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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181029 | Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for entering secure passwords Apparatus, methods and/or computer program products are provided that facilitate entering secure passwords into a user device. A user requested image is displayed via a display or monitor of a user device. The image is zoomable to one or more higher resolution level... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171300 | Security method and apparatus A method and apparatus for providing password security to an electronic device. Access rights to an electronic device are determined by decrypting and decoding an encrypted password given to one or more individuals. When an individual enters a given encrypted passwo... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171301 | Method and system for integrated securing and managing of virtual machines and virtual appliances Method and system for the integrated securing and managing of virtual machines and virtual appliances are presented. Sealing the virtual appliance at the computer of a sender, verifying authenticity of the sender at a recipient computer and managing the execution of... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8156342 | Progress indicators to encourage more secure behaviors A method for enticing users to behave securely in a computing environment. For security related input, such as selection of password, a progress indicator is provided to the user. The progress indicator correlates to the level of security obtained by the user's entr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145913 | System and method for password protection Disclose are system, method and computer program product for protecting passwords from interception. An example method comprise: intercepting a plurality of data entry events generated by a data entry device, wherein the plurality of data entry events comprise a use... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140854 | User authentication method and user authentication system The present invention is a user verification method and a user verification system, in which a password derivation pattern for each user is pre-registered into a verification server, and when a user is to use the system, the verification server generates a presented... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132018 | Techniques for password attack mitigation Apparatus, system, and method having a first counter to record a number of invalid authentication requests, a first timer to set a first time period based on a value of the first counter, and an authentication module associated with the first counter and the first t... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132017 | Method and apparatus for securely synchronizing password systems A centralized password repository (CPR) provides network users with a password portal through which the user can manage password access to domains and applications on the network. A subset of the domains and applications on the network may be required, by design, to... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8117458 | Methods and systems for graphical image authentication Systems and methods for providing authentication using an arrangement of dynamic graphical images, which may display a popup element while a pointing device indicator is over a graphical image. The graphical images can be arranged as a grid or matrix for presentatio... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112631 | Password input device, computer security system using the same and method thereof A password input device includes a detection module, a recognition module, and an output module. The detection module is configured for detecting angular velocities and accelerations of hand movement. The recognition module includes a conversion unit, a character da... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8090955 | Boot block features in synchronous serial interface NAND Embodiments are provided for protecting boot block space in a NAND memory device connected to a host device via an SPI interface. One such method includes programming a boot block password into the NAND memory device such that the host device is required to provide ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078881 | Password resetting method A system and method for automatically selecting a procedure for resetting an authentication data, such as a password, a PIN, a secret key, or a private key, according to the value of the user data protected by the authentication data and/or the likelihood for the us... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078882 | Methods systems, and computer program products for entering sensitive and padding data using user-defined criteria Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying sensitive data from a user-entered input sequence based on user-defined criteria. According to one method, user-defined criteria for identifying sensitive data within user-entered input se... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8055904 | Systems and methods for software application security management Apparatus and method for managing password information associated with a service account are disclosed. In some embodiments, a service account management system is configured to include a security account utility and a password information data store. In some embodi... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046389 | Automatic data determination In a computing system, a value that a user enters under guidance of a graphical user interface may be received for association with a field of a document. The received value is used to determine a value to be automatically associated with at least another field of t... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041954 | Method and system for providing a secure login solution using one-time passwords A method and system for a secure login solution for users logging into computers and systems that require authentication is provided incorporating one-time passwords. The method and system allows a user to establish a login key combination in relation to a login key... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8024575 | System and method for creation and use of strong passwords The system and method uses user generated questions and answers of multiple levels for added protection from adversaries. There are a first set of question(s) and answer(s) corresponding to the first set of questions as well as a second set of plurality of questions... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024576 | Method and system for authenticating users with a one time password using an image reader A method and system to authenticate users with a one time password by using a visual communication channel. The method and system may include using a device to capture a sequence of images being displayed and decrypt an encrypted one time password contained in the s... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010797 | Electronic apparatus and recording medium storing password input program The present invention relates to password input and contributes to facilitation and acceleration of the input. An electronic apparatus that accepts password input, comprising a displaying unit that includes a plurality of display positions displaying candidate symbo... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006097 | Password generation using genre selection Presently disclosed herein are a method, system, and computer-readable medium for managing a user-defined genre-based password. In one embodiment, the method includes steps for creating a genre-based tree that can be used to prompt a user in remembering a user-creat... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8006096 | Information processing apparatus There is described an information processing apparatus, which makes it possible to discriminate the injustice inputting operation from the input error simply committed by the authorized user, in order to prevent the correct password from being illegally found by the... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7992007 | Dynamic pin pad for credit/debit/ other electronic transactions A method is provided for authenticating debit card transactions engaged in by a cardholder on a communications network. The method includes: a) establishing a connection over the network with a client being used by the cardholder to engage in a transaction on the ne... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7992008 | Systems and methods of securing resources through passwords Disclosed is a method of authorizing access to an item that maintains a lockout count and blocks access to the item if the lockout count exceeds a predetermined value. One feature is that the invention “variably” increments the lockout count if the presented pas... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7958368 | Password-authenticated groups A system, apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium are provided for authorizing a computing node to participate in a group of computing nodes utilizing a shared group password. According to one method described herein, an invitation to join a group is transmi... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949880 | Secure remote password validation A method, system and apparatus for secure password validation can include a local authentication process configured for coupling both to local authentication data and to a remote authentication process. The system also can include a comparator disposed in the local ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949879 | Secure password entry Secure password entry is facilitated by displaying a password prompt comprising a changing stream of random characters, where a particular character within the stream of random characters is displayed at a visibly detectable higher frequency. A user selects a passwo... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945785 | Security of data over a network A method for securing data transmitted over a network to an image display device. In one embodiment, the method may include identifying at least one image display device on the network, selecting the at least one image display device for transmission of data, activa... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941671 | Method and apparatus for accommodating multiple verifier types with limited storage space One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that accommodates different types of verifiers in a computer system. During operation, the system receives a username and a password. The system then computes a verifier based on the password. If the size of ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934101 | Dynamically mitigating a noncompliant password Techniques are disclosed for dynamically mitigating a noncompliant password. The techniques include obtaining a password from a user when the user attempts to access a service; determining whether the password meets quality criteria; and if the password does not mee... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7904729 | Specifying a set of forbidden passwords Various embodiments are described for providing password approval on a device. The password approval includes getting the user password, generating at least one symbolically equivalent password and then comparing the at least one symbolically equivalent password wit... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900053 | User-defined passwords having associated unique version data to assist user recall of the password An electronic device includes password protected functionality using a password that can be changed by the user. A user-specified password is stored in association with unique version data that is subsequently provided to help user recall of the password associated ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895444 | Method and apparatus for preventing illegal access using prohibit key in electronic device A method and an apparatus for preventing illegal access by using a prohibit key in an electronic device, is provided. The method includes determining a variable prohibit key which is dynamically varied according to a predetermined variable factor, if a password is i... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890768 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for entering sensitive and padding data using user-defined criteria Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying sensitive data from a user-entered input sequence based on user-defined criteria. According to one method, user-defined criteria for identifying sensitive data within user-entered input se... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7873835 | Accessing data storage devices Restricting access to a device includes obtaining a passphrase for a user, obtaining access credentials for the user, obtaining a PIN value for the user, one-way encrypting at least the access credentials and the PIN using a secret key provided with the device. The ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865737 | Digital mixer The present invention is directed to a digital mixer that selectively provides audio signal processing functions to a user depending on the authority granted to the user's log-in credentials. The preferred embodiment of the digital mixer includes a mounting unit for... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861090 | Electric conference system and control method thereof In an electric conference system using a large-screen display, presentation in an environment with a plurality of portable terminals connected is not taken into consideration. To do this, a host computer for an electric conference system is arranged to store a membe... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7836310 | Security system that uses indirect password-based encryption An improved system and approaches for protecting passwords are disclosed. A file security system for an organization operates to protect the files of the organization and thus prevents or limits users from accessing some or all of the files (e.g., documents) associa... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831836 | Character position-based password recovery A password recovery technique includes generating words by sequentially selecting a character for each character position of the word from a character string. The order of the characters in the character string is individually selected for each position of the word.... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827410 | System and method for identity validation for a regulated transaction A system and method for performing an identity validation is provided. The invention includes an identity transaction engine component and a communication component. The identity transaction engine component facilitates searching of data store(s) in order to validat... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822991 | Digital combined apparatus, control method therefor, and digital combined apparatus system This invention relates to a digital combined apparatus including an operation panel, a reader/writer which writes/reads data on/from a recording medium, and a controller which controls the operations of the operation panel and reader/writer. When the reader/writer r... | 10/26/2010 |
