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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131349 | SECURE SOFTWARE PRODUCT IDENTIFIER FOR PRODUCT VALIDATION AND ACTIVATION Systems, methods, and apparatus for generating and validating product keys. In some embodiments, a product key includes security information and identification information identifying at least one copy of a software product. The identifying information may be used to ac... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110337 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTING EXECUTION OF VIRTUAL APPLICATIONS TO A MANAGED PROCESS ENVIRONMENT Methods and systems for restricting the launch of virtual application files. In one embodiment, a launching application is signed with a digital signature. When the launching application launches a runtime engine and instructs it to execute an application file, the runt... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110338 | Protecting the Integrity and Privacy of Data with Storage Leases Storage leases specify access restrictions and time periods, restricting access to their associated data during the storage lease time period. Storage leases may be assigned to individual data storage blocks or groups of data storage blocks in a data storage device. A d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110340 | SYSTEM, PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL AUTHENTICATING, CRYPTING AND SIGNING BY GENERATING SHORT-LIVED CRYPTOKEYS A system for authentication, encryption and/or signing, as well as corresponding devices and methods, that use temporary but repeatable encryption keys uniquely connected to the user and generated from a unique set of input parameters. The system comprises an input devi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084570 | Remote Resources Single Sign On Exemplary techniques for enabling single sign-on to an operating system configured to conduct a remote presentation session are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a user credential can be encrypted using an encryption key generated by a remote presentation session s... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120050179 | AUTHENTICATION AT A SELF-SERVICE TERMINAL A method and apparatus for authenticating a customer at a self-service terminal are described. The method comprises: receiving a stroke delineated by the customer; matching the delineated stroke to a defined shape; and providing feedback to the customer to indicate that... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047369 | REVOKEABLE MSR PASSWORD PROTECTION A microprocessor includes an MSR and fuses. The microprocessor encounters an instruction requesting access to the MSR and specifying the MSR address, performs a function of the specified MSR address and a value read from the fuses to generate a first result, encrypts th... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042169 | ANTI-COUNTERFEITING ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF An anti-counterfeiting electronic device includes a function component assigned with an identification code ID and a processor. The processor generates a random code K1 and transmits the random code K1 to the function component; the function component encr... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036368 | Data Processing System for Providing Authorization Keys A computer-implemented method for providing authorization keys, where the method includes receiving a further asymmetrical, cryptographic key pair, where the further asymmetrical key pair is part of a key pair sequence, where the further asymmetrical key pair includes a... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030473 | UNIQUE BLOCK HEADER PATTERNS FOR MEDIA VERIFICATION Authenticating the source of digital media is performed by using unique, randomly generated variably encoded frequency patterns to create mastering specific, profiles for sets end user media which can be verified by a manufacturer. A method for verifying the authenticit... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120017094 | MANAGING USER ACCOUNTS The present disclosure relates to managing user accounts in one or more computer systems. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of storing on a client computing device a first coo... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120005483 | Method for Image-Based Authentication A method for authenticating user access to a restricted resource that presents a login screen with an image separated into sections. To login, the user triggers sections in a preset sequence that is set up at account creation. At account creation, a cryptographic hash f... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320822 | KEYED HUMAN INTERACTIVE PROOF PLAYERS A human interactive puzzle (HIP) authorization architecture where keyed and animated puzzles are executed by HIP players which are distinct and obfuscated to the point where breaking a single player is a relatively costly operation. A key is created in response to a req... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314529 | ADAPTIVE POLICIES AND PROTECTIONS FOR SECURING FINANCIAL TRANSACTION DATA AT REST A system for challenge-response authentication is provided by receiving, from an external terminal over a communication network, a request for access to a service. A plurality of objects is presented to a user via a display. A plurality of codes is received over the com... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314294 | PASSWORD CHECKING A method is disclosed for password checking. After input is received, a proposed password included in the input is parsed into symbols. At least one of the symbols includes two or more characters. A probably metric is determined based on a sequence of symbols. The proba... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307708 | ENABLING ACCESS TO REMOVABLE HARD DISK DRIVES A method, apparatus, and computer program product for accessing a device. The device receives a key from an operating system in response to the device in a locked state being connected to a data processing system after the operating system for the data processing system... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110296157 | System and Method for Supporting Secure Subsystems in a Client Hosted Virtualization System An client hosted virtualization system includes an authentication device, a processor and non-volatile memory with BIOS code and virtualization manager code. The virtualization manager initializes the client hosted virtualization system authenticates a virtual machine i... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289321 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A NON-REVEALING DO-NOT-CONTACT LIST SYSTEM A method and apparatus for a non-revealing do-not-contact list system in which a do-not-contact list of one-way hashed consumer contact information is provided to a set of one or more entities. The set of entities determine whether certain consumers wish to be contacted... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289322 | PROTECTED USE OF IDENTITY IDENTIFIER OBJECTS This invention states that any and all physical and virtual objects meeting certain criteria may be used as Identity-Identifier-Objects to authenticate people, businesses, organizations, as well as other physical or virtual objects. While accomplishing said task, this i... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110283110 | Secure Communications Systems and methods are described for communicating between a client machine and a server. A security token message may be transmitted from the server to the client machine. The security token message may include a first security token. The first security token may incl... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110246782 | Data Protection Systems and Methods Systems and methods are provided for protecting electronic content from the time it is packaged through the time it is experienced by an end user. Protection against content misuse is accomplished using a combination of encryption, watermark screening, detection of inva... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110239000 | PASSWORD-PROTECTED PHYSICAL TRANSFER OF PASSWORD-PROTECTED DEVICES A method for password-protected physical transfer of password-protected devices including at a receiving location, generating at least one security file including an encrypted element generated using a one-way encryption function utilizing at least one secure code, tran... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110213985 | TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION SCHEME An improved method is provided for generating an authentication factor for authenticating a user. The method includes: assigning a unique identifier to a user of the computing resource; determining a value for a challenge to the user, where the value is determined by a ... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110191591 | Transmitting Information Using Virtual Input Layout Method and apparatus for information transmission are provided. A method for information transmission uses a virtual input layout to encrypt security information. The method uses a server to receive an access request from a user client and to generate a virtual input la... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191592 | Secure Access by a User to a Resource A method for allowing user access to a resource includes a large number of arrays of elements which are generated and stored for each user for use in a series of log-in sessions. A user input token is calculated by identifying a subset of the array by a pattern of the e... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110185183 | PERIPHERAL DEVICE, NETWORK SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD A peripheral device includes an interface for connection to a wired or wireless LAN, a local interface for wireless connection, and a control unit configured to check a legitimacy of a user based on a user-specific certificate stored in a communication-function-equipped... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110185184 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ELECTRONICALLY CAPTURING A HANDWRITTEN SIGNATURE AND SAFEGUARDING BIOMETRIC DATA A method and apparatus for encrypting an electronic document involves a computer having a first monitor and a signature capture apparatus configured to capture a handwritten signature on a second monitor. A hash sum of the electronic document generated in the computer i... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110154025 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING A USER The invention relates to a computer implemented method for performing a user authentication, wherein an asymmetric cryptographic key pair is associated with the user, said key pair comprising a public key and a private key, wherein the method comprises selecting the use... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110145586 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND SYSTEM FOR INSTALLING COMPUTER CODE THEREON An integrated circuit 100 is provided, which is configured for authentication itself and technical information concerning the integrated circuit or its installed software to an external computing device 200. The integrated circuit 100 comprises a si... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110145587 | INTEGRATED LOGIN INPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD IN PORTABLE TERMINAL An apparatus and method in a portable terminal for an integrated login input are provided. The integrated login input method includes, displaying a plurality of images during registration of a password, displaying a plurality of images, selecting one of the plurality of... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110145588 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AUTHORIZE RESTRICTED FUNCTIONALITY Embodiments of the invention are related to medical systems and methods for controlling authorization of restricted functionality, amongst other things. In an embodiment, the invention includes a medical system including an external medical device programmer comprising ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110138186 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A CONTACTLESS INTERFACE IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH TWO COMMUNICATION INTERFACES WITH CONTACT AND CONTACTLESS A method of access control to a communication interface of an integrated circuit, includes intercepting an event transmitted between a communication interface and an application performed by the integrated circuit, and transmitting the intercepted event if a specific pa... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110126023 | Systems And Methods For Data Security A system comprises a basic-input-output-system (“BIOS”), a disk drive, and a security system configured to prevent unauthenticated access to the disk drive. For each of at least two users out of a plurality of users, the BIOS authenticates the user based on the user... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110119494 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING LICENSES BETWEEN SECURE REMOVABLE MEDIA A method and an apparatus for sharing a license between SRMs are disclosed. The method includes: a DRM agent obtains the license from a first SRM, and sets the license to a forwarding state locally; the DRM agent deducts one right of sharing the license; and the DRM age... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110093719 | SENSITIVE DATA ALIASING Database management and security is implemented in a variety of embodiments. In one such embodiment, data sets containing sensitive data elements are analyzed using aliases representing sensitive data elements. In another embodiment, the sensitive data elements are stor... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090145 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR MULTI-DIRECTIONAL INPUT A multi-directional input method is applicable to an authentication process of electronic software run on an electronic system. According to the method, when the authentication process is initialized, an authentication module having a multi-directional input object and ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110087889 | System and Method of Providing Security to an External Attachment Device Systems and methods of providing security to an external Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) device are described herein. A controller is connected between the eSATA device and the computing device. On startup, the controller presents a first partition of eSata... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110087888 | AUTHENTICATION USING A WEAK HASH OF USER CREDENTIALS Methods and apparatus for logging into a computer. The computer receives a username and password. The computer determines whether a user with the username is authorized to access the computer. If so, the computer retrieves a weak cryptographic hash of the user's passwor... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110083170 | User Enrollment via Biometric Device A web-enabled application identifies a biometric device installed in a client device. The system identifies biometric information associated with a user and creates a biometric template associated with the biometric information. The system then receives user credentials... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110078455 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM In one example embodiment, an information processing apparatus determines whether a target ID is a unique ID or a partial randomization ID that includes a first part being replaced by a different number and a second part being generated based on the unique ID. In respon... | 03/31/2011 |
