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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191107 | System and method for lost contact response A lost contact policy response system and related method for adjusting the operation of one or more network infrastructure devices upon detection of a loss of contact with a policy server function. The response system includes a policy enforcement function (“PEF... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191106 | System and method of network access security policy management for multimodal device A system and method are provided for management of access security for access by a multimodal device to a converged fixed/mobile network. An inter-technology change-off monitoring entity (ICME) is provided to monitor an inter-technology change-off of the multimodal ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191105 | System and method for handling electronic messages A system and method for handling secure-format messages includes a message server that receives secure-format messages from senders and operates in conjunction with a secure message handler to detect and prevent the delivery of invalid secure-format messages. When a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185931 | Method and system for preserving privacy related to networked media consumption activities A method and system for preserving privacy related to networked media consumption activity including: Source privacy zones are defined and associated with privacy standards. Privacy standards include frequency criteria governing the storage of datasets including inf... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185930 | Adjusting filter or classification control settings Methods and systems for adjusting control settings associated with filtering or classifying communications to a computer or a network. The adjustment of the control settings can include adjustment of policy and/or security settings associated with the computer or ne... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185933 | Local caching of endpoint security information In general, the principles of this invention are directed to techniques of locally caching endpoint security information. In particular, a local access module caches endpoint security information maintained by a remote server. When a user attempts to access a networ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185932 | System and method for user-centric authorization to access user-specific information In a network computing environment, a user-centric system and method for controlling access to user-specific information maintained in association with a web-services service. When a web-services client desires access to the user-specific information, the client sen... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181219 | Access authorization having embedded policies A facility for receiving an embedded policy is provided. The facility checks an application program image for the presence of an embedded policy. If an embedded policy is detected, the facility extracts the policy from within the application program image. The facil... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181221 | Method and system for masking data An approach is provided for masking data. A determination is made whether an action initiated by an authenticated user corresponds to one of a plurality of policies stored in a policy store, wherein the policies relate to whether data to be retrieved from a data sou... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181222 | Locally adaptable central security management in a heterogeneous network environment A system and method for defining and enforcing a security policy. Security mechanism application specific information for each security mechanism is encapsulated as a key and exported to a semantic layer. Keys are combined to form key chains within the semantic laye... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181220 | Method and apparatus for digital rights management policies Method and apparatus are described wherein, in one example embodiment, there is provided one or more policy templates that may define a set of policy permissions or other attributes that may be desirable to specify in a policy. One or more policy templates may be sp... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176525 | Method and system for trusted contextual communications This invention provides a method, system and apparatus for allowing media context sensitive SIP signaling exchange (such as voice) and call establishment while denying or challenging any other session description protocol (“SDP”) extension dialogs which might no... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176526 | Configurable redundant security device failover Techniques are described for managing failover in redundant network devices. In particular, each device in a set of redundant network devices includes redundant processing modules. Each module provides a separate operating environment for a set of network services. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176019 | Extending the sparcle privacy policy workbench methods to other policy domains A method and system enable a user to develop domain-specific policy workbench. Domains may include, but are not limited to security, autonomic computing, workload management and systems management. The method and system in one aspect determines syntax of a policy in... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171521 | System and method for managing network by value-based estimation A system and method for managing a network by value-based estimation is provided. A network device requesting communication is defined as an active point and a network device receiving a request for communication is defined as a passive point. A value of a network d... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171522 | Systems and processes for managing policy change in a distributed enterprise A method for managing changes to policies in an enterprise includes receiving a systems policy change request to change a systems policy that implements a published enterprise policy, determining whether the requested systems policy change complies with the publishe... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166515 | Group policy for unique class identifier devices A system is disclosed for centralized management of access permissions to unique class identifier devices on client terminals using a group policy framework. The system includes a first aspect whereby administrative templates related to the unique class identifier d... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166516 | Determining effective policy Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to determining effective policy when more than one policy may be associated with an entity. In aspects, bindings associate policies with target groups that may include one or more entities. The bindings are order... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161521 | Controlling network access by applying super security policies A device may monitor a security policy that governs a user access to a zone in a private network, propagate a change in status of the security policy to one or more devices that coordinate with each other to implement a super policy, detect whether conditions for tr... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161522 | Method and apparatus for using expiration information to improve confidential data leakage prevention A method and apparatus for using expiration information to improve confidential data leakage prevention is described. In one embodiment, a method for protecting confidential data from disclosure using expiration information, comprises processing the expiration infor... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161523 | Method and apparatus for network access control (NAC) in roaming services The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for network access control (NAC) in roaming services. In embodiments of the present invention, roaming quarantine access policies and roaming secure access policies are defined on access devices to control acces... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161520 | Methods and systems for securing a system in an adaptive computer environment An automated method for securing a target system is provided. In this method, a request to change an entity in the target system is detected. The target system has an existing security profile or one is created. As a result, a security configuration group associated... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156538 | Distribution of information protection policies to client machines One embodiment includes a method which may be practiced in a computing environment where resources are distributed. The method includes acts for obtaining policy information defining restrictions on resources distributed in the computing environment. The method incl... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156537 | Method and system for access control using resource filters The present description refers in particular to a method, a system, and a computer program product for access control using resource filters for a strict separation of application and security logic. The computer-implemented method for access control may include rec... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156536 | Establishing secure communication sessions in a communication network In one embodiment, a method for establishing a session between a first party and a second party in a communication network comprises issuing a request to establish the session with the second party, the request containing a first security level associated with the f... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151317 | Method and system for policy-based initiation of federation management A method, a system, an apparatus, and a computer program product is presented for performing federation protocol operations within a data processing system. A message is received. In response to a determination that subsequent processing of the message requires exec... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146135 | Establishing and enforcing security and privacy policies in web-based applications Method, system, and computer code for implementing privacy protection in a web application, wherein the web application is executed in a web application language execution environment within a web server, the method containing the steps of: establishing at least one... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146134 | Scalable firewall policy management platform Securing large networks having heterogeneous computing resources including provision of multiple services both to clients within and outside of the network, multiple sites, security zones, and other characteristics is provided using access control functionality impl... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146133 | Apparatus and method for managing P2P traffic The invention relates to a P2P traffic management apparatus and method. A P2P flow agent monitors an executed application program to extract a P2P application program, adds application identifiers to packets generated by the application program according to a set po... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141130 | Automated dissemination of enterprise policy for runtime customization of resource arbitration A system and method for disseminating policies to multiple policy-based components includes a policy producer which generates a group of policies to be enforced. A policy disseminator classifies each policy with a type, and for each policy type, the policy dissemina... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141129 | Centrally accessible policy repository The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for a centrally accessible policy repository. Protection policies for protecting resources within an organization are stored at a central policy repository. Thus, an administrator can c... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141124 | Managing community provided in information processing system Provided is a system which manages a user community provided in an information processing system, in which user community information provided by a user is made available to another user for reference. The system includes a storage section which stores an audit poli... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141125 | Orchestration of policy engines and format technologies Policies can combine the efficiency of rule sets with the flexible expression power of workflow engines, as well as advantages of other programming languages and engines. Consistent modelling of policy rules is provided across different levels, such as network, cont... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141126 | Selective IPsec security association recovery Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to IPsec SA recovery and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for selective IPsec SA recovery from security enforcement point outages. In one embod... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141127 | High granularity reactive measures for selective pruning of information Some embodiments of high granularity reactive measures for selective pruning of information have been presented. The system and apparatus embody algorithms to automatically evaluate the security based significance (also referred to as “information enthalpy”) of ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141128 | Methods and apparatus for building and executing natural language workflow functions The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for building and executing natural language policies. Using the methods and apparatus herein, users can easily program policies in a natural language intuitive manner. The user can program the natural language ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141131 | Security policy generation The invention provides security policy generation methods and devices for generating a security policy that is set up for an information processing apparatus comprises a step of generating an application model having a transmitter and a receiver of a message decided... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136143 | Generalized policy server A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter use a local copy of an access control... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132228 | Electronic document conversion device and electronic document conversion method Based on the security policy set in the original document and the security policy supported by the format of conversion destination, it is judged whether or not the security policy set in the original document is inheritable to the electronic document after format c... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132229 | Governing the transfer of physiological and emotional user data Apparatus and articles of manufacture are provided for governing the transfer of data characterizing a user's behavior, physiological parameters and/or psychological parameters. One embodiment provides a computer readable storage medium containing a program which, w... | 03/06/2012 |
