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8171297 System and method using information based indicia for securing and authenticating transactions  
A method, system, and apparatus for authenticating transactions and records is disclosed. A method for authenticating an information-based indicium includes receiving an article bearing a first...
8155313 Systems and methods for employing duo codes for product authentication  
Systems and methods are provided that employ two or more cryptographically linked codes. The codes, when encrypted, become cipher texts that appear unrelated. The codes described herein are...
8127137 Watermark payload encryption for media including multiple watermarks  
The present invention provides encryption techniques useful with digital watermarking payloads. One claim recites: a method to secure a first digital watermark payload and a second digital...
8117455 Object authentication from a signature part  
A method of authenticating an object in which a computer system receives indicating data from a sensing device. The indicating data is generated in response to sensing of coded data provided on or...
8054970 Image forming apparatus, image forming method, information processing apparatus and information processing method  
In an image forming method of receiving encrypted data generated by an information processing apparatus, decrypting the encrypted data into data to be printed, and causing an image forming...
8031349 Approach for securely printing electronic documents  
An approach is provided for securely printing electronic documents using a portable media. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and includes secure direct...
8031377 Encrypting image data based on paper fiber properties, printing encrypted image, and decrypting encrypted image  
An image forming apparatus includes a paper fiber reading unit that reads fiber properties of a paper sheet; an encryption unit that encrypts at least a part of an input image based on the fiber...
8031348 Approach for securely printing electronic documents  
An approach is provided for securely printing electronic documents using a portable media. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and includes secure direct...
7999973 Image processing apparatus and a control method for forming forgery-inhibited pattern images  
A method of controlling an apparatus which is capable of determining a dot disposition of a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image is disclosed. The copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image has a latent...
7995246 Detecting printed image copies using phase-space-encoded fragile watermark  
The present invention is concerned with detection of a “fragile watermark” in a printed image to aid in a determination whether a document under examination is an original or a copy. The wat...
7984481 Image processing system, image processing apparatus and image processing method  
An image processing system includes: a document storage apparatus for storing document data therein; an image processing apparatus connected to the document storage apparatus via a network, for...
7979906 Method and system for multifaceted scanning  
A method and system for multifaceted scanning, the method having the steps of receiving a data source; processing the data source for a plurality of scanning aspects, the processing step utilizing...
7979019 Image forming apparatus, image forming method, control program, and computer-readable program  
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of restricting copying using, as a master copy, a copy of a produced work such as a book. An MFP is provided with a printing...
7974928 System and method for securing database records from tampering and managing and recovering from component failure in devices such as postage value dispensing systems  
A method of managing and recovering from the failure of cryptographic devices in a secure transaction processing system including a database, a plurality first cryptographic devices and a standby...
7941347 Self cancelling product order based on predetermined time period  
A provider server receives an order from a customer by way of a workstation for a customer selected configuration change of computing resources of an end user machine, the provider server having a...
7933406 Encryption device and method, and image forming apparatus  
An encryption device which is capable of preparing an encrypted document not easily deciphered by a third person. The encryption device encrypts information formed on a recording member on the...
7929695 Printing system and printer with electronic signature capability and method thereof  
A printing system and printer with an electronic signature capability, and a method thereof are provided. To print security documents using an electronic signature stored in a portable memory, the...
7925015 Image forming system, computer-readable recording medium storing a setting change program, and setting change method  
An image forming system according to one embodiment of the present invention has a user authentication mode for granting only authorized users a setting change for an image forming apparatus. This...
7916863 Security printing method and system for enhancing security printing  
A security printing method includes generating a security file having a plurality of metadata fields and an information field concatenated together in an initial sequence. A security file...
7916354 Hiding and detecting auxiliary data in media materials and signals  
The present technology relates to steganographically hiding messages in materials such as paper stock, plastic and film. The technology can also be used to encode auxiliary data in imagery, which...
7916343 Method of encoding a latent image and article produced  
There is disclosed a method of encoding a latent image. The method comprises providing a latent image to be encoded, the latent image having a plurality of latent image elements, each latent image...
7889884 Image processing apparatus and method  
An image processing apparatus includes an information acquiring portion that acquires information on image process conditions for processing image data, a creating portion that creates additional...
7884954 Peripheral equipment and management method thereof  
When managing a job inputted via a network or a console according to a job management command issued likewise via the network or the console, peripheral equipment managed by a directory server...
7877606 Method of authorizing network publishing  
A method of authorizing printing of a publication at a printer by a publisher in a network is provided, in which an alias identity of a user is created from both a sensing device identity and an...
7873183 Embedding and detecting watermarks based on embedded positions in document layout  
A watermark embedding method for embedding a secret message sequence in a document. The techniques include obtaining layout information of the document, extracting a digest of the document by using...
