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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110219237 | DOCUMENT REGISTRATION A document accessible over a network can be registered. A registered document, and the content contained therein, cannot be transmitted undetected over and off of the network. In one embodiment, the invention includes maintaining a plurality of stored signatures, each s... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20100064141 | EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR FINDING CANDIDATE OBJECTS FOR REMOTE DIFFERENTIAL COMPRESSION The present invention finds candidate objects for remote differential compression. Objects are updated between two or more computing devices using remote differential compression (RDC) techniques such that required data transfers are minimized. An algorithm provides enh... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20090320138 | NETWORK SECURITY SYSTEM HAVING A DEVICE PROFILER COMMUNICATIVELY COUPLED TO A TRAFFIC MONITOR A system and method for providing distributed security of a network. Several device profilers are placed at different locations of a network to assess vulnerabilities from different perspectives. The device profiler identifies the hosts on the network, and characteristi... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090193260 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE AND SMALL CREDITS FOR VERIFIABLE SERVICE PROVIDER METERING A method and apparatus for obtaining access to services of service providers. In one embodiment, the method comprises requesting a desired service through a foreign service provider, generating a hash tree and generating a digital signature on a root value of the hash t... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20080155264 | ANTI-VIRUS SIGNATURE FOOTPRINT A computer anti-virus system is disclosed. The computer anti-virus system can have multiple detection layers and can include a first memory and a second memory. The computer anti-virus system can have a reduced first memory size requirement for a fingerprint signature b... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080091945 | Secure device authentication system and method A technique for security and authentication on block-based media includes involves the use of protected keys, providing authentication and encryption primitives. A system according to the technique may include a secure device having a security kernel with protected keys... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080082830 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING TRUST LEVEL ON A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE A method and system for displaying trust level on a wireless communication device (100) is provided. The method includes receiving (204) a list of trusted root authority certificates. The method further includes calculating the trust level of a local wirel... | 04/03/2008 |
| 20070226510 | Signature distribution in a document registration system A document accessible over a network can be registered. A registered document, and the content contained therein, is not transmitted undetected over and off of the network. In one embodiment, the invention includes a manager agent to maintain signatures of registered do... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070143623 | Method of validating consumable authentication chip A method of validating a consumable authentication chip is provided having the steps of: numerously calling a trusted chip's test function with an incorrect value to generate an invalid response or not generate the response thereby invalidating the consumable chip; if g... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20060288216 | Long-term secure digital signatures The present invention relates to digitally signing of electronic documents which are to be kept secure for a very long time, thereby taking into account future cryptographic developments which could render current cryptographic key-lengths insufficient. In accordance wi... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060224895 | System and methods for electronically notarizing scanned documents Systems and methods of electronically notarizing scanned documents may include an image capturing device that captures data from an original document provided by a user to obtain an electronic image of the original document that forms an electronic document. Systems and... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060130155 | Method for verifying the validity of a day/date combination The present invention is a method for verifying the validity of a day/date combination, which includes the steps of: detecting a day/date combination; verifying the validity of the day/date combination; and, notifying a user upon finding that the day/date combination is... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060015737 | List signature method and application to electronic voting The invention concerns a list signature method comprising: an organization phase whereby reliable authority defines parameters for implementing an anonymous electronic signature; a phase which consists in registering persons on a list of authorized members to generate a... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20050262354 | Multiple signature apparatus, multiple signature method and computer program product A multiple signature apparatus includes a determining unit that determines whether signature information of a specific signer is included in multiple signatures created by a plurality of signers for message data. The multiple signature apparatus also includes a signatur... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050188207 | Multi signature verification system, electronic signature attaching apparatus, data addition apparatus, and electronic signature verification apparatus A multi signature verification system adds new additional data to original data with a signature attached thereto and verifies validity of the original data and the additional data. The system includes an electronic signature attaching apparatus including an electronic ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050149736 | Data-security printing method and system using authentication protocol in network printer A data-security printing method and a data-security printing system capable of preventing one-way encryption cracking (Brute-Force Attack), by randomly specifying a port to transmit printer data between a printer driver and a firmware using an authentication protocol an... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050120220 | Increasing integrity of watermarks using robust features This invention relates to a method of embedding a watermark pattern with a payload in a time dependent information signal, comprising the steps of determining a number of robust signatures in the information signal, creating the payload being dependent of at least one o... | 06/02/2005 |
