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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170957 | System and method for managing digital interactions A system for managing digital interactions comprising an identity module for creating an identity, wherein the identity includes a unique identifier associated with a first party and a plurality of proposed terms for a relationship with a second party; and a relatio... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8099370 | System for financial documentation conversion A method to prepare an Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) document in a web-hosted server includes authenticating a user, uploading financial information from a spreadsheet, storing the information, and processing the data into an XBRL compliant document ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8055589 | Traceability verification system, method and program for the same A system for enabling verification in traceability of a supply chain while maintaining confidentiality of private suppliers. A group signature is applied to an undisclosed supplier. The undisclosed supplier previously receives registration to the certificate authori... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8001055 | Method, system and apparatus for secure access, payment and identification According to one aspect, the invention provides a system for validating an identity of a user to enable or prevent an occurrence of an event. In one embodiment, the system includes a first device including a wireless transmitter which is configured to transmit valid... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991700 | Entrustee information transmitting apparatus, entrustee information transmitting method and computer readable medium having a program implementing same An entrustee information transmitting method includes an entrustment managing storage storing entrustment relationship information indicating correspondence between entrusters who are voters performing entrustment and entrustees who are voters entrusted by the entru... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7979357 | Electronic commerce method, electronic commerce system, certificate terminal, and principal certification method by agent In order to prevent without fail the abuse of certificate information which are exchanged on a network, an orderer inputs the certificate information to a certificate terminal when placing an order for a commodity, the certificate terminal encrypts the certificate i... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7925593 | Service and method for providing a single point of access for multiple providers' video and audio content A method that uses a computer network to provide a single point of access between a plurality of video & audio devices and a plurality of video & audio content provider systems. The present invention is a method for providing a searchable, aggregated directory view ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7908292 | Metadata broker The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for obtaining selected metadata from a user device. The user device has a metadata engine that stores and accesses metadata in response to a metadata query. A metadata broker verifies the authenticity of the met... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908225 | Intelligent agent with negotiation capability and method of negotiation therewith An intelligent agent and method of negotiating therewith incorporate a number of features, used alone or in combination, to enhance the productivity, security, efficiency and responsiveness of the agent in negotiations with other parties. One feature incorporates ra... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7899755 | Secure system for the issuance, acquisition, and redemption of certificates in a transaction network A transaction network contains a networked certificate authority, by which one or more virtual certificates may be remotely defined and stored, such as by an issuer user through a issuer web portal interface. An acquirer user, through an acquirer web portal interfac... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7882038 | Verification method for operation of encryption apparatus and its application to electronic voting A verification method for encrypter operation and an electronic voting verification system using the same, which can verify the operation of the encrypter without having to execute corresponding decryption. In the verification method, the encrypter creates a plurali... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7835995 | Large capacity data sales mediation server and terminal An animation data sales mediation method, an animation data sales mediation system and so on are capable of providing large capacity data such as animation data by a large capacity storage medium in advance, rendering the time required for transfer of the data via t... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831522 | Evaluating relying parties Determining reputation information is disclosed. A honey token is included in an online identity data. The honey token is to monitor for misuse of all or part of the online identity data. Optionally, information associated with at least one use of the honey token is... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7809652 | Signature based negative list for off line payment device validation At each of a plurality of transit readers of a transit system, for each of a plurality of riders, where each rider seeks to conduct an access transaction with the transit system for access into the transit facility by using a payment device issued by an issuer in a ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801828 | Method and system for detecting identity theft in non-personal and personal transactions A method and system of detecting identity theft is disclosed. The method and system includes receiving identity data, the identity data including at least an address. Then, the address is compared to an external address database to determine whether the address is p... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801829 | Smartcard internet authorization system A system and method are disclosed for conducting electronic commerce such as a virtual purchase transaction with an on-line merchant. A user is provided with an intelligent token, such as a smart card containing a digital certificate. The intelligent token suitably ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7778936 | Business valuation system and method The present method and system relates to processor-based valuations of an entity, such as a business, comprising a best value mode for iteratively generating optimized input elements and calculating an output data set from the optimized input elements that meet the ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7739198 | System and method for remotely authenticating a device in a reward program A reward program directed to registering computer devices and their consumable parts via a computer network generates a unique key code value for each computer device. The key code is generated by a remote server in the computer network and may include appending a s... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729996 | Reuse of an EBP account through alternate authentication A technique for accessing an electronic commerce service is provided in which information associated with a subscriber's account with an electronic commerce service is stored along with first subscriber credentials for that subscriber to access the services. An acco... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725404 | Secure electronic commerce using mutating identifiers Methods and systems for performing electronic commerce using mutating identifiers. One method can include encrypting buyer transaction data with a first mutating identifier, transmitting the buyer transaction data to an authenticator device, decrypting the buyer tra... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7716139 | System and method for verifying digital signatures on certificates A system and method for verifying a digital signature on a certificate, which may be used in the processing of encoded messages. In one embodiment, when a digital signature is successfully verified in a signature verification operation, the public key used to verify... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7620606 | Method and apparatus for secure and small credits for verifiable service provider metering A method and apparatus for obtaining access to services of service providers. In one embodiment, the method comprises requesting a desired service through a foreign service provider. (101), generating a hash tree and generating a digital signature on a root v... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7555465 | Service and method for providing a single point of access for multiple providers' video and audio content A method that uses a computer network to provide a single point of access between a plurality of video & audio devices and a plurality of video & audio content provider systems. The present invention is a method for providing a searchable, aggregated directory view ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7533066 | System and method for biometrically-initiated refund transactions The present invention is a system and method of conducting refund transactions via electronic transaction records. System user transaction information entered into the system is stored in association with user biometric information. Transaction information is retrie... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533065 | Advanced method and arrangement for performing electronic payment transactions The invention relates to a method and arrangement for making electronic purchases. In the method according to the invention, a creditor (11) grants to a customer (10) a certificate provided with an electronic signature, and the customer stores said cer... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7472092 | Money order device with identity verification and method A method of conducting a monetary transaction and system for providing and utilizing a money order device is provided. The method and system utilize a vended money order device that is vended during a vending operation. The money order device is then utilized in a m... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7441116 | Secure resource distribution through encrypted pointers A secure pointer. The secure pointer can include an encrypted pointer to a resource disposed in a communicatively coupled computing device. The secure pointer also can include a network address of a server computing device able to locate the resource based upon a de... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7420474 | Idiosyncratic emissions fingerprinting method for identifying electronic devices A method of producing idiosyncratic electronic emissions fingerprints from an electronic device is disclosed wherein emissions produced by the electronic device are collected and converted into one or more digital electronic fingerprints. The method contemplates a v... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421740 | Managing user authorizations for analytical reporting based on operational authorizations Transactional access control information extracted from a transactional data source and used by a transactional application program is received at an analytical application program used for analytical processing. Each entry in the transactional access control inform... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7412423 | Charging system and charging method A user, in requesting a service provider to provide predetermined service, sends to a service provider data and signature data created based upon the data. The service provider calculates a fee based upon this data and requests a bank to collect the fee from the use... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412420 | Systems and methods for enrolling a token in an online authentication program An online transaction system configured to implement authentication methods that allow for strong multi-factor authentication in online environments. The authentication methods can be combined with strong security methods to further ensure that the authentication pr... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409553 | Public key certificate generation method, validation method and apparatus thereof A public key certificate generation method includes the steps of: sending a certificate issuing request including a registration contents of a public key certificate and an information content guaranteed by the registration authority, to the issuing authority in a r... | 08/05/2008 |
| RE40444 | Four-party credit/debit payment protocol A method, system, program, and method of doing business are disclosed for electronic commerce that includes the feature of a “thin” consumer's wallet by providing issuers with an active role in each payment. This is achieved by adding an issuer gateway and movin... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7395246 | Delegating digital credentials The system includes receiving, from a delegator, a designation of a role and a delegate to assume the role, receiving, from a credential service provider, an indication that the designation is valid, issuing a delegation credential in response to receiving the indic... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386518 | Method and system for facilitating transactions A system for facilitating a transaction between a first party and a second party is controlled by a trusted third party system and is programmed to carry out the method by receiving the first party's instructions for fulfilling at least a part of the first party's o... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7372594 | Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium A pattern which does not appear at a flat portion in normal binarization processing is set as a code pattern, and a code formed from this pattern is attached. At this time, code attachment with little degradation in image quality is implemented by selecting an unnot... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370270 | XML schema evolution A technique for evolving XML schemas is disclosed. The technique involves methods for performing schema manipulating operations and for validating the schema changes so that the current XML documents remain valid against the new schema. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370199 | System and method for n-way authentication in a network A method of controlling information exposure in a multiparty transaction includes an originating transaction participant cryptographically encoding all information for each of the transaction participants such that a unique data content and encryption are used for e... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366695 | Electronic purchase method and funds transfer system An electronic transaction method, funds transfer apparatus and method for facilitating a funds transfer. The methods comprise sending information from a purchaser or payor to a funds transfer system separate from a vendor system or payee, validating and confirming p... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366719 | Method for the manipulation, storage, modeling, visualization and quantification of datasets There is described a method for manipulation, storage, modeling, visualization, and quantification of datasets, which correspond to target strings. An iterative algorithm is used to generate comparison strings corresponding to some set of points that can serve as th... | 04/29/2008 |
