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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120084368 | DATA CHANNEL SET UP LATENCY REDUCTION A method is disclosed for reducing setup latency in commencing data exchange between two devices seeking to exchange data across a networked data channel. Control messages are exchanged across a control channel while establishing the data channel according to a protocol... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072728 | RETRIEVING AND USING CLOUD BASED STORAGE CREDENTIALS The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for retrieving and using cloud based storage credentials. Embodiments of the invention include automatically retrieving cloud based credentials (e.g., storage keys) as needed, such as, for ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120047367 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SECURITY CONTEXT A method and an apparatus for generating a security context are provided. The implementation of the method includes: receiving a first message carrying a network capability of a User Equipment (UE); and generating the security context according to the network capability... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047366 | SOC WITH SECURITY FUNCTION AND DEVICE AND SCANNING METHOD USING THE SAME A system-on-chip (SOC) for semiconductor intellectual property (IP), a device including the same, and a method of operating the same are provided. The SOC includes: an interface which receives scanning data from a main module in which the SOC is mounted; and an anti-vir... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042166 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY DISTRIBUTING UPDATED KEY MATERIAL A method for handling an encrypted message received on an electronic device that has not been encrypted using a current public key. The portable electronic device automatically generates a reply message to the sender in response to determining that the message has not b... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042167 | SIMPLE NONAUTONOMOUS PEERING NETWORK MEDIA A method of playing content across a network includes receiving, at a media player, an input from a user selecting media located on a network, sending a request across a network comprised of devices employing a common security protocol, the request to identify peer devi... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036363 | METHOD FOR KEY IDENTIFICATION USING AN INTERNET SECURITY ASSOCIATION AND KEY MANAGEMENT BASED PROTOCOL An initiating device: generates a message having an ISAKMP-based header that includes a security parameter index (SPI) field; identifies a key in the SPI field of the ISKMP-based header; and sends the message to a responding device. The responding device: receives the m... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036362 | Secret-Key Exchange for Wireless and Sensor Networks A mechanism is provided for establishing a shared secret-key for secure communication between nodes in a wireless network. A first node in the wireless network provides a spreading code to a second node of the wireless network. The second node provides a first input for... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030468 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMAL VERIFICATION OF OPERATIONS ON DYNAMIC SETS A system and method for cryptographically checking the correctness of outsourced set operations performed by an untrusted server over a dynamic collection of sets that are owned (and updated) by a trusted source is disclosed. The system and method provides new authentic... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120017088 | WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK TERMINAL PRE-AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SYSTEM A method for pre-authenticating a wireless local area network terminal and a wireless local area network system. The pre-authentication method includes after a current access point (AP) which has set up security association with a station (STA) receiving a pre-authentic... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017086 | INFORMATION SECURITY TRANSMISSION SYSTEM Provided herein is an information security transmission system, comprising a first information equipment and a second information equipment, wherein the first information equipment can obtain at least one certification data, connecting to the second information equipmen... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017087 | CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK ENCRYPTION A system and method for delivering content to end users encrypted within a content delivery network (CDN) for content originators is disclosed. CDNs transport content for content originators to end user systems in a largely opaque manner. Caches and origin servers in th... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011360 | KEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARED SECRET CIPHERS Various embodiments are described herein for a Key Management System (KMS) and associated methods for providing authentication and secure shared key distribution capabilities without revealing a device's secret key. The KMS allows one or more accessing applications or d... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011368 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DELAY MEDIA INFORMATION IN IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM The present invention provides a method and a system for transmitting delay media information in an IP multimedia subsystem, the system includes: a sending party of media information, a receiving party of the media information, a KMS and a mailbox server of the receivin... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110320089 | Over-the-Air Vehicle Systems Updating and Associate Security Protocols A method of updating a vehicle ECU includes establishing communication between a data communications module of a vehicle and an update server via a cellular network; validating the vehicle using a key exchange protocol between the data communications module and the upda... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320816 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR MALWARE DETECTION A system and method for distinguishing human input events from malware-generated events includes one or more central processing units (CPUs), one or more input devices and memory. The memory includes program code that when executed by the CPU causes the CPU to obtain a ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314286 | ACCESS AUTHENTICATION METHOD APPLYING TO IBSS NETWORK An access authentication method applying to IBSS network involves the following steps of: 1) performing authentication role configuration for network entities; 2) authenticating an authentication entity and a request entity that have been performed the authentication ro... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314287 | Method and apparatus for binding subscriber authentication and device authentication in communication systems An authentication method is provided between a device (e.g., a client device or access terminal) and a network entity. A removable storage device may be coupled to the device and stores a subscriber-specific key that may be used for subscriber authentication. A secure s... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307698 | MASKING THE OUTPUT OF RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS IN KEY GENERATION PROTOCOLS To mitigate the effects of a weak random number generator (RNG) in a public key cryptosystem, a public key obtained from the RNG is encrypted using a deterministic cryptographic scheme before being made publicly available. A trusted party receiving the encrypted public ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110296186 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SECURED ACCESS TO SERVICES A system and method for providing authenticated access to an initiating terminal in relation to the services provided by a terminating terminal via a communications network are disclosed. In one aspect, a global server comprises a communications module, which receives a... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296185 | Protection of Control Plane Traffic Against Replayed and Delayed Packet Attack Techniques are provided for determining freshness of control messages in a network. At a first device that is to enter into a secure communication session with a second device, timestamp information and time window size information are sent to the second device in a con... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289311 | METHOD OF PERFORMANCE-AWARE SECURITY OF UNICAST COMMUNICATION IN HYBRID SATELLITE NETWORKS A method and apparatus utilizes Layered IPSEC (LES) protocol as an alternative to IPSEC for network-layer security including a modification to the Internet Key Exchange protocol. For application-level security of web browsing with acceptable end-to-end delay, the Dual-m... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289312 | TCP COMMUNICATION SCHEME A TCP communication scheme which ensures safe communication up to the communication path near a terminal and eliminates direct attacks from hackers, etc. A terminal (A) and terminal (B) are connected to a relay apparatus (X) and relay apparatus (Y), where the terminal (... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110276802 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PEER-TO-PEER TRANSFER OF SECURE DATA USING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATIONS The present invention discloses an apparatus and method of transferring data from a first device to a second device. The method includes transmitting a request to transfer the data from the first device to the second device, receiving, at the first device, a decryption ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271320 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SELECTIVE BEARER SECURITY IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT An example method includes receiving a message related to a bearer or an Internet Protocol (IP) flow, the message includes an extension indicating whether an Internet Protocol security (IPsec) feature is designated for the bearer or the IP flow. The method further inclu... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURING MESH ACCESS POINTS IN A WIRELESS MESH NETWORK, INCLUDING RAPID ROAMING Authentication in a mesh network controlled by a central controller, including using standard IEEE 802.11i mechanisms between a potential child mesh access point (AP) as supplicant and the controller as authenticator. Each mesh AP in the mesh network has a secure tunnel... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258452 | REMOTE AUTHENTICATION AND TRANSACTION SIGNATURES The invention provides a method, apparatus, computer readable medium and signal which allows the usage of devices containing PKI private keys such as PKI-enabled smart cards or USB sticks to authenticate users and to sign transactions. The authenticity of the user and/o... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258439 | SECURE DATA PARSER METHOD AND SYSTEM A secure data parser is provided that may be integrated into any suitable system for securely storing and communicating data. The secure data parser parses data and then splits the data into multiple portions that are stored or communicated distinctly. Encryption of the... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252230 | SECURE ACCESS TO A PRIVATE NETWORK THROUGH A PUBLIC WIRELESS NETWORK A system, method and computer-program product for a client device to securely access a private network through a public wireless network. The system establishes a first network tunnel between the client device and a gateway of the public wireless network and then authen... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252231 | REKEY SCHEME ON HIGH SPEED LINKS In one embodiment, apparatus and methods for a rekey process are disclosed. In certain rekey embodiments, when a key-generation protocol exchange is executed, instead of generating a single new security relationship, such as a Security Association or SA, a multiple set ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246756 | PROTOCOL FOR AUTHENTICATING FUNCTIONALITY IN A PERIPHERAL DEVICE A protocol provides authentication of peripheral devices by a computing device to which the peripheral device connects. Computing devices include a verifier with a public key that authenticates multiple associated private keys. Private keys are embedded on peripheral de... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238979 | Device for Preventing, Detecting and Responding to Security Threats A device to prevent, detect and respond to one or more security threats between one or more controlled hosts and one or more services accessible from the controlled host. The device determines the authenticity of a user of a controlled host and activates user specific c... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231661 | Content Distribution with Mutual Anonymity A method for transferring content includes requesting the content from a serving peer and sending the content to a requesting peer. Requesting the content includes sending a request to a tracker, receiving a request token, a path identifier, and a first peer identifier ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110225424 | Inter Base Station Interface Establishment A method of establishing a peer-to-peer IPSec security association between a pair of base stations located within the same or different radio access networks. The base stations communicate with a core network via the same or different security gateways of the core netwo... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225423 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTITY ENCAPSULATED CRYPTOGRAHY A method and a system to provide identity encapsulated cryptography are provided. A method may comprise receiving a user key to access a service. The service may be provided by an enterprise and hosted within a public cloud. A request for a country key assigned to a cou... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110219233 | QUADRATIC RESIDUE BASED PASSWORD AUTHENTICATED KEY EXCHANGE METHOD AND SYSTEM A method is provided for use in secure electronic communication. The method may include obtaining a password shared with an intended key exchange entity and sending a key exchange request including a first value to the intended key exchange entity. The method may also i... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110213979 | QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION The invention relates to methods and apparatus for Quantum key distribution. Such methods including authenticating a first node in a communications network with a remote node in the communications network. The authentication may include connecting an authentication devi... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110213978 | SECURE METHODS OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA BETWEEN TERMINALS COMPRISING NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION, AND CORRESPONDING TERMINALS A method is provided for secure transmission of a data file from a sender terminal to at least one recipient terminal, each including a near-field communication device and implementing an encryption of the file, as a function of at least one item of encryption informati... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110213980 | METHOD FOR ACCESSING A PLURALITY OF SERVICES BY A MOBILE TERMINAL USER, AND RELATED SECURE DEVICE A method for enabling the user of at least one mobile terminal to access a plurality of services, includes: creating (E1) a user account containing user identification data; installing (E2) a software application for accessing the plurality of services on ... | 09/01/2011 |
