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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190901 | Layered security in digital watermarking A media object authentication system uses layers of security features based on digital watermarks embedded in media objects. The system generates a first digital watermark with a message payload carrying data about the object, such as a hash of text data printed on ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190902 | Techniques for digital signature formation and verification Techniques are provided for forming a digital signature for a portion of a document. A registered module is invoked to process the document in accordance with a structured format associated with the document. The registered module is able to process a plurality of d... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185741 | Converting transport level transactional security into a persistent document signature Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a transport level transactional security may be converted into a persistent document signature. In one embodiment, a digital signature of an electronic mail message may be saved in a file attached to the electroni... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185743 | Systems and methods for application locking using an internal and external checksum Methods and systems for locking an application are described. A method includes receiving, over a communication network from a remote applicant, a signature for an application. The signature includes a date and time, an indication of agreement to the terms of the ap... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185742 | Device and method for providing video stream having integrity Provided are a device and method for providing a video stream, in which a hash value of a frame is included in the header of a video stream, and authentication information about the header is inserted into the video stream, thus ensuring integrity against the forger... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181027 | Compressed data scrambled distribution device and playback device thereof The present invention provides a scrambled compressed data distribution device that can perform a high-resistance scrambled compressed data distribution by selectively using a plurality of types of scramble information and a playback device thereof. A scrambl... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181026 | Method and apparatus for input of coded image data An image input device which includes a means for inputting image data, a memory for storing a secret information and an operator for carrying out an operation by using the image data and the secret information. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181025 | Method and apparatus for registering agents onto a virtual machine monitor A method for managing an agent includes verifying an integrity of the agent in response to a registration request. Memory protection is provided for the agent during integrity verification. An indication is generated when registration of the agent has been completed... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176327 | Authentication protocol A method includes sending a first authentication challenge from an authenticator to an access terminal, and receiving, at the authenticator, a first return message from the access terminal that includes an identifier of the access terminal and a response to the firs... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176328 | Authentication of access points in wireless local area networks A method for authenticating an operator of an AP includes: registering the operator's identity with a CA, by providing the operator's identification information and public key; creating a certificate including the foregoing; signing the certificate with the CA's pri... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176329 | 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 ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171294 | Additional-information detection processing apparatus and method, content playback processing apparatus and method, and computer program Information capable of tracing a content distribution route, such as a user ID of a content destination, a content ID, a content provider ID, and a service provider ID, is superimposed on the content as additional information for digital watermarking or steganograph... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171295 | Information processing apparatus, a server apparatus, a method of an information processing apparatus, a method of a server apparatus, and an apparatus executable process To provide an information processing apparatus, a server apparatus, a method of an information processing apparatus, a method of a server apparatus, and an apparatus executable program. An information processing apparatus uses signed integrity values unique t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171296 | System and method for producing and checking validation certificates A system, method, and computer program product for computing a digest value of a document, one or more schemas, and a validation report. The validation report indicates a validation status of the document based on the schema or schemas. The digest value is encrypted... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166304 | Support for multiple security policies on a unified authentication architecture A method, computer program product, and data processing system are disclosed for ensuring that applications executed in the data processing system originate only from trusted sources are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a secure operating kernel maintains a “... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166302 | Storage device with traceable watermarked content A storage device responds to a content request by watermarking the content and providing the watermarked content to the requester. The watermarked content uniquely identifies the storage device so that the storage device is traceable from the watermarked content. | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166305 | Set of metadata for association with a composite media item and tool for creating such set of metadata A set of metadata for association with the composite media item and a tool for creating a composite media item with an associated set metadata. In one embodiment, the tool comprises a component for extracting a portion of a first media item having first metadata and... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166303 | Method for transmitting data among components of the system electronics of mobile systems, and such components A method for transmitting data among components of the system electronics of mobile systems, where, to increase the security of the information exchange, it is proposed to encrypt the data to be transmitted. To this end, devices for encrypting and/or decrypting data... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166306 | Semantic digital signatures A method is provided for adding intended meaning to digital signatures. A message, being base content, is received to be signed. Assertions, ontologies, and description of a reasoner are adjoined to the message. Ontologies are a formal specification of vocabulary an... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161285 | Protocol-Independent remote attestation and sealing Messages, including messages in conformance with various protocols, can be hashed and the hash values added to an event log and provided to a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which can extend one or more Platform Configuration Registers (PCRs) with the hash value, muc... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161286 | Method and system for digital watermarking A method for applying a digital watermark to a content signal is disclosed. In accordance with such a method, a watermarking key is identified. The watermarking key includes a binary sequence and information describing application of that binary sequence to the cont... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151113 | Methods and devices responsive to ambient audio A portable device uses a microphone to listen to ambient audio, derives data from captured audio signals, and uses the derived data to request delivery of the audio or related information to the user's home or other location. The device is desirably pocket-sized, or... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151114 | Dynamic enabling of functionality in electronic document readers Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for digital rights management. In one aspect, a method is provided. The method includes receiving an electronic document, where the electronic document includes one or more... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145908 | Web content defacement protection system A method and mechanism for protecting a website against defacement are provided. A content owner may associate content with a digital signature. The digital signature allows a recipient of the content to verify that the content originated from the content owner, and... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145909 | Digitally signing an electronic document using seed data In one example embodiment, a method is illustrated that includes parsing seed data from digital content, the seed data identifying a signing entity, transmitting identifier data to the signing entity identified by the seed data, transmitting content information rela... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140849 | Security for network coding file distribution A content distribution mechanism that relies on cooperative desktop PCs to distribute content is disclosed. The mechanism distributes content in a robust manner by allowing at least one intermediate network node (i.e., between a source and client) to generate and se... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140850 | Systems and methods for watermarking software and other media Systems and methods are disclosed for embedding information in software and/or other electronic content such that the information is difficult for an unauthorized party to detect, remove, insert, forge, and/or corrupt. The embedded information can be used to protect... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140848 | Digital watermark key generation The present invention relates to message encoding. In a first implementation, a message is provided. The message is transformed by a secret key. The secret key is generated by providing a plural-bit seed. The seed is randomized and then error correction encoded. We ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135955 | Device and method for detecting a manipulation of an information signal The present invention relates to a device for detecting a manipulation of an information signal, having an extractor for extracting an information signal component characteristic for the information signal from the information signal, an encrypter for encrypting the... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132013 | Long-term authenticity proof of electronic documents Systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed for providing long-term authenticity proof of an electronic document having a digital signature, wherein the electronic document is digitally signed with a digital signature and the electronic document and... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132014 | Image archiver An archiver system for tracking the exchange of personally identifiable information in document production systems includes a document production device and a media writer. When a document processing job is initiated, a digital image of the document is prepared, the... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132015 | Method and system for loading a secure firmware update on an adapter device of a computer system One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for loading a secure firmware update onto an adapter device in a computer system. The method includes the steps of sending a duplet of encrypted data conveying a same portion of an encrypted update image al... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127137 | Watermark payload encryption for media including multiple watermarks The present invention provides encryption techniques useful with digital watermarking payloads. One claim recites: a method to secure a first digital watermark payload and a second digital watermark payload through encryption of only one of the first digital waterma... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126918 | Using embedded data with file sharing Peer-to-peer file sharing is increasing in popularity on the Internet, faster than any product known in history. Although file-sharing can enable massive piracy, it has many advantages for distribution of information including scalability. Alternatively, file-sharin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127138 | Method for embedding information in sonar The invention as disclosed is of a method to authenticate identify and trace sonar transmissions and echoes by embedding transparent, secure and robust digital watermarks in signal space, where the additional information incurs no cost in bandwidth. The complex shor... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127139 | Handheld devices and methods for extracting data The present invention relates generally to handheld devices and using such to extract identifying data. One claim recites a handheld wireless device including: an input for receiving a subset of database information; electronic memory for storing the retrieved subse... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122255 | Methods and systems for digital authentication using digitally signed images Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for digital authentication using digitally signed images. In one representative embodiment, a method includes extracting a first image portion from an image selected by a first... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122256 | Secure bytecode instrumentation facility A secure bytecode instrumentation facility, wherein a new code fragment is registered in an encrypted registry by first extracting a digital certificate from a specified code fragment location. A certification authority (CA) in the digital certificate is compared ag... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122257 | Audio-based, location-related methods The presently claimed technology relates generally to audio-based, location-related methods. One claim recites a method in which a microphone in a user's portable device captures ambient sound, and corresponding data is then processed to determine location informati... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122254 | Information processing apparatus and method thereof It is simpler to manage an electronic signature on a It is simpler to manage an electronic signature on a server. On the contrary, authentication in a paper is more conveniently managed by a serverless system. However, data embedded in a document relies on an authen... | 02/21/2012 |