7864955 Print system, control method therefor, information processing apparatus, control method therefor, program for implementing the control method, and storage medium storing the control program  
A print system which are capable of inhibiting simultaneous use of the encrypted print and the box storage to thereby increase the security of print data. A host computer has an encryption function...
7853017 Method and apparatus for encrypted print processing  
According to a print controller of this embodiment, when a part of print data is specified to be encrypted, a client 102 determines functions supported by a printer 104. If the printer 104 is...
7849316 Methods and apparatus for secure document printing  
Methods and apparatus are provided for securely printing a print job on a networked printer. An application program running on a networked computer instructs the printer to generate and exchange...
7844073 Watermark-based goods authentication  
An implementation is described herein facilitates certification of goods and/or identifications of the source of such goods. At least one implementation, described herein, embeds a watermark into a...
7831830 Methods and apparatus for secure document printing  
Methods and apparatus are provided for securely printing a print job on a networked printer. An application program running on a networked computer instructs the printer to generate and exchange...
7818812 Article and system for decentralized creation, distribution, verification and transfer of valuable documents  
A universally known and accepted unique item that is independently identifiable and difficult to counterfeit is used as an authenticator item. The identity of this item is included in an...
7818263 Technique for effectively generating multi-dimensional symbols representing postal information  
In a mailing system for franking a postage indicium serving as a proof of postage, postal data including the postage needs to be communicated through such an indicium. Illustratively, the postal...
7809952 System for registering sensing device with relay device  
A system for registering a sensing device with a relay device is provided. The relay device allowing the sensing device to communicate with a computer system of the system. The computer system...
7809137 Job allocation control apparatus and job allocation control method  
In a job allocation control apparatus, whether or not a job has security setting is discriminated, if it is decided that the job has the security setting, this job is set to a scheduling target to...
7796753 Digital anti-counterfeiting software method and apparatus  
This invention relates generally to a method and apparatus, as implemented by a software program on a computer system, for digitally producing counterfeit-deterring scrambled or encoded indicia...
7792291 XOR encoded document for secure message exchange  
An XOR (exclusive or) encoded document is disclosed for establishing a joint secret between two parties. Encoded on the document are one or more areas of XOR messages. Each area containing an XOR...
7792760 Printing device, information processing apparatus, printing system, signature verifying method, signature adding method, and program  
A printing device capable of preventing a printing process from being performed in accordance with print information sent from a printer driver in version for which permission of use is not given....
7778416 Print data communication with data encryption and decryption  
A printing job containing printing data is transmitted to a specified image forming apparatus through a communications medium so that the printing data can be printed by the specified image forming...
7757090 System for verifying of secure document  
A system is provided for verifying the validity status and/or authenticity information of a secure document. The secure document has user discernable information and a plurality of tags printed...
7740281 Method and system for producing certified documents and the like  
A system for generating secure documents includes a station for generating a plain document and a security image generator that generates a security image. The security image is then incorporated...
7739509 Authentication of an object using a signature part  
A method of authenticating an object by sensing coded data provided on or in a surface associated with the object. The coded data is indicative of an identity of the object and, at least part of a...
7724918 Data obfuscation of text data using entity detection and replacement  
A data obfuscation method, apparatus and computer program product are disclosed in which at least selected text entities such as words or abbreviations in a document are obfuscated to prevent the...
7721099 Securing access to documents within multi-function devices  
A printer that prints encrypted information in a document can be the key authority for that document. A document containing encrypted information and a source reference can be printed by a printer...
7711140 Secure recorded documents  
An anti-tampering method for processing documents is disclosed. The method comprises, in regard to an encoding step, the steps of resolving (in a step 2303) in regard to an N-level image to be...
7684064 Print job authentication  
In order to maintain high security of a job that requires a high security level even after a print interrupt factor has been removed, and to achieve both the effect of maintaining high security of...
7664956 Method and system for real-time control of document printing  
A method for secure printing is presented. A document management system (DMS) is provided within a server computer for storing, displaying and printing a plurality of documents. At least a portion...
7657031 Method and device for printing sensitive data  
In a method and system for printing of sensitive data, encrypted sensitive data to be printed is transferred to a printing device having a printing unit. This sensitive data to be printed is...
7634801 Multifunction machine and personal authentication method of multifunction machine  
A multifunction machine and a personal authentication method are provided in which information is exchanged between the multifunction machine and a memory card by the RF-ID method. The...
7620177 Secure printing  
A system and methods provides secure end-to-end printing in networked computing environments, such as a corporate office environment employing a number of shared printers. The described system and...
7617539 Image processing device, document data transmission method, program, and storage medium for image processing device  
An image processing device comprises a storage unit which has multiple storage regions and stores document data within the storage regions, a security settings unit which performs settings relating...
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