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Information Security > Prevention Of Unauthorized Use Of Data Including Prevention Of Piracy, Privacy Violations, Or Unauthorized Data Modification > Access Control > By Authorizing User By Authorizing UserBy Authorizing User patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/15/07 - 20070266445 - Secure exchange of information in electronic design automation Described herein are methods and systems for secure exchange of information related to electronic design automation. Information deemed sensitive and otherwise worthy of protection may be secured by methods such as encryption, obfuscation and other security measures. The secured information may be provided to an electronic design automation tool for ... 11/01/07 - 20070256142 - Encryption of data in storage systems Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture, wherein a request to access data is received from a requestor. A determination is made as to whether the requestor is authorized to access the data. In response to determining that the requestor is authorized to access the data, a determination ... 10/11/07 - 20070240231 - Managing objects in a role based access control system A method and system for managing objects in a O&M RBAC system includes a first step of dynamically discovering an object and associated command actions by the RBAC system. A next step includes defining roles and tasks to users assigning authorization privileges for the object. A next step includes updating ... 10/11/07 - 20070240230 - User-browser interaction analysis authentication system Systems, methods and media for authenticating a user based on user-browser interaction are disclosed. Embodiments of a method may include, during an e-commerce session with a user, receiving a request for an action from the user and determining whether the requested action requires additional authentication. Embodiments may also include requesting ... 09/06/07 - 20070209080 - Search hit url modification for secure application integration A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety or sources across an enterprise, regardless of ... 09/06/07 - 20070209079 - Electronic apparatus having security function In the event that an electronic apparatus having a security function is forcibly put into an inoperable state because electric power is shut off once by an operation equivalent to theft, the inoperable state can be canceled by using a code notified by the dealer by telephone, without carrying the ... 07/19/07 - 20070169206 - Facilitating the development of computer programs Development of computer programs is facilitated. An interface of a program is created and that program interface encapsulates an existing spreadsheet, such that the spreadsheet itself is the calculation engine of the program. The logic of the spreadsheet is not re-coded, and the spreadsheet is hidden from and unchangeable by ... 07/19/07 - 20070169205 - Apparatus, system, and method for network authentication and content distribution An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for network authentication and content distribution. The apparatus includes an authentication module configured to receive redirected network requests over a communications network from a firewall module and configured to present a user license agreement and not require user-identifiable information, and a content distribution ... 07/19/07 - 20070169204 - System and method for dynamic security access A system and method for dynamic security access. A dynamic security system receives a resource request from a user. The dynamic security system computes a dynamic user security value using a user security formula and user attribute values corresponding to the user. In addition, the dynamic security system computes a ... 06/21/07 - 20070143861 - Image forming apparatus, access control method, access control program and computer readable information recording medium An image forming apparatus provided with an interface for a portable information recording medium, has an access control part carrying out access control, for respective ones of a plurality of resources which the image forming apparatus has, based on access control information defining whether or not usage thereof by a ... 06/21/07 - 20070143860 - Networked identity framework A system and method provide a framework for networked identity management in a user-centric model by providing the ability for a user to delegate permissions to release identity information, by enabling a mechanism for releasing one of a requested plurality of data sets and by providing facilities for the retrieval ... 06/14/07 - 20070136823 - Access control system, device, and program Each of the embodiments of the present invention relieves a service provider of the burden of managing personal information. A group administration organization device 10 admits a user device to an authorized group by request and sends authority permission information to the user device 20. The user device 20 holds ... 06/14/07 - 20070136822 - Method for distributing software based on software protection devices The present invention relates to a method for distributing software, more particularly, to a method for distributing software based on software protection devices. Said software includes an upgrade program that is extracted from the software and placed into a user software protection device, and a protected program retained after the ... 05/10/07 - 20070107065 - Data communications system and data communications method A data communications system for executing on-demand data communication between a client and a server is provided. The client includes a client request section, and a client response section. The server includes a first server response section, and a second server response section. ... 