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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131352 | INCREMENTAL AND BULK STORAGE SYSTEM A method for storing electronic data. A first set of electronic data may be copied from a computing device to a capsule. The capsule then may be transferred or located to a location other than that of the computing device. The capsule and the computing device may be in ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131354 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVISION OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC SERVICES An encryption service system comprises an API for receiving requests from one or more calling applications. Each request comprises information identifying the operations to be performed on data to be processed and information identifying the origin and target of the dat... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131351 | MANAGING ACCESS TO A SECURE DIGITAL DOCUMENT In a method for managing access to a secure digital document by workflow participants, in which a respective public key is associated with each of the workflow participants, an entry table is populated with a participant entry for each of the workflow participants. Each... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131355 | RANGE SEARCH SYSTEM, RANGE SEARCH METHOD, AND RANGE SEARCH PROGRAM In case of a range search to the encryption DB (database), conventionally, because there is a correlation between a value of the data and the number of search keys for the range search, the contents of the encrypted data can be inferred and are not safe. Also, it is not... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131322 | System and Method for Authenticating a Gaming Device A method and system are provided for authenticating and securing an embedded device using a secure boot procedure and a full non-volatile memory encryption process that implements Elliptic Curve Pinstov-Vanstone Signature (ECPV) scheme with message recovery on a persona... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131353 | PERIPHERAL AUTHENTICATION This document describes techniques (300, 400) and apparatuses (100, 500, 600, 700) for peripheral authentication. These techniques (300, 400) and apparatuses (100, 500, 600, 700) may configure data lines for authentication between host device... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109784 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING PROTECTION OF MEDIA FILES FOR DOWNLOAD Method and apparatus for providing copyright protection of downloaded media files (audio, video or images) is provided. The method and apparatus specifically comprise wrapping the copyrighted media file into an executable wrapper along with information about the media, ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110345 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURING DATA OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE A method and system for securing data of a mobile communications device. The method includes: determining that first application data is data associated with a first server; encrypting the first application data with an encryption key stored in the mobile communications... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110347 | METHOD OF RANDOMLY AND DYNAMICALLY CHECKING CONFIGURATION INTEGRITY OF A GAMING SYSTEM In a gaming environment, a method of periodically downloading dynamically generated executable modules at random intervals that perform system configuration integrity checks in a secure and verifiable manner is disclosed. The dynamically generated executable module retu... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110644 | GLOBALLY VALID MEASURED OPERATING SYSTEM LAUNCH WITH HIBERNATION SUPPORT An event log can comprise, not only entries associated with components instantiated since a most recent power on of a computing device, but also entries of components instantiated prior to that power on, such as components that were instantiated, and represent, a state ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110346 | STORING DATA INTEGRITY INFORMATION UTILIZING DISPERSED STORAGE A method begins by a processing module generating an integrity check value for each encoded data slice of a set of encoded data slices to produce a set of integrity check values. The method continues with the processing module encoding the set of integrity check values ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110342 | Methods and Systems for Migrating Content Licenses A system can comprise a processor and a memory embodying an application. The application can comprise code that causes the processor to identify a client key embedded or hard-coded in the application (i.e., included as part of the code comprising the application). Addit... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110343 | Trustworthy timestamps on data storage devices Secure timestamps created by a data storage device are described. Metadata timestamp is created for each recorded unit of data (such as a sector) The HDD performs the time-stamping in a secure manner. The timestamp is made secure by performing a secure operation (i.e. o... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110344 | Reporting of Intra-Device Failure Data Methods and a computing device are disclosed. A computing device may include a managed device having embedded firmware. When a failure occurs with respect to the managed device, drivers within the computing device may collect failure data from a driver stack of the comp... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120072716 | MULTITENANT-AWARE PROTECTION SERVICE Implementing a data protection service. One method includes receiving a request to provision a first tenant among a plurality of tenants managed by a single data protection service. A tenant is defined as an entity among a plurality of entities. A single data protection... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072737 | SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY DEPENDING ON A PHYSICAL SYSTEM In systems for establishing a cryptographic key depending on a physical uncloneable function (PUF) it may be a problem that internal information correlated with the cryptographic key is leaked to the outside of the system via a side-channel. To mitigate this problem a c... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072734 | PLATFORM FIRMWARE ARMORING TECHNOLOGY A method, apparatus, method, machine-readable medium, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the method includes is a processor. The processor includes switching a platform firmware update mechanism located in a computer platform to a platform firmware armoring tec... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072735 | STORAGE DEVICE, PROTECTION METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE According to one embodiment, a storage device encrypts/decrypts data with an encryption key to write/read the data to/from the storage area. In the storage device, an elapsed time counter starts counting triggered by turning on of the storage device. A receiver receives... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072736 | MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY SYSTEM, AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a third partial key write module, an encryption key write module, and a decryption module. The third partial key write module is configured to combine a second partial key received from the current host device with t... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054500 | SECURE REBUILDING OF AN ENCODED DATA SLICE IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK A method begins by a processing module identifying an encoded data slice to be rebuilt, selecting a decode threshold number of dispersed storage (DS) units of a storage set of DS units, generating a decode threshold number of key pairs, wherein a key pair of the decode ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING ENCRYPTED BINARIES IN A CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESSOR An example method is provided and includes providing an encrypted image to a central processing unit of an integrated circuit and decrypting the encrypted image using a cryptographic key element. The cryptographic key element is embedded within the integrated circuit. T... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047371 | SECURE FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY (FPGA) ARCHITECTURE A method and system for configuring a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) includes receiving an encrypted FPGA load-decryption key at an FPGA from a remote key-storage device. The remote key-storage device may be external to and operatively connected with the FPGA. The... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047372 | OPTICAL DISC, OPTICAL DISC RECORDING METHOD, OPTICAL DISC REPRODUCTION METHOD, OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM A storage system having a plurality of optical disc devices allows other optical disc devices inside the storage system to reproduce the optical disc recorded by a certain optical disc device but inhibits optical disc devices outside the storage system to reproduce the ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042174 | Remote Container Methods, program products, and systems implementing remote container techniques are disclosed. A relational database can include a container data field, which can be a data field for storing multimedia data. In one aspect, when the multimedia data are inserted into the ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042173 | Digital Content and Right Object Management Systems and Methods Digital content and rights object management systems and methods are provided. The system at least includes a storage device having a hardware UID, a public area and a hidden area. The public area at least includes a security management application. The hidden area at l... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036347 | PROVIDING FAST NON-VOLATILE STORAGE IN A SECURE ENVIRONMENT In one embodiment, a peripheral controller coupled to a processor can include a storage controller. This storage controller can control access to a non-volatile storage coupled to the peripheral controller. The storage may include both secure and open partitions, and th... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036369 | MEMORY IDENTIFICATION CODE GENERATION METHOD, MANAGEMENT METHOD, CONTROLLER, AND STORAGE SYSTEM An identification code generation method and a management method for a non-volatile memory, and a controller and a storage system using the same are provided, and the non-volatile memory has a plurality of physical blocks. The identification code generation method inclu... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036370 | Protecting Documents Using Policies and Encryption A system protects documents at rest and in motion using declarative policies and encryption. A document at rest includes documents on a device such as the hard drive of a computer. A document in motion is a document that is passing through a policy enforcement point. Th... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033101 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE SENSORS A computer system has machine-readable instructions stored thereon. The instructions when executed cause the computer system to perform a method of controlling a camera system. The method includes accessing a first data set in an image file. The first data set includes ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030479 | STORAGE APPARATUS, HOST APPARATUS, AND STORAGE SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a storage apparatus including: a first storage block configured to record and hold encrypted content data and output the encrypted content data on an on-demand basis; a second storage block configured to record and hold a confidential title key; a ti... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030480 | BATTERY PACK AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS A battery pack includes at least one rechargeable battery configured to output power; a remaining battery capacity detection unit configured to detect a remaining battery capacity of the at least one rechargeable battery; and a cryptographic unit configured to output a ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030477 | SCALABLE SEGMENT-BASED DATA DE-DUPLICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREMENTAL BACKUPS A system in accordance with exemplary embodiments may provide a scalable segment-based data de-duplication for incremental backups. In the system, a master device on a secondary-storage node side may receive at least incremental changes, fingerprints, mapping entities, ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027199 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING ACCESS TO A PROTECTED HARDWARE RESOURCE Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling access to a protected hardware resource. A hardware component includes at least one protected hardware resource. A unique hardware ID and a unique cryptographically secure or randomly generated enable value (EV) are integra... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030478 | Dynamic Storage Enabler For Service Delivery HUB On A Mobility Network A system includes a hub having interfaces to an application service provider and a portal in communication with an end user, a storage enabler connected to the hub, the storage enabler having application programming interfaces configured to receive a request for a stora... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023027 | AUTOMATED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRINT HEAD WARRANTY VERIFICATION According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided methods and systems for handling warranty services in a printing environment through use of an automatic process that writes all necessary warranty claim data into a log that be sent to a warranty service provid... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017095 | Software Service for Encrypting and Decrypting Data A system for making encryption and decryption available to software applications as a service is disclosed. An encryption/decryption server verifies the credentials of human operators, hardware devices, or combinations of operators and hardware devices and determines th... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017096 | More Elegant Exastore Apparatus and Method of Operation An apparatus to scale for multiple petabyte backup in redundant locations. Workload is automatically shared among many servers by a characteristic derived from the content itself. Duplicate storage is eliminated by checking for the existence or absence of simple files a... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011101 | INTEGRATING CLIENT AND SERVER DEDUPLICATION SYSTEMS According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for integrating client and server deduplication systems may be provided. In this method, a first hash set of a previous backup session may be received from a server. The first hash set may comprise a plurali... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011351 | Security Processing Engines, Circuits and Systems and Adaptive Processes and Other Processes An electronic circuit (200) includes one or more programmable control-plane engines (410, 460) operable to process packet header information and form at least one command, one or more programmable data-plane engines (310, 320, 370) selectively opera... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011502 | MANAGING UNIQUE ELECTRONIC IDENTIFICATION FOR KERNEL EXTENSIONS IN ISOLATED VIRTUAL SPACE Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to detecting a file that a first instance of an operating system is configured to load where the file is configured to extend functionality of a kernel when loaded. In some embodiments, the first instance of ... | 01/12/2012 |
