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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098818 | Secure registration for a multicast-broadcast-multimedia system (MBMS) A method and an apparatus for secure registration for a multicast-broadcast-multimedia system (MBMS) are disclosed. A random number is generated by a broadcast-multicast-service center (BM-SC) and broadcast to user equipment in the coverage area of a radio access ne... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8068613 | Method and apparatus for remotely provisioning software-based security coprocessors A virtual security coprocessor is created in a first processing system. The virtual security coprocessor is then transferred to a second processing system, for use by the second processing system. For instance, the second processing system may use the virtual securi... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8027470 | Video slice and active region based multiple partial encryption A selective encryption decoder for decrypting and decoding a selectively encrypted digital video signal has a demultiplexer that receives packets of digital video, certain of the packets being unencrypted and certain of the packets being encrypted. Certain of the en... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8020008 | Microprocessor identity device A digital identity device for uniquely identifying legal entities. The digital identity device is used for secure electronic communications. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019991 | System and method for secure provisioning of a mobile station from a provisioning server using IP address translation at the BTS/BSC There is disclosed a security device for use in a wireless network comprising a group of base stations that communicate with numerous mobile stations. The security device prevents an unprovisioned one of the mobile stations from accessing an Internet protocol (IP) d... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015596 | Shared credential store A personal credential store that aggregates a number of physical credential stores beneath an application programming interface (API) and offers tag-based credential look-up. The API of the disclosed system runs on the user's client system, and effectively hides the... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015418 | Method and apparatus for improved information transactions Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to d... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8006304 | System and method for ARP anti-spoofing security A system and method that provides for copying ARP replies, and generating data packets which include the ARP reply, and other information such as an identification of the port on the ARP reply was received. These data packets are then transmitted to an ARP collector... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005226 | Information sending system, information sending device, information receiving device, information distribution system, information receiving system, information sending method, information receiving method, information distribution method, apparatus, sending method of information receiving device, playback method of apparatus, method of using contents and program storing medium Content data encrypted with a content key, the content key encrypted with an individual key specific to an information sending device, and the individual key encrypted with a distribution key that is updated in a predetermined cycle, and supplied are sent to an info... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996900 | Time travelling email messages after delivery Systems and methods for reviewing email messages after delivery to an inbox. An inbox filter maintains a suspect list identifying of the email messages including unwanted content and identifies unread email messages in the inbox of the user. The inbox filter moves e... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996676 | Masked digital signatures The present invention relates to digital signature operations using public key schemes in a secure communications system and in particular for use with processors having limited computing power such as ‘smart cards’. This invention describes a method for creatin... | 08/09/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7987495 | System and method for multi-context policy management The system and method described herein provides multi-context security policy management in a networked computing infrastructure. The system and method may generate a plurality of security contexts regarding different security characteristics of the communication be... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984289 | Methods and systems for establishing an electronic account for a customer Registration information is sent form a customer to a registration system over a network. The registration system creates an electronic account for the customer and facilitates the validation of the customer's identity. When the customer's identity is validated, the... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979909 | Application controlled encryption of web browser data A browser cache-securing component facilitates online communication of confidential data, such as for financial information, purchasing transactions, or user identification. Caching webpages for subsequent presentation enhances user productivity and efficiency while... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7961873 | Password protocols using XZ-elliptic curve cryptography Remote user authentication is provided using a password protocol based on elliptic curve cryptography. More specifically, the process uses the X-coordinate and the Z-coordinate of an elliptic curve when represented in projective coordinates, wherein point addition i... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961874 | XZ-elliptic curve cryptography with secret key embedding Secure communications over an insecure channel is provided using symmetric key elliptic curve cryptography. More specifically, a shared secret key and/or data bit string is embedded in the X-coordinate and the Z-coordinate of an elliptic curve point defined in proje... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958366 | Information processing system A system is provided for preventing recorded data from being illicitly read out and analyzed. An Internet connection interface transmits a program executed by an adapter to an authentication station, while receiving the program in an encrypted form from the authenti... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957530 | Method and system for ensuring secure scrambling and de-scrambling and the distribution of vectoral visual sequences A process for secured distribution of vector visual sequences in at least two dimensions, animated and including a succession of frames containing at least one multidimensional geometric object to be displayed on a screen of a user and determined by at least one par... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953222 | Method and apparatus for partially encrypting speech packets Provided are a method and apparatus for partially encrypting speech packets, more specifically, a method and apparatus for selecting partial encryption sets used for a partial encryption technique in which compressed speech packets are partially encrypted to obtain ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7954139 | Arrangements for efficient authentication of service request messages A server processes a service request message (SRM) including a credential string and information (I) specifying a requested service. The server determines (305) whether or not the received credential string is valid, by comparing the received credential strin... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7950064 | System and method for controlling comments in a collaborative document A system, method, and program product is provided that operates when opening a word processing document that includes document content inserted at various insertion points within the document. The document is opened by a user that corresponds to a particular user id... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941864 | Audio-video output apparatus, authentication processing method, and audio-video processing system An audio-video output apparatus of the present invention outputs at least one of audio data and video data to a receiving apparatus using High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) communications. The audio-video output apparatus includes a list holding unit, an au... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941666 | Payment smart cards with hierarchical session key derivation providing security against differential power analysis and other attacks Chip cards are used to secure credit and debit payment transactions. To prevent fraudulent transactions, the card must protect cryptographic keys used to authenticate transactions. In particular, cards should resist differential power analysis and/or other attacks. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937760 | System security agent authentication and alert distribution An aggregation agent may combine and correlate information generated by multiple on-host agents and/or information generated in response to multiple security events. The aggregation agent may transmit the combined information to a security console. The security cons... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937755 | Identification of network policy violations A correlation database stores profiling data that describes packet flows within a network. A network device stores a set of rules for permissible packet flows within the network. The network device queries the correlation database and identifies any of the packet fl... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933414 | Secure data distribution Data encrypted with a scrambling key Ks are transmitted from a service provider via a master device to a plurality of client devices having unique identifiers, administered by the master device. A set of partial keys comprising a respective partial key for each resp... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930549 | Accelerated signature verification on an 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... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930536 | Device-to-device authentication system, device-to-device authentication method, communication apparatus, and computer program In view of the fact that devices connected on a home network are located in home, that is, at close range and therefore a user can physically access the devices within a relatively short period of time, identifying whether or not a home server for distributing the c... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929692 | Firmware encrypting and decrypting method and an apparatus using the same A method of encrypting and decrypting a firmware used in electronic devices and an apparatus using the same. The firmware encryption method includes, receiving a predetermined special key data; generating an encryption key data from the predetermined special key dat... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930761 | 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... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925884 | Fraud detection in seals A method of verifying a carved seal includes detecting a pressure on a carved seal stamp is detected through pins extending from a face of the carved stamp steal. It is determined if the pressure indicates that the seal is being pressed. A fingerprint of a user of t... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921290 | Method and system for securely authenticating network access credentials for users A method is provided to securely authenticate user credentials. The method includes encrypting a user credential with a public key at an access device wherein the public key is part of a public/private key pair suitable for use with an encryption algorithm. The encr... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917944 | Secure authentication advertisement protocol A network device for distributing authentication information between authorized nodes for purposes of concurrently “pre-authenticating” a mobile user at a plurality of points throughout a LAN is disclosed. When a client attempts to access the network through the... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917752 | Method of controlling the processing of data A method of controlling the processing of data, is provided comprising defining security controls for a plurality of data items, and applying individualised security rules to each of the data items based on a measurement of integrity of a computing entity to which t... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913088 | Digital signature and authentication method and apparatus A signing technique of a disclosed identification/digital signature method hereof uses a mixing system based on multiplication in a ring and reduction modulo an ideal q in that ring, while a disclosed verification technique uses special properties of products of ele... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7913095 | Method and apparatus for providing a specific user interface in a system for managing content A method and apparatus for managing use of protected content by providing a specific user interface to an application program used to render the content. The method includes identifying a user interface description associated with content, building a specific user i... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907728 | Method and system of transferring scrambled content Method and system of transferring scrambled content from location to another. The method and system may include transferring the scrambled content without requiring the descrambling thereof. The method and system may be used to transfer live content, stored content,... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908488 | Recording medium with copy protection information formed in intermittent or alternate wobbled pits and apparatus and methods for forming, recording, and reproducing the recording medium A recording medium, such as a high-density and/or read-only recording medium, such as BD-ROM, which contains copy protection information encoded in intermittent or alternate wobbled pits, and to methods and apparatuses for forming, recording, and reproducing data on... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904964 | Method and system for selectively controlling access to protected media on a media storage device A method of preventing unauthorized reproduction of media disposed on a media storage device according to one embodiment is described. The method comprises installing a compliance mechanism on the computer system. The compliance mechanism is communicatively coupled ... | 03/08/2011 |