05/03/07 - 20070101440 - Auditing correlated events using a secure web single sign-on login Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to provide for auditing of events or access of resources in a distributed system. In one embodiment, auditing access of resources can comprise receiving from a client a request to access one or more of the resources. A sign-on identifier can be assigned ... 05/03/07 - 20070101439 - System and method for authorizing business information access A system and method for authorizing business information access. According to an embodiment, an application receives criteria for modeling a type of user to access business information, generates a group of users based on the criteria, and authorize access to the business information by the group of users. According to ... 03/22/07 - 20070067853 - Method and system for adaptive identity analysis, behavioral comparison, compliance, and application protection using usage information A method in a data processing system for managing access to a resource. A user is validated to use the resource based on data provided in an act by the user. A set of user behavioral attributes from acts generated by the user are identified while the user is using ... 03/22/07 - 20070067852 - Information control in federated interaction Techniques are described for protecting information in a convenient and useful way. A user transmits information from a mobile device to an ambient display, so that other users may receive the information from the ambient display. A display controller detects a presence of a potentially unauthorized user relative to the ... 03/15/07 - 20070061895 - Product inventory image management system A method of managing product images comprising the steps of establishing an inventory of products, obtaining a plurality of digital images of the inventory of products, storing the plurality of digital images of the inventory of products, providing a set of rules for controlling access to the plurality of digital ... 03/15/07 - 20070061894 - Method, apparatus, and system for securing data on a removable memory device A method, apparatus, and system for securing data on a removable memory device, which is removably coupled to and accessible by a computing apparatus, are disclosed. Upon an attempt by a user to access the removable memory device, a manual key is recovered by a manual key interface device. This ... 03/08/07 - 20070056047 - Privileged access to encrypted data Content processing is disclosed. An indication that a sender desires to send encrypted content to a destination is received. An agreement is obtained from the sender to provide an access key to a node other than the destination and to encrypt content sent to the destination using an encryption key ... 03/08/07 - 20070056046 - Compliance processing of rights managed data Performing compliance processing is disclosed. An indication is received that compliance processing is to be performed with respect to content that is subject to an access restriction that would prevent the compliance processing from being performed if the content were not able to be accessed without the restriction. It is ... 02/08/07 - 20070033659 - Adaptive evolutionary computer software products The invention concerns a method for automatically adapting a computer program product to an environment, the computer program product comprising executable parts and data parts, the method comprising the steps of configuring the computer program product for the environment and executing the software in the environment. Furthermore the method comprises ... 02/01/07 - 20070028309 - Method and system for user information verification A system and method for authenticating users based on personal information. The personal information may include age-related data where the users are interested in receiving age-restricted content. The personal information may include an address and a permission request is sent to the address. Biometric information may also be associated with ... 12/28/06 - 20060294598 - Community instance access control in a collaborative system Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to access control in a collaborative environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for community instance access control in a collaborative environment. In one embodiment, a data processing system for community instance access control in ... 12/07/06 - 20060277609 - Method and apparatus for tracking pirated media Pirated copies of various types of media are analyzed to detect various artifacts that may be missing from the originals. These artifacts are then used to identify and trace pirated copies for forensic studies. The artifacts may include global artifacts that are present throughout media, or could be local or ... 11/30/06 - 20060272031 - System and method for unlimited licensing to a fixed number of devices A method and system providing access to electronic content includes receiving a request to access the electronic content from a user device, accessing a unique ID of the user device, and comparing the unique ID to a list of authorized user devices. The unique ID is used to determine if ... 11/16/06 - 20060259984 - Method and system for identifying and correcting location discrepancies for reception equipment in a content delivery network A method and system is provided to analyse receiver indicia of location for a set of at least one receivers to determine whether a receiver has an erroneous indicator of location. The embodiment may take further steps to confirm whether or not inappropriate usage has occurred. The method and system ... 11/16/06 - 20060259983 - System and method for controlling reproduction of documents containing sensitive information A system and method for controlling the reproduction of documents containing sensitive information includes an input for receiving a document; a device for storing a digitized document; a detector for identifying encoded sensitive information; a decoder operatively connected to the detector, which extracts digitally encoded information from the sensitive information; ... 