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7493487 Portable computing environment  
The described systems, methods and data structures are directed to a portable computing environment. A communication link is established between a portable device and a host device. The portable...
7493275 Terminal, charging system, and data processing method  
This invention relates to a terminal device capable of communicating with an accounting center, an accounting system, and a data processing method. A point memory 45 of a recording/reproducing...
7493496 Biometric system  
A biometric system ( 10 ) for assisting a user in providing a biometric reading is described. The system ( 10 ) comprises: a biometric capture unit ( 12 ) for capturing biometric data from a user;...
7490242 Secure management of authentication information  
A system, method and computer program product are provided for managing authentication information for a user. According to the method, a master digital key is received from the user, and...
7490239 Facilitating digital signature based on ephemeral private key  
Facilitating communication using a digital signature includes: receiving user input data (UID); generating a first key as a deterministic function of the UID; clearing the UID; generating a second...
7490356 End user risk management  
A flexible, efficient and easy-to-use computer security management system effectively evaluates and responds to informational risks on a wide variety of computing platforms and in a rapidly...
7490240 Electronically signing a document  
Facilitating communication using a digital signature includes: receiving user input data (UID); generating a first key as a deterministic function of the UID; clearing the UID; generating a second...
7487537 Method and apparatus for pervasive authentication domains  
Methods and apparatus for enabling a Pervasive Authentication Domain. A Pervasive Authentication Domain allows many registered Pervasive Devices to obtain authentication credentials from a single...
7487362 Digital authentication over acoustic channel  
Apparatus and method are disclosed for digital authentication and verification. In one embodiment, authentication involves storing a cryptographic key and a look up table (LUT), generating an...
7484106 Pre-login data access  
A system and process for interacting with a system in an insecure state is described. Before logging into a secure state of a computer system, a user is able to access limited information including...
7484102 Securing audio-based access to application data  
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for securing audio-based access to application data. A client sends and a server receives a request for audio-based...
7484088 Methods and systems for proofing identities using a certificate authority  
A digital certificate is provided to a customer having an electronic account linked to the customer's physical address. Using the digital certificate, the customer performs electronic transactions...
7480805 Method and system for identifying and processing an unauthorized access request  
The system reuses the classic User ID & Password combination for authentication and adds a third component called a USE code for additional authorization check, as an example. This method allows...
7480934 Multiple identity management in an electronic commerce site  
In electronic commerce (e-commerce) sites that are executed on a single e-commerce application, a user's session is only associated with a single user identity for e-commerce site domain. Acting...
7480708 Method and computer program product for managing data consistency  
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing data consistency within a network of computer systems. The method includes, in a network, storing tables of level indicators...
7478423 Protected execution environments within a computer system  
A protected execution agent installs itself within a file system manager on the computer to control modifications to a protected execution environment by intercepting I/O requests from...
7478244 Access control method  
Effective utilization of a database while protecting a data provider's privacy is accomplished by an access control system which controls access to a database in which open information and secret...
7478245 Session-state manager  
Without actually storing session-state information, the described exemplary implementations of session-state manager identify a user, validate the user's current logon state, and determine whether...
7478248 Apparatus and method for securing data on a portable storage device  
A portable storage device including a microprocessor and a secure user data area, the microprocessor operable to perform on-the-fly encryption/decryption of secure data stored on the storage device...
7475428 Secure detection network system  
A secure detection network system includes plurality of remote nodes, each remote node comprising a set of detector interfaces configured to couple to a set of detectors disposed to detect the...
7472424 Parental controls for entertainment content  
Parental controls for entertainment digital media are provided that allow a parent to restrict multiple user's access to entertainment content. One or more updatable rating definition files with...
7472280 Digital rights management  
A method of managing digital rights comprises the following steps. First, a physical electronic key containing a first activation code is provided to a requesting user. Second, locked digital...
7471794 Network lock method and related apparatus with ciphered network lock and inerasable deciphering key  
The method includes: associating different cell phones to different enciphering and deciphering keys of an asymmetric encryption algorithm. Access information of the network lock corresponding to...
7472417 System for detection and indication of a secure status of appliances  
A system and method detect and display a security status of appliances, in particular automation appliances and/or systems. The appliances have a detector mechanism for identification of a security...
7472425 Information providing system and authentication medium access control method and computer program  
A service provider makes requests to an information processing center for processing for an IC card in card command units. The information processing center issues encrypted card commands that can...
7472281 Method for the automatic log-in of a subscriber station situated particularly in a motor vehicle in an external information system  
In a method for the automatic log-in of a subscriber station in a motor vehicle into an external information system, a non-automatic log-in is first performed by transmitting to the external...
