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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191163 | Hybrid streaming and downloading DRM in mobile networks Methods, systems, and media are provided for rights protection of an instance of media content in a hybrid downloading and streaming media environment. A request from a device to download an instance of media content is communicated. Verification is obtained as to w... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185964 | Digital video system using networked cameras A digital video system including a computer connected via a network to a number of video servers and cameras. The computer includes a program that provides a grid of display windows, each of which displays an image received from the camera associated with that windo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176567 | Apparatus and method to limit access to selected sub-program in a software system A method includes receiving at a sub-program a request from an external entity the request comprising at least one parameter and a return address, utilizing the return address and an address list associated with the sub-program to authenticate the external entity, a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171565 | Systems and methods for locally generating license and activating DRM agent Systems and methods for locally generating a license and activating a Digital Rights Management (DRM) agent are provided. The system includes a storage device and an electronic device. The storage device includes a DRM treated file, operation information, and a mana... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161564 | Methods and apparatus for protecting digital content A processing system to serve as a source device for protected digital content comprises a processor and control logic. When used by the processor, the control logic causes the processing system to generate cipher data, based at least in part on (a) a session key and... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8136168 | System and method for design-for-manufacturability data encryption An encryption and decryption interface for integrated circuit (IC) design with design-for-manufacturing (DFM). The interface includes a decryption module embedded in an IC design tool; an encrypted DFM data provided to an IC designer authorized for utilizing the enc... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127368 | Semiconductor memory card and data reading apparatus, and data reading/reproducing apparatus A semiconductor memory card comprising a control IC 302, a flash memory 303, and a ROM 304. The ROM 304 holds information such as a medium ID 341 unique to the semiconductor memory card. The flash memory 303 includes an auth... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117667 | Systems and methods for the prevention of unauthorized use and manipulation of digital content A number of systems and methods, alone, or in combination, achieve various levels of protection against unauthorized modification and distribution of digital content. This encompasses at least unauthorized study, modification, monitoring, reconstruction, and any oth... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112815 | Preventing unauthorized distribution of media content within a global network One embodiment of the invention is a method for providing media content while preventing its unauthorized distribution. The method includes transmitting from a client to an administrative node a request for delivery of an instance of media content (IMC); determining... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8082591 | Authentication gateway apparatus for accessing ubiquitous service and method thereof An authentication gateway apparatus for accessing a ubiquitous service includes: an authentication server of a service provider that receives an authentication data request message from a portable apparatus, and provides an authentication token; a first authenticati... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074287 | Renewable and individualizable elements of a protected environment Systems and methods for providing a protected computing environment comprising separating out a protected environment management component from a kernel of a computing device, providing identification information as a part of the protected environment management com... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069488 | Method and apparatus for exclusively controlling a device in a home network A method and apparatus exclusively control a device in a home network. A control point requests exclusive control authority from the device. In response to the request the control point receives an identifier (RID) used to successfully authenticate the exclusive con... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8056143 | Selectively wiping a remote device A system and method for selectively securing data from unauthorized access on a client device storing a plurality of data types with reference to an authorization level indicated in a command. A command is received at a client device comprising an authorization leve... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051489 | Secure configuration of a wireless sensor network A method for secure configuration of a sensor system involves identifying a new sensor not activated within the sensor system, the new sensor including a new sensor identifier, establishing a first transmission link between the new sensor and a sensor controller, tr... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8051490 | Computer system for judging whether to permit use of data based on location of terminal There is provided a computer system comprising a storage system, a terminal, a management server and the terminal, and a positioning module for identifying a location of the terminal. The terminal identifies the location of the terminal by the positioning module in ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8032943 | Accessing protected content in a rights-management architecture A digital rights management system for the distribution, protection and use of electronic content. The system includes a client architecture which receives content, where the content is preferably protected by encryption and may include a license and individualizati... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024815 | Isolation environment-based information access In an embodiment of isolation environment-based information access, programs—including operating systems and applications—running on a computing-based device can be isolated in an environment such as a virtual machine. Information including commands and/or data ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8006312 | Data communications system, terminal, and program To provide a system which allows large volumes of data to be exchanged efficiently through network connections using portable terminals. An example data communications system includes a data terminal which stores certain data; and an operation terminal which control... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001615 | Method for managing the security of applications with a security module A method for managing the security of applications with a security module associated to an equipment connected to a network managed by a control server of an operator. The applications use resources as data or functions stored in the security module locally connecte... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996914 | Semiconductor memory card and data reading apparatus, and data reading/reproducing apparatus A semiconductor memory card comprising a control IC 302, a flash memory 303, and a ROM 304. The ROM 304 holds information such as a medium ID 341 unique to the semiconductor memory card. The flash memory 303 includes an auth... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996915 | Data transmission apparatus and method, data receiving apparatus and method, and data transmission and reception system and method The protection of data against illicit transfer with respect to specific data can be ensured. An integrated receiver decoder determines whether or not ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding) data requiring authentication is contained in selected piece-of-music da... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7992213 | Gaining access via a coded surface A method of gaining access to a resource using an access token printed on a print medium, comprising the steps of: determining, using a sensor module of a mobile telecommunications device, the access token and a print media identifier printed on the print medium; an... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7979914 | Time-based digital content authorization Methods and apparatuses for time-based access to digital content are provided. Access to a set of digital content is provided for a predetermined period of time. During the predetermined period of time, a user can access (e.g., download, play) any digital content in... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979913 | Home network system and method therefor A home network system allowing a user to directly control joining or removing of member devices in a domain using a user interface and to effectively control a status change of the member devices of the domain and a management method therefor. The home network syste... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975311 | Media device access control mechanism Invention embodiments are concerned with the problem of controlling access to a media storage device in response to, e.g., employees leaving or changing jobs. More specifically, embodiments provide a method of controlling access to a media storage device storing a p... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971263 | Method and system for secure activation of web clipping applications The invention disclosed is a method and system for the secure activation of web clipping applications upon a portable information device (PID). In an embodiment of the invention, the method first provides for preventing a user from accessing web clipping application... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7971262 | Protecting against software piracy Methods and software products are disclosed for protecting against software piracy. When a customer purchases software, the seller performs an activation process by identifying a unique computer identifier (ID) for the computer system of the customer, and activating... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7971264 | Authentication of HTTP applications An apparatus such as an HTTP proxy server compares information of a request by HTTP client logic with a known pattern of information for the client logic. When the information of the request matches the known pattern, the HTTP proxy server causes content and/or soft... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7950065 | Method and system to control access to content stored on a web server Embodiments of the invention describe a technique to Content may be viewed or accessed with a link. The access or viewing of the content may be controlled by using an encrypted link that is generated and sent to an authorized user. When the authorized user uses a cl... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941864 | Audio-video output apparatus, authentication processing method, and audio-video processing system An audio-video output apparatus of the present invention outputs at least one of audio data and video data to a receiving apparatus using High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) communications. The audio-video output apparatus includes a list holding unit, an au... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7930763 | Method of authorising a computing entity A method of authorizing a computing entity comprises obtaining at the authorizing entity a delegation chain of intermediate elements through which an authorisable entity asserts authorization eligibility in the form of a sequence of locally assigned labels for the e... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930764 | Certificate based digital rights management In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a digital certificate is used to link an arbitrary provisioned right with an associated arbitrary digital action to be performed by a client device on or with respect to a protected digital content object. ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917963 | System for providing mobile data security A system transfers applications and datasets (files) from a server to a client device and assigns to each file a lease key that will expire at a specified time. A file cannot be accessed unless its lease key is validated. Upon expiration of a lease key, the client d... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917962 | BIOS lock encode/decode driver Systems and methods for preventing the unauthorized access to data stored on removable media, such as software, include storing a predetermined signature in the area of non-volatile memory in a computer system. Upon initialization of the computer system, a check is ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913312 | Embedded content requests in a rights locker system for digital content access control Access to digital content may be controlled by determining a digital content specification and associated authenticated rights locker access request, sending the authenticated rights locker access request and the digital content specification, and receiving a new au... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7895665 | System and method for detecting and reporting cable network devices with duplicate media access control addresses The detection of devices with duplicate media access controller (MAC) addresses in a cable network. A cable network device (CND) having a MAC address is connected by the cable network to a cable modem termination system (CMTS) having a gateway interface address. A c... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7891010 | Information providing apparatus and information providing method An authentication function authenticates a PDA. The content database holds the usage conditions of a content and the information about the content. The communication function controls the reception of the usage conditions and the content information, both transmitte... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7877813 | Copy protection method and system for digital media A copy protection method and a copy protection system are disclosed. The system includes a private key verifier receiving a media certificate that includes a private key identification of a compliant playing device and searching for an actual private key correspondi... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7874014 | Content distribution server and content distribution system using the same The present invention relates to a content distribution server or the like, capable of more surely preventing an unauthorized use of a content. Content distribution servers 2 and 3 are arranged to be connectable via a telecommunication circuit to a use... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7870615 | Information terminal with function of playing back contents In one aspect of this invention, upon playing back contents, a content to be played back is selected from a plurality of contents stored in a storage unit, and it is checked for this selected content if a first playback mode that requires a prior playback confirmati... | 01/11/2011 |
