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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131635 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURING DATA Disclosed is a method of supporting security policies and security levels associated with processes and applications. A security level is associated with a process independent of a user executing the process. When secure data is to be accessed, the security level of the... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131636 | Security Context Lockdown A method and system for locking down a local machine zone associated with a network browser is provided. Placing the local machine zone in a lockdown mode provides stricter security settings that are applied to active content attempting to publish within a local page op... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131637 | Systems and Methods of Controlling Network Access A new approach to network security includes manipulating an access point such that an initial communication from an external device is passed to a restricted subset of a computing network including a gatekeeper. The gatekeeper is configured to enforce a security policy ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131634 | METHOD OF EXECUTING AN APPLICATION EMBEDDED IN A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE The invention is a method of executing an application embedded in a portable electronic device. The application comprises one instruction handling an object. The electronic device comprises a firewall which is intended to check the compliance of the object with preset s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110638 | POLICY-BASED CROSS-DOMAIN ACCESS CONTROL FOR SSL VPN A method may include generating a request that includes a host domain associated with a multiple-domain-to-one domain mapping, capturing the request before transmission of the request, rewriting the host domain, and transmitting the request.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110637 | Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses for Facilitating Authorization of a Roaming Mobile Terminal Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for facilitating authorization of a roaming mobile terminal. A method may include receiving a request for security key related policy information for a user equipment device. The request may be sent by a service providing n... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110633 | APPARATUS FOR SHARING SECURITY INFORMATION AMONG NETWORK DOMAINS AND METHOD THEREOF Provided are a security information sharing apparatus capable of sharing security information among network domains and a method thereof. The security information sharing apparatus includes a primitive security information storage unit configured to store primitive secu... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110634 | AUTOMATIC PIN CREATION USING PASSWORD A PIN is automatically generated based on at least one rule when the user enters a password through a user device. In one example, the PIN is a truncated version of the password where each character in the truncated version is mapped onto a number. The mapping can be a ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110184 | PHYSICAL LAYER PHOTONIC PROTOCOL SWITCH A physical layer photonic protocol switch (PLPPS) that is protocol independent and switches at the optical signal level. Computing subsystem resources are linked to the PLPPS and are grouped into one or more logical system topologies. If needed, additional computing sub... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110636 | Defining an Authorizer in a Virtual Computing Infrastructure An authorizing entity is allowed to grant permission to a subject to perform an action on an object in a cloud computing environment. An authorizer is defined as the entity having granting authority to delegate a predetermined permission. A subject is defined as a group... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110635 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING CHARACTERISTICS OF A WIRELESS NETWORK Characteristics about one or more wireless access devices in a wireless network, whether known or unknown entities, can be determined using a system and method according to the present invention. An observation is made of the activity over a Wireless Area Network (WLAN)... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110632 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DISTRIBUTED POLICY MANAGEMENT An approach is provided for distributed policy management and enforcement. A policy manager determines one or more domains of an information system. The one or more domains are associated at least in part with respective subsets of one or more resources of the informati... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084831 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PRIVACY MANAGEMENT IN MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATIONS A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for processing a request from a server of a machine-to-machine service provider are provided. For example, the method receives the request from the server of the machine-to-machine service provider to commu... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084830 | NETWORK POLICY CONTROLLER The invention concerns a network policy controller coupled to a computer network and including a communications interface (303) arranged to monitor network authorization requests relating to a plurality of network devices connected to said network; at least one m... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072968 | ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE SECURITY FLAWS IN VIRTUAL MACHINES Security analysis and vulnerability testing results are “packaged” or “bound to” the actual software it describes. By linking the results to the software itself, downstream users of the software can access information about the software, make informed decisions ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069131 | Reality alternate Among other things, we describe a reality alternative to our physical reality, named the Expandaverse, that includes multiple digital realities that may be continuously created, broadcast, accessed, and used interactively. In what we call an Alternate Reality Teleportal... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072969 | DETERMINING A SENSITIVITY LABEL OF DOCUMENT INFORMATION IN REAL TIME A sensitivity label for document information in a document may be determined in real time, according to one embodiment, by flexibly and dynamically determining a sensitivity label for the document based on content included in information within the document. Information... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072970 | CHAINING INFORMATION CARD SELECTORS A machine includes card stores to store information cards. For each card store, one or more card selectors can be provided. When performing a transaction involving information cards, a generic card selector, using a selector policy engine, can identify a card selector t... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054825 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING RULES FOR CONNECTION SECURITY A method and system for creating security policies for firewall and connection policies in an integrated manner is provided. The security system provides a user interface through which a user can define a security rule that specifies both a firewall policy and a connect... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054824 | ACCESS CONTROL POLICY TEMPLATE GENERATING DEVICE, SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM An access control policy generating device includes: a resource grouping unit which, when a plurality of access control policies including access control content defined for resources are given, classifies each resource into one or more groups based on a similarity betw... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054044 | Creative Quality Validation A computer-implemented method includes generating an emulated view of an advertisement; determining, based on the emulated view, one or more elements associated with the advertisement; comparing the one or more elements to one or more criteria associated with an adverti... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054821 | PROPAGATING USER PRIVACY PREFERENCES ACROSS MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS Methods and systems for maintaining user privacy preferences based on one or more user identifications across a plurality of applications are provided. Two or more user identifications are received with associated user privacy preferences. The received user identificati... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054822 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IMPLEMENT ELECTRONIC BOOK VIEWERS Example methods and apparatus to implement electronic book viewers are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves presenting content on a display panel removably attachable to a binding element. The binding element is configured to receive one or more other display ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054820 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SECURE A COMPUTING DEVICE In one embodiment, a first instruction prescribing a setting for a feature is defined. A second instruction prescribing a first action is defined. A third instruction prescribing a second action is defined. It is determined whether the feature is present in a computing ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054823 | AUTOMATED CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DDOS ATTACK PREVENTION POLICY USING THE STATUS OF CPU AND MEMORY Disclosed are a control technique of DDoS attack prevention policy at a host level, and more specifically, to an automated control method and an apparatus of DDoS attack prevention policy using the status of CPU and memory. An exemplary embodiment of the present inventi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053953 | Analysis of an Analog Property of a Signal A third party provides an analysis of an analog signal property derived from an electronic device. A data set describing an analog signal property is obtained. The data set is derived from at least one measurement on the signal. A permission set based on data received f... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054368 | TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTITY AND POLICY BASED ROUTING Techniques for identity and policy based routing are presented. A resource is initiated on a device with a resource identity and role assignments along with policies are obtained for the resource. A customized network is created for the resource using a device address f... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054826 | DYNAMIC DETERMINATION OF ACCESS RIGHTS A method of dynamically determining the access rights of a client to a record comprises receiving an access request from the client with respect to the record, determining one or more contexts relating to the access request, calculating a score for each determined conte... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047207 | Online Location Sharing Through an Internet Service Search Engine Online location sharing through an internet service search engine includes: receiving in a server a query from a first user, the query identifying a second user; querying multiple internet services with the server over a network for real-time information regarding the s... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047550 | Method and System for Device Integrity Authentication A networked device performs integrity authentication by determining, using a processor, a measured integrity value of the device. The measured integrity value is compared by the processor to an embedded integrity value of the device. Application of a policy to the devic... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047551 | Machine-To-Machine Gateway Architecture Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed that provide for a gateway outside of a network domain to provide services to a plurality of devices. For example, the gateway may act as a management entity or as a proxy for the network domain. As a management enti... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047556 | ON-LINE CENTRALIZATION AND LOCAL AUTHORIZATION OF EXECUTABLE FILES A system and system for controlling the execution of executable files. The executables are identified by either a cryptographic digest or a digital certificate. The cryptographic digest is computed from the binary image of the executable. An executable that is attemptin... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047553 | SECURE DISTRIBUTED STORAGE OF DOCUMENTS CONTAINING RESTRICTED INFORMATION, VIA THE USE OF KEYSETS A method, system and computer program product for processing documents containing restricted information. One aspect concerns storing documents in a distributed but secure manner, for example using keysets.... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047554 | WEB SERVICE PROVISION SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, AND METHOD A web application server includes a user information management unit that manages user IDs and attributes such that each of the user IDs is associated with corresponding one of the attributes, a security policy management unit that manages security policies such that ea... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047552 | DYNAMICALLY UPDATED SECURE HANDLING OF DOCUMENTS CONTAINING RESTRICTED INFORMATION A method, system and computer program product for processing documents containing restricted information. One aspect concerns updating the relevant information security rules applicable to the documents.... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047555 | PLATFORM AUTHENTICATION METHOD SUITABLE FOR TRUSTED NETWORK CONNECT ARCHITECTURE BASED ON TRI-ELEMENT PEER AUTHENTICATION The invention discloses a platform authentication method suitable for trusted network connect (TNC) architecture based on tri-element peer authentication (TePA). The method relates to a platform authentication protocol of tri-element peer authentication, and the protoco... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042355 | REPRESENTING EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE (XML) AS AN EXECUTABLE HAVING CONDITIONAL AUTHENTICATION OR POLICY LOGIC Techniques for representing extensible markup language (XML) in an executable format are presented. An XML document is parsed into its components and content. The components and content are packaged as an executable. Some portions of the executable include authenticatio... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042354 | Entitlement conflict enforcement Various embodiments are directed to entitlements clearance. For example, an entitlement clearance request may be received from a provisioning application. The entitlement clearance request may comprise an indication of a subject entitlement and an indication of a subjec... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042353 | ACCESS CONTROL A process and device are disclosed for depositing sequences of layers comprising a plurality of semiconductor components on a plurality of substrates (1), using a loading chamber (2) for loading a substrate carrier (1) with one or more substrates (<... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036554 | ACCESS AUTHORIZATION HAVING EMBEDDED POLICIES A facility for receiving an embedded policy is provided. The facility checks an application program image for the presence of an embedded policy. If an embedded policy is detected, the facility extracts the policy from within the application program image. The facility ... | 02/09/2012 |
