Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7437752 | Client architecture for portable device with security policies In a particular embodiment, a client module is deployed on a wireless device. The client module comprises a policy database including a list of authorized devices to which the wireless device may communicate. In another embodiment, the client module comprises a poli... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426746 | Location privacy in a communication system A mechanism for providing a mobile node with reliable information for location privacy decisions in connection with an address update process that gives the correspondent node a chance to deduce the location of the mobile node is provided. According to one embodimen... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7412058 | Digital receiver and method for receiving secure group data A method and radio receiver are provided for receiving and deciphering RF signals having encrypted data information relevant to the receiver environment. According to one aspect of the present invention, the receiver includes an input for receiving an RF signal havi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403622 | Process for managing a symmetric key in a communication network and devices for the implementation of this process A symmetric key management process in a communication network comprising a source device furnished with a source of data to be broadcast over the network and at least one receiver device intended to receive the broadcast data. The process comprises: determining and ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7380124 | Security transmission protocol for a mobility IP network The present invention supports a secure transmissions protocol for information packet transmission between a Mobile Node and a Foreign Agent. The information packets are encrypted and decrypted using an integrated software client that combines mobile IP communicatio... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372963 | Device for compression and encryption, and device for decompression and decryption To reduce processing load or processing time required for compression and encryption of data. Data to be compressed, such as image data, is divided into specified block sizes by am image divider (10). A quantizer (12) references a quantization table ( | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372960 | Method and apparatus for performing finite field calculations In general terms, the invention provides a finite field engine and methods for operating on elements in a finite field. The finite field engine provides finite field sub-engines suitable for any finite field size requiring a fixed number of machine words. The engine... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366306 | Programmable logic device that supports secure and non-secure modes of decryption-key access Described are programmable logic devices that decrypt proprietary configuration data using on-chip decryption keys. The keys are stored in a key memory that can be operated in a secure mode or a non-secure mode. The non-secure mode allows the decryption keys to be r... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356688 | System and method for document distribution Methods for transferring among key holders in encoding and cryptographic systems the right to decode and decrypt messages in a way that does not explicitly reveal decoding and decrypting keys used and the original messages. Such methods are more secure and more effi... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353392 | Method and configuration for mutual authentication of two data processing units A method and a configuration are described for mutual authentication of two data processing units. The mutual authentication of two data processing units is normally carried out in two separate authentication processes, which are carried out successively. A challeng... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350230 | Wireless security module A wireless security module (20) adapted to authenticate a mobile device (16), such as a mobile telephone, thereby to allow communication between the mobile device and a terminal (12), such as a self-service terminal. The wireless security module... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349532 | Picture and video message center system A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342513 | Aircraft interior wireless communications system A wireless communications system suitable for use within an aircraft, such as a part of a wireless emergency lighting system (WELS) is provided. In an aircraft, EXIT signs are located throughout the interior of the aircraft, including the ceiling (general illuminati... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343351 | Methods and apparatus for conducting electronic transactions A system and method for conducting electronic commerce are disclosed. In various embodiments, the electronic transaction is a purchase transaction. A user is provided with an intelligent token, such as a smartcard containing a digital certificate. The intelligent to... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343487 | Datacast distribution system According to the present invention there is provided a datacast distribution system which allows for the distribution of movies, music, games, application software, and the like using a new or existing terrestrial digital video broadcast (DVB-T) network. ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7330968 | Communication network system having secret concealment function, and communication method The present invention provides a communication network system having a central management device and a plurality of local area network systems. Each of the plurality of local area network systems has a router and a terminal. The central management device encrypts a ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324805 | Scheme for registration and authentication in wireless communication system using wireless LAN In the disclosed registration and authentication scheme, in the case of carrying out the registration and authentication of a wireless terminal with respect to a wireless base station provided inside the home, for example, a user of the wireless terminal must direct... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325049 | Alert management messaging Techniques are described for providing alert management messages in a broadcast environment to individual recipients or to identifiable groups of recipients. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7310416 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A system for adding or updating contact data in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown. Contact data associated with actual or potential communicants may be entered into a database in the wireless comm... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305076 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system A wireless information communication system and method, such as a paging network, that provides caller identification information transmitted from the public switched telephone network to a pager, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a portable computing device, or per... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296159 | Key distribution in a conditional access system Methods and apparatus for key distribution in a conditional access system, assuming that the set of all user nodes which the system can accommodate is a complete set, and a subset is composed of all user nodes or part of user nodes. One method comprises: decomposing... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289630 | Counter initialization, particularly for radio frames A method for protecting traffic in a radio access network connected to at least two core networks. The method includes maintaining a core-network-specific authentication protocol and a radio-bearer-specific ciphering process, and generating, for each ciphering proce... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286665 | System and method for transferring the right to decode messages Methods for transferring among key holders in encoding and cryptographic systems the right to decode and decrypt messages in a way that does not explicitly reveal decoding and decrypting keys used and the original messages. Such methods are more secure and more effi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286658 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A method for use in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown in which Caller ID data originating from the public switched telephone network or other caller identifying data is received in a paging signal... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284133 | Information processing unit An information processing unit and methods therefore which render it more difficult to infer information being processed within an information processing unit by observing the unit's current consumption or electromagnetic radiation. Specifically, the information pro... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266186 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system Contact data in a phonebook database for a personal communication device are remotely updateable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a wireless radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are inpu... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257545 | Configurable electronic redeemable coupon A scannable coupon, such as a bar code, is generated on a configurable display of a portable electronic device, such as a personal digital assistant, handheld computer, or mobile telephone. The display has sufficient resolution and contrast to be scanned at a point-... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257210 | Picture phone with caller id Pictures are transmitted to a wireless picture phone with caller ID from a message originator and used by the message recipient to identify who is to sending the picture. In one embodiment the pictures are sent to a message center along with the caller ID of the mes... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254223 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251318 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems An apparatus and method provide a database in a pager that contains menus that may be displayed on a pager display. A paging service sends a page including an identification, retrieves a menu from the pager database and displays the menu. The pager responds to the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249377 | Method for client delegation of security to a proxy A method of enabling a proxy to participate in a secure communication between a client and a server. The method begins by establishing a first secure session between the client and the proxy. Upon verifying the first secure session, the method continues by establish... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239865 | Proxy authentication for tethered devices Methods and apparatus are presented herein for allowing a wireless communication device to perform a proxy authentication on behalf of a tethered device. ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233770 | Communications system using separate receive and transmit frequency hopping hopsets A system communicates with a mobile radio and includes a repeater that is operative for transmitting and receiving communications signals on respective first and second frequency hopping hopset. A mobile radio receives a communication signal from the repeater on the... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7224749 | Method and apparatus for reducing re-radiation using techniques of universal frequency translation technology Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal, and applications thereof are described herein. Reducing or eliminating DC offset voltages and re-radiation generated when down-converting an electromagnet... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224801 | Wireless secure device A method and apparatus for securely connecting one or more wireless peripheral devices such as keyboards, mice, gamepads, remote controllers, joysticks and one or more host systems such as personal computers or workstations, the secure connection reducing the vulner... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216226 | Unique and secure identification of a networked computing node A method and apparatus for unique and secure identification of a computing service node. The service node is coupled to an administrative node and to a certificate authority node via a computer network. The administrative and certificate authority nodes have respect... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215777 | Sending notification through a firewall over a computer network Methods and systems for efficiently sending notification of the occurrence of events through a firewall. A client system operating inside a firewall, attempts to receive notification of the occurrence of events from a server system operating outside the firewall. Th... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206933 | Software modem with privileged mode driver authentication A computer system includes a peripheral device and a processing unit. The processing unit is adapted to execute a driver for interfacing with the peripheral device in a standard mode of operation and an authentication agent in a privileged mode of operation, wherein... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203480 | Wireless data service apparatus and method in broadcast mobile communication system A system for broadcasting wireless data service in a mobile communication system includes sending a request call for a wireless data service from a mobile terminal to a mobile switching center, identifying whether the terminal is registered in the mobile switching c... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7194765 | Challenge-response user authentication A challenge-response user-authentication procedure masks an authentication center's expected response (XRES) utilizing a masking function (ƒ) and by transmitting a random challenge and a masked expected response (XRES′) instead of the XRES to an intermediate part... | 03/20/2007 |
