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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191164 | Method for managing access rights in a smart card A method of managing access rights in a smart card, to subordinating execution of a command (Cmd1, Cmdk) such as reading or writing to an event (Evt1′, Evtk′) being valid, such as authentication by verifying a code. Th... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8191165 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling distribution of digital content in a file sharing system using license-based verification, encoded tagging, and time-limited fragment validity A method for controlling distribution of digital content includes fragmenting a digital content file into fragments and tagging at least some of the fragments with corresponding tags to provide tagged fragments for distribution. The tags may be generated using a pse... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8181264 | Method and apparatus for deferred security analysis It has been discovered that identifying files introduced into a system, particularly those originating from external sources, as being subject to security evaluation and deferring the security evaluation until access or attempted access of the file reduces security ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171566 | Copyright protection data processing system and reproduction device If playback devices are prohibited from playing back contents recorded in R media, there occurs a problem that it takes more time to manufacture commercial ROM media. Conversely, if playback devices are permitted to play back contents recorded in R media, there occu... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161565 | Key release systems, components and methods Systems, methods, components are provided all for the purpose of controlling access to decryption keys needed to decrypt ciphertext. A key release agent is provided which controls decryption key distribution. The key release method starts with receiving an encrypted... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156566 | Associating code to a target through code inspection Code is associated to a target based on an inspection of the code. A target may be a device or a user. A number of code components may be inspected at one time and then transferred or otherwise associated to a target based on the target's profile. A code component m... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156146 | Network file system Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application c... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151363 | Approach for securely processing an electronic document A method and apparatus for processing an electronic document in a secure manner is provided. A client may verify that the configuration state of a standalone document-processing device has not changed since a prior configuration state by issuing a request to a secur... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151365 | Filtering access to data objects In one embodiment, a code server and edit server are provided. The code server stores the source code. Users do not access the code server directly. Rather, an edit server is used where users can log in to the edit server and send requests to edit portions of the so... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151364 | Authentication device and/or method A method of authenticating a remote service (104) to a user (102) via a communications network (106) is disclosed. The remote service (104) obtains a service authentication code that has been generated, using a code generation algorithm, ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146168 | Program control apparatus, method and program An activation restriction confirmation processing unit concatenates the basic portion of the name of an activation-restricted program and constituent information indicating a destination, specifies the activation-restricted program that is to be an expansion program... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141167 | Communication device and method of transmitting data A communication device for transmitting data to a communication partner device includes a transmitter for transmitting transmit data to the communication partner device, a determiner for determining a check value from the transmit data in accordance with a determina... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8122518 | Secure input method based on virtual machine The present invention provides a secure input method based on a virtual machine, in which an application invokes directly a secure input interface provided by a virtual machine monitor and transfers the address and length of input buffer area of the application as i... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112817 | User-centric authentication system and method A system for authenticating a user in a network. The authentication system includes a computer resource having secure data, an authentication computing system providing dynamic authentication of a user accessing the computer resource, and a user communication device... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112816 | Document verification apparatus and document verification method A document verification apparatus includes a determining portion that determines whether a change that influences a verification result is made to at least one of an electronic document and a given condition, after it is verified whether or not the electronic docume... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108941 | Processor, memory, computer system, system LSI, and method of authentication A processor, connected to a non-volatile memory storing first memory authentication information for authentication of the non-volatile memory, the processor includes an operation unit configured to perform an operation utilizing information stored in the non-volatil... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099789 | Apparatus and method for enabling applications on a security processor Method and apparatus for enabling applications on security processors of computer systems. In one aspect, a security processor apparatus includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor and operative to store a secure table. The secure table stores differe... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095517 | Method and system for policy-based protection of application data A method and system for protecting an application's operational data are described. According to one aspect of the invention, an administrator interacts with a policy distribution server to generate an operational data protection policy. Next, the policy distributio... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095992 | Systems and methods for media authentication A method and system for authenticating a digital optical medium, such as a CD-ROM, determine whether the medium is an unauthorized copy, or the original. The original media is created, or altered, so as to contain anomalous locations from which the transfer of data ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095990 | Gaming machine, gaming information authentication loading device and gaming information loading device A gaming machine comprises a gaming board and a mother board. The gaming board comprises a boot ROM and a card slot. The boot ROM stores therein an authentication program for authenticating a gaming program and a gaming system program stored in a memory card. The ca... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095991 | Digital rights management of streaming captured content based on criteria regulating a sequence of elements A captured content rights controller detects a first portion of streaming captured content and a second portion of the streaming captured content after the first portion of the streaming captured content is detected. The captured content rights controller determines... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091142 | Supplementary trust model for software licensing/commercial digital distribution policy A flexible use licensing system for an application comprising a plurality of licensable products is provided comprising an application level product policy definition license, and a licensable product policy definition license corresponding to each licensable produc... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8074289 | Access to content addressable data over a network Access to content addressable data on a network is facilitated using digital information storing devices or data repositories (“silos”) that monitor broadcast data requests over the network. A number of silos automatically monitor both data requests and data its... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074288 | Isolation of application-specific data within a user account A mechanism is provided for isolating application-specific data in an environment where multiple applications share a same user account. This mechanism enables data specific to an application to be accessed only by the application. When an application requests appli... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065743 | Content use management system, content-providing system, content-using device and computer readable medium A content use management system includes a content-providing system and a content-using device. The content-providing system includes a providing unit that provides, to the content-using device, digital content having content identification information corresponding... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060941 | Method and system to authenticate an application in a computing platform operating in trusted computing group (TCG) domain A method and system for verifying authenticity of an application in a computing-platform operating in a Trusted Computing Group (TCG) domain is provided. The method includes computing one or more integrity measurements corresponding to one or more of the application... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8051491 | Controlling use of computing-related resources by multiple independent parties Techniques are described for managing access to computing-related resources that, for example, may enable multiple distinct parties to independently control access to the resources (e.g., such that a request to access a resource succeeds only if all of multiple asso... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041597 | Self-calibrating outlier model and adaptive cascade model for fraud detection A system and method for detecting fraud is presented. A self-calibrating outlier model is hosted by a computing system. The self-calibrating outlier model receives transaction data representing transactions, and is configured to calculate transaction-based variables... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037542 | Team based row level security system and method A team based row level security system and method are provided that permits items of data to be shared across a team. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037543 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program and computer-readable recording medium An image processing apparatus includes an alteration unit and a control unit. The alteration unit alters a first image file stored in a removable storage medium in order to generate a second image file. The control unit controls to store the second image file in the... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8015616 | Contents transmission method and contents transmission system Mobile unit 16 which can activate Java-AP software receives SDF (Security Descriptive File) 204 from administering server unit 18 which a trustworthy organization (a communication provider which administers mobile packet communication network | 09/06/2011 |
| 8001616 | System and method for presentation integrity A system for presentation integrity may include an encrypter to encrypt formatting data associated with information content data. A formatter may be included to decrypt the encrypted formatting data and to format the information content data in a predetermined forma... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996916 | Process verification A disclosed gaming machine provides methods and apparatus of verifying the authenticity of gaming software stored in and executed from RAM on the gaming machine. When presenting a game on the gaming machine, a master gaming controller may dynamically load gaming sof... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7992214 | Method for protecting memory proprietary commands A method for protecting memory proprietary command is provided. By using the logic block area (LBA) address in the header of the LBA mode, the device end can determine whether the data sector in the LBA mode includes a proprietary command. Also, by using the pre-def... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7992215 | Annotation system for creating and retrieving media and methods relating to same The invention described herein is generally directed to a method and apparatus for creating and retrieving audio data. In one implementation the invention comprises an annotation system configured to record, store, and retrieve media. The annotation system contains ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7984514 | Secure operation of transitory computer applications A security application is described for determining conditions within a computer application that would create the desire to allow or disallow access to certain system functions or features by the application. The security application analyzes the conditions and set... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984513 | Method and system for using a rules engine for enforcing access and usage policies in rights-aware applications Computer system and method enforces control policies including access and usage policies. A rules-based engine member or assembly is coupled between a rights-management (or similar) system and one or more target applications. The rules-based engine member centralize... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979915 | Recording device, replay device, integrated circuit, and control program A recording device performs recording on a recording medium such as a DVD, and playback compatibility of the recording medium is increased. In circumstances such as when a standard is established after the manufacture of a playback apparatus, there are playback devi... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975312 | Token passing technique for media playback devices A digital rights management (DRM) system for distribution of digital content such as audio or video uses a token passing scheme to enhance security of the content from unauthorized access and use, including access by unauthorized players. The token is requested from... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7966665 | Compliance validator for restricted network access control A method, system, and computer program product for detecting and enforcing compliance with access requirements for a computer system in a restricted computer network. A compliance validation configuration file is created for the computer system. A maintenance servic... | 06/21/2011 |
