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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100057742 | MRW INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORT OF MERCHANT DATA PROCESSING A method begins by receiving, from a requesting device, a request to access a record within an entity profile database. The method continues by authenticating the requesting device. When the requesting device is authenticated, the method continues by determining status ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100056875 | Monitoring Patient Conditions Among other things, a computer implemented method for monitoring patients released from an intensive care unit in a healthcare environment is described. The method comprises receiving medical information of a patient located at a location different from the intensive ca... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049716 | MEDIA VALIDATION SYSTEM A media validation system including a plurality of media storage devices which contain a quantity of content thereon, a user computer processor assembly structured to operatively access a select media storage device, a verification module, and a communicative link betwe... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042782 | Secure Portable File Storage Device A secure portable file storage device (SPFSD) comprising a controller having at least two control modes, a logical switch and a storage area wherein access level to said storage area is determined by the state of said logical switch and wherein A first control mode perm... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042601 | Method and System for Determining Users that Satisfy Desired Conditions A method and system are disclosed allowing for determining those users of multiple users who satisfy desired condition(s), where characteristics of the users in at least some embodiments vary dynamically. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving at a se... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042503 | WEB-BASED MARKETING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A server runs a software program controlling a system and is connected to the Internet to communicate with one or more advertising agencies. A client of the agencies has a home location with a server connected to the Internet for communication with the server and the ag... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042627 | Flexible Integrated Access to Published Material Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, can provide flexible integrated access to media content. A method includes receiving a request for access by a user to media content via a first delivery mechanism of multiple delivery ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042628 | SHARING ACCESS TO CONTENT ITEMS USING GROUP INFORMATION AND ITEM INFORMATION A user can share media content with others by defining one or more groups, where each group includes members who may access a set of user's content item on the online service or on user's local device. Item information is generated for content items to be shared and ind... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100036846 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING ROW LEVEL SECURITY IN DATABASE SYSTEMS One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that implements a security policy in a database. During operation, the system receives a request associated with a set of objects in the database. Next, the system obtains a set of access control lists (ACLs) ass... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036847 | EXTENDABLE AND PLUGGABLE METHOD FOR VALIDATING XML DATA A method of validating XML data comprises (a) registering a plurality of validators that are each responsible for validating a certain XML set of rules, (b) creating common XML data structures to be shared between the validators, (c) invoking registered validators and g... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036836 | Contextual Keyword-Based Access Control Various implementations of contextual keyword-based access control are disclosed.... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036679 | Methods And Apparatus For Responding To Request For Clinical Information A hub-spoke patient information service in which a patient's data can be obtained from a network of independent data sources through a centralized service. The hub of the service stores patient identification information and the spokes store the patient's clinical data.... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036845 | System and Method for Negotiating the Access Control List of Data Items in an Ad-Hoc Network with Designated Owner Override Ability A method is disclosed for managing an access control list for a data item. The method includes designating an owner for the access control list, wherein the owner is a member of the access control list, and wherein only the owner of the access control list is allowed to... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100037060 | FILE SYSTEM AUTHENTICATION The present invention relates to file system authentication and, in particular, authentication of users for accessing files stored on a serverless distributed or peer-to-peer file system. Its objective is to preserve the anonymity of the users and to provide secure and ... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100030905 | Technique for providing services in a service provisioning network The invention relates to techniques for providing services in a service provisioning network (100′), wherein a service-related message (118) is routed by a service routing node (104′) to a service hosting node (106′). A method embodimen... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100031020 | Systems and Methods for the Management and Security of Digital Idea Submissions A system and method is described for managing and securing electronically submitted ideas to a central repository. Users can submit an idea to a central controller which stores that idea in digital form. The user is able to view and update the idea over time, and determ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030737 | IDENTITY ENABLED DATA LEVEL ACCESS CONTROL Mechanisms for identity enabled data level access control are provided. Data queries from principals are intercepted and access rights are assigned in response to identities associated with the principals. The access rights are enforced by modifying the queries and/or f... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030783 | Metadata Driven Mobile Business Objects A system, method, and computer program product are provided for abstracting data in a remote data source. A method operates by defining the data source, defining a data synchronization methodology for communication with the data source, and providing an abstraction laye... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030784 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION, PROCUREMENT, AND ACCESS TO HIGHLY VARIED TEST DATA A method and data repository for the delivery, storage, maintenance and controlled access to test data, stored in a centrally administered data repository. The system allows entities to store individual collections of data which may be public or private in keeping with ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030781 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLASSIFYING DATA One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for automatically classifying data in a database. During operation, the system receives and executes a database operation. Next, the system automatically determines if any data was modified as a result of executi... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030782 | COMPUTER FILE SYSTEM DRIVER CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM THEREOF, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM In the method of controlling a file system driver of an electronic computer and the program for the method and further the storage medium containing the program according to the present invention, access to a file stored in a storage device of the electronic computer is... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100023523 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DATA HAVING ACCESS RESTRICTION INFORMATION A method and an apparatus for managing data for providing a predetermined piece of information according to access restriction information established with regard to each piece of data are provided. The method includes: establishing the access restriction information wi... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023522 | Dynamically controlling permissions A high level of computer security can be achieved by controlling read/write/execute access to files, controlling incoming or outgoing network connections, controlling incoming or outgoing network traffic and controlling privileged operations based on states of Applicati... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023870 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF CLINICAL TRIALS AND STUDIES AT AN IRB The apparatus and methods of the present invention implement a computer-based system and procedure for the efficient and effective operation of one or more clinical trials using an IRB. The various methods are deployed against the backdrop of an Internet-based Software ... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023491 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK STORAGE ACCESS RIGHTS MANAGEMENT A method for network storage access rights management operates storage access rights of network storage directories or network storage files that an authorizing user sets for an authorized user. Authorization may be set for an authorized user in the network storage acce... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100017415 | DATA ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND DATA ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS A data access control apparatus and method acquires a user identification (ID) of a user who uses a client device based on a login request received from the client device, and a tenant ID for the user ID from a tenant ID management storage unit that associates user IDs ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017784 | RELEASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS Progress of a development cycle, such as for the development of a release of a software product, is tracked and managed using a release management system. Such a system allows groups and managers to retain any project planning or status files, in any appropriate structu... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017410 | TECHNIQUES FOR EXTENDING AND CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A COMMON INFORMATION MODEL (CIM) Systems and methods for extending and controlling access to a Common Information Model (CIM) are presented. According to an embodiment, access requests for a CIM object manager (CIMOM) pass through a CIM file system (CIMFS) where each access requested is authenticated. ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017876 | ACCESS CONTROL AND ENTITLEMENT DETERMINATION FOR HIERARCHICALLY ORGANIZED CONTENT Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to access control and provide a method, system and computer program product for access control and entitlement determination for hierarchically organized content. In an embodiment of the inv... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017374 | APPROCHING CONTROL SYSTEM TO THE FILE SERVER A system for controlling access to a file server is disclosed. The system for controlling access to a file server includes a management server, a plurality of client terminals for communicating with the management server, and a file server for storing one or more docume... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017411 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION AND A METHOD FOR SETTING ENVIRONMENT THEREOF The invention provides an information processing apparatus and a system environment setting method thereof capable of changing over profiles flexibly and preventing failure to return to the original profile if the time zone desired to change over the profiles of the inf... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017385 | CREATING AND MANAGING REFERENCE ELEMENTS OF DEPLOYABLE WEB ARCHIVE FILES In some embodiments a method includes creating a bookmark of a deployable web archives In some embodiments, the bookmark includes deployment and runtime information of current and prior invocations of the deployable web archive, at least one user- and/or author-defined ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100011001 | DATA APPROVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD A data approval system is provided. The system comprises a transaction model comprising program code for implementing one or more computer-implemented methods for use in an approval process, the approval process comprising an approval operation; a plurality of different... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100010998 | DOCUMENT STORAGE ACCESS ON A TIME-BASED APPROVAL BASIS Systems and methods of the present invention allow a file owner to upload and store a file to a File Storage Area. The file owner may set a time-based approval period during which the file owner may grant or deny requests by a file requestor for permissions to access th... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100011416 | DOCUMENT STORAGE ACCESS ON AN UNSOLICITED TRANSFER BASIS Systems and methods of the present invention allow a file owner to upload and store a file to a File Storage Area. Through a series of communications, a file owner may provide an intended file recipient access to the file without a request by a file requester. The file ... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100010999 | Data Access in Distributed Systems Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for receiving a request for access to a first item of content stored on resources of a storage environment, the request for access being initiated by a first user, identifying an existing resource allo... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100011000 | MANAGING THE CREATION, DETECTION, AND MAINTENANCE OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product for managing information within an electronic file are provided. A plurality of information sets within an electronic file is analyzed. At least one of the information sets is compared to at l... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100011212 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) BASED AUTHENTICATION METHODOLOGY USING STANDARD AND PRIVATE FREQUENCY RFID TAGS Disclosed is a self-contained hardware-based authentication system that incorporates different authentication protocols for access to soft and/or hard assets with different security levels. The system embodiments include the use of a RFID device that comprises dual RFID... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100008481 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CERTIFYING AND AUTHENTICATING CORRESPONDENCE (II) A system and method are provided to monitor and control electronic communications. A processor is in operable communication with processor readable media, and a user interface is provided by the processor over a communication network that is operable to send, receive an... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100005098 | COMBINED DIRECTORY OF PERSONAL AND ENTERPRISE APPLICATION SYSTEM DATA Systems and methods are provided that combine private contact information and Enterprise Application System (“EAS”) data in a directory. An embodiment includes receiving private contact information regarding a first employee from a second employee, storing the priva... | 01/07/2010 |
