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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120084571 | IMAGE-BASED KEY EXCHANGE This disclosure is directed for improved techniques for configuring a device to generate a secondary password based at least in part on a secure authentication key. The techniques of this disclosure may, in some examples, provide for capturing, by a computing device, an... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20110295753 | PIN PROTECTION FOR PORTABLE PAYMENT DEVICES A method and system of encrypting a Personal Identification Number (PIN) using a portable payment device includes a portable payment device in communication with a network and a payment processor, and may be configured to receive a first encryption key from the payment ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110276495 | ONE-TIME USE PASSWORD SYSTEMS AND METHODS According to the invention, a method of using a one-time password for a transaction between a user and a merchant is disclosed. The method may include generating the one-time password. The method may also include authenticating the user by the authentication server in r... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110179282 | INTEGRITY PROTECTED SMART CARD TRANSACTION Systems, methods, and technologies for configuring a conventional smart card and a client machine, and for performing a smart card authorization using the configured smart card and client. Further, the combination of methods provides for mutual authentication—authenti... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110113237 | KEY CAMOUFLAGING METHOD USING A MACHINE IDENTIFIER A method is provided for generating a human readable passcode to an authorized user including providing a control access datum and a PIN, and generating a unique machine identifier for the user machine. The method further includes modifying the controlled access datum, ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110099384 | STRONG AUTHENTICATION TOKEN USABLE WITH A PLURALITY OF INDEPENDENT APPLICATION PROVIDERS The present invention defines a strong authentication token for generating different dynamic credentials for different application providers comprising an input interface providing an output representing an application provider indicator; a secret key storage for storin... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110087890 | INTERLOCKING PLAIN TEXT PASSWORDS TO DATA ENCRYPTION KEYS Described embodiments provide for authenticating a user request for access to at least a portion of an encrypted storage device. First, the request for access to at least a portion of the encrypted storage device is received. The request includes a plaintext password. A... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110060913 | OTP GENERATION USING A CAMOUFLAGED KEY A system and method is provided for generating a one-time passcode (OTP) from a user device. The method includes providing a passcode application and a cardstring defined by a provider account to the user device. The passcode application is configured to generate a pass... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110055586 | Secure PIN Character Retrieval and Setting Using PIN Offset Masking Securely disclosing a personal identification number (“PIN”) associated with a financial account to an account holder and receiving a new PIN from the account holder. A PIN reveal application can interact with a hardware security module (“HSM”) using a PIN offse... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100318807 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A DISGUISED PASSWORD BASED ON A REAL PASSWORD A system and method for generating a disguised password are provided. The method presets a real password via an input device, selects one or more characters from the real password as a verification code. The method further generates an encryption code corresponding to t... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100262834 | ONE TIME PASSWORD KEY RING FOR MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE Single-use character combinations are a secure mechanism for user authentication. Such “one-time passwords” (OTPs) can be generated by a mobile device to which the user otherwise maintains easy access. A key exchange, such as in accordance with the Diffie-Hellman al... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100263029 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ONE-TIME PASSWORDS A method for one-time password generation, the one-time password being used for user authentication by a restricted resource. The one-time password is generated by means of a mathematical algorithm in a user-specific device, and the one-time password is generated by the... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100257586 | Projector projecting password A projector system of the present invention includes a projector 10 and a personal computer PC as an information terminal, which communicate with each other via a network connection. The projector 10 generates a password required for establishment of the n... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100241865 | One-Time Password System Capable of Defending Against Phishing Attacks A one-time password system capable of defending against on-line phishing attacks. The one-time password system is composed mainly of a Java smart card, a pre-end password calculation module, a post-end password registration module, a post-end password verification modul... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100228988 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VISUAL CODE TRANSACTION VERIFICATION A method and device for visual code transaction verification enables more secure electronic transactions. The method includes generating a window having a first pattern of elongated segments. A second pattern of elongated segments is then generated, wherein a dynamic vi... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100185870 | Method and System for Managing a Hierarchy of Passwords A method and system manage a hierarchy of passwords for users accessing a hierarchy of access control devices. First, a codeword is acquired and a syndrome of the codeword is determined. Next, the codeword is randomly modified with a probability p to produce a modified ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100169958 | Method for generating and using composite scene passcodes One disclosed embodiment for creating a composite scene passcode comprises presenting a system-generated composite scene passcode to a user, allowing the user to generate a composite-scene passcode by selecting one scene element per scene dimension, or allowing the user... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100115253 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURELY DISTRIBUTING CONTENT A system for securely distributing content is provided. A distribution system includes a content server that distributes content to content clients via a communications link or a tangible medium. The distribution system uses passwords to encrypt and decrypt content and ... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100098246 | SMART CARD BASED ENCRYPTION KEY AND PASSWORD GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT An apparatus can include a smart card based encryption key management system used to generate an encryption key using encryption key seed material, and an encryption key data store to store the encryption key seed material. An apparatus can include a smart card based pa... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100070757 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AUTHENTICATE A USER UTILIZING A TIME-VARYING AUXILIARY CODE A system and method to authenticate a user utilizing a time-varying auxiliary code. The code may be appended to a fixed password, but that is not required. The code is generated by a central electronic authentication system. The user retrieves it manually using a fungib... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100064117 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UPDATING SET OF LIMITED ACCESS MODEL SPECIFIC REGISTERS IN A MICROPROCESSOR A microprocessor having model specific registers (MSRs) includes, for each of the MSRs, an associated default value that indicates whether the MSR is protected or non-protected and an associated fuse that, if blown, toggles the associated default value from protected to... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100058067 | SECURING A PASSWORD DATABASE An apparatus and a method for encrypting a username is described. In one embodiment, a hashed username is encrypted with a key. An input size of the key matches an output size of the key. The password associated with the hashed username is replaced with a function of th... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100058068 | Secure PIN Character Retrieval and Setting Disclosing a secure personal identification number (“PIN”) associated with a financial account to an account holder. A PIN reveal application can interact with a hardware security module (“HSM”) to decrypt and disclose the PIN to the account holder one or more P... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100042848 | Personalized I/O Device as Trusted Data Source Personalized input/output (I/O) device as trusted credential source is described. According to one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a personalized I/O device used as trusted credential source is configured with a personalized certificate that includes a combinatio... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100034389 | CONDITIONAL ACCESS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIMITING ACCESS TO CONTENT IN BROADCASTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEMS A conditional access system and method provides conditional access by a subscriber's network terminal over a computer network to encrypted content of a content provider. The conditional access system includes a content stream adapting server that receives streams of enc... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100031336 | Peripheral Security Device A peripheral security device is capable of being physically connected to a host terminal, on which is installed at least one software drive that is capable of permitting communication between said host terminal and a peripheral device with a human interface. This periph... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100011222 | Interfacing with a system that includes a passcode authenticator Protecting the security of an entity by using passcodes is disclosed. A passcode device generates a passcode. In an embodiment, the passcode is generated in response to receipt of user information. The passcode is received by another system, which authenticates the pass... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090313478 | ARRANGMENTS FOR INTERFACING WITH A USER ACCESS MANAGER Arrangements which permit the employment of dedicated user-access management architecture with more than text-based access. Particularly contemplated herein are arrangements for accepting user identifiers that are then communicated to an intermediate user-delineating ar... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090282258 | PASSWORD GENERATOR A system (100) for providing secure access to a controlled application is disclosed. The system (100) comprises a database (105) of one or more biometric signatures. The system (100) also comprises a first subsystem (116) comprising a ... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090271632 | SECRET AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM Authentication data indicating authenticity of a client is distributed into a plurality of function data as distributed data, the plurality of function data including function data specifying a function and rule data specifying the authentication data from the function.... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090249066 | Method for Safe Operation and A System Thereof The present invention relating to computer security field provides a method for safe operation and a system thereof. The method includes: loading the compressed kernel of a safe operating system to a memory of a computer, decompressing the driver of a security device to... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090235085 | Method and System for Secure Authentication and Data Exchange in Client Server Architecture The present invention relates to a method for secure authentication and data exchange, in client server architecture, comprising: registering a user and creating a first tabular data using the user's password for authentication of the user, at a server machine, deleting... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090228712 | Personal identification number recovery method Systems and methods are described for recovering a personal identification number. A method, includes: comprising recovering from a lost personal identification number situation and restoring programmability to a device, including: generating a SEED PIN using the device... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090193264 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD A strong authentication method and system using a Secure ICC component coupled with a Personal device, and relying on the existing cryptographic protocols and keys for managing the secure ICC to generate One-Time-Passwords when the necessary authentication keys or crypt... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090158048 | METHOD, CLIENT AND SYSTEM FOR REVERSED ACCESS TO MANAGEMENT SERVER USING ONE-TIME PASSWORD Provided are a method, client and system for reservation access to a management server using a one-time password. A generated personal identification number (PIN) is transmitted to the management server when a reservation time comes. The management server generates a ra... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090150679 | SECURE DATA CARTRIDGE An embodiment of a data cartridge for interfacing with a data cartridge authorization system is disclosed. The data cartridge includes a drive and a communication interface. The drive is configured to store data, where the data comprises first information a first passwo... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090144555 | FIXED CLIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION OF CLIENT TO SERVER A tamperproof ClientID system to uniquely identify a client machine is invoked upon connection of a client application to a backend. Upon initial connection, the backend issues a unique ClientID containing a checksum. The client application prepares at least two differe... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090125725 | EXTERNAL MEMORY ACCESS DEVICE AND METHOD OF ACCESSING EXTERNAL MEMORY An external memory access device and a method of accessing an external memory are provided. The external memory access device includes an internal memory unit for storing authentication information of at least one external memory and a control unit for extracting the au... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090119364 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGE OF DATA BETWEEN REMOTE SERVERS A method and a system for exchanging data between a first server (131) housed in an electronic unit (130) linked to a programmable device (100) and a second remote server (110). The first and second servers are each individually addressable b... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090106558 | System and Method for Adding Biometric Functionality to an Application and Controlling and Managing Passwords A system and method for adding biometric functionality to an application, and for controlling and managing passwords. The system and method include monitoring an application and providing a template matching a logon window of the application. The template obtains a biom... | 04/23/2009 |
