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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191150 | Method and arrangement relating to a communication device The present invention relates to a novel method for handling applications in a device by associating an application signed by a domain certificate to a pre-defined entity in a device, said device comprising: a module reader for reading subscriber identity, a virtual... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191151 | Privacy protection device, privacy protection method, and recording medium recorded with privacy protection program A privacy protection device acquires provider location information and browser location information indicating the current location of a browser terminal used by a browser who intends to browse the content. The privacy protection device stores determination data for... | 05/29/2012 |
| RE43439 | Method of converting audio data for a portable device and reproducing the converted audio data A method of converting audio data encrypted for anti-piracy and copyright protection to a suitable format so that the data can be played in a portable device. A computer first decrypts the encrypted audio data and inserts information for setting equalizer, then encr... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191154 | License management in a media network environment Acquiring a license in a hub network, including: sending a license request from a client to a server through an intermediary device; sending a connection confirmation from the client to the server through the intermediary device; and receiving license data at the cl... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191153 | Communication system, server apparatus, information communication method, and program A communication system includes a terminal, a first server apparatus that manages the movement of the terminal, and a second server apparatus that performs authentication of the terminal. The first server apparatus uses AAA protocol to transmit a first message that ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189998 | Apparatus for and a method of copy-protecting a content carrying recording medium Recording data for an optical disc such as a DVD has video content data and navigation data. Button data defines one or more user-selectable selection buttons to enable a viewer to select content data when the recording medium is played. Further button data defines ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191152 | Methods systems and articles of manufacture for generating and displaying video related to financial application Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for generating a video such that when another person views the video, the other person can view non-private information but not private information of the person who generated the video. A first interview screen is genera... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185957 | Peripheral device A method for an impaired user to control a peripheral device including receiving key-value pair input from the user, determining whether the received input is valid and executing a job generated from the valid received key-value pair input. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185958 | Image processing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and methods thereof Upon applying a DRM protection process to an image which is generated by an image processing apparatus, which doesn't have any communication means that allows direct communications with a PC, without any alteration, encryption of the image in the apparatus and that ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185959 | Digital rights management of captured content based on capture associated locations When captured content is detected, the captured content is analyzed to determine whether any portion of the content is subject to digital rights management protection specified for content captured, where captured content is content captured independent of distribut... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181255 | Digital rights management system A digital rights management system including a controlled content disk to store content in an encrypted format, and a processor to run a plurality of applications and a secure device driver thereon, the processor being operationally associated with the controlled co... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181256 | Data transmission apparatus, control method therefor, and image input/output apparatus According to the present invention, a data transmission apparatus capable of transmitting data by using a plurality of transmission media, comprises an authority storage unit, adapted to store authority information representing use authority to use each transmission... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181257 | Method to allow role based selective document access between domains An improved solution for allowing role based selective access to a document between a plurality of domains is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for allowing selective access to a document between a plurality of domains includes: obtaining a compo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176562 | Privacy protection during remote administration A remote access manager protects the privacy of identified local file system content while a local computer is being accessed by a remote administrator. A local user inputs a privacy policy which identifies restricted access levels for specified files, file types an... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171559 | Detecting a phishing entity in a virtual universe An invention for detecting a phishing virtual entity in a virtual universe is disclosed. A virtual entity may be registered as authentic and be identified with multiple physical characteristics thereof. Another virtual entity will be monitored to detect whether it i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171557 | Document accessing through multiple security domains Methods and apparatuses for accessing documents in a multi-security domain environment are described herein. The novel methods may be processor implemented methods and may include saving by a processor from a first to a second security domain a version of a document... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171560 | Secure content pre-distribution to designated systems Described is a technology by which encrypted content is pre-distributed to recipients during a pre-distribution timeframe, for example to distribute protected content to many clients in a controlled manner. At a release moment, a key for decrypting the encrypted con... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171556 | Personal information protection method, personal information protection system, processing device, portable transmitter/receiver, and program A prescribed virtual person was created for allowing a real person (user) in the actual world to pretend to be the virtual person (virtual person) and act as the virtual person when acting on a network and registered in a database 12a of a financial in... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171561 | Secure personal content server A local content server system (LCS) for creating a secure environment for digital content is disclosed, which system comprises: a communications port in communication for connecting the LCS via a network to at least one Secure Electronic Content Distributor (SECD), ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171558 | Inter-program authentication using dynamically-generated public/private key pairs In a multi-tiered computing environment, a first program may authenticate with a second program using dynamically-generated public/private key pairs. An authentication token is constructed that includes user information and information about the first program and th... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166553 | Method and apparatus for detecting unauthorized-access, and computer product An unauthorized-access detecting apparatus that detects unauthorized access to a server that provides a service via a network includes a storing unit that stores a series of process request, which is made by an unauthorized user via an unauthorized client, as an una... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166554 | Secure enterprise network What is proposed is a method of implementing a security system (Packet Sentry) addressing the internal security problem of enterprises having a generalized approach for inferential determination and enforcement of network policy with directory service based group co... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166555 | Content reproducing device and content preproducing method When a secure counter malfunction detection unit 212 deters a malfunction in a secure counter 211, a content playability judgment unit 206 performs a content playability judgment based on information managed by a malfunctioning-state playback pr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166556 | Information processing apparatus, information recording medium, information processing method and computer program An information processing apparatus that obtains pieces of content information relating to content recorded in an information recording medium, the information processing apparatus includes a data analyzing unit configured to read a content certificate which is reco... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161561 | Confidential data protection through usage scoping Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for protecting confidential data on a network. An embodiment of the inventive method comprises the steps of: monitoring 110 data directed to a website; identifying 120 a data string having at least one ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156560 | Method and apparatus for providing a border guard between security domains The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for defining and enforcing rules of transition between two security domains, e.g., a transport domain and a persistent security domain. In turn, a border guard, e.g., a security device, is provided between thes... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156561 | Method and apparatus for setting access restriction information Access restriction information that an old storage device has is transferred to a new storage device. A management server 2200 obtains a port management TL 2445 that the old storage device 2400 has, through a LAN 2600 which is separated f... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156562 | Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image forming system, information processing method, and image forming method An information processing apparatus determines whether an authentication portion on an image forming apparatus side can authenticate user authentication information input on the information processing apparatus side. If it is determined that the authentication porti... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151357 | Information processing apparatus, information recording medium manufacturing method, and computer program An information recording medium manufacturing method includes the steps of: determining an encryption mode of each sector, which serves as an encrypt processing unit; generating encrypted data having different variations by using a plurality of cryptographic keys fo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151356 | Method of transmitting and reproducing content processed by various DRM systems Provided is a method of transmitting content processed according to first digital rights management (DRM) to a device that uses second DRM. The method includes generating a ticket using a first license server and a second license server, the first license server iss... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146165 | Method and apparatus for providing a data masking portal An approach is provided for de-personalizing data. A request is received from an application for retrieval of data. An end user associated with the request is authenticated. A determination is made whether to mask the data based on the request and the authentication... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146163 | Method and system for securing personal computing devices from unauthorized data copying and removal A method for securing personal computing devices from unauthorized data copying and removal includes detecting an attachment of a device to a client included within a computing network; determining whether the detected attached device is permitted to be attached to ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146166 | System and method for providing content in two formats on one DRM disk A DRM disk such as a Blu-ray stores content in a high resolution version for playing by a disk player. The disk also stores the same content in a lower resolution version for playing by a secondary device such as a Playstation Portable (PSP). The disk can be engaged... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146164 | Method and apparatus for thwarting spyware A trusted apparatus including an input filter, security mode indicator working with a proxy node thwart the possibility of spyware being able to observe user input when a security mode signal indicates security mode asserted. The trusted apparatus may further includ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141162 | Method and system for hiding information in the instruction processing pipeline A system, article of manufacture and method is provided for transferring secret information from a first location to a second location. The secret information is encoded and stalls in executable code are located. The executable code is configured to perform a predet... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141160 | Mitigating and managing privacy risks using planning System and methods are provided for managing and mitigating privacy risks in a system having a network of processing elements. According to one method, there is receive a request for at least one output product from the system. The request includes a set of privacy ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141163 | Malicious code detection In a system where an indirect control flow instruction requires a CPU to consult a first memory address, in addition to what is encoded in the instruction itself, for program execution, a method is provided to determine if the first memory address contains a valid o... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141161 | System and method for managing trace of certifications A certificate server 10, in response to a request from a client 131, extracts certificate data from a certificate database 102 to create a certificate file including print-job log data, and transmit the file to the client 131. The client ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141159 | Method and system for protecting confidential information A method for computer workstation based information protection is presented, the method comprises: a) monitoring user's actions on the computer workstation, b) analysis of the actions in respect to a pre-defined policy to determine whether the actions prejudice info... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8127365 | Origination-based content protection for computer systems Content, such as confidential information of an organization, may be protected by automatically categorizing the content. The automatic categorization may be performed by calculating a sensititiy score of the content, the sensitivity score being indicative of whethe... | 02/28/2012 |
