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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7567674 | Content transmission apparatus, content reception apparatus, content transmission program, and content reception program A content transmission method, a content reception method, an apparatus and a computer program using same, that improve the efficiency of descrambling a scrambled content, make the management of cryptography keys for descrambling easy, and protect the copyright of c... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7536561 | Method and apparatus for improved information transactions A method and system for making information available of a computer system and compensating information owners or creators for access to said information. In various aspects, the invention provides a mechanism for giving users meaningful access to information ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7512234 | Providing location data about a mobile entity Location data about a mobile entity (20) is provided in encrypted form by a location server (79) to a recipient that is one of the mobile entity (20) or a service system (40) usable by the mobile entity. The location data (P) is encrypted... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7506156 | Method and apparatus for prioritizing encrypted traffic at an intermediate node in a communications network The present invention provides a method and apparatus for prioritizing encrypted traffic at an intermediate node within a communications network. The present invention provides a method and an intermediate node that prioritizes the processing of a packet based on on... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7506176 | Encryption mechanism on multi-core processor An embodiment describes a method of implementing higher level and more robust encryption by using a multi-core processor. The clear text is segmented into text segments based on predefined segment lengths by master processor. Text segments are sent to processing ele... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7500101 | Recording/reproduction device, data processing device, and recording/reproduction system A device key 46 is implemented on a drive 4 side. To securely transmit the device key 46 to a host 5, the device key 46 is encrypted with a bus key. The host 5 side decrypts the device key with the bus key. A medium unique k... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7493497 | Digital identity device A digital identity device for uniquely identifying legal entities. The digital identity device is used for secure electronic communications. ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492895 | Data recording method and apparatus, data reproducing method and apparatus, and data recording and/or reproducing system Even though data transmitted between a data processing apparatus and disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus is monitored, copying the data is effectively prevented and the data can be protected. A write ID generator 20 of a disc recording and/or reproduc... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7490241 | Time stamping method employing user specified time A method for time stamping a digital document is disclosed. The document originator creates a time stamp receipt using the document and the current time. The time stamp receipt is submitted to a time stamping authority having a trusted clock. The time stamping autho... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7486793 | Invoicing management method of a service transmitted per time unit The objective of the present invention is to propose an accounting method of the consumption of transmitted services per time unit to a decoder in a system implementing a content encrypted by control words, the latter being modified according to a period named crypt... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486790 | Method and apparatus for controlling access to storage media A method and apparatus for controlling access to a storage medium, such as an optically readable medium. Light sensitive or other materials that are adapted to change state and affect reading of a storage medium are used to control access to data that may be stored ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7484103 | Method and system for the information protection of digital content The present invention relates to the information protection of digital content transferred by streaming and download service through wire or wireless Internet network. The information protection system in this invention suggests a drastic prevention method of copyri... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7484095 | System for communicating program data between a first device and a second device A system for communicating program data between devices includes a first device configured to disassemble a program file comprising program data into at least one logical data unit, partition each logical data unit into at least one protocol data unit and compute a ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7475428 | Secure detection network system A secure detection network system includes plurality of remote nodes, each remote node comprising a set of detector interfaces configured to couple to a set of detectors disposed to detect the presence of an illegal asset within a shipping container; at least one se... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7475247 | Method for using a portable computing device as a smart key device A first data processing system, which includes a first cryptographic device, is communicatively coupled with a second data processing system, which includes a second cryptographic device. The cryptographic devices then mutually authenticate themselves. The first cry... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7457412 | System and method for authenticating an operating system to a central processing unit, providing the CPU/OS with secure storage, and authenticating the CPU/OS to a third party In accordance with certain aspects, a computer system has a central processing unit (CPU) and an operating system (OS), the CPU having a pair of private and public keys and a software identity register that holds an identity of the operating system. An OS certificat... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7458096 | Access system interface An access system provides identity management and/or access management services for a network. An application program interface for the access system enables an application without a web agent front end to read and use contents of an existing encrypted cookie to byp... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7451312 | Authenticated dynamic address assignment A method for an uninitialized client to obtain credentials from a server which are then used to provide authenticated exchange for network configuration parameter assignment. The obtained credentials can be applied to an authentication option when a dynamic host con... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7437567 | Portable device and method for accessing data key actuated devices Data key actuated devices such as high security doors are modified so that they periodically transmit an identity pattern. An authorized user is provided with a portable access device storing keys for a number of such key actuated devices, with each key associated w... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434062 | Password encrypting apparatus and method for encrypting password The present application relates to a method and an apparatus of encrypting and/or decrypting password to secure secrecy of the password. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430664 | System and method for securely providing a configuration file over and open network A method for securely provisioning a device for operation within a service provider infrastructure over an open network comprises the device establishing physical and data link layer network connections for communication on at least a subnet of the open network and ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424744 | Signature based network intrusion detection system and method A signature based intrusion detection method and system are disclosed. A method for detecting intrusions on a network generally comprises storing signature profiles identifying patterns associated with network intrusions in a signature database and generating classi... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415620 | System and method for authenticating an operating system to a central processing unit, providing the CPU/OS with secure storage, and authenticating the CPU/OS to a third party In accordance with certain aspects, a chain of trust is established between a subscriber unit and a content provider. A request is submitted from the subscriber unit to the content provider. A challenge nonce is generated at the content provider and returned to the ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415611 | Accelerated signature verification on a elliptic curve A public key encryption system exchanges information between a pair of correspondents. The recipient performs computations on the received data to recover the transmitted data or verify the identity of the sender. The data transferred includes supplementary informat... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412605 | Method and apparatus for variable encryption of data A system and method for encrypting content in an adaptive manner. Portions of data to be encrypted are identified and an encryption ratio that specifies the one or more portions of data to encrypt and other portions of data to not encrypt is determined. The data is ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409554 | Data processing system, memory device, data processing unit, and data processing method and program To provide an improved management structure of memory devices storing service-use applications. A card for a memory device applied to use various services is provided as one child card or more corresponding to each of the services, a parent card-stores data for chil... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409545 | Ephemeral decryption utilizing binding functions A method and system is disclosed for utilizing an ephemeral encryption or decryption agent so as to preclude access by the ephemeral encryption agent or decryption agent, respectively, to the information being ephemerally encrypted or decrypted. To preclude access b... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404079 | Automatic identity protection system with remote third party monitoring This invention provides an automated system for the processing of data packets, composed of personal identifiers and personal data, such that the personally identifiable data sent by one party may be considered anonymous once received by a second party. The inventio... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398555 | Electronic apparatus and medium Recording peripheral image information by an electronic apparatus only when illegal use of the apparatus is determined to minimize resources and simplifying recording. The electronic apparatus includes a first memory storing a parameter representing at least one con... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398389 | Kernel-based network security infrastructure A system and method for network security using a kernel based network security infrastructure is disclosed. The method comprises the installation of a computer code set into the operating system kernel of each computer on a network and use of the computer code set t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392547 | Organization-based content rights management and systems, structures, and methods therefor A method is disclosed for a recipient to receive rights management (RM) protected content. The protected content is encrypted and decryptable according to a content key (KD), where (KD) is found in a corresponding license. In the method, the protected content is rec... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379546 | Method for XZ-elliptic curve cryptography Given a set of elliptic curve points defined over a field F(p) and represented in projective coordinate, a method is presented which allows the embedding of data bits in both the X-coordinate and the Z-coordinate of the elliptic curve point when represented in proje... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7380132 | Data recording method and apparatus, data record medium and data reproducing method and apparatus An input is ciphered in at least one of a sector forming circuit 13, a scrambling circuit 14, a header appendage circuit 15, an error correction encoding circuit 16, a modulation circuit 17 and a synchronization appendage circuit | 05/27/2008 |
| 7380125 | Smart card data transaction system and methods for providing high levels of storage and transmission security A smart card system is disclosed for secure transmission of post issuance data to a embedded chip using a chip relay module, a plurality of hardware security modules, a first communication system having two security layers and a second communication system having fo... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370204 | Watermark data embedding apparatus and extracting apparatus By a program process, CPU 31 embeds a watermark data into a waveform data stored in wave memory 41a. The program includes a step for detecting a characterizing part (attack part and loop part) of a waveform data that represents a waveform of a m... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363508 | System and method for dynamically enabling components to implement data transfer security mechanisms A system and method for implementing data transfer security mechanisms. The method includes a first component transferring a data type handler object to a second component. The second interface invokes an interface accessible through the date type handler object whi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356688 | System and method for document distribution Methods for transferring among key holders in encoding and cryptographic systems the right to decode and decrypt messages in a way that does not explicitly reveal decoding and decrypting keys used and the original messages. Such methods are more secure and more effi... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349545 | Key agreement method in secure communication system using multiple access method A key agreement method for secure communication in a multiple access system is provided. A key agreement method for secure communication in a multiple access system, the key agreement method includes the steps of (a) a first user, modulating signals from a so... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350237 | Managing access control information Techniques are described for automating the generation of access control information that identifies users that are permitted to access particular business objects used by a computer application. The generation of access control information is based on a characteris... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343626 | Automated detection of cross site scripting vulnerabilities An automated method and system for testing a web site for vulnerability to a cross site scripting (XSS) attack are disclosed. The automated tool injects a tracer value into both GET and POST form data, and monitors the resultant HTML to determine whether the tracer ... | 03/11/2008 |
