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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191162 | System and method for securing and tracking files A method, system and computer program product for securing and tracking restricted files stored in a data processing system is provided. The data processing system is connected to a server for sharing information. An entity requesting to access a restricted file is ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191161 | Wireless authentication A wireless authentication system for authenticating a user before allowing access to a protected resource is described herein. An authentication device receives an indication of an intent to access a protected resource. The authentication device sends a request for ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191160 | Method and system for auditing and correcting authorization inconsistencies for reception equipment in a content delivery network A method and system for auditing unauthorized usage in a subscriber content delivery network is described. The method and system includes identifying an indicator relating to accessibility for a receiver intended for receiving signals through the network; obtaining ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185963 | Protecting live content in a network A method for protecting live content in a multimedia system. An Acquisition Point that receives content distributes it in a network comprising a recording device and a rendering device. The content is associated with a license comprising a content identifier and the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185962 | Apparatus, system, and method for enforcing policy requirements associated with a service A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions including instructions that when executed by a processor enable a service provider to track and enforce policy requirements associated with a provided service of the service provider. The a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185961 | Network system, method for controlling access to storage device, management server, storage device, log-in control method, network boot system, and method of accessing individual storage unit A network boot system including one or more client terminals, a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server, a PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) server, a TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) server, a database administration server (hereinafter, DB server)... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181262 | Network user authentication system and method In a network user authentication system, a network user is identified for authentication purposes using the unique identifier for a dedicated physical communication line associated with the building in which the network user is located or a digital certificate which... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181263 | Data communication system controlling available addressees for data based on preselected security level of user and addressee location An LDAP server stores security levels individually assigned to a plurality of destinations and a plurality of users in advance. When a user is authenticated successfully by the LDAP server, a control section of a multi-functional machine obtains the security level o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181261 | System and method for controlling reproduction of documents containing sensitive information A system and method for controlling the reproduction of documents containing sensitive information includes an input for receiving a document; a device for storing a digitized document; a detector for identifying encoded sensitive information; a decoder operatively ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171564 | Systems and methods for one-to-many secure video encryption A video encryption/decryption scheme is provided allowing an originator of video content to encrypt the video content using a session key, wherein the encrypted content and an encrypted form of the session key are provided to a destination. The session key is encryp... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8151361 | Image-processing system enabling user to use a plurality of communicably connected image-processing apparatuses, image-processing apparatus, function execution authorizing method, and function execution authorizing program embodied in computer readable medium In order to facilitate the setting of functions executable in each of a plurality of image-processing apparatuses that are communicably connected to one another, each of the MFPs, which are communicably connected to one another, stores registered-user information in... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151362 | Image forming apparatus, function extending method and user authentication system An image forming apparatus includes an user authentication part 31 for executing authentication of a user, a function enabling part 32 for enabling at least one function available for the first user based on authority of the first user set in advance w... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151360 | System and method for administering security in a logical namespace of a storage system environment A system and method administers security in a logical namespace of a storage system environment. A remote agent performs an integral security-related role within a management framework that is directed to off-loading administration of privileges from a namespace and... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8132265 | Techniques for multilingual password challenge response, password reset, and/or password recovery Techniques for multilingual password challenge response, password reset, and/or password recovery are presented. When a password reset or password recovery request is received, a series of challenge questions are serially asked such that each question has to be answ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132264 | Access authorization across processing devices Authentication information (125) obtained by a device (100) at one level of a transformation sequence is securely communicated to another device (200) at another level of the transformation sequence. To assure that the communicated authenticatio... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122517 | Mediated access of software dumped data through specialized analysis modules The present invention can include a method, computer program product, and system for mediating access to content of a software dump. The invention can identify an event occurring within a computing device, which causes data to be dumped to file. A dump file can be c... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122516 | Method and system for enabling a first party to provide a second party with personalized digital content A method for enabling a first party to provide a second party with personalized digital content includes at a network unit: in response to receiving a request from a first party, the request including an identifier identifying a second party, retrieving identity cre... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117665 | Data managing method, data managing device and data managing server suitable for restricting distribution of data In order to prevent invalid distribution of data, a data managing method includes the steps of inputting a document, extracting, from the input document, a document No. for identifying the document, receiving the input of a user ID for identifying a user, determinin... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117666 | File system operation and digital rights management (DRM) File system interaction with digital rights management (DRM) is facilitated by enabling one or more file system components to be DRM-aware. These one or more file system components may be part of a computer operating system. An exemplary system implementation includ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112405 | Method and system for securing user identities and creating virtual users to enhance privacy on a communication network A method of enabling a real entity to access a service on a communication network using a virtual entity, the method including the steps of establishing a user account including at least first data corresponding to the identity of the real entity and second data cor... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108940 | Method for protecting data from unauthorised access The present invention relates to a method for protecting user data from unauthorized access, the method comprising the steps of, on a data processing system: maintaining said user data in encrypted form stored on a second storage, | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108939 | Method and apparatus to facilitate security-enabled content caching One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates security-enabled content caching. The system operates by first receiving a request from a user at a cache server for restricted content, wherein the cache server stores content for an applica... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8079091 | Compliance processing of rights managed data Performing compliance processing is disclosed. An indication is received that compliance processing is to be performed with respect to content that is subject to an access restriction that would prevent the compliance processing from being performed if the content w... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065742 | Delivering specific contents to specific recipients using broadcast networks Systems and methods for delivering specific contents to specific recipients using broadcast networks. The methods include receiving an AV signal of a broadcast program and supplementary content which contains a tag identifying a specific recipient and specific conte... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8042193 | Systems and methods for controlling data access by use of a universal anonymous identifier A universal anonymous data collection and exchange service is provided where individuals and entities initially register with the service utilizing “legally authentic” identity documentation to obtain a “universal ID” (UXID). The UXID consists of a sting of ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037541 | System, device and method for interoperability between different digital rights management systems A system, device and method for allowing protected content to be transferred to end user communication devices that support different digital rights management (DRM) formats or schemes than the DRM format of the content provider. The method includes providing a Limi... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028342 | Method for interactive real time sharing of multimedia data, server, and interactive real time communication network A method of sharing multimedia data, comprising: a step of inserting multimedia data into a space administered by an author; a step of the author establishing a list of approved persons receiving a right of access ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024813 | Task initiated account presentation for rights elevation Systems and/or methods are described that enable a user to elevate his or her rights. In one embodiment, these systems and/or methods detect a task which is not authorized for a user account. Responsive to detecting the task, the embodiment presents a different user... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024814 | Information display device An information display device allowing a memory property display screen that continuously displays displayed content as it is even when a power supply is shut off to display information includes a user authentication executing section that performs a user authentica... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8011014 | System and method for password validation based on password's value and manner of entering the password A method and system for password validation. A user identifier (ID) and a user keying password are received from a user in conjunction with reception of a request from the user to obtain access to an application. The user keying password is a sequence of characters ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006311 | System and methodology for validating compliance of anti-piracy security and reporting thereupon A movie anti-piracy system with sensing and reporting is provided. An anti-piracy subsystem is utilized to preclude, interfere with and/or prevent copying of the movie. Anti-piracy compliance sensing selectively provides compliance violation signals respectively to ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001614 | System and method for making encrypted content available to derivable related parties A new system and method have been invented to allow a sender/author/user who wishes to send e-mail or a calendar meeting document to someone and make it available to her or his assistant or manager without the need of the sender/author/user finding out who the assis... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001613 | Security using physical objects A password-type security system may be employed using the placement of physical objects as a security pattern that is to be matched before access to secured content is granted. The system may be implemented on a computing system that uses a display that can detect, ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001612 | Distributing digital-works and usage-rights to user-devices Method and apparatus for automatically distributing, as needed, a user's digital-works and usage-rights to one or more user-devices. A definition of the usage-rights for a digital-work may be stored at one or more locations on a network. A version of said digital-wo... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7987516 | Software application access method and system An access method and system. The method includes receiving from a first user, by a software application within a computing system, a request for access to the software application. The software application determines a first domain associated with a first current lo... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984512 | Integrating security by obscurity with access control lists Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to providing and restricting access to content. In aspects, information (e.g., a URL) that identifies content and a user is provided to a user. In conjunction with providing the information to a user, a data stru... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979911 | First computer process and second computer process proxy-executing code from third computer process on behalf of first process A first computer process has code including at least one triggering device, and a digital license corresponding to the first process sets forth terms and conditions for operating same. A second computer process proxy-executes code corresponding to each triggering de... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979912 | Method and system for verifying network credentials The present invention provides a method and system for verifying network credentials. To accomplish the invention, a network intermediary, located in a communication path between a client device and a content server, receives from the client device a request for con... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7958562 | Document access management system In accordance with one embodiment, apparatus are provided including a document access arbiter, a guest access control mechanism, and a guest setup interface. The document access arbiter securely controls user access to a secured document repository. The guest access... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954163 | Method and apparatus for providing network security using role-based access control A method and apparatus for providing network security using role-based access control is disclosed. A network device implementing such a method can include, for example, an access control list. Such an access control list includes an access control list entry, which... | 05/31/2011 |
