Match Document Document Title
7620711 Method of using configuration files for configuring technical devices  
Method for the provision and use of configuration files for configuring technical devices. The present invention relates to a method for the provision and use of configuration files containing...
7619767 Centralized copy administration and management system that controls the reproduction of copyright works based on user history and usage permissions associated with the media  
In the present invention, an administration server stores therein: a user ID and an academic conference book-classification which are associated with each other; and a book ID and a library...
RE40969 Mark forming apparatus, method of forming laser mark on optical disk, reproducing apparatus, optical disk and method of producing optical disk  
An object of the present invention is to provide a marking forming apparatus, a method of forming a laser marking on an optical disk, a reproduction apparatus, an optical disk, and a method of...
RE40958 Medium, apparatus, and method related to encryption resultant information  
A disk-shaped recording medium includes a transparent substrate, and an optical recording layer formed on the transparent substrate. A light source emits light. An optical head is operative for...
RE40957 Medium, apparatus, and method related to encryption resultant information  
A disk-shaped recording medium includes a transparent substrate, and an optical recording layer formed on the transparent substrate. A light source emits light. An optical head is operative for...
7610626 Recording medium, recording apparatus, reading apparatus, and program and method therefore  
An MPEG2-PS format digital stream is composed of VOBUs and each VOBU except an RDI-Pack at the top is encrypted using a content key Kc. The content key Kc is an encryption key obtained by adding a...
7610246 Information processing apparatus, control method therefor and computer readable information recording medium  
An information processing apparatus handling a removable formation recording medium storing predetermined substance information and first license information concerning the information processing...
7606366 Apparatus and method for embedding and extracting information in analog signals using distributed signal features and replica modulation  
Apparatus and methods are provided for embedding or embedding digital data into an analog host or cover signal. A distributed signal feature of the cover signal in a particular domain (time,...
7603722 Scheduled-recording method that schedules recording of copy-protected content  
A scheduled recording method, which schedules recording of copy-protected content, is provided. The scheduled recording method involves determining whether copy control information of content of...
7603699 Method for establishing trust online  
A method and system for displaying the trusted status of a website by displaying a trust symbol that is displayed as part of the website so that they trust symbol does not scroll when the website...
7603317 Using a privacy agreement framework to improve handling of personally identifiable information  
The invention entails identifying the parties involved in a process of handling personally identifiable information; identifying the data involved in said process; classifying the data; expressing...
7594274 Method of authenticating an application for personal digital assistant using a unique ID based on a personal computer and system using thereof  
By using a unique ID generated by considering the hardware characteristic of PC in PDA where an application program, etc. distributed based on PC is installed, it makes possible to generate and...
7593541 Apparatus and method for displaying images  
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a device for displaying images. It is known to inlay a pattern of watermark type into the sequence of images to be displayed so as to combat the...
7590853 Systems and methods using cryptography to protect secure computing environments  
Secure computation environments are protected from bogus or rogue load modules, executables and other data elements through use of digital signatures, seals and certificates issued by a verifying...
7587749 Computer method and apparatus for managing data objects in a distributed context  
In a network of intermittently-connected computers, a method and apparatus for maintaining and managing control over data objects authored, accessed, and altered by users in dynamic, distributed,...
7587603 Protecting content from illicit reproduction by proof of existence of a complete data set via self-referencing sections  
Data items are selected for inclusion in a data set so as to discourage a transmission of the entire set. Each data item includes section(s) which constitute(s) the complete data set. Each section...
7587368 Information record infrastructure, system and method  
A method of maintaining electronic medical records, comprising the steps of receiving a medical transaction record, encrypted with an encryption key relating to a patient association of the file,...
7587125 Reproducing/recording apparatus  
A playback unit ( 3 ) reproduces contents which are recorded on a video cassette tape ( 2 ), and a recording unit ( 6 ) records the contents on another video cassette tape ( 7 ) and,...
7584149 System and method for securing data through a PDA portal  
Consumers may utilize computing devices to assist in the purchase and/or loyalty process, and in particular, the consumer may utilize a PDA to facilitate the purchase and/or loyalty process. During...
7581092 Systems and methods using cryptography to protect secure computing environments  
Secure computation environments are protected from bogus or rogue load modules, executables and other data elements through use of digital signatures, seals and certificates issued by a verifying...
7580893 Acoustic signal coding method and apparatus, acoustic signal decoding method and apparatus, and acoustic signal recording medium  
Acoustic signal encoder is provided which comprises a subband filter band to divide an original signal into a plurality of frequency bands, a spectrum transformation circuit to detect the amplitude...
7580892 Automated teller machine printer system and method  
An automated banking machine ( 10 ) with customizable transaction receipts is provided. The automated banking machine may include a computer ( 30 ), at least one printer device ( 24, 44, 46 ), at...
7574712 User interface for configuring web services for remote portlets  
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for improved event communications between producer(s) and consumer(s) of content to communicate regarding changes to a web...
