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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7233669 | Selective encryption to enable multiple decryption keys A selective encryption method and apparatus consistent with the invention duplicates selected packets in a file or data stream and multiple encrypts the packets using multiple encryption keys. Each encryption key is valid for a specific segment of time so that chang... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233668 | System and method for a commercial multimedia rental and distribution system A system and method for securing intellectual property rights in distributed intellectual property. The present invention grants and polices rights in electronically distributed intellectual property. Use limitations are established by agreement by the content provi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231427 | E-mail protocol using assumed send and reply address and smart E-mail archiving by addressee and addressor In an E-mail protocol between a sender and a receiver, an intermediate server subscribed to by either the sender or receiver assures masking of the primary E-mail address of a subscriber in E-mail messages between sender and receiver. The protocol also archives all ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231589 | Access usage data storing and transmitting program and storage medium An external storage medium storing a computer readable access control program and a plurality of files. The access control program performs a first accessing process permitting a computer to access only the access control program when the computer attempts to access... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231046 | Method for controlling connections to a mobile station The present invention is a novel and improved method for managing in a single location the ciphering keys and algorithms used for encrypting or ciphering the communications of a specific mobile station with multiple core networks or core network entities. Further an... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231519 | Secure inter-node communication Secure inter-node communication is disclosed. The hardware of the first node sends a key, identification of the first node, and identification of a second node to hardware of the second node. The hardware of the second node receives the key and the identifications. ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228567 | License file serial number tracking A system for monitoring licensing eligibility of a computational component, the computational component being associated with a unique identifier, is provided. The system comprises (i) an input and/or interface 120 operable to receive a request to authorize o... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228416 | Database access method and system capable of concealing the contents of query A data relay server connected between a client computer and a database server produces a query message obtained by encrypting a retrieval condition designated by the client computer, and transmits the query message to the database server. The database server encrypt... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228417 | Simple secure login with multiple-authentication providers A secure distributed single-login authentication system comprises a client and a server. The client collects a user name and password from a user and tests that user name and password at a variety of potential authentication servers to check where the login is valid... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228375 | System and method for efficient input/output of a computer system A system and method allows input/output to and from a computer system via the memory bus of a computer system. Input is accepted directly into shared memory or other memory and assigned to a processor or other entity. A processor or other entity may retrieve the inp... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228421 | Technique for generating control messages with reason information between nodes in a data network A technique is disclosed for generating control messages to be transmitted from a first network device to a second network device in a data network. A first control message to be generated at the first network device is determined. Reason information relating to at ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228427 | Method and system to securely distribute content via a network A method and system to distribute content via a network commences when content is received at a content distributor from a content provider. At the content distributor, an operation relating to the content is performed. The content provider provides authorization to... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224366 | Method and system for control system software The present invention discloses a method for building and displaying control and non-interactive, non-control information on a touch panel. The method can include constructing a page for display on the touch panel, configuring one or more graphical display units and... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225263 | Method and apparatus for retrieving access control information A method is disclosed for creating and storing troubleshooting information for providing access control information to a network device. A provisioning of one or more access control lists, and one or more associations of the access control lists to users of the netw... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222150 | Network server card and method for handling requests received via a network interface A distributed multiprocessor server system and a set of steps performed by the server system are disclosed that facilitate efficient handling of a potentially large workload arising from request messages received from users via a communicatively coupled network link... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222238 | Method and system for real-time registration of transactions with a security module In a method for real-time registration having high protection against tampering by means of a security module, an encrypted initial security value for translog file analyzers is made available an unencrypted real-time message is secured by appending an authenticatio... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219226 | Method and apparatus for encrypting data A method for encrypting data comprising deriving a public key using a first data set that defines an instruction; encrypting a second data set with the public key; providing the encrypted third data set to a recipient; providing the public key to a third party such ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219223 | Method and apparatus for providing data from a service to a client based on encryption capabilities of the client A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing data from a service to a client based on the encryption capabilities of the client. Cipher suite lists are exchanged between a client and an endpoint. On the endpoint, the cipher suite list incorporates a mapping of... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218738 | Encryption and content control in a digital broadcast system A selective encryption encoder has a packet identifier that identifies packets of a specified packet type forming a part of a program. A packet duplicator duplicates the identified packets to produce first and second sets of the identified packets. A PMT (program ma... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216107 | Mobile terminal control method and mobile terminal A control section limits the number of times of reproduction of content that is reproduced on a display unit. Thereby, a decrease in value of downloaded content is prevented, and a predetermined condition is provided when the number of times of reproduction of the c... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216363 | Licensing duplicated systems The present invention is directed to a system, comprising: (i) first and second computational components 102a and b having, respectively, first and second unique identifiers; (ii) a license file 112 comprising third and fourth identifiers... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216224 | Method and system for user registration using processing sensor A method and system for enabling registration of a user to use a computer system. The method includes providing a printed registration form containing information relating to user registration, the form including coded data indicative of an identity of the form and ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216142 | Network application program interface facilitating communication in a distributed network environment A request broker receives a request from a client, including a description of a method and parameters to be used in executing the method. The parameters have one of multiple acceptable native formats. The request broker determines the native format and communicates ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216231 | Method and system for establishing a wireless communication link A method of establishing a secure communications link between a user communications device and a first service communications device; the method comprises the steps of initiating a communications link using a first communications protocol between the user communicat... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213061 | Internet control system and method A control system of the present invention includes at least one device, a network interconnecting the at least one device, a control network portal coupled between the network and the Internet, and a master controller coupled to the network and operable to control t... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212636 | Encryption of a compressed video stream A method for encrypting a compressed video stream comprising independent data blocks and differential data blocks includes the steps of encrypting the independent data blocks with a different level of encryption than that used for the differential data blocks. In on... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7213144 | Efficient security association establishment negotiation technique A Security Association establishment negotiation technique includes forwarding identifying information from a Mobile Node via a first interface to a first network element. Negotiations are then initiated between the first network element and a second network element... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209563 | Process for creating and managing at least one cryptographic key, and system for its implementation A process for creating and managing pairs of asymmetrical cryptographic keys and/or certificates associated with the pairs of keys, each pair of keys and associated certificates being intended for an object managed by a computer system. The process includes creating... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7210036 | Method and system for delivering secure e-mail A method for increasing the privacy of an e-mail message, comprises the steps of: a) providing a central Server (PS) which stores concordance tables between decryption key data and the different identification given to them by different users; b) at the Sender's ter... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209989 | Transfer acknowledgement mechanism for an MSL architecture Method and apparatus relating to an acknowledgement mechanism in an interconnected subsystem architecture. After a data message is transmitted, the transmitting device may transmit an acknowledge message on a channel undefined by the inter-subsystem communication pr... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203775 | System and method for avoiding deadlock A system and method avoids deadlock, such as circular routing deadlock, in a computer system by providing a virtual buffer at main memory. The computer system has an interconnection network that couples a plurality of processors having access to main memory. The int... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203311 | Super encrypted storage and retrieval of media programs in a hard-paired receiver and storage device A method and apparatus for storing and retrieving program material for subsequent replay is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a tuner, for receiving a data stream comprising encrypted access control information and the program material encrypted according to a firs... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203932 | Method and system for using idiom recognition during a software translation process A method for using idiom recognition during a software translation process. The method includes accessing non-native instructions of a non-native application, determining whether an instruction pattern of the non-native instructions is recognized from a previous exe... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200861 | Method and system for validating physical access to an information handling system An information handling system security system validates authorization to selected information by establishing physical access of a user to the information handling system through activation by the user of a power switch of the information handling system. Upon dete... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200232 | Method and apparatus for symmetric-key decryption A symmetric-key cryptographic technique capable of realizing both high-speed cryptographic processing having a high degree of parallelism, and alteration detection. The invention includes dividing plaintext composed of redundancy data and a message to generate plain... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200655 | System and method for distributed management of shared computers A multi-tiered server management architecture is employed including an application development tier, an application operations tier, and a cluster operations tier. In the application development tier, applications are developed for execution on one or more server co... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197143 | Digital video authenticator The Digital Video Authenticator (DVA) addresses law enforcement concerns for a means to authenticate digital video (DV) so that it will be admissible and trusted as evidence in court. The DVA is a peripheral device attached to a commercial digital video recording de... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196807 | Encrypted e-mail message retrieval system An electronic message retrieval system in which the electronic message, and any corresponding attachments, can be encrypted by the sender of the message and routed to the intended recipient, even if the intended recipient is in a mobile location or it is otherwise i... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194742 | Information management system and information management method for network User-related data including personal information of a user are stored in a user management computer, which is included in an information management system for a network. An ID and a password exclusively used for opening the user's exclusive page, My Page, provided v... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194090 | Encryption apparatus, decryption apparatus, expanded key generating apparatus and method therefor, and recording medium Expanded key schedule circuit for common key encryption system in which expanded keys are used in a predetermined order in data randomizing process for encryption and in a reversed order in data randomizing process for decryption, comprises round processing circuits... | 03/20/2007 |
