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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120110654 | SECURE CONNECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLES A communication system of a vehicle includes a mode determination module and a connection control module. The mode determination module sets a mode of operation to one of a first mode and a second mode based on a comparison of a common name (CN) of a root certificate wi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084850 | TRUSTWORTHY DEVICE CLAIMS FOR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS Embodiments of the invention enable a client device to procure trustworthy device claims describing one or more attributes of the client device, have those device claims included in a data structure having a format suitable for processing by an application, and use the ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120054848 | Securely Accessing An Advertised Service In one embodiment, a method includes sending by an endpoint a request for information about available services to a network device; receiving by the endpoint a message from the network device, the message including information associated with a first service provider; d... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120036359 | THIRD PARTY VPN CERTIFICATION A virtual private network (VPN) over a telecommunications network is created by sending a request from a first VPN device to a second VPN device for establishing a VPN between the first and second VPN devices. The request includes a first signed certificate having a ver... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120023568 | Method and Apparatus for Trusted Federated Identity Management and Data Access Authorization Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed that may provide for integration of trusted OpenID (TOpenID) with OpenID. The authentication may be accomplished, in part, via communications between a trusted ticket server on a UE and a network application function... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120011580 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, VERIFICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF VERIFICATION SYSTEM, PROGRAM OF CONTROL METHOD OF VERIFICATION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An information processing apparatus employing user access authorization management verifies user access authorization using a portable storage medium storing identification (ID) information for the portable storage medium and user verification information registered in ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110302283 | Methods And Arrangements In A Passive Optical Network Secure downloading of a certificate to an ONU (Optical Network Unit) over an ODN (Optical Distribution Network), by storing the certificate in association with an OLT (Optical Line Terminal). The OLT instructs the ONU to download a file comprising the certificate, and o... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296515 | METHOD FOR MANAGING COMPUTER RESOURCES ACCESSED BY A PROGRAM OPERATING IN A RESTRICTED ENVIRONMENT A resource manager of an operating system of a data processing system receives a first request from a first program for a ticket for accessing at least one of resources of the data processing system. In response to the first request, the resource manager determines whet... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289313 | Ticket Authorization A method for issuing tickets in a communication system comprising a plurality of nodes that are capable of establishing a communication connection between two or more clients, the method comprising a first client transmitting to a ticket-issuing service a request for a ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289577 | ACCESSING DATA UTILIZING ENTITY REGISTRATION IN MULTIPLE DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORKS A method begins by a processing module determining whether a data access request is requesting access to data stored in a plurality of dispersed storage networks (DSNs). The method continues with the processing module determining whether one of the plurality of DSNs is ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110239287 | METHOD FOR SHARING CONTENT Disclosed is a method of sharing content. According to the content sharing method, content is received from a service provider using a receive device. A content protection solution supported in a target device is detected. The content is converted so that it is compatib... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110225643 | SECURE DYNAMIC AUTHORITY DELEGATION In a communication network wherein a first computing device represents a resource owner and a second computing device represents a resource requestor, the resource owner detects an occurrence of an event, wherein the event occurrence represents a request to access one o... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110219439 | PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE AUTHENTICATION CHAINS A method and system to support multiple chains of authentication modules. The method may include receiving a user login request, and identifying multiple chains of authentication modules to be performed prior to allowing a user to login, where each chain of authenticati... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110219442 | Policy-Based Security Certificate Filtering Policy filtering services are built into security processing of an execution environment for resolving how to handle a digital security certificate of a communicating entity without requiring a local copy of a root certificate that is associated with the entity through ... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110213966 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A CERTIFICATE OPERATION REQUEST A method and system for automatically generating a certificate operation request is described.... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110214174 | STATISTICAL SECURITY FOR ANONYMOUS MESH-UP ORIENTED ONLINE SERVICES Web pages and applications commonly consume functionality provided by services to provide users with a rich experience. For example, a backend mapping service may provide access to these services. However, the users and application consuming the services may be anonymou... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110202992 | METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING A TRUSTED PLATFORM BASED ON THE TRI-ELEMENT PEER AUTHENTICATION(TEPA) A method for authenticating a trusted platform based on the Tri-element Peer Authentication (TePA). The method includes the following steps: A) a second attesting system sends the first message to a first attesting system; B) the first attesting system sends a second me... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110191585 | Device Authentication Authentication of two devices in communication with a third device is achieved where the first and second devices each possess a shared secret value. The authentication includes communication of authentication values from the first device to the second device using the ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110173691 | METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING SOFTWARE A method for downloading software from a host device to an electronic device through a communication line, which, even when the download is interrupted, can simplify the procedure to restart the download while maintaining security. In the method, a certificate of authen... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110154031 | Secure Kerberized Access of Encrypted File System A file server receives a request from a client to mount an encrypted file system. The file server informs the client that the requested file system is encrypted and, in turn, receives a session ticket from the client that includes a security protocol mounting selection.... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110131643 | Token Mediation Service in a Data Management System A method and system for mediating security tokens to authorization data transactions in a data management system. The methods and systems intercept a data request between two applications or services, and validate and translate a security token sent with the data reques... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110113481 | IP SECURITY CERTIFICATE EXCHANGE BASED ON CERTIFICATE ATTRIBUTES Architecture that provides Internet Protocol security (IPsec) certificate exchange based on certificate attributes. An IPsec endpoint can validate the security context of another IPsec endpoint certificate by referencing certificate attributes. By facilitating IPsec cer... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110113439 | METHOD OF ELECTRONIC VOTING, DECODER FOR IMPLEMENTING THIS METHOD, AND NETWORK COMPRISING A VOTING SERVER FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD Method of electronic voting in a questionnaire, comprising:
| 05/12/2011 |
| 20110113247 | AUTOMATICALLY RECONNECTING A CLIENT ACROSS RELIABLE AND PERSISTENT COMMUNICATION SESSIONS The invention relates to methods and systems for reconnecting a client and providing user authentication across a reliable and persistent communication session. The method includes providing a first connection between a client and first protocol service and a second con... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110099617 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VALIDATING AUTHENTICITY OF IDENTITY CLAIMS A method for validating authenticity of identity claims of one or more communicating entities in an online transaction over a network is disclosed. The method includes extracting identity information of the first communicating entity by the second communicating entity d... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110078448 | Short-Lived Certificate Authority Service An integrated authentication service is described which may receive a bundled request from one or more clients. One or more of the described techniques may be utilized to provide, in response to a single bundled request, a token for proof of identity and a certificate f... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078239 | Detecting client software versions A method for detecting a version of a client software in a network. A server receives a first request from the client software, sends a first response comprising a first challenge to the client software, receives a second request comprising an answer to the first challe... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110041003 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR H(e)NB INTEGRITY VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION An apparatus and method for providing home evolved node-B (H(e)NB) integrity verification and validation using autonomous validation and semi-autonomous validation is disclosed herein.... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110029769 | METHOD FOR USING TRUSTED, HARDWARE IDENTITY CREDENTIALS IN RUNTIME PACKAGE SIGNATURE TO SECURE MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AND HIGH VALUE TRANSACTION EXECUTION A method for trusted package digital signature based on secure, platform-bound identity credentials. The selection of a document to be electronically signed by a user via a computing device is made. A hash for the document is determined. The hash is encrypted with a pri... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110010766 | System and Method for Policy Enforcement and Token State Monitoring Systems and methods for monitoring the state of a token and communication exchanges between the token containing an embedded integrated circuit chip and a system are provided. Communications between the token and the system are established and the exchanged of commands ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100332831 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTHENTICATING A SENSOR NODE IN A SENSOR NETWORK A method and apparatus for authenticating a sensor node in a sensor network. The method for authenticating a sensor node by a first sink node in a sensor network includes receiving an authentication request using an authentication ticket from the sensor node, identifyin... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100333186 | TWO-WAY AUTHENTICATION USING A COMBINED CODE An authentication process for a client and a target service to perform mutual authentication. A combined code is received that comprises a combined code hash of at least two sets of data from which an encoding scheme of the at least two sets of data can be determined. T... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100318784 | CLIENT IDENTIFICATION FOR TRANSPORTATION LAYER SECURITY SESSIONS Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with client identification for transportation layer security sessions are described. One example method includes monitoring a first transportation layer security (TLS) communication between a server and a client. The ex... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100313259 | Method for Establishing a Secure Connection from a Service Technician to a Component of an Automation Environment that can be Remotely Diagnosed and/or Maintained and is Experiencing Failure A method for establishing a secure connection from a service technician to a component of an automation environment that can be remotely diagnosed and/or maintained and is experiencing failure. A service certificate is required for establishing the secure connection, wh... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100306839 | ENTITY BI-DIRECTIONAL IDENTIFICATOR METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON TRUSTABLE THIRD PARTY An entity bi-directional identification method and system based on a trustable third party thereof are provided. The system comprises a first entity, which is for sending a first message to a second entity, sending a third message to a third entity after receiving a sec... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100293609 | Processing communication events in a communications system A method of communicating over a communications system includes determining that a communication event at a user terminal of the communications system requires use of a feature for processing data, the communication event being over the communications system and determi... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100281530 | AUTHENTICATION ARRANGEMENT A method, a proxy, a device, a system, and a computer program product for enabling authentication is provided. Authentication is enabled by receiving by a proxy a security token from an authentication provider, the security token including authentication information, re... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100242102 | Biometric credential verification framework Use of a biometric identification device in a client computer system to subsequently access an authentication system includes receiving biometric sample data which is digitally signed and combining the data with a user ID and PIN. This package of data is then securely t... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100242038 | Providing a Trusted Environment for Provisioning a Virtual Machine In one embodiment, a mechanism for providing a trusted environment for provisioning a virtual machine is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes beginning an initialization process of a virtual machine (VM) hosted by a VM host server, obtaining by the VM as part... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100235642 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF SETTING A DEVICE A device setting apparatus performs setting operation with respect to a counterpart apparatus using secure communication even when the counterpart apparatus is not previously provided with information required for secure communication. The device setting apparatus detec... | 09/16/2010 |