7574407 System and method for selecting, ordering and accessing copyrighted information from physical documents  
A method for processing edited objects associated with a physical document, for use in a user workstation by a user. An edited object is identified in an edited objects table from being associated...
7571490 Method and apparatus for protecting data from unauthorized modification  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that protects data from unauthorized modification in a table, wherein the table contains one or more rows, and wherein each row contains...
7570761 Method and system for preventing unauthorized recording of media content in the iTunes™ environment  
A method and system for preventing unauthorized recording of media content in an iTunes™ environment. Embodiment of the method begins by activating a compliance mechanism in response to receiving...
7570560 System and method for logical shredding of data stored on WORM media  
Files are encrypted and stored on a WORM media device along with their encryption keys, the binary values of which are stored as a combination of written and unwritten sectors in a key storage...
7568124 Driving data backups with data source tagging  
Implementations of the present invention allow clients (e.g., end-users, administrators, etc.) to associate data with one or more protection intents at the data/data source level. A backup server...
7568100 Steganographic method and device  
An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding additional information into a stream of digitized samples in an integral manner. The information is encoded using special keys. The information is...
7567939 Method and apparatus for implementing revocation in broadcast networks  
A method of revoking a descrambling privilege for copy controlled content to a host device is provided. The method includes receiving copy controlled content at a conditional access module. A...
7565322 Systems and methods for serverless software licensing  
A system and method for licensing the use of “plug-in” type software that plays audio, video, and three dimensional content which logs the network address from which content is downloaded and...
7558760 Real-time key frame generation  
The real-time generation of key frames in a media data stream is disclosed. One embodiment provides a method of processing encoded media data comprising receiving a request to play back the encoded...
7555465 Service and method for providing a single point of access for multiple providers' video and audio content  
A method that uses a computer network to provide a single point of access between a plurality of video & audio devices and a plurality of video & audio content provider systems. The present...
7555464 Multiple DRM management  
In one embodiment, a method for enabling a single assembly of content to be played on a plurality of player devices, each having at least one available digital rights management (DRM) algorithm...
7555126 Game apparatus managing system, game apparatus, controlling method, computer program and recording medium  
A license managing apparatus comprises an inputting device, an encrypting device for encrypting information inputted from the inputting device to produce encrypted information, and an outputting...
7549062 Organization-based content rights management and systems, structures, and methods therefor  
A rights-managed document has protected content from an author thereof, whereby a recipient of the document can render the protected content with a corresponding license if the recipient satisfies...
7549046 Method and system for vehicle authorization of a service technician  
A vehicle authenticates a service technician and accesses a technician database to determine whether the service technician is indicated as authorized to perform the service operation. If the...
7548887 Information-signal playback system, information-signal reading apparatus, information-signal processing apparatus, information-signal playback method, information-signal reading method and information-signal processing apparatus  
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for protecting the copyright of an information signal recorded on a recording medium such as a DVD (Digital Video Disc) for presenting the...
7543336 System and method for secure storage of data using public and private keys  
In one aspect, a data structure to be encrypted is received, the data structure including content along with a statement of conditions under which the content may be decrypted. The content is...
7539873 Original data circulation method, system, apparatus, and computer readable medium  
An original data circulation system for storing or circulating original data which is digital information is provided. The original data circulation system includes an issuer apparatus, a user...
7536553 Method and system for validating a security marking  
A method and system for authenticating an item by using a security marking. The security marking is provided on the item with an OVD ink capable of absorbing light in a visible wavelength range to...
7536355 Content security system for screening applications  
A method for securing a content is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a media key by decrypting a media key block based on a device key unique to a particular...
7533062 Method for creating self-authenticating documents  
In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method for creating a self-authenticating document is disclosed. The method comprises: providing a base substrate forming the document; printing...
7533061 Delivering media files to consumer devices  
Techniques are described for delivering copies of digital media items to consumers, such as to in some situations provide to a consumer a single file with multiple distinct copies of a digital...
7533027 Methods and apparatus for uniquely identifying a large number of film prints  
A method and apparatus for generating many uniquely identifiable media copies from a few uniquely marked masters to reduce the expense of subjecting each media copy to a marking process while...
7530116 Controlling the downloading and recording of digital data  
A method and apparatus for enabling a licensed end user to record digital data as described is particularly useful to the music industry as it enables them to make audio data available over the...
7529938 Method, apparatus and system for performing authentication according to challenge-response protocol using scrambled access information  
An authentication communication system includes an storage medium having an area for storing digital information and an access device for reading/writing digital information from/into the area. The...
7529919 Boot blocks for software  
In accordance with one aspect of boot blocks for software, in a computer system that has a central processing unit and a software identity register, an atomic operation is executed to set an...
7529712 Content distribution system and method  
A method and system for the secure distribution of content to authorized persons. A content provider uploads encrypted content to the system and specifies the institutions or individuals to which...
7526451 Method of transferring digital rights  
A system and method of transferring digital rights from a first device to a second device. A target rights management object is transferred from the first device to the second device. A...