Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE43440 | Method for performing a transaction over a network A method for performing a transaction between a legal entity A who has an approval to perform such transaction, and a legal entity B over a network, the transaction being initiated by the legal entity A, wherein the legal entity A, to verify the approval to the lega... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191155 | Microprocessor A microprocessor having a processor core includes an information acquisition unit that acquires information encrypted to be used by the processor core, from outside; a decryption unit that decrypts the information with a symmetric key to obtain plain text; and a con... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191157 | Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191158 | Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191156 | Documents manipulation authentication apparatus, document manipulation apparatus, image formation apparatus, document manipulation authentication system, computer readable medium and computer data signal A document manipulation authentication apparatus includes a storage section and a determination section. The storage section stores management information associating each document with at least one of devices. When a request for manipulating a specific document usi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191159 | Data security for digital data storage A computing system includes data encryption in the data path between a data source and data storage devices. The data storage devices may be local or they may be network resident. The data encryption may utilize a key which is derived at least in part from an identi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185960 | System and method for managing access to adapter features Methods and systems for managing access to a host bus adapter (“HBA”). One embodiment includes licensable features stored in a feature module of the HBA. A user can access the licensable features after gaining permission. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181259 | System and method for upgrading the functionality of a controlling device via a secure portable adapter device Secure access to a database of upgrade data is provided by storing an encryption key value in an adapter device used to interconnect a first device to be upgraded and a second device that is associated with the database of upgrade data. The second device allows acce... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181258 | Access control list constructed as a tree of matching tables Techniques are disclosed for generating a representation of an access control list, the representation being utilizable in a network processor or other type of processor to perform packet filtering or other type of access control list based function. A plurality of ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181260 | Tracking the origins of data and controlling data transmission Provided are methods, apparatus and computer programs for tracking the origins of data and controlling transmission of the data. In one embodiment, transmission of sensitive data by script operations is limited, to prevent transmission to any network location other ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176566 | Information distribution device, method and storage medium storing program, and data signal for information distribution processing An information distribution device including a storage section, a reception section, a selection section and a distribution section. The storage section stores, for each of predetermined distribution destinations, at least one set of output destination information r... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176564 | Special PC mode entered upon detection of undesired state A system and method for monitoring a computer, particularly a pay-per-use computer, uses an isolated computing environment or supervisor. The isolated computing environment boots prior to any boot device associated with an operating system, runs concurrently with th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176565 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program An information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a cryptographic processor configured to generate encrypted data associated with a content management unit by executing encryption using a unit key associated with the cont... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176563 | Data security system and method with editor The method, program and system secures sensitive data/objects found in a data source document with an editor. The simple editor identifies and displays, in situ, the sensitive words/objects per each security level. Level tags are inserted and adjunctive words/object... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171563 | Secure message system with remote decryption service Systems and methods for secure messaging are provided. A sender may encrypt content and send the encrypted content to a recipient over a communications network. The encrypted content may be decrypted for the recipient using a remote decryption service. Encrypted mes... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171562 | System and methods for protecting against denial of service attacks A system and methods utilizing the network layer to provide security in distributed computing systems in order to thwart denial of service attacks. The system and methods of the present invention utilize puzzles placed at the network layer level to protect against d... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166559 | Document accessing through multiple security domains including multi-tear wiki webpage and/or using cross domain trusted service 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... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166563 | Remanufacture of encrypted content using a replicated medium Embodiments of the invention provide a method for creating a source for remanufacture of encrypted content using a replicated medium. A content encrypting engine obtains a first set of meta data from a multimedia content and stores the first set of meta data in a da... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166561 | Security device, secure memory system and method using a security device A security device including a first external interface; a second external interface; and a security controller connected to said first external interface and said second external interface, said security controller being adapted to validate an access right based on ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166562 | Method and system for protecting information on a computer system A system and method for protecting sensitive information, for example, a user's personal information, stored on a database where the information is accessible via a communications network such as the Internet. An exemplary embodiment stores the sensitive information... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166558 | System and method for upgrading the functionality of a controlling device in a secure manner Secure access to a database of upgrade data is provided by storing an encryption key value in a cable used to interconnect a first device and a second device that is associated with the database of upgrade data. The second device allows access to the database of upg... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166557 | Method and apparatus for dynamically providing privacy-policy information to a user One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates dynamically providing privacy-policy information to a user to facilitate compliance with privacy laws. The system operates by receiving a request from the user to access digital content at a ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166564 | Content distribution system, content distribution method, and client terminal The user of any one portable terminal sends a content information request including a user ID to a distribution server. In response, the distribution server distributes a stream data of content that can be used on the user's terminal. If the user of a first portable... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166560 | Remote administration of computer access settings The present disclosure provides systems and methods for controlling computer access. Briefly described in architecture, some embodiments of such a system provide a control unit for controlling user access to a computer in accordance with a user profile. An administr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166565 | Encryption and access method and system for peer-to-peer distributed file storage A system for secure distributed data storage that uses a network, where the system includes a file stored on a plurality of storage elements that are accessible over the network. An access control list associated with the file includes a list of users with read acce... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161562 | Method and system for controlling access of media on a media storage device A method of preventing unauthorized reproduction of protected media disposed on a media storage device according to one embodiment is described. The method is comprised of activating an autorun mechanism disposed on said media storage device. The activating is in re... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161563 | Running internet applications with low rights In various embodiments, applications that are configured to interact with the Internet in some way are executed in a restricted process with a reduced privilege level that can prohibit the application from accessing portions of an associated computing device. For ex... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156564 | Discovering network services A method includes sending a request for network services to plural devices, where the request identifies the network services using a self-describing data structure, and receiving a response to the request from at least one device, where the response identifies whic... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156565 | Hardware-based protection of secure data Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and computer systems for protecting secure data by writing content of the secure data to a protected memory segment are provided. Initially, streaming media is received from a media-reading device and portions of the st... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156563 | Method for managing keys and/or rights objects One or more rights objects (RO) files may be used for storing RO's preferably in the protected area available only to authenticated users. A RO navigation file is stored preferably in an unprotected public area containing status bits, where each status bit identifie... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151359 | System for managing proprietary data A content distribution system (300) has access control according to a predefined data access format. A studio (32) provides content data and related proprietary data on a record carrier (34) to be rendered by a rendering device (39). In t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151358 | Annotation of digital items in a shared list Techniques are described for user-controlled annotation and sharing of one or more digital items. Examples of digital items that may be shared with other users include digital representations of graphic images, photographs, audio segments, songs, video segments, mov... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146167 | Use management method for peripheral device, electronic system and component device thereof Managing the use of an optical disc drive by a program at high security. An OS of a host apparatus 100 sends one user certificate incorporating the policy information defining the use contents permissible for the optical disc drive 200 and a user key t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141165 | Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141164 | Systems and methods for dynamic decentralized load balancing across multiple sites A method for enabling decentralized dynamic load balancing among a plurality of appliances providing access to a plurality of sites, each site comprising a local area network and at least one server includes: determining, by a first appliance, a first number of serv... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141166 | Content access rights management system which embeds restricted metadata into a picture An apparatus comprises a content item receiver which receives a content item such as a digital photo or an audio or video clip. A user preference model generates data indicative of user preferences for content item access. An access rule processor determines a set o... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136167 | Systems and methods for providing image feedback A computer-implemented method may include receiving, over a network, an image from an image capture device, determining an image adjustment to the image, and communicating, over the network, the image adjustment to the image capture device. ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8136166 | Installation of black box for trusted component for digital rights management (DRM) on computing device To install a black box on a computing device, an administrator has access to the computing device and queries same for machine properties thereof. The administrator sends the machine properties of the computing device to a black box server as part of a request for a... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8136165 | Securing a data transmission channel A method of establishing a secure communication channel between end nodes of an IP communication network via one or more intermediate nodes using the Secure Shell, SSH, protocol, the method comprising defining an SSH configuration file containing a plurality of sect... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132262 | External memory management apparatus and external memory management method An objective is to prevent a downloaded application from accessing data in an external memory unrelated to the application, and to achieve safer management of access to the external memory. An external memory function module 15 is a function module that contr... | 03/06/2012 |
