bid having a bid value; assigning a weighting factor to each bid, the weighting factor being based, at least in part, on the bid value; sel... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925898 | Systems and methods using cryptography to protect secure computing environments Secure computation environments are protected from bogus or rogue load modules, executables and other data elements through use of digital signatures, seals and certificates issued by a verifying authority. A verifying authority—which may be a trusted independent ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7904707 | Systems and methods using cryptography to protect secure computing environments Secure computation environments are protected from bogus or rogue load modules, executables and other data elements through use of digital signatures, seals and certificates issued by a verifying authority. A verifying authority—which may be a trusted independent ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7882351 | Systems and methods for authenticating and protecting the integrity of data streams and other data Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling a recipient of a cryptographically-signed electronic communication to verify the authenticity of the communication on-the-fly using a signed chain of check values, the chain being constructed from the original content o... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7831823 | Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7770031 | Data protection systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for protecting electronic content from the time it is packaged through the time it is experienced by an end user. Protection against content misuse is accomplished using a combination of encryption, watermark screening, detection of ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7752466 | Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747858 | Methods and systems for encoding and protecting data using digital signature and watermarking techniques Systems and methods are provided for protecting and managing electronic data signals that are registered in accordance with a predefined encoding scheme, while allowing access to unregistered data signals. In one embodiment a relatively hard-to-remove, easy-to-detec... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7739511 | Systems and methods for watermarking software and other media Systems and methods are disclosed for embedding information in software and/or other electronic content such that the information is difficult for an unauthorized party to detect, remove, insert, forge, and/or corrupt. The embedded information can be used to protect... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734553 | Systems and methods using cryptography to protect secure computing environments Secure computation environments are protected from bogus or rogue load modules, executables and other data elements through use of digital signatures, seals and certificates issued by a verifying authority. A verifying authority—which may be a trusted independent ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7703130 | Secure authentication systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for authentication by combining a Reverse Turing Test (RTT) with password-based user authentication protocols to provide improved resistance to brute force attacks. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method is prov... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7694342 | Systems and methods for managing and protecting electronic content and applications Systems and methods are disclosed for managing and protecting electronic content and applications. Applications, content, and/or users can be given credentials by one or more credentialing authorities upon satisfaction of a set of requirements. Rights management sof... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7694133 | Systems and methods for protecting data secrecy and integrity A technique for integrating message authentication with encryption and decryption is disclosed. Intermediate internal states of the decryption operation are used to generate a validation code that can be used to detect manipulation of the encrypted data. The techniq... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689827 | Systems and methods for using cryptography to protect secure and insecure computing environments Computation environments are protected from bogus or rogue load modules, executables, and other data elements through use of digital signatures, seals, and certificates issued by a verifying authority. A verifying authority—which may be a trusted independent third... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7500006 | Ticketing and keying for orchestrating distribution of network content One embodiment of an inventive networking environment includes clients called sending clients because they send network content through a network, and clients called receiving clients because they receive the network content from the sending clients through the netw... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7454609 | Network communications security agent One embodiment of an inventive networking environment includes clients called sending clients because they send network content through a network, and clients called receiving clients because they receive the network content from the sending clients through the netw... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7430670 | Software self-defense systems and methods Systems and methods are disclosed for protecting a computer program from unauthorized analysis and modification. Obfuscation transformations can be applied to the computer program's local structure, control graph, and/or data structure to render the program more dif... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430585 | Secure processing unit systems and methods A hardware Secure Processing Unit (SPU) is described that can perform both security functions and other information appliance functions using the same set of hardware resources. Because the additional hardware required to support security functions is a relatively s... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7415617 | Trusted infrastructure support systems, methods and techniques for secure electronic commerce, electronic transactions, commerce process control and automation, distributed computing, and rights management An integrated, modular array of administrative and support services are provided for electronic commerce and electronic rights and transaction management. These administrative and support services supply a secure foundation for conducting transaction-related capabil... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406603 | Data protection systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for protecting electronic content from the time it is packaged through the time it is experienced by an end user. Protection against content misuse is accomplished using a combination of encryption, watermark screening, detection of ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7395550 | Trust management systems and methods The present invention provides systems and methods for making efficient trust management decisions. A trust management engine is provided that processes requests for system resources, authorizations or certificates, and the identity of one or more root authorities t... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392395 | Trusted and secure techniques, systems and methods for item delivery and execution Documents and other items can be delivered electronically from sender to recipient with a level of trustedness approaching or exceeding that provided by a personal document courier. A trusted electronic go-between can validate, witness and/or archive transactions wh... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383570 | Secure authentication systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for authentication by combining a Reverse Turing Test (RTT) with password-based user authentication protocols to provide improved resistance to brute force attacks. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method is prov... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7340602 | Systems and methods for authenticating and protecting the integrity of data streams and other data Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling a recipient of a cryptographically-signed electronic communication to verify the authenticity of the communication on-the-fly using a signed chain of check values, the chain being constructed from the original content o... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330898 | Network content management One embodiment of an inventive networking environment includes clients called sending clients because they send network content through a network, and clients called receiving clients because they receive the network content from the sending clients through the netw... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7313692 | Trust management systems and methods The present invention provides systems and methods for making efficient trust management decisions. A trust management engine is provided that processes requests for system resources, authorizations or certificates, and the identity of one or more root authorities t... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7281133 | Trusted and secure techniques, systems and methods for item delivery and execution Documents and other items can be delivered electronically from sender to recipient with a level of trustedness approaching or exceeding that provided by a personal document courier. A trusted electronic go-between can validate, witness and/or archive transactions wh... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266681 | Network communications security agent One embodiment of an inventive networking environment includes clients called sending clients because they send network content through a network, and clients called receiving clients because they receive the network content from the sending clients through the netw... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7243236 | Systems and methods for using cryptography to protect secure and insecure computing environments Computation environments are protected from bogus or rogue load modules, executables, and other data elements through use of digital signatures, seals, and certificates issued by a verifying authority. A verifying authority—which may be a trusted independent third... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233948 | Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content Systems and methods for protection of streamed media content are disclosed. In one aspect, the system includes control means for governing content streams or objects, decryption means for decrypting content streams or objects, and feedback means for tracking use of ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7213266 | Systems and methods for managing and protecting electronic content and applications Systems and methods are disclosed for managing and protecting electronic content and applications. Applications, content, and/or users can be given credentials by one or more credentialing authorities upon satisfaction of a set of requirements. Rights management sof... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7190792 | Systems and methods for retrofitting electronic appliances to accept different content formats Systems and methods are disclosed for using an arbitrary fixed channel to carry third-party information. In one embodiment, the present invention provides systems and methods for enabling existing content rendering devices to accept content encoded in a proprietary ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7165174 | Trusted infrastructure support systems, methods and techniques for secure electronic commerce transaction and rights management The present inventions provide an integrated, modular array of administrative and support services for electronic commerce and electronic rights and transaction management. These administrative and support services supply a secure foundation for conducting financial... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7152165 | Trusted storage systems and methods Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a trusted database system that leverages a small amount of trusted storage to secure a larger amount of untrusted storage. Data are encrypted and validated to prevent unauthorized modification or access. Encryption and... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149899 | Establishing a secure channel with a human user A method of establishing a secure channel between a human user and a computer application is described. A secret unique identifier (“PIN”) is shared between a user and an application. When the user makes a request that involves utilizing the PIN for authenticati... | 12/12/2006 |
