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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159327 | Device including authentication glyph A device used in an authentication process. The device includes a processor, a display coupled to the processor, and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The computer readable medium includes (i) code for displaying a first authentication image inclu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8111134 | Device including authentication glyph A phone used in an authentication process. The phone includes a processor, a display coupled to the processor, and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The computer readable medium includes (i) code for displaying a first authentication image includi... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8068008 | Emergency responder credentialing system and method A system for collecting, verifying, and managing identity data, skill data, qualification data, certification data, and licensure data of emergency responders. The system trusted verification of identity, skills, qualifications, certifications, and licensure, and di... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063737 | Emergency responder credentialing system and method A system for collecting, verifying, and managing identity data, skill data, qualification data, certification data, and licensure data of emergency responders. The system trusted verification of identity, skills, qualifications, certifications, and licensure, and di... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7612651 | Communication system, communication method and program A communication system for communicating with a communication terminal located on a communication medium. The system includes a plurality of communicators, disposed in contact with or in proximity to the communication medium, for communicating with the communication... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7439847 | Intelligent observation and identification database system An intelligent video/audio observation and identification database system may define a security zone or group of zones. The system may identify vehicles and individuals entering or exiting the zone through image recognition of the vehicle or individual as compared t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7417551 | Photographic subject authenticating device, portable telephone, photographic subject authenticating method and photographic subject authenticating program A photographic subject authenticating device, a portable telephone, a photographic subject authenticating method and a photographic subject authenticating program are able to improve reliability of security with respect to disguise, and restrain electric power consu... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7405666 | Method and apparatus for locating a missing individual A method and apparatus for identifying a missing person, in particular, a missing child, includes utilizing a CD or other electronic storage medium to store unique identifying indicia of the person, portions of which are encrypted to protect sensitive information an... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7397362 | Methods and systems for imaging device credential submission and receipt Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for imaging device credential submission wherein credentials are extracted by scanning graphical indicia on user documents using a primary document scanner. ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394346 | Free-space gesture recognition for transaction security and command processing A sensor panel having a matrix of independently decoded sensors, arranged in a two-dimensional pattern allows a consumer identification unit (CIDU) to detect a user-specific gesture made with a gesturing instrument such as an RF ID device. The CIDU monitors on a tim... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394347 | Locking device for electronic equipment The operating control system can be use on electronic equipment, such as cell phones, computers, engine analyzers, etc. An input device enables the input of user access data and a readout panel monitors the equipment status. A programmable feature selection member e... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392945 | Portable scanner for enabling automatic commerce transactions A method for initiating and completing a commercial transaction to acquire an article of commerce (2502). The article of commerce (2502) has associated therewith a machine resolvable code (MRC) (2504). The MRC (2504) has encoded therein i... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389160 | Remote login of a personal computer A system for remotely logging into a personal computer includes a controller coupled to the personal computer and a remote control device. The controller memorizes a login password for the personal computer. The remote control device transmits a login signal to whic... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7382225 | Radio frequency identification security system and method A radio frequency identification (RFID) security system includes an RFID tag and a portable electronic device. The RFID tag has a user ID code. The portable electronic device has a reader, an identification memory and an identification controller. The reader is used... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7375615 | Personal authentication system An apparatus is disclosed for reducing the vexatious complication of personal authentication when using an information technology device or a card. A combination of RFID tags worn by a user is stored when personal authentication is carried out. The RFID tags are det... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7362210 | System and method for gate access control A system for providing stand-off biometric verification of a driver of a vehicle at a control gate while the vehicle is moving, including a pre-verification system and a post-verification systems. The pre-verification system is installed before an entrance of a faci... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352996 | System and method for coupling users to a retail computer system with low risk of eavesdropping A system reduces the risk of eavesdropping on data used to access an establishment's computer network. In one embodiment, a system includes a personal area network (PAN) access device that couples a low power, low frequency modulated signal to a wearer, the PAN acce... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353283 | Method for controlling access to internet sites The invention concerns a method for controlling access to an Internet site from said site address. The inventive method consists in: registering said sites in a hosting service; recording data identifying users of the hosting service and data concerning each of said... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347366 | Method and apparatus to provide authentication using an authentication card A method and apparatus to provide authentication. The method comprising sending a challenge to a user to be authenticated, the challenge including a reference on a card issued to the user and receiving a user-supplied value purported by the user to be associated wit... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337316 | Packet authentication A data packet is conveyed between servers connected to a packet network. A first server securely distributes a list of distinct numbers to one or more authorized receiving servers. Subsequently, upon receiving a packet to be transferred, the first server selects an ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337469 | Method and system for unlocking doorway An unlock system does not use a key that might be copied so that only a correct person can unlock a door and security is enhanced. Unlock records of door-lock are stored in a limited memory capacity in volume. Fingerprint data input to a fingerprint input sec... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7321784 | Method for physically updating configuration information for devices in a wireless network A method for providing configuration information for use in installing a new wireless station to a wireless network that minimizes errors is presented. The configuration information is distributed by storing the configuration information onto a device with a memory ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7306145 | Control system and control method A control system manages a user's entry into and exit from an area based on the ID information of a device in the user's possession. The control system includes a determining unit that determines, based on the ID information of the device, whether the user can enter... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7298872 | Electronic identification system for form location, organization, and endorsment Disclosed is a secure system of authentication including a means for retrieving information about an authenticated individual (i.e., citizens, customers, employees, patients, and subjects). More specifically, the system allows a person to execute forms (i.e., agreem... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7274301 | Access control device with electronic identification and audio communication capability An access control device including electronic identification device, the access control device characterized in that the access control device also includes an audio communication device. ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7254619 | Apparatus for outputting individual authentication information connectable to a plurality of terminals through a network An individual authentication information output apparatus, connectable to a plurality of information processing systems through a network, includes an input section for receiving an input from a user; an individual authentication section for outputting an individual... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254418 | System, method, apparatus, control method thereof and computer program for wireless communications A PAN is easily constructed by carrying out mutual authentication with a plurality of equipment in a home. A memory card is used to mutually authenticate any random equipment among a plurality of equipment set up at home, and a piece of desired communications equipm... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251731 | Call set-up from a mobile radio telephone terminal with biometric authentication To set up a call coming from a user's mobile radio telephone terminal to a receiver terminal for example a home automation terminal, the result of a biometric authentication of the user in the mobile terminal and of a predetermined result are applied to algorithms f... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250853 | Surveillance system A surveillance system is provided. The system includes at least one target detection sensor, a plurality of adjustable identification sensors and a system controller. The syste controller is coupled to the at least one target detection sensor and the plurality of ad... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7239227 | Command interface using fingerprint sensor input system A substrate having a fingerprint sensing system usable as a command interface using finger movements. A user's fingerprint pattern is recognized and compared to previously stored reference patterns. If the fingerprint pattern matches a previously stored pattern, the... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236614 | Device, system, and method for identifying living bodies and renewing registration data There are provided a living body collating device, a living body collating system and a living body collating method, which is equipped with optimization candidate data extracting means 35 for extracting optimization candidate data for data renewal from past ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7183895 | System and method for dynamic stand-off biometric verification A system for providing stand-off biometric verification of a driver of a vehicle at a control gate while the vehicle is moving, including an RFID vehicle tag reader, an RFID personal tag reader and a facial detection and recognition (verification) system. The RFID v... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180050 | Object detection device, object detection server, and object detection method A tag communication section (12) receives tag information transmitted from an information tag (11) attached to a person (P) to be detected. An attribute lookup section (15) looks up an attribute storage section (16) using ID included in t... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7161468 | User authentication method and apparatus A user authentication method and apparatus including determining whether a password has been input; setting a first threshold value if the input password matches with a registered password and setting a second threshold value if the input password does not match wit... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162059 | Method for implementing a navigation key function in a mobile communication terminal based on fingerprint recognition A method for implementing a navigation key function in a mobile communication terminal using fingerprint-recognition. The mobile communication terminal includes a fingerprint-recognition sensor divided into a plurality of image detection blocks. The method comprises... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7138905 | Controlled environment thermal image detection system and methods regarding same Thermal infrared image data of at least a region of a face of a person in an enclosure is provided. The enclosure, for example, may include a first enclosed volume and a second enclosed volume physically separated from the first enclosed volume. The first enclosed v... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133658 | Method and apparatus for image processing The position of a body part area for a personal image in an input image is detected. According to the position of the detected body part area, the position of the origin of a coordinate system for an ornament image is defined. Based on the position of the defined or... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130452 | System and method for multi-party validation, authentication and/or authorization via biometrics A system and method for multi-party authentication is described. The multi-party authentication process uses synchronous and persistent biometrics signals received from parties to a transaction, based on a policy, to approve a transaction request. The biometrics sig... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120607 | Business system and method using a distorted biometrics A method of doing business is disclosed that transforms a biometric used by a user in a transaction. The transformation creates a distorted biometric. The distorted biometric is used to identify the user to another party without requiring the user to provide actual ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114079 | Security access based on facial features A card based security system determines security access by comparing the facial features of the card owner with the facial features of an applicant that is requesting access to a secure item. The facial features of an authorized card owner are stored in a medium of ... | 09/26/2006 |
