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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7870385 | Method and system for controlling presentation of computer readable media on a media storage device A method of controlling presentation of content on a media storage device is described. The method is comprised of verifying the presence of a media presentation mechanism and a usage compliance mechanism on a computer system operated by a recipient to whom the medi... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7840802 | Controlling access to electronic documents Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for controlling access to an electronic document. A document management system receives a request from a first user at a first user location for an electronic document. The first user is authenticated using... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836301 | Computer program for securely viewing a file A method for distributing a password protected content file without revealing the password to a recipient. An unlocking program that has access to at least one password corresponding to the password protecting the content file is distributed to the recipient's compu... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836302 | Device verification system and method There is provided a method and system for verifying a device, having components. Identification numbers of the components are read and then verified. The process of verifying comprises matching each identification number in a database to determine whether each ident... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7818567 | Method for protecting security accounts manager (SAM) files within windows operating systems A method for protecting Security Accounts Manager (SAM) files within a Windows® operating system is disclosed. A SAM file encryption key is generated by encrypting a SAM file via a syskey utility provided within the Windows® operating system. The SAM file encrypti... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7814318 | Scalable file system configured to make files permanently unreadable One embodiment of the present invention relates to a system for managing files which facilitates making the files permanently unreadable. During operation, the system maintains file-class keys at a file manager, wherein the file-class keys are associated with differ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7814121 | Method and apparatus for constructing and maintaining a user knowledge profile A method of constructing an entity profile, having private and public portions with different access restrictions, commences with the assignment of a confidence level to content within an electronic document. The electronic document may be associated with a first en... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7814317 | Multiple password documents An apparatus, method, and computer-readable media capable of encrypting and unencrypting secure documents with multiple passwords and/or fallback keys. Embodiments allow documents to unencrypt themselves or be able to be unencrypted with multiple passwords. Methods ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7802096 | Fallback key retrieval An apparatus, method, and computer-readable media capable of encrypting and decrypting secure documents with multiple passwords and/or fallback keys. Embodiments allow documents to decrypt themselves or be able to be decrypted with multiple passwords. Methods embodi... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801917 | Method and apparatus for constructing and maintaining a user knowledge profile A method of constructing an entity profile having private and public portions commences with the assignment of a confidence level to content within an electronic document. The electronic document may be associated with a first entity. The content may be descriptive ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7793099 | Method and system for encryption of file characteristics of .ZIP files The present invention provides a method of integrating existing strong encryption methods into the processing of a .ZIP file to provide a highly secure data container which provides flexibility in the use of symmetric and asymmetric encryption technology. The presen... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7788488 | Computer virus check method in a storage system Upon detection of a virus definition file update, a virus check server mounts a computer's storage area in a storage apparatus via a network to check whether or not a file stored in the storage area is infected with a virus. For the virus check, the virus check serv... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783882 | Recovering remnant encrypted data on a removable storage media Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture recovering remnant encrypted data on a removable storage media. An end of data (EOD) marker is detected on a removable storage media, wherein a first encryption key is associated with data preceding the EOD m... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7783665 | Effective file-sharing among virtual environments A system, method and computer program product for sharing files among users of multiple Virtual Environments (VEs). Each VE user has private objects, such as files or directories, that contain links to selected shareable files or directories in a common memory stora... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7783881 | Gaming device verification system and method using a file allocation structure There is provided a method and system for verifying a device, having components. Identification numbers of the components are read and then verified. The process of verifying comprises matching each identification number in a database to determine whether each ident... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779253 | Encryption systems and methods for identifying and coalescing identical objects encrypted with different keys Cryptographic protocols and methods of employing the same are described. The described protocols advantageously enable two or more identical encryptable objects that are coded for encryption with different keys to be identified as identical without access to either ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7765400 | Aggregation of the knowledge base of antivirus software In accordance with this invention, a system, method, and computer-readable medium that aggregates the knowledge base of a plurality of antivirus software applications are provided. User mode applications, such as antivirus software applications, gain access to file ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761706 | Method for controlling access to protected content A method is disclosed for controlling access by use of an operating system service to content that is to be protected from unauthorised access. The method includes the steps of, for an operating system service which can enable unauthorised access to protected conten... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7752437 | Classification of data in data flows in a data storage infrastructure for a communication network A data storage infrastructure is disclosed for a communication network that produces a plurality of data flows of network data. The data storage infrastructure comprises a plurality of data storage systems and a storage management system. The data storage systems ar... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7734914 | System and method for allowing applications to securely access files A system and method which receives from an application a request to open a file for reading or writing, prompts the user for the file, and then provides a handle or alternate handle to the requesting application, but does not provide the name and path of the file an... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734915 | System and method for remote device registration A system and method for remote device registration, to monitor and meter the injection of keying or other confidential information onto a device, is provided. A producer who utilizes one or more separate manufacturers, operates a remote module that communicates over... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730302 | Secure and modifiable configuration files used for remote sessions Embodiments herein address some of the problems associated with compromised configuration files used in a remote sessions of a virtual computing environment. Accordingly, a subset of settings in a configuration file are secured from malicious or accidental modificat... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7721090 | Event-driven simulation of IP using third party event-driven simulators A method of creating a secure intellectual property (IP) representation of a circuit design for use with a software-based simulator can include translating a hardware description language representation of the circuit design into an encrypted intermediate form and c... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716474 | Anti-piracy software protection system and method A method and system for protecting software products from unauthorized use and distribution is described. The system comprises a client process executed on a client computer coupled to a producer computer over a network. The method comprises the steps of providing t... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711760 | File update availability checking in a hierarchal file store A device includes a computer processor and a file store coupled to the computer processor. The file store includes a hierarchal file system. A plurality of files is located in the hierarchal file system. Each of the plurality of files is associated with digital sign... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7694134 | System and method for encrypting data without regard to application Systems and methods are provided for encrypting data without regard to applications writing the data to, or reading the data from, encrypted data storage devices. An operating system intercept detects information indicating that a file will be encrypted and, in resp... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7685418 | Mechanisms and techniques for protecting intellectual property Methods and apparatus for providing protection of pre-designed electronic components or modules (“intellectual property”) provided on target hardware devices are described herein. According to various embodiments, the component and the target hardware device inc... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7681035 | Digital rights management handler and related methods A system and method of providing universal digital rights management system protection is described. One feature of the invention concerns systems and methods for repackaging and securing data packaged under any file format type, compression technique, or digital ri... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676674 | Method for authenticating electronic documents A secure method for sending register, authenticated electronic documents is disclosed. The sender sends a first set of data, not including the plaintext message, encrypted with the public key of the recipient, and a second set of data, including the plaintext messag... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7673139 | Protecting administrative privileges A technique is disclosed for protecting a computer system. In one embodiment, the technique comprises configuring a first account with a first privilege and configuring a second account with a second privilege, wherein the first account is restricted at a configured... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7650501 | System and methods for construction, fusion, prosecution, and maintenance of minimized operating environments Several methods are provided for applying minimization to computer systems. A unified security profile is created and applied to a computer system. This provides a listing of software packages required to be installed on the computer system. Extraneous files not ass... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647497 | Method and program for user authentication in a network storage system Provided is a storage system for solving the problem in that, when the registration of a nonexistent user is deleted, only a system administrator can access files that the user left, so that a load placed on the administrator increases at the time of an audit. The a... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7631185 | File editing system and shared file editing system with file content secrecy, file version management, and asynchronous editing A file editing system that provides a high file content secrecy, a file version management and an asynchronous editing is disclosed. For a high file content secrecy, the block data of files managed by a file management server device are enciphered in units of blocks... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627756 | Storage system for data encryption Provided is a storage system including: a host interface connected via a network to a host computer; a disk interface connected to a disk drive; a memory module that stores control information of a cache memory for an access to the disk drive and the storage system;... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7620811 | Server device and program management system A server apparatus includes a CPU, a RAM, a cipher processing unit for carrying out encryption and decryption, a communication processing unit for carrying out communication with an information processing terminal, and a data storage unit for storing information tha... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7617392 | System and method for manipulating a computer file and/or program A system for manipulating a computer file and/or program. The system includes a serving device having access to a computer file and/or program which is unencrypted and which can encrypt the unencrypted computer file and/or program to become an encrypted computer fil... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7607010 | System and method for network edge data protection Disclosed are systems and methods which examine information communication streams to identify and/or eliminate malicious code, while allowing the good code to pass unaffected. Embodiments operate to provide spam filtering, e.g., filtering of unsolicited and/or unwan... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7603553 | System and method to make file handles opaque to clients A system and method to make file handles opaque to other network devices is provided. The system and method encrypts a file handle after it is generated and returns the encrypted file handle to a requesting client. The system and method may also generate a hash tabl... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7596695 | Application-based data encryption system and method thereof An application-based data encryption method implemented in an operating system. When receiving system calls for writing data opened by an application, the operating system encrypts the data utilizing an encryption key. When receiving system calls for reading data re... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7596696 | Efficiently managing keys to make data permanently unreadable One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates making the files permanently unreadable. During operation, the system encrypts a file with a key K at a file manager and then stores the encrypted file in non-volatile storage. Next, the syst... | 09/29/2009 |
