Cryptography inventions 11/07

20070274518 - Encryption system, encryption device, decryption device, program, and integrated circuit: An encrypted communication system, capable of performing processing with the speed higher than the conventionally achieved speed, has an encryption device and a decryption device which share parameters that satisfy p=3 and q=2ˆk (k: an integer of 2 or greater) (S161), where the decryption device generates a public key and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070274519 - Authorization for media content alteration: A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of authorization rights applicable to a possible... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070274520 - Information processing apparatus and method and program: An information processing apparatus configured to transfer encrypted information from a sending source to a sending destination, includes: a decryptor, an encryptor, and a transmitter. The decryptor is configured to decrypt the encrypted content supplied from the sending source by use of a common key used in the sending source.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070274521 - Service providing server, information processor, data processing method, and computer program: An apparatus and a method are provided, which enable a service corresponding to content stored in an information recording medium to be provided only to a device having a valid information recording medium. In a configuration in which content is provided as stored in an information recording medium, and service... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070274522 - Authentication system: Methods, interface, and a communication network in a 3GPP network are presented. A user is authenticated and application service rules are binded to the user in GGSN filters ensuring that the correct charging, QoS level or similar function rules apply to the user for specific application services available from both... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070274523 - Watermarking to convey auxiliary information, and media embodying same: The present invention related generally to audio encoding and decoding. Various arrangements are disclosed. One method obtains audio, wherein authorized or original audio comprises in-band information and associated out-of-band information; searches for out-of-band information associated with obtained audio; searches the obtain audio for in-band information associated with the obtained audio;... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070274525 - Encrypted communication system, communication status management server, encrypted communication method, and communication status management method: An encrypted communication system is provided, in which an encryption key for use in encrypted communication and settings information for the encrypted communication are distributed to each of a plurality of communication devices performing encrypted communication within a group, and in which traffic generated by distributing the encryption key and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070274524 - Method for managing the security of applications with a security module: The aim of this invention is to propose a method to manage the security of the set composed by an equipment, a security module and applications in order to limit the risk related to the fact that a security module could be fraudulently used by applications executed on a type... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070274526 - Method and apparatus for content protection in wireless communications: Disclosed is a method for securely presenting content in a mobile station. The mobile station may have a smart module, a security agent, and an air interface for communicating with a content provider and with a remote content rights manager. The smart module stores content presentation units and has a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070269040 - Cryptographic protocol for commonly controlled devices: This document describes tools that enable secure communication between devices that are within a user's common control. These commonly controlled devices may follow a protocol, for example, where each commits to its own public key and receives a commitment of the other's public key, publishes its own public key and... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070269042 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image forming apparatus includes a reader for reading image data from a document. An inherent information storage stores information inherent to the image forming apparatus. An encryption key generator generates an encryption key based on the inherent information in the inherent information storage, and an encryptor encrypts the image... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070269044 - Digital library system with rights-managed access: A management system for a worldwide digital library provides for the unfettered distribution of copyright-free materials while protecting and enforcing owner's rights with respect to the distribution of copyright-protected works. End users with local devices operating with trusted computing environments, which can limit the further storage or use of delivered... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20070269041 - Method and apparatus for secure messaging: Methods and systems for secure messaging are disclosed. One method includes generating a first key associated with the sender. The method further includes encrypting a message from the sender to the recipient using the first key. The method also includes encrypting the first key with a second key. The method... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070269043 - Process to secure a personal portable object: The invention relates to a process to make secure a personal portable object comprising a body of the personal portable object, a microchip, a printed image and a device to enable said personal portable object to communicate with an entity external to the device. The process includes using an image... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070269045 - Content delivery service providing apparatus and content delivery service terminal unit: On the content delivery side, a user management control unit manages authentication information and the distribution of a delivery list at the time of delivering service, the acceptance of a content select request, and charging and settlement on a user basis. On the other hand, an encrypted content control unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070269046 - Receiver device for star pattern partial encryption: A television signal receiver device consistent with certain embodiments has a receiver that receives a digital television signal including a plurality of unencrypted packets, and a plurality of encrypted packets, wherein the encrypted packets are of at least one selected packet type. The at least one selected packet type has... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20070269047 - Information encryption transmission/reception method: A sender server computer 5 for transmitting and receiving data of a sender 5 and a receiver server computer 6 for transmitting and receiving data of a receiver 4 that are connected to the web network; firstly encrypting bit data FD of original information such as plaintext to be transmitted... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070269048 - Key generation in a communication system: A communication system generates a Master Session Key (MSK) for accesses to a system entity that does not provide encryption to traffic. Both the home server and the user generate the same MSK. The MSK is used to generate encrytion keys for traffic. In one embodiment the MSK is generated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070263862 - Manufacturing process and apparatus for printing imprint on defective board: A manufacturing process and an apparatus for printing imprint on defective board are provided. An automatic printing device is used for replacing operator, so as to reduce manpower and to increase the correctness and veracity of defect mark printing. The manufacturing process includes the following steps: first, an image sensor... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070263859 - Protection of the execution of a des algorithm: A method for protecting an execution, by an integrated circuit, of a ciphering and/or deciphering algorithm taking into account data and at least one valid key and performing several iterations of the same calculation, including at least one execution of an iteration with the valid key between several executions of... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070263860 - System and method for dynamically allocating stream identifiers in a multi-encryption transport stream: The present invention is suitable for use in a multi-encrypted system that dynamically allocates stream identifiers in a secondary overlay stream depending upon the identifiers in a primary encrypted stream. The primary encrypted input stream is monitored to determine the presence of all identifier values. Once the identifier values are... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070263861 - Keystream encryption device, method, and program: A stream encryption device generates a first pseudo random number sequence from key information, generates a second pseudo random number sequence according to clock control performed according to the first pseudo random number sequence, and subjects it to a nonlinear function calculation, thereby generating a key stream. The stream encryption... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070263865 - Authorization rights for substitute media content: A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a... Agent: Searete LLC Suite 110

