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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7298851 | Electronic book security and copyright protection system The invention, electronic book security and copyright protection system, provides for secure distribution of electronic text and graphics to subscribers and secure storage. The method may be executed at a content provider's site, at an operations center, over a vide... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298849 | Method and apparatus for simultaneous encryption and decryption of publicly distributed media The present invention provides secure communication from one encryption domain to another using a trusted module. In one embodiment, the invention includes generating a cipher stream based on a first key for encrypted streamed content, and generating a second cipher... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299351 | Peer-to-peer name resolution protocol (PNRP) security infrastructure and method A method for use in a peer-to-peer communication system to ensure valid connections are made in a secure manner includes the steps of receiving an address record for a peer node which includes an ID certificate. The ID certificate is validated and checked to verify ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299352 | Controlled-content recoverable blinded certificates In a cryptographic system, a certificate is used to provide information regarding a client device. The certificate is blindly signed by a certifying authority to preserve the anonymity of the client device. However, information is encoded into the signature so that ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299493 | Techniques for dynamically establishing and managing authentication and trust relationships Techniques are provided for dynamically establishing and managing authentication and trust relationships. An identity service acquires and evaluates contracts associated with relationships between principals. The contracts permit the identity service to assemble aut... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299492 | Multi-level multi-user web services security system and method A security system and method for granting multi-level access to data items in a distributed network. An architecture is provided, comprising: an authentication server that provides access to a web portal using a web services based communication framework; a system f... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296155 | Process and system providing internet protocol security without secure domain resolution A system and method providing Internet protocol security without secure domain name resolution are disclosed. A processor that periodically needs to resolve domain names into network addresses has a local DNS server that includes a secure IPSEC cache, a resolver fun... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296154 | Secure media path methods, systems, and architectures Methods, systems and architectures for processing renderable digital content are described. The various embodiments can protect against unauthorized access or duplication of unprotected content (i.e. decrypted content) once the content has reached a rendering device... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296003 | Method and apparatus for facilitating manual payments for transactions conducted over a network A system enables tender of payment manually (e.g., cash, check, etc.) for transactions conducted over a network (e.g., the Internet). The system includes one or more computer systems each located at a corresponding agent site, one or more merchant systems and a serv... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293284 | Codeword-enhanced peer-to-peer authentication Peer-to-peer authentication may be accomplished by sending a digital certificate to a responder, receiving a randomized codeword in response to the sending, creating a secure fingerprint based at least in part on the digital certificate and randomized codeword, crea... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290138 | Credentials and digitally signed objects Object management is facilitated by signing objects with credentials and through noting and/or using an association between the signed objects and the signing credentials. In an exemplary method implementation, actions include: signing an object with a credential to... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7290278 | Identity based service system An identity based service system is provided, in which an identity is created and managed for a user or principal, such that at least a portion of the identity is available to use between one or more system entities. A discovery service enables a system entity to di... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289632 | System and method for distributed security A security architecture in which a security module is integrated in a client machine, wherein the client machine includes a local host that is untrusted. The security module performs encryption and decryption algorithms, authentication, and public key processing. Th... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7290133 | Method and apparatus improving efficiency of end-user certificate validation An apparatus and method collects, for a community of interest, at least one cross certificate associated with an anchor certificate issuing unit, and obtains at least one certificate issuing unit public key and an associated unique identifier for a cross-certified c... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286671 | Secure network access method The present invention provides network-layer authentication protocols for authenticating mobile client and access router to each other. The present invention uses Router Discovery as a carrier to implement the authentication protocols. In an embodiment of the presen... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287282 | Copyright protection system, transmitter, receiver, bridge device, copyright protective method, medium, and program In the case that a bridge unit is connected to a network such as an IEEE 1394 bus, copyright holders want to limit the number of apparatuses that can receive a signal. The invention provides at least one reception unit, or more, that is utilized for receiving... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287167 | Record medium, recording apparatus for record medium, recording method for record medium, reproducing apparatus for record medium, reproducing medium for record medium, and data output controlling method A recording method for a record medium is disclosed, that comprises the steps of adding right information containing at least copyright management information to at least one of a plurality of pieces of input data, and performing a signal process for the plurality o... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286848 | Method and apparatus to provide tiered wireless network access A tiered wireless access point has a number of different network access levels that may be provided to wireless devices seeking network access. The network access levels may differ from one another in factors such as the particular networks that may be accessed, the... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287053 | Ad hoc data sharing in virtual team rooms A method of ad hoc data sharing for virtual teams rooms, including creating at least one user record representing a user granted access to digital assets, wherein each user has a client device, at least two of the client devices are wirelessly coupled for data commu... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287158 | Person authentication system, person authentication method, information processing apparatus, and program providing medium A person authentication system capable of performing personal authentication by comparing templates that is personal identification data with sampling information input by a user is disclosed. For example, a service provider (SP) or a user device (UD) acquires the t... