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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7243238 | Person authentication system, person authentication method, information processing apparatus, and program providing medium Disclosed are a person authentication system, a person authentication method, and an information processing apparatus which allow person authentication to be performed in an easy fashion in various devices by comparing a template serving as person identification dat... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243369 | Uniform resource locator access management and control system and method In an enterprise server environment having a uniform resource locator (URL) access management and control system. The server includes a user authentication logic to authenticate users attempting to connect to the server to access URL file and directories residing in... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240213 | System trustworthiness tool and methodology A tool and methodology are described that can evaluate the trustworthiness of a system. In one embodiment, the system is classified in terms of the resources that constitute the system, the codes that apply to the system, the services produced by the system, the ris... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240196 | Method and system for protecting ownership rights of digital content files A system and method for providing protection of ownership rights of digital content files while also providing distribution of the content files to consumers that are authorized to receive the digital content files. A system and method for preventing or deterring th... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240194 | Systems and methods for distributing trusted certification authorities Systems and methods are described for distributing and updating trusted certification authorities to computer systems and users. When a digital certificate is encountered during a secured electronic transaction, the root authority of the certificate is determined. I... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240195 | Certified shuffle-decrypting system, certified shuffle-decrypting method and certified shuffle-decryption verifying method The present invention provides a certified shuffle-decrypting system, which does not require shuffled encrypted texts to be output, and in which the amounts of calculation and certificates are minimized to allow efficient processing, and the certified shuffle-decryp... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240095 | Electronic mail notification A system and method for notifying a subscriber of new email messages located at a post office. The system includes a proxy email client in communication with a post office via an external network, the proxy email client utilizing information from a file containing t... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240034 | Method for secure electronic transaction and corresponding system The transaction is made between an object and a terminal. According to the invention, an authentication value is inserted in the object which is a digital signature appearing on an identifier of the object. Each object also has a diversified key created from a base ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240060 | Serverless distributed file system A serverless distributed file system manages the storage of files and directories using one or more directory groups. The directories may be managed using Byzantine-fault-tolerant groups, whereas files are managed without using Byzantine-fault-tolerant groups. Addit... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240118 | Network system, network device, access restriction method for network device, storage medium, and program When access is attempted by a device equipped with Web client capabilities, a device connected to a network and equipped with Web server capabilities judges whether to restrict the access. If it is judged that the access should be restricted, information about the r... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237257 | Leveraging a persistent connection to access a secured service Leveraging a persistent connection to provide a client access to a secured service may include establishing a persistent connection with a client in response to a first request from the client, and brokering a connection between the client and a secured service base... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236957 | Method for remotely authorizing a payment transaction file over an open network A method for obtaining an approval of an electronic fund transfer (EFT) disbursement file from a user of a remote system and transferring the EFT disbursement file to a payments processor. The method comprises generating a digest, by performing a hash of the EFT dis... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7234157 | Remote authentication caching on a trusted client or gateway system In a system providing for user access of secure resources upon user authentication by a remote authentication server, a successful user authentication is saved locally for use when the authentication server is not available. The successful user authentication return... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233974 | Method and apparatus for automatically using a predefined peer-to-peer group as a context for an application One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates automatically using a predefined networking group, such as a peer-to-peer group as a context for an application. The system starts by executing the application on behalf of a peer. During exe... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231047 | Private retrieval of digital objects A database (104) maintains one or more groups (106) of digital objects (202). A user (102) wishes to retrieve one or more digital objects (202) from the database (104), without the database (104) being able to determi... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231371 | Method and system for ordering and delivering digital certificates Method and system for ordering a digital certificate by a user and for delivering the certificate to a certificate support device of the user. A placed order, in which personal data have been received from the user and the user has been authenticated by a registrati... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231659 | Entity authentication in a shared hosting computer network environment Apparati, methods, and computer readable media for authenticating an entity (9) in a shared hosting computer network (4) environment. A service provider computer (2) contains a plurality of entity sites (5). Connected to the service provi... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231516 | Networked digital video recording system with copy protection and random access playback In a multimedia recording and playback network for receiving from a content server a service package of multimedia content, the network including a media server in communication with the content server, a method of securely transmitting a master encryption key from ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7227950 | Distributed quantum encrypted pattern generation and scoring Transaction scoring is performed in a distributed manner across a client-server computing system. A computing system for processing a transaction includes a server system and a client system. The server system is arranged to process information associated with the t... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7228420 | Method and system for technician authentication of a vehicle The service technician accesses the prospective vehicle and obtains from a certification authority a certification that an authentic vehicle is associated with a cryptographic key. The service technician utilizes the cryptographic key in cryptographic communication ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7225465 | Method and system for remote management of personal security devices A method and system for installing, activating and customizing proprietary information contained within the secure domain of a personal security device such as a smart card over a network using a communications pipe. ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225448 | System and method for hibernating application state data on removable module A method and system for hibernating the state of executing applications on a removable module and resuming the applications at later time using the saved applications' state. After inserting the removable module into a computer system, the applications' state inform... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225464 | Method for verifying the identity of a user for session authentication purposes during Web navigation A network-based software application for enabling remote authentication of a user during a network session has a server portion for serving session validation information and additional user information when queried, a client portion for configuring and submitting p... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225344 | System and method for managing and authenticating services via service principal names A methododology is provided for facilitating authentication of a service. The methodology includes making a request to a first party for authentication of a service, the request including a first alias. A list of aliases associated with the service is then searched ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225337 | Cryptographic security method and electronic devices suitable therefor A portable electronic security module including an electronic data storage device, a secret private customer key and a public customer key stored in the electronic data storage device as a first digital key pair, a signature module configured to generate a digital c... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225159 | Method for authenticating and securing integrated bookstore entries A method and system for providing an electronic shopping service integrated into a software application, and for controlling the set of web sites that are reachable from within the shopping service. Each web site is represented by data which is signed by a private k... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225330 | Security mechanism for computer processing modules To provide improved security in adjunct program modules such as plug-ins and dynamic link libraries, a requesting module provides an authorization interface to the invoked module such that the invoked module can require a certificate of the requesting module and can... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224310 | Method and device for the recognition of the origin of encrypted data broadcasting The object of the present invention is intended to solve the problem of the broadcasting of conditional access data where certain parts must be accessible either for technical reasons or for commercial reasons. This object is reached by a method for processin... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225164 | Method and apparatus for implementing revocation in broadcast networks A method of revoking a descrambling privilege for copy controlled content to a host device is provided. The method includes receiving copy controlled content at a conditional access module. A revocation list is also received at the module. The method includes determ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225331 | System and method for securing data on private networks A system and method for protecting data transmitted across a private network is disclosed. A secure channel is established so that the client computer can securely transmit a password to the server computer. Once the password has been transmitted, future transmissio... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224978 | Location blocking service from a wireless service provider Location-blocking and identity-blocking services that can be commercially offered by a service promoter, e.g., a cellular service provider or a web advertiser. In the identity-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the current physical location of a mob... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224805 | Consumption of content A method and apparatus for consumption of content (1) is described in which a licensor is able to exercise control over consumption based on a personal identity in the form of a set of binding attributes (15). The control may be exercised for a number ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222119 | Namespace locking scheme A system may perform a first operation within a file system in which directories and files are organized as nodes in a namespace tree. The system may associate a read-write lock with each of the nodes in the namespace tree. The system may acquire a first lock on a n... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222234 | Method for key agreement for a cryptographic secure point—to—multipoint connection A method for key agreement for a cryptographically secured point-to-multipoint connection between a server and a plurality of clients includes altering, as a function of an identifier included in a first server message, a sequence of messages in a handshake initiati... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222363 | Device independent authentication system and method A system is disclosed which facilitates authentication processes with web-enabled wireless devices, including those that do not support the use of cookie files. To facilitate such authentication, a web server analyzes an HTTP request file from a communication device... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222299 | Detecting quoted text A method and apparatus for detecting quoted text within a document, such as an email message or email thread, is described. A text comparison is performed to identify a block of quoted text within the document. The boundaries of the block of quoted text are identifi... | 05/22/2007 |
