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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120084565 | CRYPTOGRAPHIC DEVICE THAT BINDS AN ADDITIONAL AUTHENTICATION FACTOR TO MULTIPLE IDENTITIES Binding a security artifact to a service provider. A method includes generating a pseudonym for a security artifact. The pseudonym is an identifier of the security artifact to the service provider that is unique to the service provider in that the pseudonym is not used ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120017089 | CRYPTOGRAPHIC TOKEN WITH LEAK-RESISTANT KEY DERIVATION Methods and apparatuses for increasing the leak-resistance of cryptographic systems are disclosed. A cryptographic token maintains secret key data based on a top-level key. The token can produce updated secret key data using an update process that makes partial informat... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110314288 | CIRCUIT, SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING A COMMUNICATION SESSION AND ENCRYPTING DATA THEREOF Disclosed is a circuit, system, device and method for authentication and/or encryption, which is based on the characteristics and/or management of One Time Programming (OTP) Non Volatile Memory (NVM) that may prevent the ability to alter, modify, mimic or otherwise use ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307699 | TOKEN FOR SECURING COMMUNICATION In general, the invention relates to a method for performing a command on a token. The method includes receiving a first command authentication message digest (CAMD), a command, and scrambled data from a sender, and making a first determination that the sender is allowe... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110258453 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTHENTICATION TOKEN-BASED SERVICE REDIRECTION A method, apparatus, and computer readable medium is provided. According to an embodiment, a method includes, receiving a message from a client. The method further includes, forwarding the message to a first service when the message includes an authentication token, whe... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110246777 | System and Method for Managing Security Key Architecture in Multiple Security Contexts of a Network Environment A scheme for managing security key architecture in a network environment where a user equipment (UE) device can engage in multiple security contexts depending on the access technology. In one embodiment, when multiple security contexts are engaged and different sets of ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110225421 | METHOD OF OBTAINING CONTENT FOR MOBILE TERMINAL, MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE METHOD, AND NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING THE MOBILE TERMINAL A method of operating a near field communication system includes receiving an electronic tag having information signed by using a private key, verifying the signed information of the electronic tag by using a public key corresponding to the private key, and connecting t... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110213981 | REVOCATION OF A BIOMETRIC REFERENCE TEMPLATE A system, method and program product for generating a biometric reference template revocation message on demand. The method includes generating, using a biometric reference template revocation engine, a biometric reference template revocation message and loading the bio... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110197067 | SECURE TELEMETRIC LINK A communications protocol is used to provide data privacy, message integrity, message freshness, and user authentication to telemetric traffic, such as to and from implantable medical devices in a body area network. In certain embodiments, encryption, message integrity,... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110191589 | PREVENTING THE USE OF MODIFIED RECEIVER FIRMWARE IN RECEIVERS OF A CONDITIONAL ACCESS SYSTEM The invention enables the shared secret, which is used for encrypting the communication of CWs from a smartcard to a receiver, to cover at least a part of a binary image of firmware that is executing in the receiver. Preferably the shared secret covers the entire binary... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110185178 | COMMUNICATION METHOD OF AN ELECTRONIC HEALTH INSURANCE CARD WITH A READING DEVICE The invention relates to a communication method of an electronic health insurance card (122) with a reading device. A communication link is established between the electronic health insurance card (122) and the reading device (110), said communicati... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110173451 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROVIDE FINE GRANULAR INTEGRITY TO DIGITAL DATA A method and system to generate fine granular integrity to huge volumes of data in real time at a very low computational cost. The invention proposes a scalable system that can receive different digital data from multiple sources and generates integrity streams associat... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110154043 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY ENHANCED AUTOMATIC BLACKLIST MANAGEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the management and enforcement of blacklists of counterfeited, cloned or otherwise unauthenticated devices. In an embodiment, a system comprises an accessory comprising an authentication chip including data signed by a priva... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110131416 | MULTIFACTOR VALIDATION OF REQUESTS TO THW ART DYNAMIC CROSS-SITE ATTACKS An apparatus and a method for validating requests to thwart cross-site attacks is described. A user identifier token, a request identifier token, and a timestamp, are generated at a web application of a server. A Message Authentication Code (MAC) value is formed based o... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110119484 | Systems and Methods for Securely Providing and/or Accessing Information The invention is directed to a system for use with a first device in communication with a second device. The system includes a storage medium that is connectable with the first device, a hardened, stand alone, web browser stored on the storage medium, and client authent... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110119155 | VERIFICATION OF PORTABLE CONSUMER DEVICES FOR 3-D SECURE SERVICES Apparatuses, methods, and systems pertaining to the verification of portable consumer devices for 3-D Secure Systems are disclosed. In one implementation, a verification token is coupled to a computer by a USB connection so as to use the computer's networking facilities... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110113251 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING NETWORK APPLICATION SECURITY AND SYSTEM THEREOF The invention, related to information security field, discloses a method for improving network application security and a system thereof. The method comprises that client terminal application generates protocol message and disassembles the protocol message to plural IP ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110113235 | PC Security Lock Device Using Permanent ID and Hidden Keys The invention is a method, system, and apparatus providing user control and security of a PC system. Using the hardware and associated installation software, the system is capable of uniquely securing a PC system without the need for name and password entry. The secure ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110099378 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM A method for controlling a DTV located in one independent space among physically-separated independent spaces includes receiving an AP-card WEP key value recorded in a storage of a compact wireless device, receiving the WEP key value corresponding to an AP card of the D... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110099377 | COMPACT SECURITY DEVICE WITH TRANSACTION RISK LEVEL APPROVAL CAPABILITY The present invention relates to the field of securing electronic transactions and more specifically to methods to indicate and verify the approval of the risk level of a transaction and to apparatuses for generating transaction risk level approval codes. 04/28/2011 | |
| 20110055574 | LOCALIZED NETWORK AUTHENTICATION AND SECURITY USING TAMPER-RESISTANT KEYS The invention provides a secure Wi-Fi communications method and system. In an embodiment of the invention, unique physical keys, or tokens, are installed at an access point and each client device of the network. Each key comprises a unique serial number and a common net... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110055573 | SUPPORTING FLEXIBLE USE OF SMART CARDS WITH WEB APPLICATIONS A web browser for communicating with an application at an application server, a smart card driver for accessing a smart card reader, a client agent monitoring events at the browser as a result of interaction between the browser and the application and a set of access pr... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110047371 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE DATA SHARING A system and method for providing secure data storage and retrieval is disclosed. The system utilizes a protocol for distributing authentication tokens amongst potential recipients of information. Digital information is then disseminated via the system to authorized rec... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110010552 | Authentication token with incremental key establishment capacity The present invention relates to the field of strong authentication tokens and more specifically to methods and apparatus employing cryptographic key establishment protocols for such strong authentication tokens. An apparatus comprising sto... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100332837 | WEB APPLICATION SECURITY FILTERING User inputs and/or Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), historically and popularly referred to as Universal Resource Locator (URL), requests in a content description language are passed through a security service (Web application firewall or a reverse Web proxy server) th... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325428 | System and Method for Authentication of a Hardware Token A method for authentication. A computer obtains a random number R generated by a hardware token. The computer forms and returns to the hardware token a signature Ck′(R) formed using the random number R with a computer secret key Ck′. The computer receiving from the ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318802 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING A SECURE COMMUNICATION CHANNEL USING A BROWSER COMPONENT A system for providing a secure channel for communication comprises a client comprising a browser, a secure server and a browser component installed on the client that enables a user to establish a connection with the secure server, the browser component configured to g... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318801 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROTECTING REAL ESTATE FROM FRADULENT TITLE CHANGES A method of effecting secure communication over a network begins by interfacing a hardware token with a computer host. The hardware token includes security software and communication software stored thereon. The security software is stored in a memory of the hardware to... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100313027 | PIN Servicing A smart card (1) interfaces with a smart card reader (2) to generate an authentication message (PSRQ), which is sent to a PIN servicing centre (5, 6). If the authentication message (PSRQ) is validated by the PIN servicing centre (5, 6), a val... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100293381 | VERIFICATION OF PORTABLE CONSUMER DEVICES Apparatuses, methods, and systems pertaining to the verification of portable consumer devices are disclosed. In one implementation, a verification token is coupled to a computer by a USB connection so as to use the computer's networking facilities. The verification toke... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100293382 | VERIFICATION OF PORTABLE CONSUMER DEVICES Apparatuses, methods, and systems pertaining to the verification of portable consumer devices are disclosed. In one implementation, a verification token is coupled to a computer by a USB connection so as to use the computer's networking facilities. The verification toke... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100262830 | AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Provided is an authentication device which includes a register in which a first-bit or a second-bit different from the first-bit is stored, m first determination units for determining whether input information and authentication information match, and for storing the fi... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100211791 | HARDWARE MULTIMEDIA ENDPOINT AND PERSONAL COMPUTER A hardware multimedia endpoint is located on an adapter card of a personal computer system and comprises an interface for interfacing to the computer system and a processor for receiving cryptographic information from the computer, for processing the cryptographic infor... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100191972 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Secure Document Distribution A system for providing secure document distribution is disclosed. The system includes an application configured to: allow an author to create a document, allow the author to secure the document using an access code, wherein the access code is needed to gain access to th... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100153729 | METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING PRINTER CONSUMABLE A method for authenticating a printer consumable in which an encrypted random number and its first signature are passed from a printer authentication chip to a consumable authentication chip, in the consumable chip: the encrypted random number and first signature are de... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100146608 | Multi-Level Secure Collaborative Computing Environment In some embodiments, a collaborative computing environment includes a federated identity manager coupled to a multi-level secure computing network and a client having a biometric reading device. The multi-level secure computing network includes multiple data repositorie... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100146279 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A USB DEVICE AND A USB HOST A secure portable electronic device for providing secure services when used in conjunction with a host computer having a central processing unit use two hardware device protocols readily supported by computer operating systems. Other systems and methods are disclosed.... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100138658 | Electronic Message System with Federation of Trusted Senders Systems and methods for allowing challenge messages to be sent directly to a recipient's inbox where normally the challenge message would be sent to a pending folder or deleted. Challenge messages sent between federated messaging services contain a federated token which... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100132025 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CERTIFICATE TRANSMISSION METHOD, ANOMALY DETECTION METHOD AND A PROGRAM THEREFOR A communication apparatus has a communication part and authenticates a communication partner by using a digital certificate. The communication apparatus includes an authentication part carrying out authentication of the communication partner by using a common certificat... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100131747 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus being compatible therewith. A second semiconductor memory is configured to include a first semiconductor memory, and both of the first semico... | 05/27/2010 |
