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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185740 | Consumer computer health validation Consumer computers that are not properly configured for safe access to a web service are protected from damage by controlling access to web services based on the health of the client computer. A client health web service receives health information from the client c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8156339 | Method for transmission/reception of contents usage right information in encrypted form, and device thereof A license-data transmitter (in a case of recording, a recording device 100 serves as a license-data transmitter, and in a case of readout, a storage device 200 serves as a license-data transmitter) verifies a certificate C[KPdx] (the license-data recei... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140847 | Digital safe An online file lodging system or digital safe, which comprises plural safes or safe user accounts, is disclosed for securely storing highly confidential files. A user of the system can create an individual safe by using account management tool. The system has a web-... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135954 | Distributed digital signature generation A server, e.g., a client (105, 107, 109), receives a request for a digital signature to be applied to digital information, obtains a representation of the information, determines a designation of key pair(s) to be applied thereto; and transmits a request for ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8103876 | System and method for checking digital certificate status A method for handling digital certificate status requests between a client system and a proxy system is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving at the proxy system digital certificate status request data transmitted from the client system and generating... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8090948 | Image formation system having authentication function Image data is transmitted from a client PC to an image formation apparatus. Upon printing, an external server conducts an authentication process. A certificate indicating that the user has been authenticated is held, with its validity period provided in the image fo... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090949 | Certificate assignment strategies for efficient operation of the PKI-based security architecture in a vehicular network A system and method for assigning certificates and reducing the size of the certificate revocation lists in a PKI based architecture for a vehicle wireless communications system that includes separating a country, or other area, into geographic regions and assigning... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078874 | Method and apparatus for transmitting data using authentication A method and apparatus of transmitting data using authentication between a first device and a second device are provided. The method includes transmitting an encrypted certificate of the first device using a shared key shared by the first device and the second devic... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8060746 | E-mail transfer method and device In a method and a device for transferring an e-mail by a public key cryptography between an e-mail transmission device and an e-mail reception device, a trigger message to which user authentication data and a public key are added is received from a transmitting side... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8051289 | Electronic document management and delivery In one embodiment, system to manage and delivery electronic documents is disclosed. ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8037308 | Electronic certificate issuance system, electronic certificate issuing device, communication device, and program therefor An electronic certificate issuance system comprising at least one communication device, and an electronic certificate issuing device for issuing a set of an electronic certificate and a private key corresponding to the electronic certificate as a certification set f... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032753 | Server and system for transmitting certificate stored in fixed terminal to mobile terminal and method using the same Provided is a certificate transmission server transmitting a certificate stored in a fixed terminal to a mobile terminal, a system including the same, and a method using the same. The method includes forming a security channel to the mobile terminal and performing a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028167 | Method and apparatus for certificate roll-over A method and an electronic apparatus for rolling over from a first to second trusted certificate in the electronic apparatus. Information containing identification data for identifying the second trusted certificate is acquired in the electronic apparatus. Also, the... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019999 | Wireless receiver device revocation management A method of carrying out wireless video communication involves at a wireless receiver (WR) device, providing a digital certificate, the digital certificate containing a High-Bandwidth Digital Copy Protection (HDCP) Key Source Vector (KSV), a device identifier for th... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7996677 | Digitally certified stationery Systems and methods for digitally certified stationery are described. In one aspect, a stationery granting authority (SGA) receives a request from a user to generate a document. If the user is authorized for the requested document, the SGA generates a certificate wi... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7992002 | Data depository and associated methodology providing secure access pursuant to compliance standard conformity A secure data depository assembly, and an associated method, provides for storage of data at a secured location forming a vault. Data associated with any of various compliance standards, such as the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and the... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987368 | Peer-to-peer networks with protections In a peer-to-peer environment, copyrights and users' privacies can be protected by a tracking mechanism. In described implementations, tracking mechanisms can use certificates that are produced using random numbers to protect the privacy of users and/or certificates... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7975142 | Ring authentication method for concurrency environment A ring authentication method for a concurrency environment, the method capable of providing unforgeability, sender anonymity, and deniability in the concurrency environment, in which, when a receiver receiving a message requests a sender of the message to certify th... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7958358 | Scanned image disclosure apparatus, method and storage medium; electronic mail transmission apparatus, method and storage medium; and internet facsimile transmission apparatus A scanned image disclosure apparatus has a disclosure unit that encrypts and discloses to a disclosure destination a scanned image by using a public key or a private key relating to a public key certificate that has been verified to be valid, a re-verification unit ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953979 | Systems and methods for enabling trust in a federated collaboration Systems and methods consistent with the present invention enable explicit and multilateral trust across a community of federated servers via a network. A trusted third party establishes a framework of policies and procedures governing a federation. Organizations joi... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7904721 | Digital certificates A method for producing a certificate, the certificate including data, the method including choosing a seed s, the seed s including a result of applying a function H to the data, generating a key pair (E,D), such that E=F(s,t), F being a publicly known function, and ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7904720 | System and method for providing secure resource management System and method for providing secure resource management. The system includes a first device that creates a secure, shared resource space and a corresponding root certificate for the shared space. The first device associates one or more resources that it can acces... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900048 | Method for loading an application in a device, device and smart card therefor An application is loaded into a device, such as downloading an application into a portable device, such as a mobile telephone, by downloading the application with a signature to the device. The signature of the application is coupled to a predefined attribute certif... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7877608 | Secure inter-process communications Inter-process communications between a first process and a second process are secured. A first process recognizes that inter-process communications must be initiated with a second process. A first computer that supports the first process submits a request to initiat... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7861084 | Authentication of data transmitted in a digital transmission system A method of authenticating data transmitted in a digital transmission system, in which the method comprises the steps, prior to transmission, of determining at least two encrypted values for at least some of the data, each encrypted value being determined using a ke... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853791 | System and method for certificate based redirection A system for digital certificate direction is provided. The system includes an application server having one or more applications and a user computer. The system also includes a certificate optional server that is operable to communicate with the user computer regar... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853790 | Enhancement to volume license keys A method includes issuing a digital certificate to a licensee, the digital certificate identifying a licensed product and the licensee to enable the licensee to enable the licensed product. The method involves receiving a request to enable the licensed product from ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7831831 | Authentication communication system, authentication communication apparatus, and authentication communication method An authentication communication system is capable of storing information relating to revoked devices in less area than is conventionally required. A computer unit stores in advance revocation information that indicates at least one revoked apparatus, and when... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822984 | Portal system, method and program, and associated user computer and content supplier Portal, and a method and program executed by a portal. The portal receives a data request and a public certificate from a user. The portal transmits the data request and the public certificate to a content supplier. The portal receives confidential data and non-conf... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818574 | System and method for providing dynamically authorized access to functionality present on an integrated circuit chip A mechanism is provided in which access to the functionality present on an integrated circuit chip is controllable via an encrypted certificate of authority which includes time information indicating allowable periods of operation or allowable duration of operation.... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818576 | User controlled anonymity when evaluating into a role A method, system, and program for user controlled anonymity when evaluating into a role are provided. An anonymous authentication controller enables a user to control anonymity of the user's identity for role based network accesses to resources, without requiring re... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818575 | Efficient retrieval of cryptographic evidence An efficient protocol for retrieving cryptographic evidence may be selected by evaluating a local policy and a number of relevant factors. Furthermore, updated cryptographic evidence may be prefetched during a time period in which there is a low volume of requests f... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809947 | User certificate system and method for data broadcasting User certificate method for data broadcasting including the steps of inputting a code recollection starting key on a remote control device during a user watches a data broadcasting, extracting a program title from an Electronic Program Guide table received from a br... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7802099 | Method and apparatus for establishing a secure connection One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that establishes a secure connection with a peer. During operation, the system obtains an identity for the peer. Next, the system looks up the identity for the peer in a local store, which contains identities... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7793105 | Method and apparatus for local domain management using device with local authority module A method and device for local domain management are provided and include a local domain authority device. The local domain authority (LDA) device includes a location limited channel (LLC) interface for transmitting and receiving information of devices which are posi... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7788495 | Systems and methods for automated configuration of secure web site publishing The present invention provides systems and methods to automatically install and trust a self-signed (e.g., untrusted) web site certificate on one or more web clients local to the network. In addition, the systems and methods provide for automatic installation of the... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783884 | Content providing system, information processing device and memory card A memory card 10 inserted in a terminal device 20 establishes a SAC with each of a content server 1, a content server 2, a settlement server 1 and a settlement server 2, using an application program corresponding to the serv... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7770011 | Secure authentication using digital certificates with individual authentication data The present invention provides in a method for providing secure authentication using digital certificates, an improvement to enable the selective transfer of authentication data. The said method comprises presentation of basic authentication data certified by an acc... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7770012 | System and computer program product for secure authentication using digital certificates The present invention provides in a method for providing secure authentication using digital certificates, an improvement to enable the selective transfer of authentication data. The said method comprises presentation of basic authentication data certified by an acc... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7757088 | Methods of accessing and using web-pages A method and system for conveying trust and security to consumers regarding the validity of a web page or the web-pages source by showing a feature from webpage as determined by a digital certificate associated with the webpage. The security of the method and system... | 07/13/2010 |
