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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6089284 | Preconditioning a fuel dispensing system using a transponder A fuel dispensing system for providing dual-stage preconditioning and authentication for enhancing a fueling transaction. The system includes a fuel dispenser associated with a control system and a receiver adapted to receive signals, including a first in... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5892827 | Method and apparatus for generating personal identification numbers for use in consumer transactions A system for generating authorization codes, such as personal identification numbers, at the point of distribution of certificates of value on which the authorization codes are to be printed or otherwise encoded. Because the authorization codes are genera... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5875394 | Method of mutual authentication for secure wireless service provision A mutual authentication process assures that a subscriber does not provide sensitive activation information to an imposter network and a network does not provide sensitive activation information to an imposter subscriber. The mutual authentication is faci... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5875395 | Secure equipment automation using a personal base station A system and method for preventing unauthorized use of a remotely operated system, by using a sophisticated bi-directional verification schemes. The bi-directional verification schemes are based on random challenge and response between a mobile station an... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5825300 | Method of protected distribution of keying and certificate material A computer system and a method for the protected distribution of certificate and keying material between a certification authority and at least one entity in the certification authority's domain, including the steps of sending keying material, including a... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5821871 | Authentication method An authentifying method is revealed which uses as an identification feature images, tokens, texts or sounds which are based on individual knowledges and experiences of a person (PSPI) and which consist of a principal part and a complement or of associated... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5815083 | Process for entry of a confidential piece of information and associated terminal With confidential information being composed of authenticating signs which belong to a first series, a second series of signs or designating symbols is defined, the first and second series of signs are displayed in a relatively random position, and this p... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5787154 | Universal authentication device for use over telephone lines A method is provided for securely transmitting information from a telephone to a calling party over a telephone network. In accordance with the method, encrypted audio signals are received from the telephone over a communication path to an authentication ... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5771446 | Anti-fraud cellular security system A method and apparatus using a PIN number for preventing theft of cellular telephone service is disclosed. The PIN is requested silently by a visual display panel and entered silently by recalling the number from memory. The PIN number is transmitted as a... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5754652 | Method and apparatus for secure pin entry A method for sequentially encrypting the digits of a personal identification number, and an apparatus for practicing the method, are disclosed. According to the method, a random number is generated and supplied to a user requesting access to a system. The... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5721780 | User-transparent security method and apparatus for authenticating user terminal access to a network The present invention provides a password authentication security system for a telecommunications network having a plurality of user terminals or subscriber stations communicably coupled to the network. The system comprises a network control center couple... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5719941 | Method for changing passwords on a remote computer A method for changing an account password stored at a physically remote location is provided. After initiating a password change sequence, a user submits both an old and a new password to its client machine. Thereafter, the client computes two message val... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5537102 | Apparatus and method for a system capable of remotely validating the identity of individual and their location A system capable of remotely validating the identity of individuals and monitoring their locations includes a first device attached to the individual being monitored by a circumferential band worn around his wrist, ankle or neck that is capable of electro... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5515031 | Credit card detector and validator Apparatus and a method are disclosed for detecting that a credit card has not been returned to a user after use or that an incorrect card has been returned. A card holder holds one or more credit cards or the like and includes means for reading and storin... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5459776 | Data/facsimile telephone subset apparatus incorporating electrophoretic displays There is disclosed a telephone subset which incorporates a high resolution electrophoretic display on the surface of a subset housing. The telephone subset includes a microprocessor which operates under the control of a mode selector. In this manner the d... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5436621 | Messaging peripheral with secure message data function A messaging peripheral (100) includes a processor (106) for executing a microcode program that controls operation of the messaging peripheral (100), and a PCMCIA memory only interface (119) that allows communication of communication of at least one messag... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5367572 | Method and apparatus for personal identification A method and apparatus for providing improved security for a personal identification number (PIN) in a personal identification and verification system of the type wherein a time dependent nonpredictable code is generated at a device in the possession of t... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5278904 | Method of verifying identification A method for secure exchange of password information between a requester node and a server node using a verification protocol for confirming the identification of the requester node by the server in the presence of eavesdroppers is disclosed. By adjusting... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5193114 | Consumer oriented smart card system and authentication techniques A consumer oriented secure smart card with various accounts which are accessible only through proper use of security measures. Security measures consist of encryption with described automatic key generation and management technique and a technique to auth... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5168520 | Method and apparatus for personal identification A method and apparatus for providing improved security for a personal identification number (PIN) in a personal identification and verification system of the type wherein a time dependent nonpredictable code is generated at a device in the possession of t... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5093861 | Recognition apparatus and method for security systems A method of authenticating input data including user data and pin code data for an access control system. The method includes the steps of receiving the user data and the pin code data from a keyboard and/or a card reader, combining an offset data with th... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5060263 | Computer access control system and method An access control system is disclosed in which protected systems and corresponding portable password issuing devices both generate new authentic passwords by successively encrypting a stored password with a selected sequence of predefined encryption steps... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5023908 | Method and apparatus for personal identification A method and apparatus for providing improved security for a personal identification number (PIN) in a personal identification and verification system of the type wherein a time dependent nonpredictable code is generated at a device in the possession of t... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4965568 | Multilevel security apparatus and method with personal key A method and apparatus for electronic financial transaction processing systems used by customers of certain credit or electronic banking card-issuing institutions. The present invention involves two levels of secure interaction between the customer and th... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4774513 | Process for controlling the use of documents and documents and means for implementing this process A process controlling the use of a document reserved to the titleholder along or to the authorized bearer, and is characterized by consisting prior to the activation of the document in integrating into a predetermined zone of the document a predetermined ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4758718 | High security IC card with an updatable password A high security and rewritable IC card has a microprocessor, a memory, and a keyboard. The memory has a password registration area, an error counter area in which the number of occurrences of an error in inputting a password is stored, and a card informat... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4672377 | Check authorization system A check authorization and verification system for use by stores handling personal checks. A data base containing credit reference on all customers made accessible to the store and is accessed whenever the customer presents a card having a unique identifyi... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4635054 | Operator interactive device verification system A verification system is disclosed in conjunction with a card having a uniqueness characteristic for avoiding counterfeits. A magnetic stripe on the card records encoded combination data based on the uniqueness characteristic and personal identification d... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4501957 | Verifier for a personal indentification system A verifier for use in a personal identification system of the type in which a generator receives at least a personal account number (PAN) and a secret personal identification number (PIN) and based thereon produces digits Ai 's which are presen... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4394654 | Identification device A novel identification device permits its holder to prove his authority as holder thereof so as to largely prevent its abusive use. The said identification device consists of a handy small housing (1) comprising permanent storage means (10) with an alphan... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4333090 | Secure keyboard input terminal A secure keyboard input terminal is disclosed in which a secret user identification code number or other confidential data sequence formed from a set of alpha-numeric characters (for example, the ten numerical digits 0 through 9) may be input secretly by ... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4218738 | Method for authenticating the identity of a user of an information system Secure hardware is provided for cryptographically generating a verification pattern which is a function of a potential computer user's identity number, the potential computer user's separately entered password, and a stored test pattern. The test pattern ... | 08/19/1980 |
| 3938091 | Personal verification system A customer code word issuing machine is provided wherein a customer manually inputs to the machine his secret password. The machine encodes the password and displays his corresponding issued code word. A verification machine is provided which includes a d... | 02/10/1976 |
