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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| 8184941 | Information recording and reproducing apparatus and method for changing setting language of the same An HDMI connector is adapted to be connected to a display device conforming to an HDMI standard. A signal processor is operable to decode a digital signal received through the HDMI connector and extract first language information which indicates a setting language o... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8156341 | Pattern recognition method and apparatus for data protection Provided a secure pattern recognition method. The method includes: receiving data and generating a probe by converting the received data into a template for pattern recognition; accessing a gallery that is a template registered and stored in advance; determining a r... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8127365 | Origination-based content protection for computer systems Content, such as confidential information of an organization, may be protected by automatically categorizing the content. The automatic categorization may be performed by calculating a sensititiy score of the content, the sensitivity score being indicative of whethe... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7373654 | System, apparatus and method for updating security configurations of a plurality of servers from a centralized directory server A system, apparatus and method for updating security configurations of a plurality of servers from a centralized directory server. The system includes a centralized directory server and a plurality of servers that provide resources and store files for use by users o... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7299351 | Peer-to-peer name resolution protocol (PNRP) security infrastructure and method A method for use in a peer-to-peer communication system to ensure valid connections are made in a secure manner includes the steps of receiving an address record for a peer node which includes an ID certificate. The ID certificate is validated and checked to verify ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296150 | Database management systems and methods of operating the same Introduced are systems for managing a database of selectable records, and methods of operating the same. One advantageous embodiment provides a database administrator for association with a computer system having distributed memory units. The database administrator ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296161 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An apparatus generates additional data used to check whether an encoded digital image is changed or not. The apparatus includes a calculation unit and a recording unit. The calculation unit (a) performs a predetermined calculation using the encoded digital image and... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290130 | Information distributing system and method thereof A first information processing device for holding information connected to a first network, and at least a second information processing device connected to a second network, and an access control system having an access control device for controlling access of the ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286668 | Method of protecting copyright of digital video work This invention discloses a method of protecting copyright of a digital video work by using a digital password technology and a digital watermark technology to prevent the unauthorized use of a digital video work. Such method adds password protection of two chrominan... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287272 | Method, data carrier and system for authentication of a user and a terminal A data carrier has stored thereon a secret code and a user's biometric data. In using the data carrier, a data carrier terminal is first authenticated for access to data stored in the data carrier by reading a secret code from the data carrier in a manner known only... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277545 | Scrambler and scrambling method A scrambler and scrambling method. The scrambler has a random data generator which generates random data having a random data generation cycle based on a result obtained by multiplying at least a size of a first data frame by a result obtained by dividing a data amo... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7266699 | Cryptographic infrastructure for encrypting a database The invention provides a transparent encryption infrastructure which allows the user to point-and-click on columns and tables to encrypt data. The creation of triggers and views are also easily implemented, to encrypt and decrypt data, to manage the encryption keys ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260636 | Method and apparatus for preventing unauthorized access by a network device A method and apparatus for a networked computer system including a plurality of devices and a shared resource. In response to one of the devices attempting to access the shared resource and representing itself to the shared resource as a first device, determining wh... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260830 | Method and apparatus for establishing a security policy, and method and apparatus for supporting establishment of security policy There are provided a method of efficiently establishing a security policy and an apparatus for supporting preparation of a security policy. According to a method of establishing a security policy in six steps, a simple security policy draft is first prepared. The se... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260840 | Multi-layer based method for implementing network firewalls A method is provided for implementing a firewall in a firewall architecture. The firewall architecture includes a plurality of network layers and a first firewall engine. The layers send packets and packet information to the first firewall engine, maintain and pass ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7249100 | Service discovery access to user location A system and method is disclosed to enable a mobile phone or wireless PDA to discover Internet businesses and services by accessing the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry using a user's location or coordinates. The method facilitates th... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245722 | System and method for distributing key A method and system for distributing a key is provided which make use of effects of noise caused at the time of transmitting or receiving a signal to send a key. A transmission signal is amplified at a plurality of stages while the relationship between the transmiss... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7246371 | System and method for filtering unavailable devices in a presence and availability management system A method for communicating communication network availability information regarding an individual to at least one subscriber of the individual's availability information. According to one embodiment, the method includes detecting whether the individual is present on... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236591 | Method for performing turbo decoding in mobile communication system A method for performing turbo decoding in an advanced mobile communication system is disclosed, in which an interleaving operation, a maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding operation, and a deinterleaving operation are implemented simultaneously. Signals stored in a sp... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7237120 | Method for producing and checking forge-proof documents The invention relates to a method for producing forgery-proof documents using a security module, whereby the security module generates a temporary secret which remains unknown to a document producer, whereby the temporary secret, together with information that revea... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7219223 | Method and apparatus for providing data from a service to a client based on encryption capabilities of the client A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing data from a service to a client based on the encryption capabilities of the client. Cipher suite lists are exchanged between a client and an endpoint. On the endpoint, the cipher suite list incorporates a mapping of... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7185193 | Person authentication system, person authentication method, and program providing medium A person authentication system includes a person identification authority. In the system, a service provider, a user device, or the like performs person authentication by acquiring a template from a person identification certificate created by the person identificat... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184986 | Content transaction system and method, and program providing medium therefor A user device receives the content, and pays a content fee, based on the usage control policy of the content, by electronic money up to the allowable amount of money set in an issue log. The user device then creates a usage log including a content identifier and sen... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7171688 | System, method and computer program for the detection and restriction of the network activity of denial of service attack software A system, method and computer program for detecting and restricting remotely controlled distributed denial of service software. This detection is based upon characteristic patterns seen in denial of service software. These patterns are monitored for at the generatin... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162536 | Validation of a connection between arbitrary end-nodes in a communications network An OP-N connection is mapped through a communications network between first and second end-nodes via at least one intermediate node. The integrity and validity of the OP-N connection can be determined independently of SONET/SDH lines, sections or paths mapped throug... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162037 | Method for generating/regenerating an encryption key for a cryptographic method A method for generating/regenerating an encryption key for a cryptographic method including the encryption key as well as a public key being generated using a predefined deterministic method from a large random number (seed), where the seed is only generated on the ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7152159 | Encrypted mail transmission system In the present invention, the an electronic mail transmission terminal device encrypts an electronic mail and transmits the encrypted mail. An electronic mail server device, when the encrypted mail is received, transmits a reception notification mail, which notifies... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152238 | Enabling mobility for point to point protocol (PPP) users using a node that does not support mobility Methods and apparatus for sending a registration request packet on behalf of a node that supports PPP but does not support Mobile IP is implemented in a Foreign Agent. The method comprises accepting a call from the node and receiving authentication information assoc... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149894 | Public-key certificate issuance request processing system and public-key certificate issuance request processing method Provided is a structure enabling dispersion of a load that is incurred by a public key certificate issuer authority or a registration authority. The structure has an issuer authority that issues a public key certificate and registration authorities each of which rec... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146635 | Apparatus and method for using a directory service for authentication and authorization to access resources outside of the directory service An apparatus and method use the built-in authentication and authorization functions of a directory service to perform authentication and authorization for resources that are external to the directory service. A Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) service is... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7137144 | Technique of defending against network connection flooding attacks The invention prevents server overload and possible server crippling due to a flooding of connect requests caused by intentional attack or otherwise. In response to a connection request from a host for a specified port, the number of connections to the port that are... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7137142 | Method and system for vehicle authentication of a component using key separation A vehicle authenticates a prospective component for use in the vehicle by obtaining from a certification authority a certification that an authentic component is associated with a cryptographic key. The vehicle obtains the certification separately from the component... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134142 | System and method for providing exploit protection for networks A method and system for providing protection from exploits to devices connected to a network. The system and method include a component for determining whether an encapsulation has been applied to an attachment and unencapsulating such encapsulated attachments, a co... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7117357 | Method, system, and product for pre-encrypting static information transmitted by secure web sites A data processing system, method, and product are disclosed for pre-encrypting static information transmitted by secure Web sites. The data processing system includes a server computer system coupled to a client computer system utilizing a network. The server comput... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7089426 | Method and system for encryption A method and systems are provided for creating an authentication of secure communications between a software video driver and a video display. A video driver transmitting digital video data deemed high-bandwidth digital content, to a display, can perform authenticat... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7076800 | IC card terminal unit and IC card duplication method In the case of an IC card having a decoding key for decoding data and an encoding key for encoding the data which are generated inside or set by an external unit, when a key takeout instruction for taking out the decoding key and encoding key in the IC card to an ex... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7073063 | Binding a digital license to a portable device or the like in a digital rights management (DRM) system and checking out/checking in the digital license to/from the portable device or the like To render digital content encrypted according to a content key (KD) on a first device having a public key (PU1) and a corresponding private key (PR1), a digital license corresponding to the content is obtained, where the digital license includes the co... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7073066 | Offloading cryptographic processing from an access point to an access point server using Otway-Rees key distribution In a network access point, a method of processing encrypted communication. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving from a wireless client a first message comprising first values for a first random number and information identifying the wireless client and ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069427 | Using a rules model to improve handling of personally identifiable information The present invention is a system and method for handling personally identifiable information, using a rules model. The invention involves defining a limited number of privacy-related actions regarding personally identifiable information; constructing a rule for eac... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065652 | System for obfuscating computer code upon disassembly A system for preventing accurate disassembly of computer code. Such code masking, referred to as “obfuscation,” is useful to prevent unwanted parties from making copies of an original author's software, obtaining valuable information from the software for purpos... | 06/20/2006 |