20070263863 - Intelligent user interface: A system for an intelligent user interface is provided. The system includes a handset, a user activity logger, a user activity analyzer, and a user interface composer. The user activity logger logs a user activity for the handset, a time of the user activity, and a geographic location of the... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070263864 - System and method for dynamically allocating stream identifiers in a multi-encryption transport system: The present invention is suitable for use in a multi-encrypted system that dynamically allocates stream identifiers in a second stream depending upon the identifiers in a first stream. The first stream is monitored and counters are incremented with the presence of an identifier. The count for each of the counters... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070263866 - Multiple stream decrypting and decoding systems and related methods thereof: A system for decrypting multiple transport streams is disclosed. The system includes: a Multiple Transport stream Multiplexer (M-Mux), for receiving at least a first transport stream and a second transport stream, and outputting a resultant transport stream; a multiple transport stream decryption card for decrypting the resultant transport stream to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070263867 - Information processing system, method, and apparatus, and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing system including: a first information processing apparatus for transmitting an audio signal in accordance with SMPTE 299M using HD-SDI standardized in SMPTE 292M; and a second information processing apparatus for receiving the signal. The first apparatus includes: a first key generator; an audio encryptor... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070263869 - Digital rights management method and apparatus: Provided are a digital rights management (DRM) method and apparatus, and more particularly, a DRM method and apparatus which can support different DRMs and use various digital content. The DRM method includes receiving a hello message request from a host device; comparing information included in the hello message request to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070263870 - Secure communication channel activation system: Aan activation system for secure communication technology. In one embodiment, modular processing elements for account creation, account activation, software packaging, software activation, and software processing function independently. An integration module synthesizes activation and authentication for the account and software. Account activation and software activation are de-coupled, while providing an integration... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20070263868 - Method and apparatus for securely executing a background process: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that enables a background process to access encrypted data. During operation, the system executes the background process. Next, the system obtains a set of unencrypted keys by decrypting a set of encrypted keys with a server-key. The system then makes the... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070263871 - Uninterrupted transmission during a change in ciphering configuration: Techniques for sending information without interruption during a change in ciphering configuration are described. A user equipment (UE) communicates with a wireless communication network for a call. The UE sends first information to the wireless network using a first ciphering configuration. For a change in ciphering configuration, the UE selects... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070263873 - Methods and apparatus for a keying mechanism for end-to-end service control protection: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for a keying mechanism for end-to-end service control protection within wireless networks. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070263872 - System and method for exchanging encryption keys between a mobile device and a peripheral device: Embodiments of a system and method for providing additional security for data being transmitted across a wireless connection that has been established using a known wireless protocol (e.g. Bluetooth) are described. An encryption key is exchanged between a computing device (e.g. a mobile device) and a wireless peripheral device (e.g.... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070263874 - Key-based encryption: There is disclosed a method, apparatus, computer program and computer program product for facilitating secure data communications. The secure data communications is carried out using a secret key for encrypting data flowing between first and second entities over a communications link. First it is determined that the communications link has... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070263875 - Information processing system and method using encryption key block: An information processing system and method using an encryption key block sets sub-trees classified based on data processing ability of the devices (capability) in a key tree in which respective keys are corresponded to a root, nodes and leaves of a tree in which a plurality of devices are constituted... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070263876 - In-memory compression and encryption: Methods and devices related to compression and encryption of data. Data to be encrypted and compressed is first received and then stored in physical memory. Once stored in a data structure in physical memory, the data is streamed to a process which compresses the data. The compressed data is then... Agent: Cassan Maclean

