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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7912218 | Method of broadcasting multimedia content via distribution network The invention proposes to divide a content to be transmitted via a network into a set of slices and to generate a set of files from this set of slices. The slices (or the files) are encrypted before downloading in such a way that the client cannot use the slice (or ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7826616 | Adaptive method and system for encoding digital images for the internet A system and method comprise defining a current rectangular region of the image bitmap, quantifying spectral characteristics of the current rectangular region, dividing the current rectangular region into four rectangular sub-regions in response to the spectral char... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7477742 | Method and apparatus for controlling contents utilization, and a computer product A contents utilization control apparatus includes an input unit for inputting a) contents with control module that consist of contents and a control module, and b) a license with control module that consists of a license prepared from contents utilization approval i... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7463738 | Method for providing multimedia files and terminal therefor A method of and a system for securely distributing data files to a user. A first key is encrypted using a second key. The encrypted first key is stored on an integrated circuit card that is associated with the user. The integrated circuit card is provided to the use... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7437768 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium The CPU 11 of the personal computer 1 controls the CPU 32 of the adaptor 26 made of a semiconductor ID to compute a hash value of a content-managing music data base recorded in the HDD 21 and store it into the nonvolatile memory | 10/14/2008 |
| 7424739 | On-machine communication verification The present invention provides for validating that one or more modules reside on the same machine. When a second module wishes to establish communication with a first module, a shared memory that is accessible by the modules—but inaccessible by modules outside the... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7406599 | Indicating status for digital signatures Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting status of digital signatures. A digital document is received that defines a presentation structure and includes a digital signature. The digital document specifies a representation of the dig... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398395 | Using multiple watermarks to protect content material Content material is protected with a variety of watermarking processes. Different subsets of the protected content material are submitted to different watermarking processes. At the rendering device, a watermark detector is configured to detect one or more different... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7386129 | System and method for multimedia content simulcast A computer-implemented method is described for processing multimedia channels comprising: encrypting a first group of multimedia channels using a first type of encryption to produce a first group of encrypted multimedia channels; encrypting the first group of multim... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380135 | Diligent control of preview of stored contents A method of transmitting contents, which are to be received at a reception side where a portion of the contents is previewed while the contents are not accessible for playing other than for a preview purpose, includes the steps of encrypting the contents by a first ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370166 | Secure portable storage device In one embodiment of the present invention, a secure storage system includes a removable storage device having a secure storage area for storage of secure data and a public storage area and device port for coupling the removable storage device to a host, the removab... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370210 | Apparatus and method for managing processor configuration data The present invention provides a data processing apparatus and method for managing processor configuration data. The data processing apparatus comprises a processor operable in a plurality of modes and a plurality of domains, said plurality of domains comprising a s... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363504 | Method and system for keystroke scan recognition biometrics on a smartcard The present invention discloses a system and methods for biometric security using keystroke scan biometrics in a smartcard-reader system. The biometric security system also includes a keystroke scan sensor that detects biometric samples and a device for verifying bi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363494 | Method and apparatus for performing enhanced time-based authentication A time-based method for generating an authentication code associated with an entity uses an authentication code generated from a secret, a dynamic, time-varying variable, and the number of previous authentication code generations within the particular time interval.... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353540 | Information vending apparatus, information vending method, and program storage medium The present invention is intended to prevent sold digital information from being used in a non-compliant manner. Digital information accumulation capability 212 accumulates digital information 6 to be sold. License generating capability 227 gene... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349552 | Connected audio and other media objects Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. In the context of a user's playback experience, a decoding process extracts the identifier from a media object and possibly additional context inform... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346779 | System and method for authenticating electronic documents A method for securing an electronic document (22) comprising attaching a biometric characteristic (20) and the electronic document (22) to form a biometric characteristic-document combination and encrypting the biometric characteristic-document ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333957 | Connected audio and other media objects Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. In the context of a user's playback experience, a decoding process extracts the identifier from a media object and possibly additional context inform... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328345 | Method and system for end to end securing of content for video on demand A system and method for providing end-to-end security of content over a heterogeneous distribution chain is provided. A content owner provides content to an aggregator that receives the content and processes the content. The processing may involve decrypting the con... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324667 | Data converter A data converter is provided, which data converter includes a data conversion unit, a timer unit which counts time, and a lock system which locks a data conversion function of the data conversion unit in a disabled state based on the time counted by the timer unit. | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325145 | Verifying the presence of an original data storage medium A verification system randomly retrieves data from a removable data storage medium. The retrieved data is compared to corresponding verification data, which is known to be valid. The system determines that a legitimate removable data storage medium is present if the... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321667 | Data hiding through arrangement of objects The present invention provides steganographic embedding techniques. A digital watermark signal is reduced to a set of spatial positions. The set of spatial positions sufficiently conveys the digital watermark signal. Message objects are positioned according to the s... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320138 | Image authentication apparatus, image authentication method, and image authentication program A system classifies an image file into a first group if authentication data included in the image file has been generated using a private key cryptosystem, and classifies the image file into a second group if the authentication data included in the image file has be... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319673 | Communications network In a communications network, which may be a federated network such as the Internet, a tariff is distributed via the network to customer terminals. At each terminal a charge for use of the network is calculated by using the tariff. Different tariffs may be communicat... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315621 | Digital watermark-embedding apparatus, digital watermark-embedding method, and recording medium A characteristic amount is retained and calculated from an entered video signal. Embedment intensity is retained and calculated from the retained characteristic amount. Embedment information is embedded as digital watermarks into the entered video signal in accordan... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310424 | Encryption key distribution and network registration system, apparatus and method A control method, apparatus, and system capable of securely distributing a shared secret network encryption key from a host to a wireless peripheral device. The sharing of the secret network encryption key is accomplished without the intervention of a man-machine in... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305117 | Methods and tangible objects employing machine readable data The present invention relates generally to steganography. In one implementation we provide a method comprising: receiving optical scan data representing at least a portion of a physical object. The physical object includes information steganographically hidden there... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305366 | Content revocation and license modification in a digital rights management (DRM) system on a computing device Content revocation is achieved by disabling licenses issued to a computing device for the content. A content revocation is delivered within a license to the computing device. Upon license storage the content revocation is recognized, validated, and stored in a secur... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305555 | Smart card mating protocol A system is described for uniquely mating components of a communication network such as a smartcard and a set-top box. When mated, the smartcard and set-top box are tied together and have a single identity. Further, the smartcard operates properly only when inserted... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302578 | Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, program-initiation error processing method, and recording medium An information processing apparatus has a detection unit to detect a recording medium and initiates a program read from the recording medium detected by the detection unit. In the information processing apparatus, an operation check unit performs an operation check ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302462 | Framework and methods for dynamic execution of digital data processor resources The invention provides, in one aspect, an improved digital data processing system of the type having a plurality of execution resources, including a central processing unit (CPU) and one or more further execution resources (or “components”). The improvement is c... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299355 | Fast SHA1 implementation Provided is an architecture (hardware implementation) for an authentication engine to increase the speed at which SHA1 multi-loop and/or multi-round authentication algorithms may be performed on data packets transmitted over a computer network. As described in this ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299504 | System and method for implementing security management using a database-modeled security policy A database-modeled security policy includes policy statements stored in a database. Each policy statement has associated standards, guidelines, and procedures. Policy statements are grouped together into tag groups, which are in turn grouped together to form metapol... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295994 | Information distribution system, terminal apparatus, information center, recording medium, and information distribution method When content data are distributed from an information center via a predetermined communication line to a terminal apparatus loaded with a recording medium recorded with its identifier and prepaid information, the information center manages the usable remaining amoun... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7287270 | User authentication method in network When a network connection request is sent from a user's personal computer (2) to a server (1) on the Internet (5), the server (1) sends an authentication confirmation number generated by a random number generating unit (13) to the ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287157 | Digital content system A specific client computer acquires content that has been stored in a content server. To accomplish this, the ID of the client computer is registered with the content server. The IP address, etc., of the content server is encrypted to obtain a check code and the che... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281273 | Protecting content on medium from unfettered distribution Digital content is encrypted according to a content key (CK) to form (CK(content)) and such (CK(content)), a license generator, a start-up file, and license-generating information are placed on a digital storage medium. The license generator is for generating a digi... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281267 | Software audit system A software audit system is provided in conjunction with an anti-virus system. A computer virus scan request received by the anti-virus system (16) is used to trigger an audit data generator (18) to generate audit data. The audit data generator (18 | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278169 | Controlling the downloading and recording of digital data A method and apparatus for enabling a licensed end user to record digital data as described is particularly useful to the music industry as it enables them to make audio data available over the internet but to retain control of the uses to which that audio data can ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270265 | Process for managing an electronic transaction by chip card terminal and chip card implementing this process A process for managing an electronic transaction with a trader by use of a microprocessor chip card and of a reading terminal able to interact with the card. The card performs a first comparison where it compares a transaction amount with a first threshold value and... | 09/18/2007 |
