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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190921 | Methodology for vaulting data encryption keys with encrypted storage A method is provided to allow for encryption keys to be safely vaulted and for restarts after system failures, even when an external key server is not accessible. In one embodiment, the encryption keys are stored in memory in an encrypted format, the encryption keys... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185739 | Method and system for detecting successful authentication of multiple ports in a time-based roving architecture In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes authenticating an HDCP transmitting device at a first port of an HDCP receiving device. A port of the HDCP receiving device is connected to a pipe of an HDCP architecture of the HDCP receiving device at a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185590 | System and method for replicating offline scheduling transactions from a client to a server A facility for replicating offline scheduling transactions directed to a server is provided. The facility is implemented as a client-side application that integrates with and utilizes components of a store-and-forward application, which is operable to execute on a c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181253 | System and method for reducing security risk in computer network Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for reducing security risk in a computer network. The system includes an administration server that collects system usage, user profile and security incidents information from a plurality of computers in t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176322 | Apparatus and method for moving and copying rights objects between device and portable storage device A method and apparatus for copying or moving a rights object having right information regarding digital contents between a device and a portable storage device to copy or move the digital contents there between are provided. According to the method and apparatus, th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8166546 | Controlling computer program, controlling apparatus, and controlling method for detecting infection by computer virus A computer program for a controlling apparatus intended to control an image forming apparatus, executes a procedure of confirming each program running on the controlling apparatus. The computer program executes procedure of judging a program, which is not included i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8151333 | Distributed single sign on technologies including privacy protection and proactive updating Technologies for distributed single sign-on operable to provide user access to a plurality of services via authentication to a single entity. The distributed single sign-on technologies provide a set of authentication servers and methods for privacy protection based... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139632 | Video decoder with adaptive outputs In one aspect, there is provided a video decoder including a first write port to write uncompressed video data to a first buffer in a first format adapted based on an input required by the video decoder and to suppress writing to the first buffer. The video decoder ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126146 | Method of quantum cryptography using blind photon polarization quibits with multiple stages A cryptography method using a quantum phenomenon, which performs a multi-staged polarization process between a transmitter and a receiver to prevent a third party from knowing the polarization value of a photon. A transmitter rotates a photon flux by arbitrary angle... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127341 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, peripheral apparatus, and authority control system A printer driver configured to acquire print control information for controlling a function provided by a peripheral apparatus includes: a first access control information requesting unit configured to acquire print control information corresponding to an authority ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122150 | Maximization of sustained throughput of distributed continuous queries A system, method, and computer readable medium for optimizing throughput of a stream processing system are disclosed. The method comprises analyzing a set of input streams and creating, based on the analyzing, an input profile for at least one input stream in the se... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122154 | Storage system In a storage system that manages update prohibition (WORM) information, when time management is not performed with precision, there arises a possibility that an update prohibition (WORM) attribute may be erased before a preservation period expires. This invention pr... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108907 | Authentication of user database access A database system and method combines the ability to concurrently utilize LDAP based authentication and operating system-based authentication. The database authentication tries both methods of authentication, both at the database layer and at the application layer. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102911 | Picture coding device A picture coding device includes a motion prediction unit, an intra picture prediction unit, and an input selection unit. The input selection unit selects a smaller one of a motion total obtained by adding a motion residual and a value into which a motion vector is ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103785 | Network acceleration techniques Splintered offloading techniques with receive batch processing are described for network acceleration. Such techniques offload specific functionality to a NIC while maintaining the bulk of the protocol processing in the host operating system (“OS”). The resultin... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099764 | Secure push and status communication between client and server Systems and methods of authentication and authorization between a client, a server, and a gateway to facilitate communicating a message between a client and a server through a gateway. The client has a trusted relationship with each of the gateway and the server. A ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098816 | Apparatus and method for evaluating a cipher structure's resistance to cryptanalysis Disclosed is a method for evaluating resistance to cryptanalysis of a cipher structure having a diffusion element including a linear transformation placed between differently-sized confusion elements at an input and an output of the diffusion element. A generalized ... | 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 |
