Assignee: VeriSign, Inc.

Location: Mountain View, CA
No. of patents: 34

Number	Title	Issue Date
8019063	System and method for providing high reliability network A system and method for providing a high reliability network. Context servers store information about calls in a telecommunications system. Network control elements can obtain call information from the context servers to help make call control and reporting decision...	09/13/2011
7983993	Authenticated payment A buyer (110) wishes to use a payment instrument as part of an online commerce transaction with a seller (120) and it is desired to authenticate that the buyer (110) has authority to use the payment instrument. A separate authentication service ...	07/19/2011
7839415	Method and system for improved internet color The present invention provides a technique for providing color corrected images to a user over a network. In particular, the present invention allows multiple image providers to provide color corrected images to a user when the user's computer and its associated dev...	11/23/2010
7778934	Authenticated payment A buyer (110) wishes to use a payment instrument as part of an online commerce transaction with a seller (120) and it is desired to authenticate that the buyer (110) has authority to use the payment instrument. A separate authentication service ...	08/17/2010
7774432	Registering and using multilingual domain names A method, system, and computer-readable medium are described for registering and using multilingual domain names that include characters outside the ASCII character subset supported by the DNS system. Such multilingual domain names can in some situations be register...	08/10/2010
7761678	Method and apparatus for an improved file repository A method and apparatus for of storing data comprising monitoring a plurality of storage units within a mass storage area and detecting when a storage unit within the mass storage area is overloaded. The method further comprising randomly distributing the data on the...	07/20/2010
7743323	Method and apparatus to customize layout and presentation A method and apparatus for generating customized layout and presentation data. ...	06/22/2010
7739306	Method and apparatus for creating, assembling, and organizing compound media objects A method and apparatus for assembling and organizing media objects is described. ...	06/15/2010
7694332	Digital receipt for a transaction A first user (110) requests a service provider (130) to create (200,400) a record of a transaction. The service provider (130) creates (230,430) a digital receipt (300,700,900), which includes a description (310,710,720,9...	04/06/2010
7676546	Control and management of electronic messaging A method for controlling a message from a sender. A referee can evaluate a credential associated with a message to determine it's desirability to the intended recipient, and take an action based upon the results of the determination. A sender that includes a trusted...	03/09/2010
7664864	Meta content distribution network A method for responding to a request for a file, comprising receiving a request for a file at a selection server for the selection server to select one of a plurality of content distribution networks based upon predetermined selection criteria, the request by a clie...	02/16/2010
7664831	Determining alternative textual identifiers, such as for registered domain names A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described that determines alternatives to a specified textual identifier, such as a domain name, by identifying and using words and phrases that are related to the identifier. A variety of types of related words can ...	02/16/2010
7610551	System and method for managing distribution of multi-formatted content A system and method for managing distribution of multi-formatted content. According to an embodiment, a content aggregation platform provides a user interface to receive a location of content to be provided to the content aggregation platform by a content provider i...	10/27/2009
7584090	Text creating and editing system and method with dynamic data loading The present invention is directed to a system and method for creating and editing documents or messages by dynamically loading the required data on the computing device as the documents or messages are being created or edited. This invention has relevance for creati...	09/01/2009
7548620	Token provisioning A method for provisioning a device such as a token. The device issues a certificate request to a Certification Authority. The request includes a public cryptographic key uniquely associated with the device. The Certification Authority generates a symmetric cryptogra...	06/16/2009
7536639	Numeric/voice name Internet access architecture and methodology A system that provides users of both fixed and wireless Internet devices, a method of entering numbers instead of the text characters of Internet Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and other Internet identifiers to access Internet resources and functions, such as Web ...	05/19/2009
7477575	Redundant timer system and method A scalable system and method for redundant timing. A clock CT0 is set to count a time T0. One more time increments ei are defined for other clocks CTi, each to count a times Ti=Ti-1+ej. Aft...	01/13/2009
7467140	System, method, and article of manufacture for maintaining and accessing a whois database Methods and systems are provided for maintaining and accessing a whois database. In one embodiment, modifications to a registrar database that includes information about domain names are tracked, and based on the tracked modifications, one or more records that inclu...	12/16/2008
7430531	System and method for assisting customers in choosing a bundled set of commodities using customer preferences A system and method for assisting a customer in choosing a combination of commodities based on preferences of the customer. A combination is a set of related commodities, wherein bundling discounts may be applied to particular bundles of related commodities. Combina...	09/30/2008
7403970	Method and apparatus for assigning a virtual address to and text-messaging to multiple text-capable destination entities A virtual address is configured. A destination address and a capability information associated with each destination entity of a set of destination entities associated with a destination party are configured. Each destination entity from the set of destination entit...	07/22/2008
7347366	Method and apparatus to provide authentication using an authentication card A method and apparatus to provide authentication. The method comprising sending a challenge to a user to be authenticated, the challenge including a reference on a card issued to the user and receiving a user-supplied value purported by the user to be associated wit...	03/25/2008
7337910	Methods and devices for responding to request for unregistered domain name to indicate a predefined type of service A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described that provides one or more types of services and/or information in response to an information request or other message that specifies a unique identifier of a defined type. The information requests can inclu...	03/04/2008
7260409	Wireless telecommunication network registration roaming call origination, and roaming call delivery methods A telecommunications network including a Roaming Solution network, the network including a Roaming Server, a National Location Register, and an 800 number Remote Switching Unit. The network may be integrated with a standard SS7 type telecommunications network and fu...	08/21/2007
7231659	Entity authentication in a shared hosting computer network environment Apparati, methods, and computer readable media for authenticating an entity (9) in a shared hosting computer network (4) environment. A service provider computer (2) contains a plurality of entity sites (5). Connected to the service provi...	06/12/2007
7203682	High speed non-concurrency controlled database Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for high-speed database searching with concurrent updating, without the use of database locks or access controls, for large database systems. Specifically, a plurality of search queries may be received...	04/10/2007
7167877	Method and system for updating a remote database A method and system for updating a remote database over a network. A plurality of periodic updates, called sendfiles, based on incremental changes to a local database are generated. Each of the periodic updates includes at least one transaction. An initialization up...	01/23/2007
7162220	Prepay telecommunications system The prepay telecommunications system (60) includes a prepay call, management, platform (50) which is directly coupled to a telecommunications carrier switch (24). A customer database (116) is coupled to the prepay call management platform...	01/09/2007
7146341	Method and apparatus for data recipient storage and retrieval of data using a network communication device A system and method for data recipient invoked electronic commerce allowing data subjects to provide information over a network and data recipients to receive such information relating to the needs of data subject such as purchases, distribution of application infor...	12/05/2006
7079849	System and method for controlling and monitoring a wireless roaming call A Roaming Solution network system may include a Roaming Server, a National Location Register, and an 800 number Remote Switching Unit. The system is integrated with a standard SS7 type telecommunications network and further coupled to an account based billing and ca...	07/18/2006
7047258	Method and system for validating remote database updates Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for validating remote database updates over a network. A local database record and a remote database record may be compared and exceptions may be generated. Each exception may describe a discrepancy be...	05/16/2006
7000028	Automated domain name registration An automated system and method to permit users to find and register available domain names in numerous different ccTLDs. The system provides real-time searching of large numbers of ccTLDs for each user so that during a single web session, the user can simply select ...	02/14/2006
6931133	Method and system of securely escrowing private keys in a public key infrastructure A method of restricting access to private keys in a public key infrastructure provides for storage of an encrypted private key at a primary site. A masked session key is stored at a secondary site, where the masked session key enables recovery of the private key. By...	08/16/2005
6885857	System and method for real-time bundled telecommunications account processing and billing A method for real-time bundled call processing and billing telecommunications services includes the steps of recognizing a real-time bundled account access call at a telecommunications carrier switch, and routing the real-time bundled account access call to a real-t...	04/26/2005
6829356	Server-assisted regeneration of a strong secret from a weak secret Methods for regenerating a strong secret for a user, based on input of a weak secret, such as a password, are assisted by communications exchanges with a set of independent servers. Each server holds a distinct secret value (i.e., server secret data). The strong sec...	12/07/2004

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Assignee: VeriSign, Inc.