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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181023 | Information processing device and information processing system An information processing device is provided with a tamper-proof IC chip that includes a storage area and that can process data from the storage area, and with a storage module that includes a storage area external to the IC chip. First key data stored in the IC chi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8166298 | Downloadable conditional access system and method of session control for secured 2-way communication between authentication server and host device in downloadable conditional access system Disclosed is a downloadable conditional access system (DCAS) including a key request unit to transmit a key request message to an authentication server, an authentication request unit to request authentication from the authentication server based on a key response m... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161283 | Method and device for establishing a secure route in a wireless network A method for establishing a secure route in a wireless network as provided improves network efficiency. According to one aspect, the method includes receiving at a first node in the wireless network a route request message from a second node, where the second node a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156337 | Systems and methods for authenticating communications in a network medium Pre-authentication information of devices is used to securely authenticate arbitrary peer-to-peer ad-hoc interactions. In one embodiment, public key cryptography is used in the main wireless link with location-limited channels being initially used to pre-authenticat... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8122251 | Method and apparatus for preventing phishing attacks The invention includes a method and apparatus for preventing phishing attacks. A first method, for informing a user that a remote server is valid, includes receiving a request for information available from the remote server where the request includes an identifier,... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117448 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program An information processing apparatus includes a storage section that stores, for a management entity for which a memory area is to be formed, an authentication key and an encryption key. The information processing apparatus also includes a communication section that ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117449 | Method to detect man-in-the-middle (MITM) or relay attacks A method for detecting a communication relay attack involves the steps of counting a number of clock cycles occurring in a clock signal between transmission of two predetermined elements of data with a data transmission device, counting a number of clock cycles occu... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112627 | System for self-service recharging and method for the same The present invention discloses a method for self-service recharging and a system for the same, relating to the security communications of online banking. The system comprises a client and a server. The method mainly comprises the steps of: 1) establishing a data se... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112628 | Using a portable computing device as a smart key device A first data processing system, which includes a first cryptographic device, is communicatively coupled with a second data processing system, which includes a second cryptographic device. The cryptographic devices then mutually authenticate themselves. The first cry... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8099597 | Service authorization for distributed authentication and authorization servers A communications component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising acquiring an authentication identifier (Auth ID), and constructing a network service identifier (NSI) comprising the Auth ID and an authentication, authorization, and accou... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090947 | Key agreement and transport protocol with implicit signatures A key establishment protocol between a pair of correspondents includes the generation by each correspondent of respective signatures. The signatures are derived from information that is private to the correspondent and information that is public. After exchange of s... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078873 | Two-way authentication between two communication endpoints using a one-way out-of-band (OOB) channel Techniques for two-way authentication between two communication endpoints (e.g., two devices) using a one-way out-of-band (OOB) channel are presented. Here, in embodiments, both communication endpoints may be securely authenticated as long as the one-way OOB channel... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074072 | Challenge response-based device authentication system and method A challenge response scheme authenticates a requesting device by an authenticating device. The authenticating device generates and issues a challenge to the requesting device. The requesting device combines the challenge with a hash of a password provided by a user,... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069351 | Remote control device Methods, systems, devices, and memory are disclosed for remote controlling consumer electronics devices. Different orientations of a remote control device are detected. A signal is provided to a processor, and the signal indicates an orientation. The processor chang... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8051286 | Vehicle antitheft system A vehicle antitheft system includes an immobilizer unit and a portable unit. Each of the units includes an antenna, a communication part, a data processor, and storages. The immobilizer unit and the portable unit authenticate each other, based on a highly encrypted ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041951 | Code-based communication connection management In some embodiments, an electronic apparatus comprises a communication interface, an input/output interface, a processor, and logic to collect, in the electronic apparatus, a first identifier associated with a first communication device and second identifier associa... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032748 | System for allocating a chip card to a network operator A chip card needs to be allocated in a secured manner to a network operator via a personalization center in order to determine a final authentication key which is attributed to a subscriber of the operator without its being transmitted via a network. The following i... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024570 | Method and system for communication via a computer network A method and apparatus for communication via a computer network (102) including registering a plurality of users (206, 222, 224) with a trusted body (110, 210). The trusted body (110, 210) verifies the identity of each user (206, 222, ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019996 | Method for encrypted communication with a computer system and system therefor To solve problems in that a load on a VPN device is large in a case where the number of terminal devices increases in encrypted communication using a VPN technique, and that only communication between the terminal device and the VPN device is encrypted, thus disabli... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015408 | Trust evaluation for a mobile software agent on a trusted computing platform A method and system for performing trust evaluation for a mobile software agent on a trusted computing platform are disclosed. A sending entity, which includes a mobile software agent, verifies if a receiving entity is trustworthy before transferring the mobile soft... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015407 | Pre-control of a program in an additional chip card of a terminal Prior to the execution of a program contained in a second chip card inserted in a terminal such as a mobile radio telephone terminal, in addition to a first chip card containing data and connected to a telecommunication network to which the terminal is linked, one o... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8001381 | Method and system for mutual authentication of nodes in a wireless communication network A method as provided enables mutual authentication of nodes in a wireless communication network. The method includes processing at a first node a beacon message received from a second node, wherein the beacon message comprises a first nonce value (step 405). ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7987364 | Method of detecting and authenticating connection target for wireless communication apparatus This invention is directed to simplify operation to be performed by an operator and allow authentication processing between two apparatuses while each apparatus uses a single wireless communication unit. For this purpose, when an authentication start instruction but... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979705 | Conditional suppression of card holder verification The present invention relates to a method and system for comfortably operating chipcard applications in a chipcard application system. It is proposed to define at least one trusted terminal device (12) in a trusted environment for a Chipcard (10) in us... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975139 | Use and generation of a session key in a secure socket layer connection The invention describes a method and system for verifying the link between a public key and a server's identity as claimed in the server's certificate without relying on the trustworthiness of the root certificate of the server's certificate chain. The system establ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7949873 | Secure instant messaging Secure instant messaging is described. In an embodiment, a messaging device encrypts a challenge identifier to generate an encrypted challenge message, and communicates the encrypted challenge message via a peer-to-peer communication link to a recipient messaging de... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945777 | Identification information protection method in WLAN inter-working By introducing a hierarchical encryption scheme and the use of asymmetric cryptography, the critical information in message exchanges is concealed from unauthorized entities. This helps greatly in preventing man-in-the-middle attacks faced by inter-working. In addit... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941663 | Authentication of 6LoWPAN nodes using EAP-GPSK A system is provided that includes at least one processor and instructions that when executed by the processor promote exchanging extensible authentication protocol (EAP) messages for authentication by sending a plurality of data packets formatted in accordance with... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934095 | Method for exchanging messages and verifying the authenticity of the messages in an ad hoc network A method for exchanging messages containing reliable information between nodes in an ad hoc network, such as a vehicle ad hoc network. The method includes the steps of providing a public key for a PKI encrypted certificate authority signature to all nodes known to t... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930542 | MashSSL: a novel multi party authentication and key exchange mechanism based on SSL The present invention provides a method that allows three parties to mutually authenticate each other and share an encrypted channel. The invention is based on a novel twist to the widely used two party transport level SSL protocol. One party, typically a user at a ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917755 | Identification of localized web page element Some embodiments may provide a method comprising accessing a first electronic content, the first electronic content including a first actuatable element specification associated with first executable instructions, accessing a second electronic content, the second el... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913085 | System and method of per-packet keying A method of per-packet keying for encrypting and decrypting data transferred between two or more parties, each party having knowledge of a shared key that allows a per-packet key to differ for each packet is provided. Avoiding the use of a static session key during ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7900046 | System and method for establishing mutual trust on a per-deployment basis between two software modules A system, method, and computer program product for establishing mutual trust on a per-deployment basis between two software modules. For example, the first software module may be a Websphere (WS) Information Integrator (II) deployment instance, and the second softwa... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895436 | Authentication system and remotely-distributed storage system An authentication system for mutual authentication between a terminal and a server characterized by the fact that the terminal comprises a memory means that pre-stores an authentication information P′ for terminal storage; a concatenation means that yields a value... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7873830 | Methods for coordinating access to memory from at least two cryptography secure processing units Electronic circuit chips which include cryptography functions are arranged in multichip configurations through the utilization of a shared external memory. Security of the chips is preserved via a handshaking protocol which permits each chip to access limited portio... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865729 | Bidirectional authentication for HTML form processing A method of posting HTML form data securely is provided. Some embodiments may use an existing security protocol to send the sensitive information as an encrypted challenge from a client to a server, while other embodiments may require a bidirectionally-authenticated... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7849314 | Method and system for secure authentication in a wireless network A method and a system for secure authentication in a wireless network are provided. The method comprises the following steps. First, a network device and a client device of a wireless network authenticate each other with EAP-TLS. Wherein, the network device mentione... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840806 | System and method of non-centralized zero knowledge authentication for a computer network Zero-knowledge authentication proves identity without revealing information about a secret that is used to prove that identity. An authentication agent performs authentication of a prover agent without knowledge or transfer of the secret. A non-centralized zero-know... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836306 | Establishing secure mutual trust using an insecure password A process for establishing secure mutual trust includes generating a one-time-password. The one-time-password is transferred between the devices in a communication occurring off of the network. Each device generates a set of authenticators by hashing a plurality of ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836307 | Communication relay device, information processing system, control method and program A relay adapter, a method for processing communication data through use of a relay adapter, and a process for leasing the relay adapter to a user by a service provider. The relay adapter includes: an authentication information storage section that stores authenticat... | 11/16/2010 |
