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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7743254 | Visualization of trust in an address bar Described are a system and method for presenting security information about a current site or communications session. Briefly stated, a browsing software is configured to receive a certificate during a negotiation of a secure session between a local device and a rem... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739508 | Secure instant messaging system A secure instant messaging system integrates secure text instant messaging and secure file transfers into existing instant messaging systems. At least one certificate authority (CA) is provided that issues a security certificate to a user that binds the user's insta... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734924 | System and method for transparently providing certificate validation and other services within an electronic transaction A system and method are disclosed for transparently providing certificate validation and other services without requiring a separate service request by either a relying customer or subscribing customer. In a preferred embodiment, after the subscribing customer digit... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7721101 | Communication apparatus and authentication apparatus A communication apparatus with a memory (418) holding CA information A(301a) including (i) a CA certificate A(106a) indicating that an AP server certificate A(402a) (that indicates the validity of an application serve... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7721102 | System and method for detecting exposure of OCSP responder's session private key A system and method for detecting exposure of an OCSP responder's session private key in a D-OCSP-KIS to verify the status of a user's certificate online are provided. The system includes: a client for requesting certificate status information from the OCSP responde... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7698557 | System and method for generating a digital certificate A system and method for generating a digital certificate is provided wherein a new digital record is received and is assigned a sequence value. A first composite digital value is generated by applying a first deterministic function to the digital records stored in a... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7694142 | Digital content distribution systems A system for distributing digital content over a computer network (e.g., the Internet) uses certificates to establish a trust relationship between a content provider and a display device. The certificates identify the display device and the content provider as well ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7673143 | JXTA rendezvous as certificate of authority A method for securing a communication between a peer node and an intermediary peer node in a peer-to-peer network comprises the peer node generating a secured communication request to the intermediary peer node. The intermediary peer node authenticates the peer node... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7647501 | Communications apparatus, communications system, and method of setting certificate An apparatus for communicating, including a communicating unit that enables the apparatus to communicate with a communications counterparty via the communicating unit. The communicating unit includes a unit for providing an individual certificate that is a digital c... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7644278 | Method for securely creating an endorsement certificate in an insecure environment A Method and system for ensuring security-compliant creation and signing of endorsement keys of manufactured trusted platform modules. The endorsement keys are generated for the trusted platform module (TPM). The TPM vendor selects an N-byte secret and stores the N-... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7631188 | Hierarchical open security information delegation and acquisition The invention provides a method and system for secure data transfer and dynamic definition of trustworthiness of various entities by multiple parties in a hierarchy tree or graph structure. The invention uses digital certificates. Each party in the business hierarch... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7620815 | Credential production using a secured consumable supply A method and system for securely processing a credential substrate using a credentials production system and secured consumable supply. The consumable supply is selectively in one of a plurality of states including a production disabled state and a production enable... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7600123 | Certificate registration after issuance for secure communication Techniques for registering certificates after the issuance of the certificates are provided. A service provider securely registers a client's identity and its certificate without depending on or using an existing basis of trust, such as that provided by domain-joine... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7584360 | Data sending/receiving device and digital certificate issuing method A management unit (110) which issues a digital certificate to a new transmission unit (410) includes a wireless communication section for performing communication in a network (300) and a wire communication section to which the new transmission ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7581102 | Certificate confirmation method, certificate confirmation program and certificate that can readily and more positively confirm authenticity of certificate A method of confirming a certificate by using a management computer that issues the certificate is disclosed. The management computer is coupled to an application terminal for applying for issuance of the certificate and to a confirmation terminal for reading a disp... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7546463 | Method and system for delegating authority in an online collaborative environment A method and system to delegate an authority to access collaborative resources are provided. The system enables a participant to re-delegate the authority to another participant by an authorization certificate. A chain of authorization certificates is established al... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7543146 | Using digital certificates to request client consent prior to decrypting SSL communications In response to an indication of a desire to initiate a secure communication session (e.g., a session utilizing a the SSL communication protocol) with a computer resource, a digital certificate indicative of whether or not a user consents to monitoring of the secure ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7543147 | Method, system, and storage medium for creating a proof of possession confirmation for inclusion into an attribute certificate A method for creating a proof of possession confirmation for inclusion by an attribute certificate authority into an attribute certificate, the attribute certificate for use by an end user. The method includes receiving from the attribute certificate authority in re... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539867 | On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system A file format for a serverless distributed file system is composed of two parts: a primary data stream and a metadata stream. The data stream contains a file that is divided into multiple blocks. Each block is encrypted using a hash of the block as the encryption ke... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7526648 | Cryptographic method of protecting an electronic chip against fraud The present invention relates to a cryptographic method of protecting an electronic chip against fraud and a device including an electronic chip which is adapted to protect the electronic chip against fraud. The method includes: mixing some or all of the input param... | 04/28/2009 |
