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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191133 | Anti-replay protection with quality of services (QoS) queues An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique to provide anti-replay protection with QoS queues. A single global anti-replay window is maintained to have global lowest and highest sequence numbers for an Internet protocol security (IPSec) security asso... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185944 | High-assurance file-driven content filtering for secure network server A server for transferring data between networks. The server is programmed to perform the following steps: (a) creating a receiving process, a filtering process and a forwarding process, the filtering process being dictated by a file that specifies filtering rules, w... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181238 | Systems and/or methods for streaming reverse HTTP gateway, and network including the same In certain example embodiments of this invention, there is provided systems and/or methods for a streaming reverse HTTP gateway, and/or networks including the same. In such a network, a reverse HTTP gateway is located within a demilitarized zone (DMZ) disposed betwe... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180735 | Managed file backup and restore at remote storage locations through multi-services gateway at user premises The disclosed examples of a system for providing and managing backup and restore services of one or more endpoint devices include at least one gateway device at a user premises and a service management center. The gateway device has a first interface for enabling bi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171538 | Authentication and authorization of extranet clients to a secure intranet business application in a perimeter network topology Methods and systems authenticate and authorize an extranet client to a secure intranet business application with a perimeter network topology, where connections to the secure intranet business application from outside the secure intranet are not permitted. A perimet... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166538 | Unified architecture for remote network access A unified architecture for enabling remote access to a network is provided. The network may comprise, as examples, a virtual private network (VPN) and/or a peer-to-peer network. In one embodiment, the architecture includes components installed on a client device/nod... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166537 | Service-based network access In a telephony communication system, an operator network provides access to data networks through gateways. The gateways provide access in response to network access requests from equipment such as mobile devices. The mobile devices and gateways providing access to ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8151338 | Method and system for continuously serving authentication requests A method and system for continuously serving the authentication requests of networked computers is disclosed. The authentication requests of computers are served and the services for the computers are reserved for a predefined time interval. The authentication servi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8141143 | Method and system for providing remote access to resources in a secure data center over a network Methods, computer products, and systems are described for providing remote access to resources in a secure data center protected by at least one firewall. One method includes sending by an internal server within the secure data center a request to an external server... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136150 | User role mapping in web applications Roles and policies are used to provide display and access to data in a flexible manner. Users and/or web applications can be mapped to user roles that dictate which displays or other application resources are available to the user or application. Roles are assigned ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132249 | Method for establishing a multi-link access between a local network and a remote network, and corresponding appliance The invention enables the different access links between a local network and a remote network to be used in a common and transparent manner. The invention is based on the use of various IP tunnels using the different access links between an appliance on the local ne... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122070 | Document management system user interfaces Systems, methods, and software to provide document management system user interfaces to clients. Some embodiments include an intermediary server to provide document management system indexing data to a client in a form that is displayable within an existing client f... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112796 | Secure federation of data communications networks Techniques for secure federation of data communications networks are provided. The techniques employ an edge proxy server to route messages depending on a federation mode. In Direct federation mode, an edge proxy server of a network is configured to exchange message... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8104078 | System and method for preventing service oriented denial of service attacks A method, system, and computer program product for preventing network service attacks, including processing a message to validate the message for message version and syntax via a security firewall; canonicalizing the message and extracting a message header and body ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8104077 | System and method for adaptive end-point compliance A security gateway is provided to facilitate end-point compliance of connected clients to insure appropriate security levels are maintained. The gateway operates as a policy enforcement point, and, when necessary, is used to apply and/or provide the required level o... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8091124 | Caching public objects with private connections Described is a technology by which a web proxy server forwards a client request for content to a web server over an unauthenticated connection, including when the client already has an authenticated connection to that web server. If the web content is received in re... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8082579 | Access server and connection restriction method The access server receives an authentication packet including an authentication result, a port change setting information, a port change time, a filtering setting information and a filtering time from the authentication server. The access server stores the respectiv... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079075 | Active reverse proxy system A computer implemented method can include receiving a request from a user on an untrusted domain and forwarding the request to an application on a trusted domain. A response can be received from the application and modified based on rules. The modified response can ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8079077 | System and method for distributed multi-processing security gateway A system and method for a distributed multi-processing security gateway establishes a host side session, selects a proxy network address for a server, uses the proxy network address to establish a server side session, receives a data packet, assigns a central proces... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8079076 | Detecting stolen authentication cookie attacks In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises logic for detecting stolen authentication cookie attacks. A first transport connection is established between a client and a gateway server, where the first transport connection is authenticated by the gateway server. A firs... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065720 | Techniques for managing secure communications Methods and systems for managing secure communications are provided. An external client establishes secure communications with a secure site. During the secure session, the external client attempts to access potentially insecure references. These potentially insecur... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060926 | Techniques for securely managing and accelerating data delivery Techniques are provided for securely managing and accelerating the delivery of data associated with remote sites. A client desires to establish secure communications with a remote site. Requests made from the client to the remote site are intercepted or forwarded to... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056125 | Recording medium storing control program and communication system A computer readable recording medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute a process in which an authentication proxy terminal carries out authentication on behalf of a client terminal using a browser to one or more server terminals, the process wh... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051474 | Method and apparatus for identifying trusted sources based on access point Methods and systems for distinguishing between sources of messages at a computer system resource are provided. In particular, messages are classified according to the physical interface at which the messages are received. A message received at an interface connected... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8051475 | Collaboration gateway Method for exchanging information between heterogeneous secured networks. Method supports synchronous communications across security domains including text chat, instant messaging, audio applications, video applications, and whiteboard collaboration. The invention i... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8042169 | Method for providing remote management of computer systems A method for managing the computer systems of a private network from a remote physical location in a manner that does not require the installation of agents on the computer systems of the private network, or the reconfiguration of the firewall of the private network... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8024786 | System and methods for secure service oriented architectures Provided is a method for intercepting a message between a requesting web service and a source web service, validating the message, logging the result of the validations, and adding a security profile to the message. The method may also include examining the message ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024785 | Method and data processing system for intercepting communication between a client and a service A method and data processing system for intercepting communication between a user and a service. An authentication component receives, from the user, a user request directed to the service. The authentication component adds a user-specific token to the user request ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020201 | Selecting a security format conversion for wired and wireless devices A selection system and method to receive an indication of a security format from a network and to select one of a plurality of security format conversions based on the received indication is described. The indication may be an indication of a wireless security forma... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8011001 | Method for managing security in a mobile communication system using proxy mobile internet protocol and system thereof A security management method in a mobile communication system supporting Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol (IP). In the security management method, a Mobile Node (MN), a Serving Packet Data Service Node (S-PDSN), and an Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8011002 | Forcing a mobile browser to access web content through a proxy A method, system, and medium are provided for forcing a mobile device to request online content using a proxy server. In one embodiment, the mobile device sends a request to the content provider directly. The content provider may respond to the requesting browser wi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996892 | Method and apparatus for using a proxy to manage confidential information A method, apparatus, and computer usable code for managing confidential data. A request is received to access an application from a user, wherein the application includes logic to process the confidential data. One of a first interface or a second interface is selec... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7992200 | Secure sharing of transport layer security session keys with trusted enforcement points Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to security enforcement point operability in a TLS secured communications path and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for the secure sharing of T... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987504 | System and method for routing signals intended for one device through another device connected to a shared access network A system (100) and method (200) for delivering conditional access information to a conditional access controlled device (120) incompatible with the conditional access transmission protocol. The conditional access information is delivered through... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984493 | DNS based enforcement for confinement and detection of network malicious activities Malicious network activities do not make use of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol to reach remote targets outside a local network. This DNS-based enforcement system for confinement and detection of network malicious activities requires that every connection towa... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7966656 | Method of coupling a switched circuit network to an internet protocol network A method of operating a gateway is disclosed to manage communications between a switched circuit network and an internet protocol network using a gateway. The method includes receiving at the gateway, a service call requesting the service for routing to an applicati... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7958550 | Method and system for secure communication A method and system for secure communication is presented. A virtual private proxy is generated based on an agreement between a first entity and a second entity. A first virtual private proxy is associated with the first entity and a second virtual private proxy is ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954144 | Brokering state information and identity among user agents, origin servers, and proxies Methods, signals, devices, and systems are provided for using proxy servers to transparently forward messages between clients and origin servers if, and only if doing so does not violate network policies. In some systems, a transparent proxy uses a combination of st... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7950052 | System, method, and interface for segregation of a session controller and a security gateway A system, method, and interface for segregating a network controller and a security gateway is provided. A security gateway-network controller interface is established between a security gateway and a network controller. One or more application interfaces are carrie... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7937753 | Method and apparatus for distributed information management The information management system such as might be used for a source code management system. The information management system is distributed throughout an enterprise and is operated to allow secure communications with remote sites connected to a central site over a... | 05/03/2011 |