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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117452 | System and method for establishing a secure association between a dedicated appliance and a computing platform An apparatus is provided that includes a dedicated appliance operable to interface with a computing platform. A provisioning process may be initiated such that the dedicated appliance responds by monitoring a port for a connection request from the computing platform... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108676 | Link key injection mechanism for personal area networks According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed. The method includes generating a link key at a secure component within a first personal area network device and injecting the link key into a protocol stack component database within the first device. The link key ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099599 | Controlling access to data streams Access to one or more data streams can be controlled by encrypting a description of how segments of the data streams can be assembled, for example, to produce an audio or video program. Access to the one or more data streams can also be provided by obfuscating names... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086858 | Secure method of termination of service notification A method for notifying a client device of termination of at least one service provided to the client device by a server system within an enterprise network is disclosed. The method includes the step of establishing authentication data and notification data, where th... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086857 | Identity-based-encryption messaging system A system is provided that uses identity-based encryption to support secure communications between senders and recipients over a communications network. Private key generators are used to provide public parameter information. Senders encrypt messages for recipients u... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082444 | System and method for adding new network devices to an existing network A system and method for adding a new network device to an existing network is described. An existing network has at least one master network device that acts as the gatekeeper for adding new network devices to the network. The master network device receives a reques... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8046583 | Wireless terminal A wireless terminal stores shared information, which is shared in authentication processing executed between the wireless terminal and an authentication device when the wireless terminal logs on to a first base station. When the connection destination is to be switc... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032752 | Data transmission apparatus, data reception apparatus, and data transfer system A data transmission apparatus, a data reception apparatus, and a data transfer system prevent a case where same usable data is present in plural apparatuses at the same time and can certainly move data, in MOVE processing of the data between the data transmission ap... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8006091 | Method and apparatus to provide failover capability of cached secure sessions A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing failover capability of cached secure sessions is presented. A cached secure session involving a first device and a second device is identified. The cached secure session is encrypted and replicated to a ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001383 | Secure serial number A serial number for a software product is secured with an authenticator value. The authenticator value and the serial number are evaluated entirely by a remote authentication server such that no cryptographic authentication occurs on a local computer on which the so... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7992000 | Session initial protocol identification method A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) authentication method, sends a request message without authentication information to a server end from a client to request for access; sends back a response message, which contains authentication exchange information and DH authen... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7992001 | Preventing execution of software without a dynamically generated key A method, system and computer program product for partitioning the binary image of a software program, and partially removing code bits to create an encrypted software key, to increase software security. The software program's binary image is partitioned along a ran... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987367 | Method and apparatus for key agreement between devices using polynomial ring Provided is a method of key agreement between devices. Using the method, two devices on a network can exchange information using polynomials of a polynomial ring, authenticate each other using the exchanged information, and generate a shared key. Accordingly, an aut... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7987366 | Key management for network elements The invention provides an establishment of a secret session key shared Between two network elements (NEa, NEb) belonging to different network domains (NDa, NDb). A first network element (NEa) of a first network domain (NDa) requests security parameters from an assoc... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984298 | Method, system and authentication centre for authenticating in end-to-end communications based on a mobile network The invention discloses a method for authenticating in end-to-end communications based on a mobile network, applied to a system including a first service entity requesting a service, a second service entity providing the service and an entity authentication centre, ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979707 | Secure seed generation protocol Techniques for secure generation of a seed for use in performing one or more cryptographic operations, utilizing a seed generation protocol carried out by a seed generation client (110c) and a seed generation server (110s). The seed gener... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975140 | Key negotiation and management for third party access to a secure communication session Described are a method and system for establishing a secure communication session with third-party access at a later time. A first communication subsession is established between two original devices using a first key generated by a two-party key and security associ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975141 | Method of sharing bus key and apparatus therefor A method and apparatus of sharing a bus key is provided, the method including receiving at a first device a device key, encrypted using an encryption key, from a storage device; decrypting the encrypted device key using a decryption key corresponding to the encrypti... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7962750 | System for tracking end-user electronic content usage A system, a method and a computer program product for tracking usage of digital content on user devices. A license to play digital content data is transmitted to a user. An user watermark is generated by the user device using watermarking instructions and usage righ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958357 | Network invitation arrangement and method Method and arrangement for enabling communications between an entity operating a network including a first user, and a second user includes sending a message from the first user to the entity informing the entity of identification information of the second user inte... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958356 | System and method for establishing a shared secret among nodes of a security appliance A system and method securely establishes a shared secret among nodes of a security appliance. The shared secret is established by distributing private keys among the nodes in accordance with a node ring protocol that uses a predetermined encryption algorithm to gene... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958355 | Keytote component Systems and methods that facilitate introducing devices having digital characteristics to one another, to mitigate a man-in-the-middle attack. A keytote component supplies initial session keys for communication between devices, and includes a plurality of interfaces... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953978 | Key generation and retrieval using key servers Provided are techniques for key generation and retrieval. Unique identifiers of two or more key servers are stored, wherein each key server is capable of generating keys for encryption of data and of returning keys for decryption of data. A key request is received. ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949876 | Method and nodes for optimized and secure communication between routers and hosts A method, a router and a host are introduced for providing secure communication with limited use of processing intensive cryptographic means. Strong cryptographic keys are first used between the host and the router to sign messages therebetween, thereby ensuring tha... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945780 | Apparatus for dynamically configurable interleaver scheme using at least one dynamically changeable interleaving parameter An apparatus for encrypting and decrypting an original data stream is provided. The apparatus comprises: a key including a key-algorithm, an interleaver having at least one dynamically changeable interleaving parameter, and a de-interleaver adapted to communicate wi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941665 | Device pairing A method embodiment for publishing a PIN for use in establishing a pairing with a printing device, including the printing device generating the PIN in response to a local PIN request. Once the PIN is generated, the printing device prints the PIN. Another method embo... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7921292 | Secure messaging systems A system is provided that uses cryptographic techniques to support secure messaging between senders and recipients. A sender may encrypt a message for a recipient using the recipient's public key. The sender may send the encrypted message to the message address of a... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917758 | TLS tunneling An authentication protocol can be used to establish a secure method of communication between two devices on a network. Once established, the secure communication can be used to authenticate a client through various authentication methods, providing security in envir... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7908481 | Routing data to one or more entities in a network A communications system includes a first network that includes a plurality of entities and a router. The router includes a network address translator. A node is capable of communicating data units with entities in the first network. Each data unit includes security ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908482 | Key confirmed authenticated key exchange with derived ephemeral keys Key confirmed (KC) authenticated key exchange (AKE) with derived ephemeral keys protocol using a mathematical group is described. In one aspect, a first party, using the mathematical group, determines whether a second party has received information to compute an agr... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904717 | Method, apparatus, and manufacture for decryption of network traffic in a secure session A network trace utility is provided. The network trace utility receives and copies packets in a secure session of (at least) two-way network communication between a client and a server. The network trace utility receives an administrator password, and uses a hash of... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900047 | Method and apparatus for encrypting data transmitted over a serial link A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link (for example, a TMDS-like link) in which video data (or other data) are encrypted, the encrypted data are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, and the transmitted data are dec... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895437 | Augmented single factor split key asymmetric cryptography-key generation and distributor To establish credentials, a user network station transmits a first value. An authenticating entity network station generates a first key portion based on the transmitted first value and a second value unknown to the user, splits one of a private key and a public key... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890759 | Connection assistance apparatus and gateway apparatus A connection assistance apparatus avoids unauthorized access and DoS attacks, prevents a performance degradation from occurring, and does not need to recognize different connections to gateway apparatus. An authenticating unit authenticates the validity of a termina... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890760 | Secure method of termination of service notification A method for notifying a client device of termination of at least one service provided to the client device by a server system within an enterprise network is disclosed. The method includes the step of establishing authentication data and notification data, where th... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890758 | Apparatus and method for generating keys in a network computing environment A global key control mechanism provides a single point of overall control for key generation, but portions of the key generation and/or allocation tasks may be delegated to client computer systems, thereby reducing network traffic. The global key control mechanism m... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886150 | System debug and trace system and method, and applications thereof An embedded system or system on chip (SoC) includes a secure JTAG system and method to provide secure on-chip control, capture, and export of on chip information in an embedded environment to a probe. In one embodiment, the system comprises encryption logic associat... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7865730 | Bcencryption (BCE)—a public-key based method to encrypt a data stream A system and method for a web browser to convert an unencrypted character string into a cipher-text string combines a public-key encryption algorithm with a unique and constantly changing salt key. A private “server-key”, a public “client-key” and a server s... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7849316 | Methods and apparatus for secure document printing Methods and apparatus are provided for securely printing a print job on a networked printer. An application program running on a networked computer instructs the printer to generate and exchange cryptographic keys. The application program then encrypts the print job... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840809 | Method and system for secure transmission of an encrypted media stream across a network Embodiments of the invention provide a method and system for sending a session key file encryption key for use in the secure transmission of an encrypted media stream across a network. A logging node receives a double encrypted session key file encryption key. The s... | 11/23/2010 |