10/19/06 - 20060236407 - System and method for real estate sales security A system and method for controlling access to a property using an electronic device on said property to collect biometric data or other identification from a person seeking access to said property. The device located on the property can communicate with a remote computer that decides whether to allow or ... 10/12/06 - 20060230464 - Method for enabling a trusted dialog for collection of sensitive data The present invention is a method for enabling a trusted dialog for collection of sensitive data, including the steps of: storing a personal security token specified by a user; receiving an input dialog request from an application; determining whether the application is a signed application; and, if a determination is ... 10/05/06 - 20060225140 - System and method for transaction security A system and method for controlling fraud in presentations, sales and transactions using electronic devices to collect biometric data or other identification from a person seeking access to a property or wishing to participate in a transaction. The device located on real property can communicate with a remote computer that ... 08/31/06 - 20060195913 - Method for remote registration of property rights over media items A method for the remote registration of a person's property rights over copyrighted media items: A remote registration of property rights over copyrighted media items is conducted by comparing the characteristic attributes of the person's items with the characteristic attributes of the items stored in the item database, by a ... 08/24/06 - 20060191020 - Peer-to-peer network communication In a typical peer-to-peer network, any user of the peer-to-peer network may request a lookup of a key and its associated value. To limit access to a stored key-value pair, a user node may generate a registration message for a key-value pair. The value may include the payload to be ... 07/13/06 - 20060156418 - Method and apparatus for preventing unauthorized access to data A client server network system is disclosed that protects memory data objects from being viewed by those other than a verified user. Original application code in a server is modified to intercept calls to an original class object via a secure proxy that is injected or weaved into the original ... 06/15/06 - 20060130150 - Context-sensitive authorization Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with context-sensitive rights-varying authorization are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a logic configured to establish an authorization space. The example system may also include a logic configured to identify an access mechanism employed to interact with a resource and an effective rights ... 05/11/06 - 20060101525 - User management method, and computer program having user authorization management function Information entered by a user at the time of logging on is also used in a check to be performed in response to a request for use/edit of a program or data related to an additional function. Authentication information of the user using a program or data related to the ... 05/04/06 - 20060095976 - Dynamic summary module A content page is configured by a user and located on a network. Changes made to the content page are automatically communicated with notifications to a group of contacts for the user. Only contacts with permission to view the content page, or the changed content, will receive the notification and ... 03/16/06 - 20060059570 - Data managing method, data managing device and data managing server suitable for restricting distribution of data In order to prevent invalid distribution of data, a data managing method includes the steps of inputting a document, extracting, from the input document, a document No. for identifying the document, receiving the input of a user ID for identifying a user, determining whether or not a process for the ... 03/16/06 - 20060059569 - Application and device user verification from an operating system-based authentication service Methods and systems provide an operating system-based user authentication service that operates independently of a computing device or software application requiring verification of a user's identity to operate the device or utilize functionality of the software application. A given software application for providing functionality to a user or for allowing ... 03/02/06 - 20060048236 - Licensing the use of software to a particular user The use of software is licensed to a particular user, regardless of the computing device on which the software has been launched. A computing device is logged onto a central service. The central service either directly approves the launching of the software or it provides a code to the computing ... 02/16/06 - 20060037084 - System and method for managing access to functions supported by a multi-function port According to at least one embodiment, a system comprises an interface means for supporting a plurality of functional accesses; and means for selectively limiting on a per user basis access to certain ones of said plurality of functional accesses via the interface means. ... 02/16/06 - 20060037083 - Method and interface for video content acquisition security on a set-top box A method of providing access to downloadable protected video content includes providing parental controls. The parental controls include a parental control password. Purchase controls are also provided and include a purchase control password. The purchase control password is different from the parental control password. Further, protected video content is downloaded ... 02/02/06 - 20060026692 - Network resource access authentication apparatus and method An apparatus and method for controlling access to network resources. The method may include providing an application server and content server operably connected to a network. The application server may receive a user request from a user computer and respond thereto by transmitting selected data. Later, the content server may ... 