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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110252310 | Comparing Documents Having Structured Data The present disclosure is directed to comparing a first structured data document to a second structured data document, including receiving the first and second structured data documents as first and second encrypted documents, respectively, comparing nodes of the first ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246776 | Method and Apparatus for Secure Key Delivery for Decrypting Bulk Digital Content Files at an Unsecure Site Rather than downloading each content document on demand from the publisher location to the user site, at the publisher location, each content document is encrypted and then multiple encrypted documents are assembled into a distribution archive that is itself encrypted w... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246762 | System and Method for Exchanging Cryptographic Protocol Capabilities In some data communication configurations, data received from a sender may need to be viewed or otherwise processed by more than one entity with a corresponding client. For example, a message sent to a corporate email address may be viewed by either or both a mobile dev... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246763 | Parallel method, machine, and computer program product for data transmission and reception over a network A method, machine, and computer program product for high speed data transmission over networks by multiple data connections transmitting data in parallel having read from a data source sequentially a fixed number of blocks equal to the number of data connections in use ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246315 | SYSTEM FOR STRUCTURED ENCRYPTION OF PAYMENT CARD TRACK DATA A system may include a point-of-sale system that gathers payment card track data from a payment card and a payment card gateway that processes the track data to authorize purchase transactions. The point-of-sale system may remove sensitive data such as a portion of a pr... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246761 | Systems and methods for distributed media stream transcoding and sharing A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support distributed stream media transcoding and sharing in real time. Under the approach, a host associated with a sender generates a high quality stream of media content that is to be shared with a pl... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110239120 | ON-DEMAND FEATURE SERVER ACTIVATION IN THE CLOUD A feature activation system provides a mixed computing environment that includes a server and cloud computing. The hybrid model splits the execution of a communication feature between the cloud and the enterprise server installed at or with the enterprise. Service activ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110239211 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING FIRMWARE Disclosed are an apparatus for downloading a firmware and an apparatus for installing the firmware. The apparatus for downloading the firmware may download an encrypted firmware in the apparatus for installing the firmware. The apparatus for installing apparatus may rec... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238976 | WIRELESS LAN RELAY DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WIRELESS LAN RELAY DEVICE A wireless LAN relay device connecting an outer device to a network includes a communication section for controlling wired communication and wireless communication performed between the wireless LAN relay device and the outer device using a packet. The communication sec... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238977 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SINGLE USE IMAGING DEVICE FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS A system and methods for providing and reclaiming a single use imaging device for sterile environments is disclosed and described. The system may include a single use high definition camera used for general purpose surgical procedures including, but not limited to: arth... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238975 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, ROUTE CONTROL DEVICE, AND DATA RELAY METHOD A server notifies a route control device of a session ID indicating a session and generated for a user of a terminal device together with its own IP address. The terminal device notifies a route control device of data for a connection to a relay device together with a s... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231647 | ACCESSING DATA IN A CONTENT-ADDRESSABLE DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM A computer-implemented method operable in a computer system comprising a plurality of computers including at least a first computer and at least two second computers, the method includes: obtaining a first identifier from the first computer at the at least two second co... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231092 | REAL-TIME TRACKING OF DIGITAL CAMERAS AND WIRELESS CAPABLE DEVICES A portable device such as a camera comprises a wireless tracking unit for tracking the position of the portable device utilizing wireless internet technologies. When enabled, the portable device automatically determines its global position and uploads the position to a ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVE ENCRYPTION OF INPUT DATA DURING A RETAIL TRANSACTION A retail environment having retail terminals with data entry point devices selectively encrypts input received by the data entry point devices and passes the encrypted data to a security module. The selective encryption is based on whether or not sensitive or confidenti... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231645 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO VALIDATE AND AUTHENTICATE DIGITAL DATA A system and method combining registration with a trusted third party, certificate generation, hashing, encryption, customizable file identification fields, and time-stamping technology with recognized “best practice” procedures to achieve the legal admissibility an... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ENCODED MESSAGES FOR EXCHANGE WITH A MOBILE DATA COMMUNICATION DEVICE A system and method are provided for pre-processing encrypted and/or signed messages at a host system before the message is transmitted to a wireless mobile communication device. The message is received at the host system from a message sender. There is a determination ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110225417 | DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT Embodiments provide a method that causes a plurality of virtual machine instructions to be interpreted for indications of a mobile device's hardware identification information, thus forming a plurality of hardware instruction interpretations. The embodiment also combine... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110219226 | Method of Triggering Location Based Events in a User Equipment Methods, a user equipment, a server host, a client application, computer program products, and a server computer program. These methods and components can be utilized by a location based service. One method regards triggering of events in the user equipment based on a p... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110213826 | SECRETLY TRANSMITTING MESSAGES OVER PUBLIC CHANNELS An apparatus and a method for secretly transmitting messages over public channels is described. Data from a first enterprise service bus (ESB) of a first computer system is encoded in a new media file using steganography. The new media file is transmitted to a third par... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110211692 | Secure Computation Using a Server Module A server module evaluates a circuit based on concealed inputs provided by respective participant modules, to provide a concealed output. By virtue of this approach, no party to the transaction (including the sever module) discovers any other party's non-concealed inputs... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110208958 | COMMUNICATING USING A CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE A cloud infrastructure that communicates with computing devices is provided. The computing devices install filters on other computing devices that they wish to receive items from including pictures, messages, and documents. The filters include criteria that are evaluate... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110208967 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND COPYING APPARATUS The management apparatus 105a manages copying of information from an original recording medium 101a to a copy recording medium 102a. The management apparatus 105a comprises: a transmission/reception unit 701a configured to receive an o... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110197056 | SECURE DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD Moving from server-attached storage to distributed storage brings new vulnerabilities in creating a secure data storage and access facility. The Data Division and Out-of-order keystream Generation technique provides a cryptographic method to protect data in the distribu... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110197057 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING AND ACCESSING DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT USING SMART CARD TECHNOLOGY A system and method for delivering digital media content to a user over a network is disclosed. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention enables multiple types of electronic devices to access the same digital media content for the same end user through the u... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110197058 | HIDING A DEVICE IDENTITY The present invention relates to hiding a device identifier (IMEI) in a communication system. Identifying a device is done by indicating an international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) as an instance identifier of the device of a user. Generating aglobally routable us... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110191244 | Secured Transaction System The present invention relates to a secured transaction system. In one embodiment, a mobile transaction processing agent system includes a communication module configured to receive a secured transaction description from a mobile client device or an encrypted transaction... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191576 | INTEGRATION OF PRE REL-8 HOME LOCATION REGISTERS IN EVOLVED PACKET SYSTEM Cryptographic network separation functionality is provided on a user device. An option to store information about a type of database where a user is homed is provided in an indicator on a storage medium. An interface is provided between the user device and the storage m... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191577 | Media Processing Devices For Adaptive Delivery Of On-Demand Media, And Methods Thereof In one embodiment, a method of streaming media includes partitioning a media stream to be transmitted into a first stream of media segments at a media server. The first stream of the media segments has a first sequence. An index table is generated to identify the first ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110185168 | Method and Apparatus for File Sharing Between a Group of User Devices with Separately Sent Crucial Portions and Non-Crucial Portions A communication system and method for operating the same includes a group of user devices and a content delivery network in communication with the group of user devices. The content delivery network selects a plurality user devices from the group of user devices, divide... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110173437 | INTERFACE FOR PDA AND COMPUTING DEVICE A method of reviewing an email attachment receives at an email server an email message including at least one attachment. A preview portion of the email message is transmitted to a mobile communication device. The preview portion does not include the at least one attach... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110173438 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURE USE OF SERVICES BY UNTRUSTED STORAGE PROVIDERS A method for encrypting data. The method comprises receiving, from a user, via a client terminal, digital content including at least one textual string for filling in at least one field in a document managed by a network node via a computer network, encrypting the at le... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110173439 | Stateless Cryptographic Protocol-based Hardware Acceleration According to one embodiment of the invention, a method comprises an operation of commencing a first phrase and passing control of an authentication handshaking protocol. The first phase is commenced for establishing a secure communication path by a data path processor w... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110173435 | Secure Node Admission in a Communication Network A system and method for node admission in a communication network having a NC and a plurality of associated network nodes. According to various embodiments of the disclosed method and apparatus, key determination in a communication network includes an NN sending to the ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110173436 | Method and apparatus for providing secure streaming data transmission facilities using unreliable protocols The invention provides a method and apparatus for transmitting data securely using an unreliable communication protocol, such as User Datagram Protocol. In one variation, the invention retains compatibility with conventional Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and SOCKS protocol... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110173434 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING MESSAGE SIGNALING A system for communicating a message using a second signaling protocol is disclosed. The second signaling protocol provides a session control channel between a user agent (UA) and a network node and may include, for example the I1 protocol. The system identifies a first... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110164752 | Detection of Stale Encryption Policy By Group Members Various techniques that allow group members to detect the use of stale encryption policy by other group members are disclosed. One method involves receiving a message from a first group member via a network. The message is received by a second group member. The method t... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110167254 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENSURING CONFORMANCE OF ONLINE MEDIA DISTRIBUTION TO COPYRIGHT RULES A system and a method are described for presenting media content for users to view over the internet. Rights pertaining to said media to be viewed are uploaded to servers by users holding such rights to rent or resell such media content. Servers restrict the viewing of ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110161672 | Provisioning, upgrading, and/or changing of hardware In some embodiments a secure permit request to change a hardware configuration is created. The secure permit request is sent to a remote location, and a permit sent from the remote location in response to the permit request is received. The hardware configuration is cha... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161671 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURING DATA A system and method are provided for securing data. The method includes generating a first public encryption key by a cryptographic processor associated with a first computer subsystem; sending the first public encryption key to a second computer subsystem; and receivin... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161660 | TEMPORARY REGISTRATION OF DEVICES In a method of temporarily registering a second device with a first device, in which the first device includes a temporary registration mode, the temporary registration mode in the first device is activated, a temporary registration operation in the first device is init... | 06/30/2011 |
