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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117442 | Data processor A data processor is connected to and communicating with an external device having at least one predetermined communication/authentication method. A first assigning unit assigns a first level of priority to each combination having a plurality of first type methods in... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8095791 | Distributed processing system, distributed processing method and image processing apparatus A distributed storage system implements high-speed data reconstitution processing while ensuring a high security level. Devices (63) in a device group (51) with security level “low” distributedly store fragmented data. When a process requesting dev... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8078870 | HTTP-based authentication A system and method for authenticating an HTTP message. A relying party may respond to a request from a requester by sending an HTTP message with authentication specifications to the requester. The requester responds with a new request that adheres to a scheme speci... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078869 | System and method of protecting data on a communication device A system and method of protecting data on a communication device are provided. Data received when the communication device is in a first operational state is encrypted using a first cryptographic key and algorithm. When the communication device is in a second operat... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8060744 | Computer architecture for an electronic device providing single-level secure access to multi-level secure file system Method for providing a single level secure (SLS) user processor (402, 502) with access to a multi-level secure (MLS) file system (300). The method begins by authenticating a user to a cryptographic processor (302) by communicating one or more ty... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041947 | Computer architecture for an electronic device providing SLS access to MLS file system with trusted loading and protection of program execution memory System for providing a secure file service includes an MLS file service module (300) comprised of a cryptographic processor (302). The MLS file service module also includes an MLS file system (301) hosted by the cryptographic processor. A secure... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041946 | Data transfer between networks operating at different security levels A secure network server wherein both the forwarding process and the receiving process are created upon connection initialization, and the receiving process is held off from communicating with the source host until the forwarding process has created a connection with... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8024565 | Authorizing information flows Authorizing information flows between devices of a data processing system is provided. In one illustrative embodiment, an information flow request is received from a first device to authorize an information flow from the first device to a second device. The informat... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019992 | Method for granting user privileges in electronic commerce security domains An electronic commerce system supports web sites including on-line stores that are accessible by a set of customers and organizations to which stores may belong. Organizations may be defined in accordance with a tree structure. Users accessing a web site are provide... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015205 | Method and system for implementing and managing an enterprise identity management for distributed security An Enterprise Identity Management system includes a registration component, an ownership component, and an audit component. The registration component is configured to associate a user ID with specific accounts that are accessible via a computer system. The ownershi... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8001377 | Methods and apparatus for secure data processing and transmission Methods and apparatus provide for placing an apparatus into at least one of a plurality of operational modes, wherein: the apparatus includes a local memory, a bus operable to carry information to and from the local memory, one or more arithmetic processing units op... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7984294 | Method and apparatus for trust based routing in data networks A method and apparatus determine a trust level of a path through a plurality of routers by an endpoint by transmitting a path setup message requesting a path reservation for a first path through a subset of the routers, by receiving in response to transmission of th... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979702 | Protecting privacy of networked devices containing management subsystems In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a decommission command from a management console, determining that the decommission command is authentic, and disabling the manageability functions of a management subsystem on a managed device. ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7962746 | Computer system and program creating device A mobile telephone includes a CPU that obtains and decodes instructions included in an OS, a nonsecure program, a switch device driver, and a secure program, and operates according to the decoding results. A memory includes a controlled area and an uncontrollable ar... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958351 | Method and apparatus for multi-level security implementation A method of operating a multi-level security system including the steps of providing a plurality of processors. At least some of said processors are equipped with a data card which permits simultaneous processing of different classification levels of information and... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7941661 | Method of testing validity of authentication IC A method in which a test function is called in a system's internal authentication IC multiple times with a known incorrect value such that, if the internal IC is invalid, an expected invalid response is not generated and, otherwise, the internal IC generates a secre... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934092 | Electronic device having improved security An electronic device comprising an embedded computer system is provided. The device comprises a processor supporting a real-time operating system (RTOS). The processor further supports user and supervisor modes. The computer system is programmed such that only code ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7934093 | Assigning security levels to a shared component Security levels are assigned to a shared component. A workflow manager receives a workflow request that corresponds to a plurality of workflow steps. For each workflow step, the workflow manager determines whether the workflow step uses a shared component or an unsh... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925880 | Authentication and authorization architecture for an access gateway A telecommunications architecture exposes telecommunications services to third parties through a secure access gateway. The third parties may be other telecommunications service providers who employ the services to support their own products and services. The access... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921288 | System and method for providing different levels of key security for controlling access to secured items With files secured by encryption techniques, keys are often required to gain access to the secured files. Techniques for providing and using multiple levels of keystores for securing the keys are disclosed. The keystores store keys that are needed by users in order ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921289 | Secure compartmented mode knowledge management portal A layered defense-in-depth knowledge-based data management comprises a reception zone for authenticating a user for access to the system and an operations zone for adjudicating on a user level access to data objects stored in the system database. In addition, the da... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917753 | Transferring control between programs of different security levels Systems and methods for transferring control between programs of different security levels are described herein. Some embodiments include a processor capable of operating at one or more security levels including a first and a second security level, a memory system c... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7890755 | High-assurance web-based configuration of secure network server A secure network server having an embedded Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server that is not within its trusted security functionality and that is used to configure the SNS security and networking features. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886148 | Secure execution of a computer program Hijacking of an application is prevented by securing execution of a computer program on a computing system. Prior to execution of the computer program, the computer program is analyzed to identify permitted targets of all indirect transfers. An application-specific ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7870387 | Program-based authorization Techniques which allow definition and enforcement of program-based action authorization policies. On a computer, an action or execution attempt is intercepted in real-time. The subject process, the program file of the subject process, the attempted action and the ob... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865726 | Method and system for dynamic adjustment of computer security based on network activity of users A method, system, apparatus, or computer program product is presented for securing computational resources in a data processing system. A first user uses a first computational device, and a user security level is associated with the first user. Likewise, a second us... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865724 | Telecommunication terminal comprising two execution spaces The invention relates to a user interface-equipped computing device comprising means for implementing a series of applications, said means including two execution spaces. According to the invention, the applications of the second execution space (100, P1, ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865725 | Printing device capable of authorizing printing limitedly according to user level, printing system using the same and printing method thereof A printing device which authorizes a printing limitedly according to a user level, a printing system using the same and a printing method thereof. The printing device includes an interface part receiving a printing data requested by a user and a security level of th... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7853786 | Rules engine architecture and implementation A system for customer data privacy management is provided. The system includes a data store having customer data and privacy rules associated with the customer data, a rules engine that limits access to the customer data, an application to provide a service related ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844817 | Ensuring quality of service in a communications network A network access device checks communication data flows coming into a network for specific authorization information. The quality of service class (QOS) with which a flow is retransmitted from the network access device through the network is determined by the result... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7831826 | Method and system for distributing security policies A method and system for distributing and enforcing security policies is provided. A firewall agent executing at a host computer system that is to be protected receives security policies for the enforcement engines responsible for enforcing the security policies on t... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822620 | Determining website reputations using automatic testing An aspect of the present invention relates to methods and systems involving automatically generating a third party assessment of a website's reputation, and storing an indicia of the assessment in a format and location that may be accessible by a client computing fa... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7814319 | Device and method for information communication, system and method for supporting information exchange and human relation fostering, and computer program Face-to-face information exchange and fostering of human relations implemented by communication through the virtual world are favorably supported. A user's personal information or other real-world information related to the user is taken one after another into a por... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809751 | Authorization controlled searching Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for authorization controlled searching. In general, a search request is received, a database data structure is searched where the data structure is populated with records that include data and criteria for ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7797342 | Database system providing encrypted column support for applications A database system providing encrypted column data support with decrypt default functionality. In a database system, a method providing automated encryption support for column data comprises steps of: defining Structured Query Language (SQL) extensions for creating a... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7779255 | Multi-level security systems Techniques are disclosed for multi-level security (“MLS”) in computing systems. Communication between MLS systems in the prior art requires explicitly tagging each packet with its security classification. The packet tags comprise variable-length bit patterns ins... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7779254 | Mechanism to enhance and enforce multiple independent levels of security in a microprocessor memory and I/O bus controller The present invention is a system and a method for extending multiple independent levels of security to a plurality of input/output buses and components connected to the buses. In an exemplary embodiment, the system may include a processing unit suitable for operati... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774601 | Method for delegated administration A system and method for providing a containment model of role capabilities wherein a parent role can obtain the capabilities of its child role(s). ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7761708 | Method and framework for integrating a plurality of network policies A method and system is disclosed for managing and implementing a plurality of network policies in a network device. Each of the plurality of policies are defined by one or more filters. The filters are installed in a policy engine. A layer identifies the network pol... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761707 | Recording medium, content player, content player method, and computer program To provide a recording medium on which an entire piece of decryption information that is required to be highly secure is recorded while being kept secure even when it is larger in data size than the storage capacity of an area originally intended for recording it. | 07/20/2010 |
