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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7836010 | Method and system for assessing relevant properties of work contexts for use by information services An information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user. The system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions, and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7716140 | Methods and systems for controlling access to relationship information in a social network Systems and methods for controlling access to relationship information in a social network are described. One described method comprises receiving a request from an observer for relationship information indicating at least a first relationship between a target in a ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7702633 | Previews providing viewable regions for protected electronic documents A computer system and media for generating previews for protected electronic documents are provided. The computer system provides servers that receive rules corresponding to the protected electronic documents from owners of the protected electronic documents. The ru... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698274 | Selective access and editing in a database Method and system for providing selective access to different portions of a database by different subgroups of database users. Where N users are involved, up to 2N−1 distinguishable access subgroups in a group space can be formed, where no two access su... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7698275 | System and method for providing remediation management In one embodiment, software for remediation management is operable to automatically identify an asset in an enterprise network. One or more vulnerabilities of the identified asset is automatically identified based on comparing the identified asset to content associa... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693837 | Technique for simplifying the management and control of fine-grained access The invention is an improvement to conventional access control systems that use ACLs. The improvement comprises an Access Control Set, which is a data structure of access rules, ACLs, and other ACSs, and an improved object manager program that controls access to dat... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693838 | Method and apparatus for securely accessing data A security manager receives a request for data that is subject to data security management. The security manager operates independently of a host partition and is not directly accessible or detectable by the host partition. The security manager determines whether to... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689562 | Access control system, a rule engine adaptor, a rule-based enforcement platform and a method for performing access control An access control system provides access control to at least one information resource associated with at least one application within a computer network. The system comprises a plurality of context sources being relevant for the at least one application and providin... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685123 | Method and system for controlling access to dynamically specified resources In an RBAC system, a capability is defined as including an operation and an object on which the operation is to be performed. The capability is assigned to a role, which is in turn assigned to a user. Then the user will have the authorization to perform the operatio... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685125 | Proving relationships between data A method for a provider to provide and prove an association between a first data value A and a second data value B, including: computing evidence E of the form E=H(A∥B)k*(p−1)/q modρ, where H is a secure hash functio... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685124 | Systems and methods for performing authorization Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for performing an authorization check for a user. In one implementation, a data processing system is provided that includes means for storing first data descriptive of at least one directed acyclic graph a... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680795 | Shared disk clones Embodiments of the invention generally relate to data processing systems and more particularly to high availability data processing systems. A primary server may share a storage device with one or more clone systems. Each clone generally replicates the state of the ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676471 | Graphical, matrixed method for SAS fabric management In an embodiment of the present invention, in a matrixed method for serial attached SCSI (SAS) fabric management, a user is provided with a graphical dynamic matrix table, which illustrates a plurality of matrixed cells corresponding to a plurality of zone groups in... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676470 | Self discovering adaptive security system and method A system and method for providing security to a data warehousing application. A system is described having: a dimension analysis system that identifies dimensions defined for viewing data in a data warehouse; a security table generation system for automatically gene... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672945 | Mechanism for creating member private data in a global namespace A system and techniques are described for creating member private data in a global namespace. According to one aspect, first data that is associated with a key is stored in a repository shared by multiple members. After the first data has been stored, second data th... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672946 | Information processor, database search system and access rights analysis method thereof An access rights analysis including a query automaton generation unit for generating a query automaton from a path expression in which retrieval conditions for a database. An access control automaton generation unit generates an access control automaton from an acce... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668831 | Assigning unique identification numbers to new user accounts and groups in a computing environment with multiple registries A method, system, and program storage device for creating a new user account or user group with a unique identification number in a computing environment having multiple user registries is provided. In response to receiving a command to create a new user account or ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668830 | Access rights A device and method define an access right to a shared data item. The method includes defining a group of one or more contacts in a contact list, assigning an access right to the group of one or more contacts, and assigning the group of one or more contacts to a sha... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664753 | Standing order database search system and method for internet and intranet application An internet and/or intranet based database search system and method for conducting searches of highly confidential records such as individual patient medical records and to automate the process of securing required approvals to make such records available to a prope... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664751 | Variable user interface based on document access privileges Users may be presented with different viewing interfaces for a document based on a combination of factors relating to display rights possessed for the document and user specific information. In one implementation, the user's location is used to determine portions of... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664752 | Authorization over a distributed and partitioned management system In a management system, a management server authorizes users to access computing devices based on class space and instance space. The management server further determines whether users are authorized to use particular computing devices and/or applications provided b... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660794 | Method and program product for reducing database walk frequency while repetitively accessing a firewall connection and rule database A database operable in a multithreaded environment has a database update code. Each thread accessing the database obtains lock prior to walking the database. Any thread that alters database structure, such as by adding or deleting a record of the database, writes th... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660797 | Scanning data in an access restricted file for malware The present invention is directed toward a system, method, and computer-readable medium that scan a file for malware that maintains a restrictive access attribute that limits access to the file. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method for pe... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660796 | Information processing method and apparatus There is provided an information processing method for setting the exclusive control right of a data item by a specific process in a system in which a plurality of clients connected via a network share data including a plurality of data items. In this method, when a... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660798 | System and method for providing document security, access control and automatic identification of recipients A system and method attempts to access a portable electronic document using different methods depending on whether the user attempting access is in front of, or behind, a firewall. ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660795 | Method and system for implementing and managing an enterprise identity management for distributed security in a computer system A method and system for facilitating the management of user identities includes an ownership component, a registration component, and a servicing component. When a user first desires to access a system using the present invention, the registration component verifies... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657532 | Password management device, password management method, and password management program There is provided a password management device, password management method, and password management program to carry out secure logon. The management device includes: a first password storage region; a second password storage region; a password state information sto... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657530 | System and method for file system content processing A system and method for file system content processing. In one embodiment, the system may include a storage device configured to store data and a file system configured to manage access to the storage device, to store file system content, to perform in-band detectio... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657529 | Method of providing shared objects and node-specific objects in a cluster file system A method of providing shared objects and node-specific objects in a cluster file system is described and provided. The method includes providing to a particular shared object an attribute, whereas the particular shared object can be a container-type shared object. T... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657528 | Method, computer program product and article of manufacture for providing service-to-role assignment to launch application services in role-based computer system In a computer system (100) that launches application services for predetermined roles, a service-to-role assignment is customized in a target table. The user inserts a CD-ROM with master and reference tables, and the system automatically provides the target t... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657531 | Systems and methods for state-less authentication Systems and methods for providing user logon and state-less authentication are described in a distributed processing environment. Upon an attempted access by a user to an online resource, transaction, or record, a logon component asks the user to supply a logon ID a... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653630 | Method and apparatus for facilitating privileged object stores in a database A system that facilitates implementing a privileged schema in a database, wherein the privileged schema is comprised of a set of database objects. Note that in relational database terminology, sometimes object stores are simply referred to as schema. The system star... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7650337 | Managing rich presence collections A method and system for increasing the computational and network efficiency of presence servers having collections of publications is provided. The presence system uses several techniques that enable a presence server to provide rich presence information without req... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647319 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and storage medium This invention has as its object to attain strong security and to implement network solutions with high convenience and simplicity with low cost upon providing Web services. To this end, an information processing apparatus according to this invention has the followi... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7644086 | Computer-implemented authorization systems and methods using associations Computer-implemented systems and methods for determining whether to authorize one or more operations with respect to resource objects. A system and method can include receiving a request that would involve an operation with respect to a resource object. The requeste... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644085 | Directed graph approach for constructing a tree representation of an access control list Techniques are disclosed for generating a representation of an access control list, the representation being utilizable in a network processor or other type of processor to perform packet filtering or other type of access control list based function. A plurality of ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7640244 | Dynamic partition enhanced joining using a value-count index Methods, computer programs, and database systems for performing a database query to join two or more tables on a condition are disclosed. Each table includes one or more join columns. Each of the join columns includes zero or more join-column values. The method incl... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7630984 | Method of determining access control effect by using policies When determining whether or not access by a user should be permitted by using policies, an access control determination device of the present invention expresses the access by the user to the data source with a predetermined path, retrieves an appropriate policy out... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7630985 | Data server, data management method, and data management system A data server which partially constitutes a data management system in cooperation with another data server connected via a network, the data server having: a data management section that stores a data item; a user authentication section that performs user authentica... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627576 | Database system monitoring method without connecting the database system This disclosure relates to methods for monitoring a database system without access to the database system, wherein when data packets between a plurality of operating servers including the database system and a plurality of client application processes are sent and/o... | 12/01/2009 |