01/26/06 - 20060021066 - Data encryption system and method An encryption system comprises memory for storing a data file and a decryption application. The decryption application is configured to authenticate a user and to receive a data packet. The data packet has a data message encrypted via an encrypted encryption key that is embedded within the data packet. The ... 01/26/06 - 20060021065 - Method and device for authorizing content operations Methods of and devices (D1) for authorizing an operation requested by a first user (P2) on a content item (C1) in accordance with a user right (UR1). The user right may identify the first user or a second user (P) and authorizes the user in question to perform the requested ... 01/05/06 - 20060005263 - Distributed contact information management A method and system for interaction with webservices and for performing distributed contact management use standard interfaces to communicate with other entities in an identity management network. The use of homesites as user data stores allows for homesite to homesite communication to allow for distributed contact management, and the generic ... 12/15/05 - 20050278793 - Method and apparatus for providing a specific user interface in a system for managing content A method and apparatus for managing use of protected content by providing a specific user interface to an application program used to render the content. The method includes identifying a user interface description associated with content, building a specific user interface based on the user interface description, and replacing the ... 12/08/05 - 20050273866 - System and method for authenticating users in a computer network A rule based biometric user authentication method and system in a computer network environment is provided. Multiple authentication rules can exist in the computer network. For example, there may be a default system-wide rule, and a rule associated with a particular user trying to log in. There may be other ... 12/08/05 - 20050273865 - Controlling document processing on the basis of user fingerprints A method is provided for controlling document processing in a networked system. The system includes a digital image reproduction device for document processing, this device having a local user interface unit including a fingerprint input unit. The system also includes a user workstation, and a management unit for managing a ... 11/24/05 - 20050262575 - Systems and methods to secure restricted information Systems and methods are provided to secure restricted information, such as restricted financial information. According to some embodiments, a user's request to execute an application on a secure application server is verified based on a user name, a user password, a unique identifier associated with a workstation, and a request ... 11/17/05 - 20050257275 - Image forming apparatus, data processing method, computer-readable storage medium on which a program is stored, and program In an image forming apparatus, a user of the image forming apparatus is authenticated, and a search is performed for user information stored in the storage unit by the authenticated user. Of all user information detected in the searching, deletable user information is displayed on a category-by-category basis on a ... 11/17/05 - 20050257274 - Storage system, computer system, and method of authorizing an initiator in the storage system or the computer system In a computer system in which one or more computers on which one or more initiators operate and a storage device on which one or more targets operate are connected with each other through a network, an authentication table for authenticating validity of a user of a computer is associated ... 11/03/05 - 20050246779 - Method and system for client authentication A method by authorizing the access of a client by performing an anonymous Diffie-Hellman exchange that can produce authentication material (secret key) between the client and the server, and binding the key to the service-oriented state information asserted by the client. The secret key can be used in the future ... 11/03/05 - 20050246778 - Transparent encryption and access control for mass-storage devices A system and method for securing data on a mass storage device. A centralized device permission store contains device identifiers for the mass storage devices to be secured along with keys of a symmetric cipher that have been encrypted with public keys or pass phrases of authorized users of the ... 10/27/05 - 20050241003 - Cellular telephone based electronic access control system A system and method for cellular telephone based electronic access control (EAC) of secured portals is depicted. The EAC system determines whether access to any particular secured portal is to be granted to a user based on the relative geographic positions of the secured portal and the user's cellular telephone. ... 10/20/05 - 20050235364 - Authentication mechanism permitting access to data stored in a data processing device Herein described is a system and method of authenticating one or more users seeking access to data stored in a storage device. The system includes an authentication mechanism, a memory, one or more files stored in the memory, and one or more applications used to view, select, execute, and display ... 10/20/05 - 20050235363 - Network, device, and/or user authentication in a secure communication network Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer software for providing a secure access to a communication network are provided. One embodiment comprises a system for providing secure access to a communication network. One such system comprises: a gateway for controlling access to a communication network; and a secure client program ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |