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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189587 | Routing table lookup algorithm employing search key having destination address and interface component A routing table lookup algorithm is described that, for a first outbound packet, performs a first route lookup into the routing table with a first search key that includes the first packet's destination address and a first network interface identifier, and, for a se... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189679 | Content receiving apparatus, method of controlling video-audio output timing and content providing system The present invention can reliably adjust the lip-sync between an video and audio at a decoder side, without making the viewer feel strangeness. In this invention, the encoded video frames to which video time-stamps VTS are attached and the encoded audio fram... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7889752 | Dual ported network physical layer A switching physical layer (PHY) device comprises a first termination network, a switching transmitter, and a switching receiver. The first termination network communicates with a first network connector. The switching transmitter includes first and second outputs, ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7852849 | Providing dynamic quality of service for virtual private networks Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing dynamic Quality of Service (QoS) for connections to virtual private networks (VPNs) are provided. The method receives a message from an organization associated with the VPN, wherein the message includes i... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7720093 | Modulation multiplexing Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to communications. The systems and techniques involve communicating over a physical channel having a plurality of modulation channels each having a channel capacity by allocating a plurality of data streams among the mod... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7680130 | Method for finding resource and service in network and relay node apparatus In a method for finding a resource and a service conducted in each of relay node relaying a frame, a search table is maintained to register more than one node providing a resource or a service, when an access request including an identification identifying the resou... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7616638 | Wavefront detection and disambiguation of acknowledgments One or more flow control modules, implemented on various types of network topologies, provide a number of functionalities for controlling the flow of IP packets (such as TCP/IP packets) over a network connection. The flow control modules may be implemented within a ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7599379 | Registering stations between protocols A wireless system including a first network protocol, a second network protocol, and an interoperability node. The interoperability node operable on the system to register a station pending registration at one of the network protocols. ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599491 | Method for strengthening the implementation of ECDSA against power analysis A method of inhibiting the disclosure of confidential information through power analysis attacks on processors in cryptographic systems. The method masks a cryptographic operation using a generator G. A secret value, which may be combined with the generator G to for... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7564973 | Digital watermark embedding device and digital watermark embedding method A digital watermark embedding device and method uses block correlation to perform motion detection on temporally sequential digital video signals after performing preprocessing such as division into blocks. The device and method evaluate a plurality of motion inform... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7536558 | Flash memory distribution of digital content Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for distributing digital content. One embodiment comprises an apparatus comprising: a device (100) communications bus; coupled to the device communications bus (150), a bi-directional communications con... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7461250 | System and method for certificate exchange In an embodiment of a system and method according to the present invention, a chain of one or more certificates certifying a principal's public key is exchanged for a single substitute certificate. The substitute certificate is used as a replacement for the certific... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461396 | System and method for providing a secure environment for performing conditional access functions for a set top box A system and method are provided for decrypting a selected program. The system and method can receive at least one authorization message and at least one control message associated with a selected program. The system and method stores the at least one authorization ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461403 | System and method for providing passive screening of transient messages in a distributed computing environment A system and method includes passive screening of transient messages in a distributed computing environment. A transient packet stream is passively monitored at a network boundary. Incoming datagrams structured in compliance with a network protocol layer are receive... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461262 | Methods and apparatus for providing security in a caching device The invention is directed to techniques, in a caching device, for providing content, comprising the steps of obtaining content from an origin server, observing an access identifier provided by the origin server in response to a first content request, the access iden... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460669 | Encoding, decoding and communication method and apparatus An encoding method, decoding method and a communication method using single photons where information is directly encoded into each photon. In one embodiment at least two out of the three parameters of phases, polarization, and energy are used to encode information.... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457950 | Managed authentication service A managed authentication service provides relying parties an out-sourced authentication service for verifying the identity of online visitors. The service provides real-time, managed authentication and usage monitoring, multiple identity confirmation levels and a hi... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454621 | Processing copy protection signals The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for recording an information signal with first copy protection information to a storage medium using recording means, the recording being performed according to first copy rules identified by the first copy protec... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454020 | System and method for encrypting data in pictorial data An encryption scheme that uses steganography includes an encryption algorithm that encrypts messages by embedding them in a data stream in such a way that an adversary cannot get information about the messages. Since the embedding is the only computation required, t... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454784 | System and method for identity verification A system and method to verify a user's identity in an Internet-related transaction. One system and method use a personal computer having identification information, a card reader, and a personal identification card having access information, to verify a user's ident... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451324 | Secure execution mode exceptions A method and system for handling a security exception. The method includes creating a security exception stack frame in secure memory at a base address. The method also includes writing a faulting code sequence address and one or more register values into the securi... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450719 | Gigabit Ethernet-based passive optical network and data encryption method A Gigabit Ethernet-based passive optical network that can reliably transmit data is disclosed. The network includes an OLT for receiving a public key through a transmission medium, encrypting a secret key by means of the received public key, transmitting the encrypt... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448068 | Automatic client authentication for a wireless network protected by PEAP, EAP-TLS, or other extensible authentication protocols The present invention is directed at providing a system and method for Automatic Client Authentication for a Wireless Network protected by PEAP, EAP-TLS, or other Extensible Authentication Protocols. The user doesn't have to understand the difference between the pro... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444515 | Method and apparatus for detecting predefined signatures in packet payload using Bloom filters The present invention relates to a method and apparatus based on Bloom filters for detecting predefined signatures (a string of bytes) in a network packet payload. A Bloom filter is a data structure for representing a set of strings in order to support membership qu... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444666 | Multi-domain authorization and authentication A method of multi-domain authorization/authentication on a computer network comprises: a user making a request to a policy enforcement point of a computer for access to information on the computer; providing a location address for a user's authorization and/or authe... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441118 | Network appliance having trusted device for providing verifiable identity and/or integrity information A trusted device, physically associated with a network appliance that does not include a CPU, communicates with at least one component of the appliance and is accessible via a network connection to the device for providing a signal indicative of a condition of the a... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441122 | Method for providing secure access to a digital resource A method for providing secure access to a digital resource including a learning step including selecting a secret digital authentication code and registering the code in an electronic memory; and an authentication step including inputting a digital information unit ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441119 | Offload processing for secure data transfer Improvements in security processing are disclosed which enable security processing to be transparent to the application. Security processing (such as Secure Sockets Layer, or “SSL”, or Transport Layer Security, or “TLS”) is performed in (or controlled by) th... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437752 | Client architecture for portable device with security policies In a particular embodiment, a client module is deployed on a wireless device. The client module comprises a policy database including a list of authorized devices to which the wireless device may communicate. In another embodiment, the client module comprises a poli... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437553 | Systems and methods for providing autonomous security Systems and methods for providing autonomous security are configured to modify an original header associated with an original data packet wherein key information is added; encrypt original data associated with the original data packet in response to the key informat... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436957 | Audio cassette emulator with cryptographic media distribution control A device of the same general physical size and shape as a standard audio cassette tape, but which accepts digital information from any of a variety of sources—including for example: Internet transmission, a digital computer, or memory cards (especially digital mem... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437550 | System for providing session-based network privacy, private, persistent storage, and discretionary access control for sharing private data The invention provides secure and private communication over a network, as well as persistent private storage and private access control to the stored information, which is accomplished by imposing mechanisms that separate a user's actions from their identity. The s... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437762 | Method, computer program element and a system for processing alarms triggered by a monitoring system A method and system is designed for processing alarms, that have been triggered by a monitoring system such as an intrusion detection system, a firewall, or a network management system, comprising the steps of entering the triggered alarms into an alarm log, evaluat... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437753 | Storage area network (SAN) security A method for the binary zoning of a Storage Area Network (SAN) for security is disclosed, for a SAN with physical devices consisting of a first array of hosts (1) and a second array of storage devices (4), and a SAN Switch (2, 2A) coupled interm... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436959 | Data recording apparatus and recording method A data recording and/or reproducing device is provided having a deciphering circuit, a detection circuit, a data processing unit, a recording unit and a controller. The deciphering processing unit deciphers and/or decompresses input encrypted and/or compressed data.... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434264 | Data processing system with peripheral access protection and method therefor A flexible peripheral access protection mechanism within a data processing system (10, 100). In one embodiment, each master (14, 15) within the data processing system (10) includes a corresponding privilege level modifier (70, 74) and cor... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7434069 | Method and device for encryption/decryption of data on mass storage device A method and device performing encryption/decryption of data on a mass storage media. A plurality of different encryption/decryption algorithms with associated keys can be utilised on different storage areas of the media, such as blocks/sectors on a hard disk drive,... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7434068 | Content protection in non-volatile storage devices Content stored in a non-volatile storage device is protected from unauthorized modification and/or access. The device is configured as one or more regions, where one or more of the regions implements one or more content protection schemes. The current version of the... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7434052 | Method and device for producing an encrypted payload data stream and method and device for decrypting an encrypted payload data stream In a method for producing an encrypted method payload data stream comprising a header and a block containing encrypted payload data, a payload data key for a payload data encryption algorithm for encrypting payload data is generated. The payload data is encrypted us... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7434046 | Method and apparatus providing secure multicast group communication An approach for establishing secure multicast communication among multiple members that participate in a multicast group is disclosed. In one feature, multiple multicast proxy service nodes (MPSNs) are defined and control when members join or leave the multicast gro... | 10/07/2008 |