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286665 | System and method for transferring the right to decode messages Methods for transferring among key holders in encoding and cryptographic systems the right to decode and decrypt messages in a way that does not explicitly reveal decoding and decrypting keys used and the original messages. Such methods are more secure and more effi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284122 | Cryptographic method for protection against fraud A cryptographic method of protection against fraud in transactions between an application and an electronic chip of a user. Both the electronic chip and the application compute a certificate (Sp, S) which is the result of applying a non-linear function f to a list o... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284265 | System and method for incremental refresh of a compiled access control table in a content management system System and method for authorizing access to an entity by a user, by binding an access control list to each entity; specifying for the user a set of user privileges; intersecting the access control list and set of user privileges in a compiled ACL table; incrementall... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284266 | System and method for secure biometric identification A system and method for secure biometric identification. The inventive system includes a mobile unit and a server. The mobile unit is adapted to receive biometric input and provide a first signal in response thereto. In the illustrative implementation, the mobile un... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284121 | System and method for transmitting reduced information from a certificate to perform encryption operations A certificate-based encryption mechanism in which a source client does not access the entire certificate corresponding to a destination client when encrypting an electronic message to be sent to the destination client. Instead, the source client only requests a port... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283529 | Method and system for supporting a dedicated label switched path for a virtual private network over a label switched communication network A system and method for transmitting data from a first site to a second site over a shared Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) network comprising a plurality of routers, including an ingress router in communication with the first site and an egress router in commun... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283526 | Method and system for providing a symmetric key for more efficient session identification A method and system for identifying sessions in a computer network is disclosed. The session is between a first computer system and a second computer system. The session consists of an exchange of a plurality of packets between the computer systems. Each of the pack... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283505 | Configuring wireless access points Techniques are provided for the configuration of a home-networking system. Home-networking configuration information may be stored on a host system in a manner accessible to the home-networking system and migrated to a home-networking gateway or router that has not ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281128 | One pass security A system and method for secure network communication. In various embodiments of the present invention, data needed for authentication an encryption is included in each communication pass between network devices, so that when a network connection is broken, a secure ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275689 | Baggage check-in using short message device A check-in method for airlines allows passengers to use Short Message Service (SMS) to check-in themselves and baggage. A passenger requests to check-in via SMS from practically anywhere and not limited to the airport. After receipt of the request, a confirmation me... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7278165 | Method and system for implementing digital rights management In one embodiment, a content license is created that defines parameters for accessing a piece of digital content. A first logical expression in the content license defines a plurality of playback devices that are authorized to access the piece of digital content. A ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7278168 | Dynamic enabling of functionality in electronic document readers Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for digital rights management. An electronic document containing one or more content items is provided along with a set of usage rights. The set of usage rights defines one... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275260 | Enhanced privacy protection in identification in a data communications network A method for enhanced privacy protection in identification in a data communications network includes enrolling for a service on the data communications network, receiving a randomized identifier (ID) in response to the enrolling, storing the randomized ID and using ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275109 | Network communication authentication A communication system, for use with a communications network, includes a client configured to communicate with the server via the network. The client includes an input configured to receive a communication from a server via the network, a data set with identifiable... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275155 | Chain of trust processing A technique for automatically obtaining a second certificate for a user using a first certificate includes accessing a server platform using a user's server and the first certificate of the user to create a connection that authenticates both the user's server identi... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275157 | Facilitating 802.11 roaming by pre-establishing session keys A method and system for pre-authenticating a pre-establishing key management on a roaming device prior to reassociation to facilitate fast hand-off in a wireless network is described. For enhanced mobility, both authentication and key establishment is performed prio... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272723 | USB-compliant personal key with integral input and output devices A compact, self-contained, personal key is disclosed. The personal key comprises a USB-compliant interface releaseably coupleable to a host processing device; a memory; and a processor. The processor provides the host processing device conditional access to data sto... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272550 | System and method for configurable binding of access control lists in a content management system A system and method for authorizing access to a controlled entity by a user. A set of user privileges is provided for user; and a content manager intersects an access control list (ACL) and the set of user privileges to authorize access. Binding level control indici... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272714 | Method, apparatus, and program for automated trust zone partitioning An automated mechanism is provided for generating and distributing appropriate certificates for end entities in a distributed public key infrastructure environment based on trust relationships between the endpoints. Policies between trust zones are specified as an a... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272716 | Enterprise secure messaging architecture An enterprise system with secure wireless messaging includes an application service to process a message. The enterprise system also includes a security service that uses a cryptographic technique to transform between the message and a secure message that is based o... | 09/18/2007 |