7469383 Medical apparatus for diagnosis or treatment  
The invention relates to a medical apparatus for diagnosis and/or treatment using a procedure ( 20 ), with an operating console ( 11 ) to control the use of components of the procedure ( 20 ), the...
7467303 Grid mutual authorization through proxy certificate generation  
A method for mutual authorization of a secondary resource in a grid of resource computers is provided. When a primary resource attempts to offload a grid computing job to a secondary resource, the...
7467298 Methods and arrangements for selectively maintaining parental access consent in a network environment  
Methods and arrangements are provided which associate a first user with a second user in a first device, and selectively provide information about the association of the first and second user to a...
7464858 Systems and methods for controlling access within a system of networked and non-networked processor-based systems  
In one embodiment, a method controls access rights within a system. The method comprises: physically transporting a portable card by the first end-user from a networked processor-based system to...
7467401 User authentication without prior user enrollment  
Authenticating a user includes providing a plurality of questions based on user related information stored in at least one data source, wherein none of the plurality of questions is password...
7464272 Server control of peer to peer communications  
A server provides a secure environment for establishing peer-to-peer communications between clients. When two clients of the server wish to establish peer-to-peer communication, they first connect...
7464407 Attack defending system and attack defending method  
An attack defending system allows effective defense against attacks from external networks even when a communication system uses a communication path encryption technique such as SSL. A firewall...
7461250 System and method for certificate exchange  
In an embodiment of a system and method according to the present invention, a chain of one or more certificates certifying a principal's public key is exchanged for a single substitute certificate....
7461260 Methods and apparatus for finding a shared secret without compromising non-shared secrets  
Methods and apparatus for finding a shared secret without compromising non-shared secrets are disclosed. The methods and apparatus receive a first group of hashed secrets from a communication...
7461263 Method and apparatus for a non-revealing do-not-contact list system  
A method and apparatus for a non-revealing do-not-contact list system in which a do-not-contact list of one-way hashed consumer contact information is provided to a set of one or more entities. The...
7461028 Method and system for authorizing use of a transaction card  
A method for authorizing purchases by an owner of an account previously established with a bank where the owner wants to purchase an item from a merchant. The method including the step(s) of: (i)...
7457963 Endoscopic examination system with security for report preservation or transmission improved  
An endoscopic examination system consists mainly of an examination terminal, a report input/output terminal, and a server. The examination terminal is connected to endoscopic examination equipment....
7457965 Unauthorized access blocking apparatus, method, program and system  
This invention is to minimize influence to other network by preventing unauthorized accesses such as DDoS attacks and probing by worms. When the blocking apparatuses 10 a and 10 b detect...
7457964 Trusted path for transmitting content thereon  
A method is provided for a processor of a computing device to obtain a trusted identification of a hardware peripheral of the computing device, for the computing device and the peripheral to derive...
7454611 System and method for establishing trust without revealing identity  
One aspect of an embodiment of the invention provides a method, system, and device to prove to a challenger that a prover device has a signature from a device manufacturer without revealing the...
7454622 Method and system for modular authentication and session management  
Modular authentication and session management involves the use of discrete modules to perform specific tasks in a networked computing environment. There may be a separate authentication server that...
7454613 Information processing apparatus, session recovery method, recording medium for storing session recovery program  
An information processing apparatus, a session recovery method and a recording medium for storing a session recovery program are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, even if...
7454794 Access control method  
An access control method executed by a computer system, including applying an access rate limit until a user issuing access requests is verified, a first control level involving verifying the user,...
7454018 Transfer of DVD decode key on a window by window basis to an attached device  
Disclosed is apparatus for processing an encrypted data stream within a computer system adapted to receive the encrypted data stream from a data storage device. A data output device is coupled to a...
7454782 Method and system for camouflaging access-controlled data  
A computer-representable object (including, without limitation, a cryptographic key, or a graph or a Boolean description of a system) is secured using a generalized camouflaging technique. The...
7454623 Distributed hierarchical identity management system authentication mechanisms  
A set of methods, and systems, for use in an identity management system are disclosed herein. A modular user identity information datastore using hardware accelerated encryption for user data...
7454616 Code authentication upon bootup for cable modems  
An exemplary embodiment of a method ( 10 ) for authenticating software in a cable modem makes use of a secure key and certificate stored in flash memory. In this exemplary embodiment, the code...
7449989 Computerised identity matching management  
A computerized identity matching management system including a computer receiving a request from a capture apparatus waiting to commence a biometric capture process, to initiate the capture process...
7451301 OS independent device management methods and apparatuses having a map providing codes for various activations of keys  
An apparatus adapted to facilitate remote configuration and/or management of a system, independent of its operating system, is disclosed. In various embodiments, the apparatus includes a first and...