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7328344 Authority-neutral certification for multiple-authority PKI environments  
A method for facilitating electronic certification, and systems for use therewith, are presented in the context of public key encryption infrastructures. Some aspects of the invention provide...
7325135 Method and system for authorizing reconfiguration of a vehicle  
A vehicle accesses a configuration database to determine whether a reconfiguration function is authorized. The reconfiguration function may involve, for example, installing the component in the...
7321970 Method and system for authentication using infrastructureless certificates  
Methods and systems are directed to authenticating a client over a network. The client generates a certificate and sends it to a server through a trusted mechanism. The server is configured to...
7321969 Secure instant messaging system using instant messaging group policy certificates  
A method and apparatus for facilitating instant messaging utilizes a secure instant message group policy certificate issued by an instant messaging public key infrastructure policy certificate...
7318155 Method and system for configuring highly available online certificate status protocol responders  
A method and system is presented for configuring a group of OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) responders so that they are highly available. Each of the grouped OCSP responders share a...
7318156 Group signature apparatus and method  
A mail receiving section receives S/MIME signature mail from a host of a member. A member checking section checks the electronic signature of the signature mail for validity and determines whether...
7318153 Mark information issuing method and system  
A mark issuing server operated by a mark issuer manages mark information collectively. A terminal of a user sends an information providing request to an information providing server of an...
7315941 Multi-certificate revocation using encrypted proof data for proving certificate's validity or invalidity  
A certification authority (CA, 120 ) generates decryption key data (K′ Fj ) for each set (F) in the complement cover ( 804 ) for a plurality of digital certificates. The CA encrypts all or a...
7313689 Method, system and service for the authentication of a public key certificate  
A method, system, and service of authenticating a public key certificate for a relying party (RP). A Certificate Authority (CA), who issued the certificate, is a member of a Public Key...
7310821 Host certification method and system  
A system and method is provided for authenticating a device. A method includes receiving a certificate from the device, the certificate including a plurality of fields, including a field holding a...
7310732 Content distribution system authenticating a user based on an identification certificate identified in a secure container  
A content distribution system allowing user authentication to be performed to identify a user in content transaction, thereby permitting the content to be used. The content is distributed with a...
7310629 Method and apparatus for controlling file sharing of multimedia files over a fluid, de-centralized network  
Communication is established between a first client and a central index server in a fluid, de-centralized network. The central index server searches the memory of the first client for usable data...
7308431 System and method of secure authentication and billing for goods and services using a cellular telecommunication and an authorization infrastructure  
A system, method and computer program for authorizing a mobile station to use a product, service, access or other rights provided by a service provider through the use of digital signatures. These...
7308574 Method and system for key certification  
A method and system for key certification in a public key infrastructure. The infrastructure has a network formed of a plurality of nodes. Each node has a private and public key pair. The nodes are...
7308573 Enrolling / sub-enrolling a digital rights management (DRM) server into a DRM architecture  
A Digital Rights Management (DRM) system has a plurality of DRM servers performing DRM functionality and an entering DRM-E server is enrolled into the system by an enrolling DRM-R server such that...
7305705 Reducing network configuration complexity with transparent virtual private networks  
A firewall acts as a transparent gateway to a server within a private network by initiating an unsolicited challenge to a client to provide authentication credentials. After receiving the client's...
7305550 System and method for providing authentication and verification services in an enhanced media gateway  
A system and method for facilitating authentication or identification services including an authentication server configured to provide an authentication certificate to a user of a first client...
7305547 Method for upgrading a host/agent security system that includes digital certificate management and an upgradable backward compatible host/agent security system digital certificate infrastructure  
A host/agent system and security-certificate-management infrastructure enhanced to provide backward compatibility, despite launching of new administrative host processes employing new software...
7299493 Techniques for dynamically establishing and managing authentication and trust relationships  
Techniques are provided for dynamically establishing and managing authentication and trust relationships. An identity service acquires and evaluates contracts associated with relationships between...
7298851 Electronic book security and copyright protection system  
The invention, electronic book security and copyright protection system, provides for secure distribution of electronic text and graphics to subscribers and secure storage. The method may be...
7299492 Multi-level multi-user web services security system and method  
A security system and method for granting multi-level access to data items in a distributed network. An architecture is provided, comprising: an authentication server that provides access to a web...
7298849 Method and apparatus for simultaneous encryption and decryption of publicly distributed media  
The present invention provides secure communication from one encryption domain to another using a trusted module. In one embodiment, the invention includes generating a cipher stream based on a...
7293284 Codeword-enhanced peer-to-peer authentication  
Peer-to-peer authentication may be accomplished by sending a digital certificate to a responder, receiving a randomized codeword in response to the sending, creating a secure fingerprint based at...
7289632 System and method for distributed security  
A security architecture in which a security module is integrated in a client machine, wherein the client machine includes a local host that is untrusted. The security module performs encryption and...
7290133 Method and apparatus improving efficiency of end-user certificate validation  
An apparatus and method collects, for a community of interest, at least one cross certificate associated with an anchor certificate issuing unit, and obtains at least one certificate issuing unit...