20070258582 - Hardware key encryption for data scrambling: Apparatus and method to scramble data prior to placing it on a bus or in memory uses embedded hardware keys for encryption/decryption. The hardware keys may be used in addition to software encryption. Different hardware keys may be used to process most significant bits and least significant bits of a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070258583 - Method of providing an encrypted data stream: providing as output the encrypted output data stream (39;44;69;88;113) in synchrony with an associated stream (40;54;70;89;114) of key messages. A key message carrying key information for obtaining the key value associated with the certain key period (21;48;71;83;99) is included in the stream of key messages (40; 54; 70; 89; 114)... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070258584 - System and method for processing messages with encryptable message parts: A system and method for processing messages with encryptable message parts. When constructing an encoded message, an encryption key of a plurality of identified encryption keys is used to encrypt message data of a message part. A key identifier is associated with the message part and identifies the encryption key... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070258585 - Multifactor split asymmetric crypto-key with persistent key security: A processor generates an asymmetric crypto-key, such as an RSA crypto-key, which is associated with the user and includes a private key and a public key. It computes a first key portion based on a stored random number generation function, which has one or more constants such as a salt... Agent: Alfred A. Stadnicki

20070258588 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus for converting a first signal furnished as an input baseband video signal into a second signal to be output. The information processing apparatus includes: a conversion unit configured to convert the first signal into the second signal of a predetermined system; a delay... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070258586 - Personal video recorder having dynamic security functions and method thereof: A method of processing a transport stream having a plurality of packets to output a protected transport stream includes providing a set of secret keys having a predetermined number of secret keys; generating a key indication value; selecting a secret key from the set of secret keys according to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070258587 - Recording device, recording medium, and content protection system: A recording/playback apparatus is capable of using pre-image-converted content in a case of transferring an image-converted content to another device, then back from transfer-destination device to the recording/playback apparatus. The recording/playback apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a first encrypted content generated by encrypting the content, a second encrypted... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070258589 - Digital television receiver and method for processing a digital television signal: A method of processing a digital television signal in a digital television receiver, the method includes receiving a digital television signal including blocks of content and a conditional access table including conditional access management information; parsing the conditional access table, the parsed conditional access table including copy control information specifying... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070258590 - Method and system for triple play service control: A method for controlling access to triple play services provided through a server over a network to a target system, the method comprising: receiving a signal from a user to select a service from a list of the services displayed on a display screen of a data processing system; receiving... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070258591 - Ciphering control and synchronization in a wireless communication system: Ciphering control and synchronization for both U-plane data and C-plane signaling messages in a wireless communication network are disclosed. Ciphering entities are located in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a network. The ciphering entities of the WTRU and the network perform ciphering control and ciphering parameter synchronization. The ciphering... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070258592 - Systems and methods for multiplexing qkd channels: Systems and methods for multiplexing two or more channels of a quantum key distribution (QKD) system are disclosed. A method includes putting the optical public channel signal (SP1) in return-to-zero (RZ) format in a transmitter (T) in one QKD station (Alice) and amplifying this signal (thereby forming SP1*) just prior... Agent: OpticusIPLaw, PLLC

