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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7519558 | Biometrically enabled private secure information repository A system for remote data acquisition and private and secure and authenticated, centralized processing and storage is disclosed called the DataTreasury™ Repository System. The DataTreasury™ Repository System provides a secure system for the storage and retrieval ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7224987 | System and method for controlling access to location information A system and method for providing location information associated with a location owner to location consumers. A location server includes an owner profile for controlling access to the owner's location information. The owner profile contains information describing a... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7215658 | Apparatus, and associated method, for utilizing antenna information determinative of antenna operation in a wireless mesh network Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating use of an antenna assembly forming a portion of a communication station, such as a node of a wireless mesh network. Antenna information is determined and stored at a routing table of the node. The antenna informatio... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7191155 | License transmitting and distributing system under offline environment and method thereof An LA (License Agent) (or a license chip having the same function as the LA) is disposed in a PC (Personal Computer), a content distribution server, and a medium attached to a PD (Private Device or Portable Device) that use a license for electronic data. A content a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7158639 | Key generation Described herein is one or more implementations that generate a single key from a set of encrypted keys, which set is associated with a unique data subset of a database. ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7127066 | Limited use DVD-video disc A limited-use Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) includes a storage layer for storing content data and control key data. At least one mark of photosensitive dye is disposed on the disc exterior to the storage layer and over at least a portion of the control key data. In o... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7117523 | Book on-demand system A book on-demand system having reading data for reading book contents and printing and bookbinding data for printing and bookbinding on the server thereof and also having a function to transmit the reading data to a reading device via a network at a user's request a... | 10/03/2006 |
| RE39319 | Copy prevention method and apparatus for digital video system A copy prevention method and apparatus for a digital video system is disclosed including the steps of: (a) adding a header area of a header start code and key field to a reproduced bit stream: stream; (b) decrypting and transmitting the bit stream to which the heade... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116781 | Counteracting geometric distortions in watermarking A digital watermarking method receives multimedia data, such as images or audio, in compressed or uncompressed form, and extracts a digital watermark while counteracting geometric distortions. To counteract geometric distortion, a watermark reading process translate... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113596 | Embedding information related to a subject of an identification document in the identification document The present invention relates to an identification document for a subject. The identification document includes a substrate, and a visual image formed on the substrate. The visual image includes a face image of the subject in a first area, and invisible but retrieva... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7111168 | Digital watermarking systems A variety of systems responsive to watermarked documents are detailed. In one, watermarking is employed to facilitate secure online transactions. In another, a system for exchanging data is provided. One system includes a user terminal and a central site. The user t... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107052 | Local area network having multiple channel wireless access A communication network having at least one access point supports wireless communication among a plurality of wireless roaming devices via a first and a second wireless channel. The access point comprises a first and a second transceiver. The first and second transc... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099846 | Apparatus and system for providing fee-based content A user who repeatedly purchases the same electronic content is entitled to receive a discount price for the additional purchases. This is accomplished by establishing an “Accounting History” of accounting information that is prepared when the electronic content ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092908 | System and method for selling protected information in an oem context A method and apparatus of encouraging distribution, registration, and purchase of free copyable software and other digital information which is accessed on a User's System via a Programmer's Program. Software tools which can be incorporated into a Programmer's Progr... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092385 | Policy control and billing support for call transfer in a session initiation protocol (SIP) network A session initiation protocol (SIP) server adds billing and authentication information to conventional SIP messages used in establishing call transfers. This additional information is later verified by a SIP server and used to enable advanced billing and fraud prote... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089212 | System and method for controlling access to protected information A method and apparatus of encouraging distribution, registration, and purchase of free copyable software and other digital information which is accessed on a User's System via a Programmer's Program. Software tools which can be incorporated into a Programmer's Progr... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085743 | System and method for creating and running protected information A method and apparatus of encouraging distribution, registration, and purchase of free copyable software and other digital information which is accessed on a User's System via a Programmer's Program. Software tools which can be incorporated into a Programmer's Progr... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7069248 | Method for confirming transactions Method with which a mobile user can confirm a transaction with a service provider, in which: an offer of said service provider is reproduced with the mobile device of said mobile user, said mobile user selects said... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065508 | System and method for operating a licensing server A method and apparatus of encouraging distribution, registration, and purchase of free copyable software and other digital information which is accessed on a User's System via a Programmer's Program. Software tools which can be incorporated into a Programmer's Progr... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062472 | Electronic contracts with primary and sponsored roles Computer-based methods and systems are provided for constructing, deploying, executing and managing the performance of electronic contract based service applications across multiple business entities. In this context, the electronic service contract includes informa... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062339 | Method and apparatus for communicating between a portable device and a server A control system including a portable device and a server. The portable device includes: (1) a body; (2) a microphone for receiving a first audio data; (3) an audio coder for converting the first audio data to first audio data signals; (4) an optical sensor for read... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7047220 | Product trading system, product trading method, and computer program and recording medium for performing the method A product trading system has a production information accumulating means for accumulating production information of a product produced by each of mobile production machines under the seller's administration, a demand information accepting means for accepting demand ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047559 | Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and service providing system A portable terminal stores a first URL which specifies personal information of a user stored in a personal server, and transmits the first URL to a settlement device. The settlement device serves as a network access port for the portable terminal. The personal serve... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042857 | Uplink pilot and signaling transmission in wireless communication systems Techniques to more efficiently transmit pilot and signaling on the uplink in an OFDM system. With subband multiplexing, M usable subbands in the system are partitioned into Q disjoint groups of subbands. Each subband group may be assigned to a different terminal for... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039184 | Encryption/decryption unit and storage medium An encryption/decryption unit includes a first data encryption/decryption section for performing an encryption or decryption process, a first data substitution section for performing data substitution of an output from the first encryption/decryption section accordi... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039611 | Managing attempts to initiate authentication of electronic commerce card transactions To encourage widespread implementation of an electronic commerce card authentication system by the numerous different card issuers and merchants, the card association assigns liability for fraudulent transaction based upon a party's compliance with the authenticatio... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7028010 | Method for transmitting encrypted information for registering an application program A method is provided for transmitting encrypted information for registering an application program. An application program installed on a first program is control device. First application information items having at least one part-information item blocked from user... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024393 | Structural of digital rights management (DRM) system A digital rights management (DRM) system operates on a computing device when a user requests that a protected piece of digital content be rendered by the computer device in a particular manner. The DRM system has a license store, a license evaluator, and a state sto... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020635 | System and method of secure electronic commerce transactions including tracking and recording the distribution and usage of assets Disclosed is a system and method that tracks the usage of rented digital assets. A server includes an asset database that stores a digital asset, the title of the digital asset, and a server usage count for the digital asset. The computing device stores a rented dig... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016877 | Consumer-controlled limited and constrained access to a centrally stored information account Consumer authentication information is associated with an information account stored in a central database, such that access to the information account by the consumer is conditioned upon receipt and verification of the consumer authentication information. A tempora... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016875 | Single sign-on for access to a central data repository Systems and methods for providing access to an information account stored in a central data repository. The information account is associated with a consumer and is subject to the consumer's control and management. Consumer authentication information is input by the... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013138 | Local area network having multiple channel wireless access A communication network having at least one access point supports wireless communication among a plurality of wireless roaming devices via a first and a second wireless channel. The access point comprises a first and a second transceiver. The first and second transc... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7006997 | Method and program for preventing unfair use of software For user registration, feature of a file system of a computer of a particular user is extracted, and a licenser generates key data characteristic of the extracted feature and provides the key data to the particular user. At the time of installation of particular sof... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6996546 | System and methods for digital receipts A secure system for creating digital receipts, while minimizing the amount of data that is encoded in the digital receipt. The digital receipt provides authentication for a transaction. A digital receipt may be printed in the form of a code. The digital receipt digi... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996216 | Compensating recipients of calls A method, system, and program for compensating recipients of calls are provided. A request to bill a caller a tariff for a call is initiated, wherein the caller originates the call. The caller is prompted to accept payment of the tariff to receive access to a destin... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6990076 | Synchronous bi-directional data transfer having increased bandwidth and scan test features At least one swapper circuit is electrically connected to a bus between a plurality of entities sharing the bus. The swapper comprises a pair of series connected latches and a tristate circuits, one for each data direction, connected in parallel. The swapper acts as... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6980528 | Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with comfort noise generation A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signal and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voice... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6968057 | Emulsion products and imagery employing steganography Images are steganographically marked with codes that can be used, e.g., by reference to a remote registry, to identify the image proprietors. Some embodiments pre-mark blank emulsion film or paper products with such codes, so that images formed thereon can be traced... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965585 | Base station synchronization for handover in a hybrid GSM/CDMA network A mobile wireless telecommunications system includes base stations of a first type operating according to a first air interface, and base stations of a second type operating according to a second air interface. Methods and apparatus are provided for handing over a m... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6956947 | Extraction of multiple single keys from a compressed key Described herein are one or more implementations for extracting multiple single keys from a compressed key, each single key corresponding to a segment in a unique data subset of a database. ... | 10/18/2005 |
