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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190923 | Method to securely initialize, protect and recover system date/time The claimed method and system monitors computer system timer(s) relative to other timers to detect discrepancies and/or may capture an offset to provide a method of more accurately determining a current time. The invention may also provide a method to detect power s... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8181040 | Program execution device A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first p... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8122263 | Application executing device, managing method, and program A BD-ROM stores a disc root certificate 301 that is issued by a root certificate authority and assigned to the disc medium. An application manger 2 acquires a hash value from the disc root certificate 301 and verifies the authenticity of an appl... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112639 | Methods, systems and computer program products for detecting tampering of electronic equipment based on constrained time to obtain computational result Tampering of electronic equipment may be detected by instructing the electronic equipment to perform at least one computational operation at the electronic equipment, such as hashing of at least some of the memory of the electronic equipment, to produce a result. Th... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8090962 | System and method for protecting assets using wide area network connection A system, method, and program product is provided that detects whether a network adapter has been removed from a computer system. If the network adapter, such as a wireless network adapter, has been removed from the computer system, then a tamper evident indicator (... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8074083 | Controlling download and playback of media content Systems and methods provide for controlling download and playback of media content. A system includes a client, which can play content, and a server. The server includes a permission system that can determine whether a client request to download or play content shou... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074081 | Method for replacing contents of a data storage unit A data storage device includes a plurality of data storage units, a physical random number generator with a noise source based on a physical noise process, for generating a random number, and a replacer for selecting a data storage unit wherein data is to be stored,... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074082 | Anti-tamper module An anti-tamper module is provided for protecting the contents and functionality of an integrated circuit incorporated in the module. The anti-tamper module is arranged in a stacked configuration having multiple layers. A connection layer is provided for connecting t... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8060758 | Item tracing with supply chain secrecy using RFID tags and an identity-based encryption scheme A method for tracing an item may include encrypting item information using an identity-based encryption scheme with a batch number for an item as an encryption key and communicating the encrypted item information for storage on a radio frequency identification (RFID... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055913 | Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection The present invention provides systems and methods for electronic commerce including secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers employed in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that informa... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8037321 | Method and apparatus for the secure storage of audio signals In one embodiment, a method, system and apparatus for recording audio is provided so that the recording can be authenticated. The system may be implemented as a central server that is accessed via one or more lines for audio communication, or as a stand-alone unit. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028174 | Controlling update of content of a programmable read-only memory To control update of content in a programmable read-only memory in a system, the security status associated with the system is determined, where the security status is one of a secure mode and non-secure mode. In response to detecting that the system is in secure mo... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8006103 | TPM device for multi-processor systems In one embodiment, a computer system comprises at least a first computing cell and a second computing cell, each computing cell comprising at least one processor, at least one programmable trusted platform management device coupled to the processor via a hardware pa... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7971072 | Secure exchange of IP cores A method and system are disclosed. The system includes a trusted loader. The method includes downloading an IP core from a vendor to a target device. The IP core is received in an encrypted form at the target device, which can be, for example, a programmable logic d... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962766 | Method and system for encryption-based design obfuscation for an integrated circuit Encryption-based design obfuscation for an integrated circuit includes creating multiple functional circuit paths for an integrated circuit design and selecting among the multiple functional circuit paths during scan testing. Encrypting selection data corresponding ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962767 | Integrated circuit having obscured state change circuitry An integrated circuit is provided having first and second circuitry which are configured to emit light when undergoing changes in state. The first and second circuitry being operated to change state at the same time so as to hinder optical detection of the light emi... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953988 | Modular tamper resistant enclosure for secure systems An active membrane creates a secure area around one or more devices. The active membrane forms a physical barrier between the encased secure area and an external environment. Linked to the membrane and acting as the sole interface between the secure area and the out... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953989 | Secure transaction microcontroller with tamper control circuitry A high security microcontroller (such as in a point of sale terminal) includes tamper control circuitry for detecting vulnerability conditions: a write to program memory before the sensitive financial information has been erased, a tamper detect condition, the enabl... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953987 | Protection of secure electronic modules against attacks A method and apparatus is disclosed for preventing the unintended retention of secret data caused by preferred state/burn-in in secure electronic modules. Sequentially storing the data and its inverse on alternating clock cycles, and by actively overwriting it to de... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945792 | Tamper reactive memory device to secure data from tamper attacks Systems and methods that can facilitate securing data associated with a memory from tampering are presented. A counter tamper component can detect tamper attacks or tamper attempts associated with a memory and/or data stored therein or associated therewith and react... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937596 | Adaptable microcontroller based security monitor A method is provided for protecting embedded cryptographic processing circuits (112, 114), software and data, contained within electronic equipment. The method involves monitoring with a first processing device (210) embedded in the electronic equipmen... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930563 | Reliability platform configuration measurement, authentication, attestation and disclosure A platform configuration measurement device including: a configuration register; means for executing extension processing in which a predetermined operation is performed on a content of the configuration register by using a given additional value, a hash value is ob... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925897 | System, method and apparatus for controlling the dissemination of digital works A system, business methodology and apparatus for facilitating controlled dissemination of digital works is disclosed. An audio and video organizer, entertainment, and communication unit that plays back audio and video media content received from a central storage se... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925898 | Systems and methods using cryptography to protect secure computing environments Secure computation environments are protected from bogus or rogue load modules, executables and other data elements through use of digital signatures, seals and certificates issued by a verifying authority. A verifying authority—which may be a trusted independent ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921305 | Portable information terminal and data protecting method Even if a portable information terminal is lost or stolen, a third party is prevented from illegally browsing data stored in the portable information terminal. When a control signal is received through wireless communication part and when the received control signal... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7913097 | Fiscal data recorder programmed to write only non-blank values to memory A fiscal data recorder for storing transaction related data in a point of sale system is provided with a processing unit receiving the transaction related data. Memory in communication with the processing unit is operable to store the transaction related data. A pro... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908492 | Method for using a compact disk as a smart key device A data processing method accepts a removable storage media, which becomes electrically engaged with a system unit within the data processing system, after which the removable storage media and the hardware security unit mutually authenticate themselves. The removabl... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7900064 | Encrypted debug interface In one embodiment, a system comprises application-specific functionality, debug functionality, and a debug interface communicatively coupled to the debug functionality to communicatively couple the system to a debug device. The debug functionality encrypts data tran... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7886163 | Authentication protocol with memory integrity verification The invention relates to a method of supplying a private quantity (s) in an integrated circuit involved in an authentication procedure by means of an external device that takes said private quantity into account. In order to verify the integrity of said memory eleme... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7861097 | Secure implementation and utilization of device-specific security data A tamper-resistant electronic circuit is configured for implementation in a device. The electronic circuit securely implements and utilizes device-specific security data during operation in the device, and is basically provided with a tamper-resistantly stored secre... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853805 | Anti-tamper system The present invention relates to an anti-tamper system. The system comprises a circuit pathway having a unique, programmable, evolved chip in the pathway. The chip has logic units with transistors having fixed parameters. The chip has route lengths and connections b... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853806 | Original, data circulation method, system, apparatus, and computer readable medium An original data circulation system for storing or circulating original data which is digital information is provided. The original data circulation system includes an issuer apparatus, a user apparatus and a collector apparatus. The issuer apparatus generates origi... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844836 | Method and apparatus for using an IC to facilitate downloading content A method and apparatus for using an integrated circuit card to facilitate downloading reusable content from a server into a terminal. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of verifying that an entitlement contained in the integrated circuit card is correct fo... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7844837 | Electronic device and timer therefor with tamper event time stamp features and related methods An electronic timer may include a clock reference signal generator and a real time clock (RTC) circuit for generating real time data based upon the clock reference signal. The RTC circuit may include a plurality of registers each for storing a respective bit of the ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7809959 | Countermeasure method in a microcircuit, microcircuit therefore and smart card comprising said microcircuit A countermeasure method for a microcontroller that executes sequences of instructions. The instructions are executed according to a pipeline method. At least one waiting time is randomly introduced between two consecutive instructions and/or within at least one inst... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7802112 | Information processing apparatus with security module An information processing apparatus includes a TPM, a key management module for managing a key database, a memory, and a file processing module for encrypting and decrypting a file. The TPM stores a first TPM key therein and encrypts a third TPM key. The key managem... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797553 | Memory device The present invention provides a memory device that can safely hold much data necessary for using an Application (AP) therein. In the present invention, a memory device includes a first tamper resistant memory 41 that cannot be accessed directly by an electro... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7797554 | Original data circulation method, system, apparatus, and computer readable medium An original data circulation system for storing or circulating original data which is digital information is provided. The original data circulation system includes an issuer apparatus, a user apparatus and a collector apparatus. The issuer apparatus generates origi... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7783901 | Network security device and method The invention describes a method for hardening a security mechanism against physical intrusion and substitution attacks. A user establishes a connection between a network peripheral device and a network via a security mechanism. The security mechanism includes read ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779275 | Communication of information via an in-band channel using a trusted configuration space Communication of information via an in-band channel using a trusted configuration space is provided. The introduction of using a trusted configuration space associated with a computer bus system, such as PCI Express® (PCIe™), for example, enables the design of tr... | 08/17/2010 |