20070258593 - System for generating pseudorandom sequences: A system for generating pseudorandom codes using a register which contains an identification of the code tree leg of the desired code and a counter which outputs a successive binary sequence. The output from the counter is bit-by-bit ANDed with the output of the register, and those outputs are XORed... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070258594 - Secure login using a multifactor split asymmetric crypto-key with persistent key security: A first network station encrypts a first message with a first key portion from a first split of a private or public key of a user's asymmetric crypto-key and transmits it during a network session. The second network station decrypts the transmitted encrypted first message with a second key portion... Agent: Alfred A. Stadnicki

20070258595 - Syncronizing device-specific encrypted data to and from mobile devices using detachable storage media: A system and method for transferring encrypted data between a data source device and a data target device is en-closed. A system is also disclosed for using a detachable media to enable software applications on each device (target and source) to select an appropriate public key for specific data types... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070258596 - Distribution of broadcast content for remote decryption and viewing: Program materials received from a direct broadcast satellite system are distributed between a host receiver and a client receiver for remote decryption. Using either a same pairing key or different host and client pairing keys, an encrypted media encryption key is received at both the host and client receivers, and... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20070253548 - Data protection system, method, and program: The data dividing unit divides data into n pieces. An encoding unit generates m pieces of encoded data composed of a set of a bitmap matrix specifying a plurality pieces of divided data for obtaining exclusive OR (XOR) and exclusive OR data including exclusive OR of the plurality pieces of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070253549 - Encryption apparatus and method for providing an encrypted file system: An encryption apparatus and method for providing an encrypted file system are provided. The encryption apparatus and method of the illustrative embodiments uses a combination of encryption methodologies so as to reduce the amount of decryption and re-encryption that is necessary to a file in the Encrypted File System in... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070253550 - Apparatus and materials for two-stage printing of value indicia: A roll of label stock includes a plurality of first regions suitable for being printed on by thermal printing. The first regions are blank. The label stock also includes a plurality of pre-printed color images, each associated with a respective one of the first regions. A stamp printer that prints... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070253551 - Portable security module pairing: A method for pairing a first element and a second element, wherein the first element and the second element form a first decoding system among a plurality of receiving decoding systems in a broadcasting network. Each receiving decoding system is adapted to descramble scrambled audiovisual information received over the broadcasting... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070253552 - System and method for self-decaying digital media files and for validated playback of same: Information, such as audio visual information, is secured by self-decay of the information over time. For instance, a date stamp and decay rate embedded in an encrypted audio or visual digital media file can be applied to decrypt the file to a predetermined decayed state, such as a degraded playback... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070253553 - System, method of generation and use of bilaterally generated variable instant passwords.: In Bilaterally Generated Variable Instant Password system, Variable character sets or Master Variable Character Set with Sub Variable Character Sets of any level containing Character Units are used as means of generating Passwords. Password is a random combination of Character Units of Variable Character Set/derivatives, which is generated by a... Agent: S A Abdul Rahman C/o: Mr. Manny C Raja

20070253554 - Reykey operation with multiplexing capability: A method of providing a protocol for rekeying between two stations is disclosed. The method can include providing a first set of messages for computing a new key and reserving an auxiliary storage area for the new key. The first set of messages comprises an enable exchange. The method also... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP