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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190910 | Information processing apparatus, information recording medium manufacturing apparatus, and information recording medium A configuration is provided for enabling a process in which appropriate content code corresponding to apparatuses and applications of various model types and versions is selected to be performed. In a configuration in which content code recorded on an information re... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190911 | Entity-identity based security procurement of computer files that are downloadable to an aircraft, method of authentication, and associated system and aircraft A method and system for processing or authenticating an operating computer file of an equipment item installed on board an aircraft. The method includes generating a first private key according to a scheme based on an identity of a first entity, the first private ke... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185748 | Methods and apparatus for facilitating a secure processor functional transition A processor and associated local memory are capable of operative connection to a main memory such that data may be read from the main memory for use in the local memory, and the processor is operable to carry out actions, including: entering a secure mode of operati... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181037 | Application protection systems and methods Application protection systems and methods. The system comprises a security platform device comprising a storage unit and a processing unit. The storage unit comprises a root security key and an application security key. The security platform device receives a uniqu... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181036 | Extrusion detection of obfuscated content Techniques are disclosed that enable extrusion detection (i.e., outgoing confidential information from an enterprise or other entity). The techniques operate to detect outgoing confidential information at the gateway and/or the client, even if that confidential info... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176335 | Removable computer with mass storage The present invention provides a detachable add-on card unit to a host system that combines mass storage capability and a processor on the same card. The card can receive data from the host, process the data, and store it in processed form, as well as the reverse pr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176334 | Document security system that permits external users to gain access to secured files An improved system and approaches for exchanging secured files (e.g., documents) between internal users of an organization and external users are disclosed. A file security system of the organization operates to protect the files of the organization and thus prevent... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176336 | Software trusted computing base A software trusted platform module (sTPM) operates in a hypervisor, receives trust assurances from specialized hardware, and extends this trust such that the hypervisor performs trust attestation. The hypervisor receives a startup sequence validation from a TPM, or ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171308 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The control method includes receiving a broadcast signal into which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling informat... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171307 | Background encryption of disks in a large cluster The invention provides for rekeying a large cluster of storage security appliances which allows more than two of the storage security appliances to proxy a single storage medium while encrypting the storage medium in a manner that is transparent to any attached serv... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171309 | Secure memory controlled access Secure memory controlled access is described. In embodiment(s), memory stores encrypted data and the memory includes a secure memory partition to store cryptographically sensitive data utilized to control access to the encrypted data stored on the memory. Controller... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166312 | Method of individually fitting a hearing device or hearing aid The present invention provides a method of providing parameters for the fitting process of individually shaped or customized hearing devices by collecting and storing fitting parameters during a fitting process by a local fitting computer; generating an individual e... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161293 | Protection of the execution of a program executed by an integrated circuit A method and a circuit for protecting the execution of a program, including initializing at least one counter, carrying on with the normal program execution, interrupting this execution when the counter reaches a given value, and executing at least one integrity che... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156344 | Method and apparatus for backing up and restoring domain information A method of backing up domain information relating to the construction of a domain is provided. In the method, the domain information is encrypted and the encrypted domain information is stored in a predetermined storage device in the domain the encrypted domain inf... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156345 | Method and system for memory attack protection to achieve a secure interface A slave device may receive commands from a host device communicatively coupled to the slave device, via a secure interface configured between the slave device and the host device over that coupling. An integrated memory within the slave device may be configured into... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156343 | Accessing private data about the state of a data processing machine from storage that is publicly accessible According to an embodiment of the invention, a method for operating a data processing machine is described in which data about a state of the machine is written to a location in storage. The location is one that is accessible to software that may be written for the ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151119 | Method and apparatus for secure data mirroring a storage system A secure data mirroring capability in a storage system includes encrypting data blocks in a primary volume in preparation for a data mirroring operation. The encrypted data blocks are mirrored to a secure secondary volume. Host systems provide keys from which encryp... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151118 | Master-slave security devices A computer or other electronic device requiring physical integrity of its components, for example, a pay-per-use computer may use a master security device in communication with a plurality of slave security devices, known as security beans. Each security bean may be... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140857 | Method for selective encryption within documents The present invention allows the user (author or creator) of a document to specify that certain portions of a document be selected for encryption while other portions of the document remain displayed as created. The user could employ a standard word processing edito... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135959 | External key to provide protection to devices An external key device including a test access port connector adapted to mate with a test access port, a test equipment connector adapted to communicatively couple to test equipment, and an external encryption chip adapted to communicate signals through the test acc... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135958 | Method, system, and apparatus for dynamically validating a data encryption operation A method, system, and apparatus for dynamically validating a data encryption operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is provided which comprises decrypting a first sequential data element of a plurality of data elements substantially in parallel with th... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135960 | Multiprocessor electronic circuit including a plurality of processors and electronic data processing system A multiprocessor electronic circuit and an electronic data processing system comprising such circuit are disclosed for reducing the power consumption and the chip area consumption of a multiprocessor system having cryptographic functionality. In one embodiment, the ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135961 | Method and computing device for interfacing with a memory device in operations A method for interacting with a memory device is provided. In this method, a cryptographic communication application is registered to be associated with a protocol type in a web browser. A message encapsulated in the protocol type from the web browser is received an... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132021 | Information processing apparatus, control method therefor and computer-readable storage medium An information processing apparatus has a decrypting part configured to receive decrypting key information from a managing apparatus which manages the decrypting key information for decrypting information to decrypt the information; a monitoring part configured to c... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127146 | Transparent trust validation of an unknown platform A transparent trust validation of an unknown platform can be performed by communicationally coupling it to a trusted device, such as a portable peripheral device carried by a user, or one or more remote computing devices. Information from the unknown platform can be... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127145 | Computer architecture for an electronic device providing a secure file system A secure file service includes a cryptographic processor (302, 602) and a secure file system (301, 601). The cryptographic processor is comprised of a trusted microprocessor and a trusted operating system executing on the trusted cryptographic processo... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117462 | Delivery point validation system Systems and methods consistent with the present invention encode a list so users of the list may make inquiries to the coded list without the entire content of the list being revealed to the users. Once each item in the list has been encoded by an encoder, a bit arr... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112634 | Security-enhanced storage devices using media location factor in encryption of hidden and non-hidden partitions Methods and devices for increasing or hardening the security of data stored in a storage device, such as a hard disk drive, are described. A storage device provides for increased or hardened security of data stored in hidden and non-hidden partitions of a storage me... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112635 | Data-mover controller with plural registers for supporting ciphering operations A data processing system ciphers and transfers data between a first memory unit and a second memory unit, such as, for example, between a share memory architecture (SMA) static random access memory (SRAM) and a double data rate (DDR) synchronous dynamic random acces... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108687 | Method and system for granting access to system and content A method and system for granting access to system and content is provided. A key is provided that allows access by a client computer to content that includes a plurality of resources. A server is accessed and the key is provided to the server. Based on the key, acce... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108688 | Information processing apparatus, method, and program Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that processes content data supplied in a format that has at least a metadata region in which metadata of a content is stored, the apparatus including: acquisition means configured to acquire the content data i... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103882 | Apparatus and method for securing data on a portable storage device A portable storage device including a microprocessor and a secure user data area, the microprocessor operable to perform on-the-fly encryption/decryption of secure data stored on the storage device under a user password, the microprocessor also operable to exclude a... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099607 | Asymmetric crypto-graphy with rolling key security A system for securing information, includes a processor and storage device. The storage device stores information encrypted with one of a first private rolling key and a first public rolling key of an a first asymmetric rolling crypto-key, along with the one first r... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099606 | Data storage apparatus, data providing system and data providing method The data that a user wants are reliably provided, while avoiding any fraudulent use of the provided data. The present invention provides a data storage apparatus to be connected to an external apparatus by way of a predetermined connection interface, the apparatus c... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095800 | Secure configuration of programmable logic device A cryptographic system (100) and methodology executable within the cryptographic system (100) enable the use of a programmable logic device PLD (108) in a single chip cryptographic design flow for secure cryptographic services. Methodology for s... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090956 | Program converting device, secure processing device, computer program, and recording medium To provide a program conversion device capable of executing a program that includes a secret operation using secret information without exposure of the secret information in a memory. In an execution program generation device, with respect to an original program tha... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090957 | Information security device, information security method, computer program, computer-readable recording medium, and integrated circuit The present invention aims to provide an information security apparatus that counters a simple power analysis attack (SPA) on an information security apparatus such as an RSA cryptosystem. The information security apparatus uses a multiplication with 1 in a Montgome... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086870 | Methods and apparatus for hardware normalization and denormalization Methods and apparatus are provided for efficiently normalizing and denormalizing data for cryptography processing. The normalization and denormalization techniques can be applied in the context of a cryptography accelerator coupled with a processor. Hardware normali... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082450 | Method for creating a secure counter on an on-board computer system comprising a chip card According to the inventive method, the chip card, a counting function (FC), a counter (Cpt) and a private key (Cf) stored in the write-only part of the memory region are stored in a persistent memory, the counter and the private key (Cf) being accessible only by the... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074077 | Securing circuit designs within circuit design tools A method of securing a circuit design can include generating a string including a plurality of elements. The plurality of elements can include elements of design information selected from within the circuit design and at least one security element indicating whether... | 12/06/2011 |