7287158 Person authentication system, person authentication method, information processing apparatus, and program providing medium  
A person authentication system capable of performing personal authentication by comparing templates that is personal identification data with sampling information input by a user is disclosed. For...
7286671 Secure network access method  
The present invention provides network-layer authentication protocols for authenticating mobile client and access router to each other. The present invention uses Router Discovery as a carrier to...
7284121 System and method for transmitting reduced information from a certificate to perform encryption operations  
A certificate-based encryption mechanism in which a source client does not access the entire certificate corresponding to a destination client when encrypting an electronic message to be sent to...
7275109 Network communication authentication  
A communication system, for use with a communications network, includes a client configured to communicate with the server via the network. The client includes an input configured to receive a...
7272716 Enterprise secure messaging architecture  
An enterprise system with secure wireless messaging includes an application service to process a message. The enterprise system also includes a security service that uses a cryptographic technique...
7272723 USB-compliant personal key with integral input and output devices  
A compact, self-contained, personal key is disclosed. The personal key comprises a USB-compliant interface releaseably coupleable to a host processing device; a memory; and a processor. The...
7272714 Method, apparatus, and program for automated trust zone partitioning  
An automated mechanism is provided for generating and distributing appropriate certificates for end entities in a distributed public key infrastructure environment based on trust relationships...
7272715 Communications method, data processing apparatus, and program  
When transferring elements APE forming an application program between SAM units 9 a and 9 b , management data which specifies identification data of elements, presence of mutual authentication,...
7272500 Global positioning system hardware key for software licenses  
A system for validating a license to use a computational component, comprising (a) a GPS module 108 to determine one or more of GPS timing information and a geographic location of at least one of...
7269726 Lightweight public key infrastructure employing unsigned certificates  
A public key infrastructure (PKI) includes a subject, a verifier, and certificate authority that issues a first unsigned certificate to the subject that binds a public key of the subject to...
7269844 Secure IR communication between a keypad and a token  
A device that secures a token from unauthorized use is disclosed. The device comprises a user interface for accepting a personal identifier, a processor, communicatively coupled to the user...
7266684 Internet third-party authentication using electronic tickets  
A method, software and apparatus facilitates one or more third-party agents to securely access a customer's or other first party's private personal and financial data or other such confidential...
7266685 Time certification in a wireless communications network  
The time reference of a user terminal that is derived from an unauthenticated access point can be certified by a trusted entity according to the present invention. In one embodiment, the present...
7263608 System and method for providing endorsement certificate  
A Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) endorsement certificate is provided by comparing a trusted platform module (TPM) public key transmitted by an owner of the computing device to which the...
7260721 Information processing method, information processing apparatus and recording medium  
A client receives encrypted content from content server. The header of the content includes license-identifying information for identifying a license required to utilize the content. The client...
7254711 Network authentication system, method, and program, service providing apparatus, certificate authority, and user terminal  
A certificate authority for certifying the validity of the collation result from a user terminal is placed on a communication network. The user terminal identifies a user himself or herself by...
7254706 System and method for downloading of files to a secure terminal  
Protection of private keys used to digitally sign files to be downloaded to a terminal is accomplished by storing the private keys in smartcards, and arranging a secure processor unit embedded in...
7251728 Secure and reliable document delivery using routing lists  
An operations center (OC) ( 200 ) acts as an intermediary for securely and reliably transmitting a document ( 3 ) from a sender ( 100 ) to a next recipient ( 300 ) on a routing list. The OC ( 200 )...
7251331 Method and arrangement for controlling access  
The invention describes a method for controlling access in a telecommunication system comprising a first transmitter-receiver unit, a second transmitter-receiver unit and a remote-controllable...
7249377 Method for client delegation of security to a proxy  
A method of enabling a proxy to participate in a secure communication between a client and a server. The method begins by establishing a first secure session between the client and the proxy. Upon...
7249380 Method and apparatus for evaluating trust and transitivity of trust of online services  
A W3 Trust Model is described for evaluating trust and transitivity of trust of online services. By introducing a set of trust attributes for each web document, the W3 Trust Model combines a...
7246241 Apparatus and method for securely realizing cooperative processing  
A device for facilitating verification of an electronic signature in an exchange of instructions between an in-house server and an outside server. Each server which is to execute a partial process...
7243238 Person authentication system, person authentication method, information processing apparatus, and program providing medium  
Disclosed are a person authentication system, a person authentication method, and an information processing apparatus which allow person authentication to be performed in an easy fashion in various...
7240194 Systems and methods for distributing trusted certification authorities  
Systems and methods are described for distributing and updating trusted certification authorities to computer systems and users. When a digital certificate is encountered during a secured...
7240195 Certified shuffle-decrypting system, certified shuffle-decrypting method and certified shuffle-decryption verifying method  
The present invention provides a certified shuffle-decrypting system, which does not require shuffled encrypted texts to be output, and in which the amounts of calculation and certificates are...