| 8086849 | Secure internet-scale eventing A method and system are provided for delivering event messages in a secure scalable manner. A network includes an event distribution device serving as an event generation device for generating and disseminating an event message through the network to event distribut... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086873 | Method for controlling file access on computer systems A method for controlling file access on computer systems is disclosed. Initially, a virtual machine manager (VMM) is provided in a computer system. In response to a write request, the VMM determines whether or not a location field is valid. If the location field is ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082290 | Intelligent establishment of peer-to-peer communication A device may receive, from a first peer in a network, a request for a list of one or more candidate peers from which the first peer can obtain a resource. In addition, the device may obtain the list in response to the request, determining a set of costs based on the... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077871 | Content processing apparatus and encryption processing method A content processing apparatus includes a read unit which reads encrypted key information from a recording medium, a decryption unit which decrypts the encrypted key information with a device key and dynamic information to obtain key information containing content k... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074256 | Pdstudio design system and method A policy developer studio comprising: a meta-policy core of network objects, a policy developer graphical user interface (GUI) tool for providing a front end to a policy language, an output in XML, a compiled output for a policy engine, and an output in human readab... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055801 | Pulse-per-second attachment for STP A time synchronization apparatus, method and system are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus comprises at least a time of day clock, a first port operable to receive at least first time information using a first time protocol, a second port operable to receive at ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046496 | System and method for network data compression The present invention relates to a method of compressing data in a network, the data comprising a plurality of packets each having a header and a payload, the header comprising a plurality of header fields, the method comprising generating a classification tree base... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046410 | System and method for attribute detection in user profile creation and update In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a user participating in a collaboration session; create a profile associated with the user; and detect an attribute associated with the profile based on the collaboration session. ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042175 | Digital signal processing apparatus If content is transmitted/received through a digital signal bus, protection of copyright causes a problem because of no deterioration in quality. Accordingly, authentication is required. The quantity of information to be processed is, however, so large that a long t... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8015304 | Method to distribute speech resources in a media server A method and a system for distributing media processing resources. A first request formatted in accordance with a first protocol can be received from a client requesting a media processing resource. The first request can be morphed into a second request that is form... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015403 | Method and system indicating a level of security for VoIP calls through presence In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing security information associated with a prospective communication session to a user includes providing at least one communication network for the establishment of a prospectiv... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005227 | Key information consistency checking in encrypting data storage system A data storage system employs data encryption to increase data security, and techniques for ensuring consistency of key information maintained and used throughout the system to reduce the likelihood that data will become non-recoverable due to the use of an incorrec... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8006098 | Integrating legacy application/data access with single sign-on in a distributed computing environment The present invention provides methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business whereby legacy host application/system access is integrated with single sign-on in a modern distributed computing environment. A security token used for signing... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001297 | Dynamic adjusting send rate of buffered data Systems and methods for intermediate buffering of data for the purpose of controlling its delivery to the consumer. The systems and methods for buffering data can arbitrate between the incoming data flow from the generating component and the outgoing data flow to th... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995753 | Parallel cipher operations using a single data pass Multiple cipher hardware algorithms are run in parallel over an input stream. For example, one algorithm can process the input stream using an old cipher key while a parallel algorithm processes the input stream using the current cipher key. Alternatively, multiple ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991898 | User equipment, method and system for simultaneous session control A user equipment (UE), method and system for controlling a simultaneous session are discussed. According to an embodiment, the system includes a UE to transmit a SIP message including simultaneous sessions support (SSS) setting information associated with the UE to ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991994 | Method for securing an authentication and key agreement protocol An authentication method including operation of a personal token, a personal token for a terminal in a communication network, an authentication server, and a computer program for an authentication server. The secure server producing derived key material on the basis... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7970130 | Low-latency method and apparatus of GHASH operation for authenticated encryption Galois Counter Mode Disclosed is a low-latency method and apparatus of GHASH operation for authenticated encryption Galois Counter Mode (GCM), which simultaneously computes three interim values respectively yielded from the additional authenticated data A, the ciphertext C, and the has... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966414 | Methods for multicasting content A computer-implemented method for tunneling content across a network in which the content has been configured into a digital format compatible with a player. Prior to starting a broadcast session, an announcement is transmitted across the network which contains cont... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953227 | Method for securely and automatically configuring access points The present invention is contemplates an automatic, secure AP configuration protocol. Public/private keys and public key (PK) methods are used to automatically establish a mutual trust relationship and a secure channel between an AP and at least one configuration se... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7941520 | System and method for tracking telephone network capacity and equipment A system and method of managing telephone network facilities. A telephone network facilities database, such as LEIS, is accessed and selected information, including wire center location, equipment and slot information stored therein, is extracted and re-stored in a ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7917647 | Method and apparatus for rate limiting A method and apparatus for a network monitor internals mechanism, which serves to translate packet data into multiple concurrent streams of encoded network event data, to contribute to enterprise management, reporting, and global mechanisms for aggregating monitors ... | 03/29/2011 |
