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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128158 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VARIABLE SECURITY LEVEL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A system and method for providing variable security levels in a wireless communication network. The present invention optimizes the often conflicting demands of highly secure wireless communications and high speed wireless communications. According to a preferred embodi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128157 | AUTHENTICATION OF AN RFID TAG USING AN ASYMMETRIC CRYPTOGRAPHY METHOD A method for the authentication of an RFID tag uses an asymmetric cryptography method which ensures protection against the recycling of authentication RFID tags and needs no deactivation of the corresponding RFID tag for this purpose. To this end, the certificate of an ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128156 | CROSS-COMPONENT CRYPTOGRAPHIC MESSAGE SYNTAX MESSAGE CONSTRUCTION Often, for reasons of wireless bandwidth conservation, incomplete messages are provided to wireless messaging devices. Employing cryptography, for confidentiality or authentication purposes, when including a received message that has been incompletely received can lead ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106737 | System and Method for Securing Wireless Communications A system and method for securing wireless communications are provided. A method for secure communications by a first user includes estimating a channel between the first user and a second user, thereby producing an first phase estimate of the channel, generating a first... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106739 | System and Method for Securing Wireless Communications A system and method for securing wireless communications are provided. A method for secure communications by a first user includes estimating a channel between the first user and a second user based on a pilot signal transmitted by the second user, determining a first t... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106740 | DEFAULT ENCODING The invention relates to a method for encoding a connection between a base (2) and a mobile part (1), and a computer program product. The method comprises the steps of: a) generating a key agreed to by the base (2) and the mobile part (1) dur... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106738 | LOCATION BROKERING FOR PROVIDING SECURITY, PRIVACY AND SERVICES Location brokering technique embodiments are presented that employ sensor data captured by a user's mobile device to determine the device's location, encrypt the location data and store it in a database. The location data is encrypted in such a way that it is possible t... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082310 | CONTENT PROTECTION USING BLOCK REORDERING An apparatus and method for protecting a content item such as a digitally encoded movie, an electronic programming guide, or the like, by reordering blocks of the content item prior to transmitting it to a receiving device. The receiving device constructs a block reorde... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082313 | PRIVACY CONTROL FOR WIRELESS DEVICES According to various embodiments, a computer-implemented method is disclosed that includes receiving, at a wireless adaptor of a device, a wireless data packet from an access point (AP), wherein the wireless data packet includes a Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID) of... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082314 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RADIO BASE STATION A system includes: a first radio base station including: a first processor which performs processes to transmit and receive a first encryption key, and an first interface which transmits or receives the encapsulated packet, the second radio base station includes: a seco... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120051546 | DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS A data communication system and method in which a need to store a frame count value in a non-volatile memory and update the frame count value is obviated, and in which the effect resulting when a frame with its frame count value altered to a value close to a full count ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051545 | Secure remote control for audio/video receiver/decoder In order to limit the use of generic remote control devices, the invention relates to a system comprising a remote control device and a security device, both sharing a common key, algorithms or protocol specific to a pair formed by the remote control device and the secu... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051544 | System and Method for Securing Wireless Transmissions A system and method for securing wireless communications are provided. A method for transmitting a message by a transmitter includes partitioning the message into N sub-messages, where N is a positive integer value greater than or equal to two, encoding the N sub-messag... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054493 | SECURE WIRELESS LINK BETWEEN TWO DEVICES USING PROBES A secure wireless communication link (pairing) between two devices can be established using cleartext wireless transmissions between devices not joined to a network (“probes”). One device can broadcast a first probe indicating that it is seeking to establish a pairi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051543 | System and method for providing synchronized broadcast and simulcast of media content A system and method of receiving a radio broadcast and simulcast of media content, including: receiving a digital radio broadcast comprising digital radio content over a terrestrial radio broadcast spectrum; receiving media content separately over a multicast network; t... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120045058 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION FOR MOTOR VEHICLES An arrangement on monitoring of authentication, in particular for motor vehicles, includes a first communication apparatus and at least a second communication apparatus, between which a wireless communication channel can be set up. The communication apparatus items have... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039470 | Method and Device for Establishing a Communication Session Devices are provided with secret information to indicate which other devices are eligible to establish communication sessions. Information leaks about the eligibility of devices are prevented when no communication sessions are established. Each device makes a set of pre... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039472 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING A SECURITY MECHANISM FOR AN AIR INTERFACE LINK A method, a device, and a system for establishing a security mechanism for an air interface are provided in embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: performing security processing for a shared key of an access link according to a shared key between a r... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039471 | EFFICIENT SECURITY-RELATED PROCESSING An efficient security related procedure is disclosed. A plurality of service data units (SDUs) having the same priority is multiplexed to one unit signal. The unit signal is ciphered using a mask generated by a first parameter combination. The receiver simultaneously de... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033813 | Method of Selective Protection of the Satellite Rebroadcasting of Data Broadcast Publicly and Collected by the Satellite The AIS (Automatic Identification System) is a communication system between ships, for example fishing boats, which is used to limit collisions between these ships and that allows maritime traffic in sight of the coasts to be monitored by virtue of coastal stations that... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033814 | SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CIPHER A wireless phone system and methods performed thereon for cryptographically processing SMS messages is disclosed. A cryptographic pad is used to replace characters in a payload of a SMS message with coded characters. The cryptographic pad is used by the receiver of the ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120015629 | SECURING A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE In general, this disclosure describes techniques for unlocking certain functionality of a mobile computing device upon wirelessly detecting that an external device is in relatively close proximity to the mobile computing device. One example method comprises: providing a... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008783 | SECURE CONFIGURATION OF A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK A method for secure configuration of a sensor system involves identifying a new sensor not activated within the sensor system, the new sensor including a new sensor identifier, establishing a first transmission link between the new sensor and a sensor controller, transm... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008775 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE TRANSACTION OF DATA BETWEEN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SERVER The present application provides a system and method for a set of Extensible Authentication Protocols (EAPs) based on ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) and SKE (Symmetric Key Encryption) mechanisms (with a suitable permutation) that can serve Confidentiality, Authentica... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002815 | VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE HAVING FAST RECONNECT A virtual private network client for cellular mobile devices is described. The VPN network client establishes a secure VPN connection with a remote VPN security device. The VPN network client establishes a secure control channel with the secure VPN gateway and, upon a s... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002813 | MULTI-SERVICE VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE An integrated, multi-service network client for cellular mobile devices is described. The multi-service network client can be deployed as a single software package on cellular mobile network devices to provide integrated services including secure enterprise virtual priv... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002814 | VPN NETWORK CLIENT FOR MOBILE DEVICE HAVING DYNAMICALLY CONSTRUCTED DISPLAY FOR NATIVE ACCESS TO WEB MAIL An integrated, multi-service network client for cellular mobile devices is described. The multi-service network client can be deployed as a single software package on cellular mobile network devices to provide integrated services including secure enterprise virtual priv... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002816 | Method and system for realizing secure forking call session in IP multimedia subsystem The present invention relates to a method for realizing a secure forking call session, which comprises: performing authentication between a calling party and a KMS or between each called party and the KMS, and acquiring a shared key between the calling party and the KMS... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317839 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM An information processing device which shares data with one or more communication partners includes a creation unit which creates its own encryption key that the device uses for itself and encryption keys that the communication partners use, a first communication unit w... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110311052 | Wireless Device Enabled Locking System An encrypted security system and associated methods for controlling physical access. The system includes a security server configured to receive a request for authentication from a mobile device, the request comprising information identifying the mobile device and a phy... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311051 | UTILIZING A DETERMINISTIC ALL OR NOTHING TRANSFORMATION IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK A method begins by a processing module generating a deterministic key from data and encrypting the data using the deterministic key to produce encrypted data. The method continues with the processing module generating transformed data from the encrypted data and generat... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110305337 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO SECURE LAPTOPS OR PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICES A security system includes an appliance to be secured, including a processor and a first wireless transceiver for accessing a data network with a first power requirement; and a second wireless transceiver receiving power to operate even if the appliance is off, hibernat... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110305340 | AUTOMATIC DATA ENCRYPTION AND ACCESS CONTROL BASED ON BLUETOOTH DEVICE PROXIMITY A method, apparatus, and system for using Bluetooth devices to secure sensitive data on other Bluetooth devices is described. A Bluetooth device is paired with a “trusted” Bluetooth device. When contact with the trusted device is lost, designated sensitive data on t... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110305338 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURE PROVISIONING OF A WIRELESS DEVICE A method and system for enabling one or more communication services on a wireless device are provided. The method comprises: sending a request for provisioning information from a carrier provisioning system to a device developer provisioning system; receiving, from the ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110305339 | Key Establishment for Relay Node in a Wireless Communication System Techniques for providing additional security for the wireless interface between a relay node and a donor base station are based on a security association established between the relay node and the donor base station. In an example method implemented in a relay node, com... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110299681 | CIPHERING IN A PACKET-SWITCHED TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM A method including generating a plurality of convergence layer protocol data units in a packet-switched telecommunications system protocol stack; ciphering said plurality of convergence layer protocol data units using a ciphering sequence number; transferring said plura... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296178 | Auto Provisioning Method in Wireless Communication Network A method for auto provisioning for a communication device in a wireless communication network comprises the steps of: receiving a request from a station; determining the validity of the request according to a verification code carried by the request; sending a response ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110293095 | SYSTEMS FOR INTELLIGENT AUTHENTICATION BASED ON PROXIMITY A method and apparatus for intelligent authentication based on proximity and using a short wireless device. The method checks if the user captured a PIN code recently and if no signal drop was detected since the last PIN capture. It obtains... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110286597 | HOME AGENT PROXIED MIPv6 ROUTE OPTIMIZATION MODE A method apparatus, processor, and computer program product for wireless communication, including employing a communication interface to obtain a binding update message from a mobile node (MN). A data process is employed to analyze the binding update message for a netwo... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110280401 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING ENCRYPTION KEYS BETWEEN A MOBILE DEVICE AND A PERIPHERAL DEVICE Embodiments of a system and method for providing additional security for data being transmitted across a wireless connection that has been established using a known wireless protocol (e.g. Bluetooth) are described. An encryption key is exchanged between a computing devi... | 11/17/2011 |
