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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7844055 | Detecting and transporting dynamic presence information over a wireless and wireline communications network A method for detecting and transporting dynamic presence information over a wireless and wireline communications network comprises determining client device capabilities relating to user presence information that may be obtained from the client device and determinin... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7395050 | Method and system for authenticating user of data transfer device The invention relates to a method and system for authenticating a user of a data transfer device (such as a terminal in a wireless local area network, i.e. WLAN). The method comprises: setting up a data transfer connection from the data transfer device to a service ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7372839 | Global positioning system (GPS) based secure access Presented herein are systems and methods for global positioning system based secure access. A request for access to a computer network is received. A determination is made whether a mobile terminal is within a predetermined location. If the mobile terminal is within... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7313394 | Secure proxy mobile apparatus, systems, and methods Secure proxy mobile apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7296294 | System for binding secrets to a computer system having tolerance for hardware changes Systems and methods for binding a secret to a computer system are disclosed. Systems and methods for generating a strong hardware identification (SHWID) for a given computer system are also disclosed. The strong hardware identification (SHWID) is coupled to a bound ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290149 | Verbose hardware identification for binding a software package to a computer system having tolerance for hardware changes Systems and methods for generating a verbose hardware identification (VHWID) for a given computer system are disclosed. The verbose hardware identification (VHWID) may be used to control the use of software on the given computer system depending on the degree of har... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7281137 | Authentication method and system The present invention relates to an authentication method and system for identifying a subscriber (1) of a first network an address of the second network (9) is allocated to the subscriber (1). An information about a mapping between the address ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278131 | Compact hardware identification for binding a software package to a computer system having tolerance for hardware changes Systems and methods for generating a-compact hardware identification (CHWID) for a given computer system are disclosed. The compact hardware identification (CHWID) may be used to control the use of software on the given computer system depending on the degree of har... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272383 | System and method for controlling a mobile terminal using a digital signature A mobile terminal control system using a digital signature. The system including a server for preparing a command message for a relevant mobile terminal according to mobile terminal status information set by a user, adding a digital signature to the prepared command... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257839 | Calculation of identifier codes distributed among pan devices An ID is being calculated in a manner distributed among devices of the user's personal area network (PAN). The devices communicate in a wireless manner. A server runs a simulation of the PAN. If the server and the PAN calculate matching results, it is assumed that t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7236477 | Method for performing authenticated handover in a wireless local area network A wireless local area network system (100) supporting mobile radio telephony reduces the time to complete an authenticated handover from one access point (104) to another (108) by a mobile station (102) by performing some of the steps nor... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7221932 | Information processing apparatus, function expansion device, and control method therefor Installation (wired connection) of a function expansion device in a portable information terminal is detected. This detection causes a connection authentication code to be generated. The generated connection authentication code is stored in each of the portable info... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7203312 | Data reproduction apparatus and data reproduction module A cellular phone has distributed encrypted content data and an encrypted content key stored in a memory. The encrypted content key data read out from the memory is decrypted by a decryption processing unit using key data Kp stored in a Kp hold unit, and then applied... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197145 | Method for setting up radio bearer in mobile communication system A method for setting up a radio bearer in a radio interface protocol, including transferring ciphering performance information from a designated layer to a radio resource control (RRC) layer, transferring the ciphering performance information from the RRC layer to a... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7127233 | Technique for controlling fraudulent use of a telecommunication service including information assistance The phone number used by a caller accessing a telecommunication service is derived. For example, this phone number may be used to look up in a first database the name of the user registered with the service, and in a second database the name of the subscriber assign... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127234 | Radio LAN access authentication system A wireless LAN access authentication system capable of shortening the time required for an access authentication procedure of a radio terminal apparatus. In this wireless LAN access authentication system, when a radio terminal apparatus 116 of a user who has ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7092943 | Location based data Data is provided with location-based access control information. Access to the data at a physical location is then limited according to the location-based access control information. A physical location of a device accessing the data can be determined, and the limit... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089420 | Authentication method and system The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the production and labeling of objects in a manner suitable for the prevention and detection of counterfeiting. Thus, the system incorporates a variety of features that make unauthorized reproduction difficul... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7046807 | Data administration method Data administration method which prevents the infringement of a copyright by encrypting and distributing digital content, and readily grasps which contents are contained in the digital content included in the data. Preparing symbol information symbolized so as to vi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7020456 | Method and system for authentication of units in a communications network A method of granting, to a user communications device, access to a service provided by a plurality of service communications devices where an access key code is generated during an initial communications session between the user communications device and one of the ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020455 | Security reconfiguration in a universal mobile telecommunications system The invention protects the security of a communication between a mobile radio and a radio access network (RAN). A connection is established through the RAN to support a communication with the mobile radio. The connection is configured with a first security configura... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7003113 | Position authentication system and electronic equipment using the same In a position authentication system and electronic equipment used for the same, image data photographed by a digital camera 1 are written into storage device 3, and at the same time GPS electric wave 5 is received by GPS receiver 2 to gen... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6971008 | Authorization of services in a conditional access system A cable television system provides conditional access to services. The cable television system includes a headend from which service “instances”, or programs, are broadcast and a plurality of set top units for receiving the instances and selectively decrypting t... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6963740 | Secure enterprise communication system utilizing enterprise-specific security/trust token-enabled wireless communication devices An enterprise communications system for implementing, accessing, using, and managing enterprise-specific resources includes one or more Mandate clients, each Mandate client including a wireless communication device and an enterprise-specific identity module installe... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6915124 | Method and apparatus for executing secure data transfer in a wireless network A method for executing secure data transfer between a communication device and an application server in a wireless network, in which a request requiring a secure transaction of data is sent from either the communication device or the server. An agreement proposal fo... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909887 | Method of controlling a channel between a radio terminal and a cellular radiocommunication infrastructure, and access network implementing such a method The infrastructure has a core network, radio network controllers linked to the core network and base stations provided with radio interfaces and each linked to one of the controllers. Ciphered information is transmitted over a first communication path in circuit mod... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6903681 | Global synchronization unit (GSU) for time and space (TS) stamping of input data elements A global synchronization unit (GSU) for time and space (TS) stamping of input data elements. The GSU comprises a GPS Receiver and an associated antenna for receiving GPS signals from signal sources associated with a GPS system symbolically embedded within a global r... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6782102 | Multiple format secure voice apparatus for communication handsets Multiple format secure voice apparatus for communication handsets includes a core unit with a speaker, a microphone, a keypad, and a display. The core unit also includes an audio circuit coupled to the speaker and the microphone, an encryption/decryption element cou... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6768797 | Method and apparatus for encrypting data in a wireless communication system In a communications system, a method of transforming a set of message signals representing a message comprising the steps of first encoding one of the set of message signals in accordance with a first keyed transformation, a second encoding of the one of the set of ... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6768903 | Method of controlling a channel between a radio terminal and a cellular radiocommunication infrastructure, and access network implementing such a method Ciphered information is transmitted over a first communication path in circuit mode between a core network and a terminal, passing through a first master controller, then over a second path between the core network and the terminal, passing through a second master c... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6754834 | Technique for generating correlation number for use in lawful interception of telecommunications traffic A technique for generating a correlation number for use in lawful interception of telecommunications traffic includes handling one of either a “PDP (Packet Data Protocol) context activation” or “Start of intercept(ion) with PDP context active” event and gene... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6577732 | Hierarchical encryption technique for dense wavelength division multiplexed systems using a wavelength bus architecture Transmission-based data security is provided in dense wavelength division multiplexing systems using a transmission scheme that incorporates hierarchical scrambling techniques with a unique multiplexing arrangement. Information supplied by one or more sou... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6370373 | System and method for detecting cloning fraud in cellular/PCS communications A system and method for proactively detecting cloning fraud in a cellular mobile telephone environment are discussed. Information is collected which corresponds to registration notifications of the cellular telephones as they operate within the cellular m... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6278781 | Wireless telephony with steganography The present invention relates to wireless communication systems, such as cellular systems and PCS systems, and more particularly relates to methods and systems for reducing theft of wireless telephony services by use of steganographically encoded authenti... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6112079 | Method and apparatus for providing fraud protection mediation in a mobile telephone system The system and method of the present invention facilitates an improved Home Location Register (HLR) that includes a fraud protection mediation module for use in a mobile telephone system. The fraud protection mediation module operates in any one of the fo... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6097939 | Method and apparatus for event data maintenance per MIN/ESN pair in a mobile telephone system A method and apparatus for allowing an Authentication Center (AC) in a cellular telephone system to store and access event a predefined number of maintenance data events on a per-MIN/ESN basis.... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6035043 | Cellular telephone manifest system This invention relates to a cellular telecommunications systems that records in the cellular telephone all the telephone calls made by that particular cellular telephone. This enables the owner or agent of the cellular telephone to compare the telephone c... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5905949 | Cellular telephone fraud prevention system using RF signature analysis Apparatus for identifying wireless subscriber units and for determining if access to a communications network should be granted. A plurality of wireless subscriber units each generates a wireless subscriber signal including internal data traits and extern... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5765107 | Detection and identification of a fraudulent wireless telephone user In a cellular telephone system, a method for detecting and identifying a fraudulent user who cloned the cellular subscriber's electronic serial number and mobile identification number to gain unauthorized access to the cellular system. Cell sites transmit... | 06/09/1998 |
