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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191108 | Method and apparatus for providing security for an internet protocol service A method and apparatus for providing security to an endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method receives a signaling message by the endpoint device. The method processes the signaling message, if the signaling message is received from a device associated ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185934 | Programmable data protection device, secure programming manager system and process for controlling access to an interconnect network for an integrated circuit A data protection device for an interconnect network on chip (NoC) includes a header encoder that receives input requests for generating network packets. The encoder routes the input requests to a destination address. An access control unit controls and allows acces... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181223 | Electronic apparatus conducting two-port authentication, method of authenticating and receiving job data, an recording medium containing job data authentication-reception program The present invention provides an electronic apparatus such as a printer with a signal control port for authenticating a job and a job data port for receiving job data of the job authenticated via the signal control port. Namely, the job data port accepts job data o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181225 | Specializing support for a federation relationship The invention provides federated functionality within a data processing system by means of a set of specialized runtimes, which are instances of an application for providing federation services to requesters. Each of the plurality of specialized runtimes provides re... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181224 | Method for recognizing information flow and detecting information leakage by analyzing user's behaviors A method for analyzing user's behaviors is provided. API function call patterns occurring when operations on various objects are performed on a computer system are configured with contexts. User's behaviors are recognized as associations between the contexts and sys... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176527 | Correlation engine with support for time-based rules A rules engine with support for time-based rules is disclosed. A method performed by the rules engine, comprises receiving security events generated by a number of network devices. The security events are aggregated. One or more time-based rules are provided to a RE... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171524 | Physical access control A system and method are disclosed for controlling physical access through a digital certificate validation process that works with standard certificate formats and that enables a certifying authority (CA) to prove the validity status of each certificate C at any tim... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171525 | Enabling users to select between secure service providers using a central trusted service manager Systems and methods are described herein for enabling users to select from available secure service providers (each having a Trusted Service Manager (“TSM”)) for provisioning applications and services on a secure element installed on a device of the user. The de... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171523 | Embedded email receiver authentication The present invention relates to a method and system for providing an option when sending an email which will require the recipient of the email to provide an extra level of authentication before displaying the email contents in order to prove that he or she is inde... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166519 | Providing mobility management using emulation A system and method are disclosed for providing mobility management among mobile nodes in a communication network. Emulation can be provided to allow a mobile node that uses mobile IP (MIP) to access and use a communication network that is based on proxy mobile IP (... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166518 | System and method providing session aware remote access A computer implemented method provides remote access to a plurality of sessions at a computer. The method includes initiating a master process in a context independent from the sessions, establishing a first slave process in a context of a first session, and maintai... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161527 | Security Enhanced Data Platform The security enhanced data platform is comprised of two primary subsystems and a host of supporting subsystems. The first primary subsystem is a document management system. A set of client side tools provides the user a way to specify classifications and compartment... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161526 | Protecting sensitive information on a publicly accessed data processing system The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product protecting sensitive information on a data processing system. A determination is made as to whether a data processing system is publicly acce... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161525 | Method and system for architecting a secure solution A system and method of designing a secure solution which meets the needs of a customer but which is appropriate and repeatable and may use components which are insecure or not trusted. In its preferred embodiment, the security system includes subsystems selected fro... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161524 | Method and portable storage device for allocating secure area in insecure area A method for extending a secure area in a portable storage device and the portable storage device therefore are provided. The method includes allocating a secure area for storing data to be received within an insecure area, sending position information regarding the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156539 | Method and system for protecting a wireless network A method and system for protecting a wireless network by establishing virtual walls to confine wireless connection to devices located within a three-dimensional region. A network of wireless monitoring nodes is established at physical locations. The monitoring nodes... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156540 | System and method for managing feature enablement in an information handling system A system to manage a key license includes an information handling system having non-volatile memory accessible to a processor. The non-volatile memory stores feature enablement information related to a feature that the information handling system is adapted to provi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8146136 | Automated acceptance or rejection of consumer correction submissions Systems and methods for generating a score for use in automated processing of correction submissions are presented. In one embodiment, a submission value from a correction submission obtained from a submitter is obtained. The submission value corresponds to a propos... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8132231 | Managing user access entitlements to information technology resources A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for logical management and provisioning of business applications within the framework of an identity management system. The illustrative embodiments providing an interface layer to m... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132230 | Image processor A procedure for login in a case where a prescribed job is executed in an image processor is simplified. An image processor includes: input unit accepting an input of user authentication information from a user; user authentication unit performing user authentication... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122485 | Authentication techniques Techniques for authenticating clients of differing capabilities in an efficient manner. Two or more authentication techniques, including one preferred authentication technique, are initiated to run in parallel to authenticate a client. Upon determining that the clie... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121999 | Methods for searching private social network data A method for searching a database that includes private social network data includes providing one or more databases including a plurality of database entries, a first portion of the database entries including private social network data and a second portion includi... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122483 | Document file, document file generating apparatus, and document file usage method A document file is configured to restrict, without a costly special-purpose terminal or the like, use of document data contained therein, if the document data is taken out of a predetermined location. A document file contains (i) electronic document data, (ii) usage... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122484 | Access control policy conversion Methods and apparatus are provided for generating an access control policy data structure for a single-authorization-query access control system from a source policy data structure of an access control system in which primary authorizations can be subject to auxilia... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117643 | Mathematical definition of roles and authorizations in RBAC system A process, apparatus and program product create a new role in a Role Based Access Control (RBAC) system by using mathematical operators with either one or more authorizations, or one or more existing roles, or a combination thereof. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117644 | Method and system for online document collaboration A method and system for online document collaboration includes the steps of establishing on a server computer coupled to the Internet an account for each of a plurality of users; storing on the server computer a document created by a first user; associating a set of... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117645 | Systems and methods of controlling network access A new approach to network security includes manipulating an access point such that an initial communication from an external device is passed to a restricted subset of a computing network including a gatekeeper. The gatekeeper is configured to enforce a security pol... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117642 | Computing device with entry authentication into trusted execution environment and method therefor A computing device (10) includes a trusted execution environment (TEE) manager (40) that manages a switchover from non-trusted software (116) to trusted software (118). The TEE manager (40) includes memory (90) configured to... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112787 | System and method for securing a credential via user and server verification Systems and methods for securing a credential generated by or stored in an authentication token during an attempt to access a service, application, or resource are provided. A secure processor receives a credential from an authentication token and securely stores th... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112788 | Systems and methods of controlling network access A new approach to network security includes manipulating an access point such that an initial communication from an external device is passed to a restricted subset of a computing network including a gatekeeper. The gatekeeper is configured to enforce a security pol... | 02/07/2012 |
| RE43171 | Data security method and device for computer modules A security method for an attached computer module in a computer system. The security method reads a security identification number in an attached computer module and compares it to a security identification number in a console, which houses the attached computer mod... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108908 | Security methodology to prevent user from compromising throughput in a highly threaded network on a chip processor A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for preventing an untrusted work unit message from compromising throughput in a highly threaded Network On a Chip (NOC) processor are presented. A security message, which is associated with the untru... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108907 | Authentication of user database access A database system and method combines the ability to concurrently utilize LDAP based authentication and operating system-based authentication. The database authentication tries both methods of authentication, both at the database layer and at the application layer. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108905 | System and method for an isolated process to control address translation A system, method, and computer-usable medium for an isolated process to control address translation. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an isolation region that is accessible only to a first processing unit in a data processing system is c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108903 | Arrangement and a method relating to IP network access The present invention relates to an arrangement and a method respectively for providing an end user with access to an IP network (login). It comprises a user station, an access server of an access network, a web server and an authentication server. The end user stat... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108902 | System and method for local machine zone lockdown with relation to a network browser A method and system for locking down a local machine zone associated with a network browser is provided. Placing the local machine zone in a lockdown mode provides stricter security settings that are applied to active content attempting to publish within a local pag... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108909 | Systems and methods of controlling network access A new approach to network security includes manipulating an access point such that an initial communication from an external device is passed to a restricted subset of a computing network including a gatekeeper. The gatekeeper is configured to enforce a security pol... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108906 | Electronic data authenticity assurance method and program The present invention provides an electronic document authenticity assuring method in which a series of procedures concerning redactable signature are divided into procedures dependent on a document to be signed and procedures dependent on a redactable signature met... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108904 | Selective persistent storage of controller information A controller may receive a request from an endpoint and determine whether the endpoint connects via a first network or a second network. The controller may download first software to the endpoint when the endpoint connects via the first network, where the first soft... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104070 | Interest aligned manual image categorization for human interactive proofs A system and method that facilitates and effectuates distinguishing a human from a non-human user. A human interactive proof (HIP) employs images from a large private database of manually categorized images to display as part of a Turing test challenge. The private ... | 01/24/2012 |
