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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185951 | Method of handling user groups in desktop and web based applications in a heterogeneous authentication environment An embodiment of the present invention is a method that effectuates the handling of user group membership information in a heterogeneous information technology environment having multiple authentication sources. The method including creating a plurality of first use... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181243 | Computer readable medium for resolving permission for role activation operators A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor for resolving permissions using role activation operators to evaluate permissions assigned to a user in a role context inheritance hierarchy. The stored instructions comprise several s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181242 | Interactive virtual library system for expeditiously providing user-desired information from content providers, at least one of which is commercial, to a user without the need for the user to access the content providers individually An interactive library system is disclosed which receives, by a library system computer, a user identification and password from a user computer. The library system computer compares the user identification and password with authorized user identifications and corre... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176550 | Authentication-capable apparatus and security system The place where a user performs personal authentication includes a room into which entry is authenticated, and an apparatus for use of which authentication input (login and logout) is performed. In such situation, it will take at least a moving time for a user to pe... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8166541 | Information processing apparatus and data management system It is an object to provide an information processing apparatus and a data management system which can access data and maintain security even in an environment where the apparatus cannot be connected to a security managing server. To accomplish the object, a secure a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166542 | Information processing apparatus, user information managing method, and computer program product An information processing apparatus includes a hard disk drive (HDD) that stores therein user information, an operating unit that performs an operation of setting of user authentication, a user information registering unit that registers user information for a user ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8151346 | Unauthorized usage prevention system and information processing apparatus A disclosed unauthorized usage prevention system enables execution of at least one software item including an identification information item uniquely associated with the software item, based on a key information item in a key module. An information processing appar... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151347 | Clustered file system for mix of trusted and untrusted nodes A cluster of computer system nodes share direct read/write access to storage devices via a storage area network using a cluster filesystem. At least one trusted metadata server assigns a mandatory access control label as an extended attribute of each filesystem obje... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146156 | Archive of text captures from rendered documents A facility for storing a text capture data structure for a particular user is described. The data structure comprises a number of entries. Each entry corresponds to a text capture operation performed by the user from a rendered document. Each entry contains informat... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146155 | Controlling access to content on an object addressable storage system Embodiments of the invention relate to controlling access to a content unit stored on an object addressable storage (OAS) system. In one embodiment, the content unit may have an object identifier that is used to identify it on the OAS system. A first portion of a co... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141146 | Authentication server, authentication method and authentication program Upon receipt of a service use request from a client, an authentication server device reads one or more image information pieces from an image information storage storing multiple image information pieces each containing one or more known symbols, one or more dummy s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132256 | Home networking using LTE radio A system and methodology that facilitates management of a single identity and billing relationship for multiple UE (user equipment) associated with a subscriber is provided. Specifically, each of the multiple UEs can employ LTE (Long Term Evolution) radio technology... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132255 | Generating a challenge response image including a recognizable image Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating a challenge response image including a recognizable image. A challenge image is generated including random elements and a recognizable image. The challenge image is transmitted to a recipient. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8117653 | System and approach for electronic project incentive data management, processing and implementation Electronic processing and management of electronic project data is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, project data including incentives data is processed for a plurality of different projects, using authentication to control da... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108927 | Serialized lock combination retrieval systems and methods Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for retrieving combination lock codes in a secure environment. In some embodiments, each of a plurality of combination locks are linked with a serial code. A user may then enter user identity information into a retrie... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104085 | Hybrid system implementing distinct and co-existing application execution environments and methods for implementing the same A hybrid system is provided. The system includes a computing device implementing a first application execution environment (AEE) and a second AEE. The first AEE is configured to be isolated from the second AEE. The first software application associated with the firs... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8069479 | Position and velocity-based mobile device management A set of one or more positional control parameters includes at least one of a geographic limit, a velocity limit, and a direction of travel limit. A control list identifies at least one feature in a mobile device. The at least one feature may be associated with at l... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060931 | Security authorization queries In an example implementation, a bifurcated security scheme has a first level that does not allow usage of negations and a second level that does permit usage of negations. In another example implementation, an authorization query table maps respective resource-speci... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060932 | Modular enterprise authorization solution An authorization framework located external to an application may be invoked to determine user authorization for a requested application component. Small amounts of supplemental authentication code are added to application code to invoke provider modules within the ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8042177 | Method and system for requiring authorization for a job prior to processing A method, computer readable medium, and for requiring external authorization for a job prior to processing includes determining for a job if external authorization for at least one is item is approved and processing the job if the determining if external authorizati... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8042176 | Computer readable medium on which is stored a program for preventing the unauthorized use of program data A storage medium stores a program of instructions executable by a computer to perform a function for preventing unauthorized use of program data. The function has a process of judging whether or not a storage area of the program data is writable and a process of exe... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037524 | System and method for differentiated cross-licensing for services across heterogeneous systems using transient keys A system and method for guard point licensing is provided. Licensed software executing on a storage system is modified to include one or more guard points to ensure that appropriate licenses have been obtained by a customer. During initialization of a guard point, a... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037525 | Access control and entitlement determination for hierarchically organized content Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to access control and provide a method, system and computer program product for access control and entitlement determination for hierarchically organized content. In an embodiment of the... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8024794 | Dynamic role based authorization system and method A system, method and computer program product are provided for role based authorization. Included is a plurality of resources and roles associated with an authorization domain. In use, access to the resources is controlled utilizing expressions that operate as a fun... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8011008 | Application security model Performing security sensitive operations with an application security model. Security agnostic code is executed. The security agnostic code is identified as not having authorization to perform a security sensitive operation. Executing the security agnostic code incl... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996893 | Determining roles for automated tasks in a role-based access control environment A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing an automated task in a role-based access control environment. A set of roles is assigned to a user to form assigned roles, wherein the role-based access control environment allows ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7975295 | Associating security information with information objects A hash key is generated based on an information object and a lookup operation is performed in a hash table based on the hash key. A determination is made whether an entry in the hash table at an index corresponding to the hash key identifies a labelset for the infor... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7954150 | Methods and systems for assigning access control levels in providing access to resources via virtual machines A system for granting access to resources includes a client machine, a collection agent, a policy engine, and a broker server. The client machine requests access to a resource. The collection agent gathers information about the client machine. The policy engine rece... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7950055 | Cross-domain authentication Providing services within a network of service providers sharing an authentication service and a set of business rules. A central server receives a first request from a first server to provide a first service to a user via a client without forcing the user to presen... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945951 | Rights-context elevator System(s), techniques, and/or method(s) (“tools”) are described that enable a user to elevate his or her rights. The tools may do so by switching a user to an account having higher rights or a different, higher-rights context of a same account. The tools may ele... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941848 | Elevating rights System(s), techniques, and/or method(s) (“tools”) are described that enable a user to elevate his or her rights. The tools may do so by switching a user to an account having higher rights or a different, higher-rights context of a same account. The tools may ele... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933881 | Concurrency control within an enterprise resource planning system Concurrency control between multiple data transactions involving the same data includes comparing the version identifications which uniquely identify versions of the data during a read request and during a write request of a data transaction. An exception is thrown ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7890998 | System and method for selective authentication when acquiring a role A system, method, and program product is provided that provides authentication on a per-role basis in a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) environment. When a user attempts to acquire a role, the improved RBAC system determines whether (a) no authentication is require... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886355 | Subsidy lock enabled handset device with asymmetric verification unlocking control and method thereof A method for controlling subsidy locking of a handset device includes storing, in a handset device, an asymmetrically digitally signed subsidy unlock data block that has been modified based on a password after signing (505); modifying the stored unlock data b... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882559 | Electronic document processing system, electronic document processing method, and storing medium storing therein program for executing the method A document processing system which can form, for example, an electronic document that is encrypted, having: setting means for setting access permission attributes for restricting a predetermined function request and ID information per function into the electronic do... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877799 | Performance of a service on a computing platform A method of performing a service for a requestor on a computing platform includes the requestor providing to the computing platform a specification of the service to be performed, which establishes specified levels of trust for at least some of the processes in the ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7870111 | Method, system, and program for lock and transaction management Disclosed is a method, system, and program for locking management. A command is received that specifies an operation identifier. It is determined whether the command is associated with a transaction using the operation identifier. If it is determined that the comman... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870606 | Method and system for shadowing accesses to removable medium storage devices A method and device monitor usage of external storage media. The method and system selectively shadow I/O (input/output) from/to only external storage media. The method selectively shadows only accesses to external storage media connected to a computer. The method d... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870607 | Security and analysis system A system for providing access to at least one specified application within a software system. The software system comprises security software and a software tool suite. The security software is adapted to authorize a user to access at least one specified application... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7797740 | System and method for managing captured content Provided are apparatuses and methods in a mobile communication and content capturing device for controlling ownership and use of captured content. A mobile device capturing content of a user of a target device may automatically request authorization to use and own t... | 09/14/2010 |
