| 7036016 |
Method and apparatus for securing a list of passwords and personal identification numbers |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method for securing passwords, personal identification numbers and identifying patterns utilizes a MasterCode camouflaged within a grid which contains all the characters, symbols or pictograms of which... |
| 7017045 |
Multimedia watermarking system and method |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A system and method for verifying and authenticating multimedia objects. Provided is a system for splitting a watermark into at least a first and second part, inserting the first part of the watermark... |
| 7006632 |
Check authorization system and method |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A self-authenticating check authorization system and method includes a check that has standard bank and account information printed on the MICR line, as well as a one-way hash value that is computed based... |
| 7003501 |
Method for preventing fraudulent use of credit cards and credit card information, and for preventing unauthorized access to restricted physical and virtual sites |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method and a system for enabling secure authentication of a user in a computerized card access transaction. A card, identified by an identification number is issued to the user, containing software for... |
| 6996235 |
Method and system for secure printing of documents via a printer coupled to the internet |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A system and method for providing secure, on-demand delivery and retrieval of documents, messages and the like utilizing an adaptor and a printer coupled to the Internet. An adaptor is coupled between... |
| 6983048 |
Multi-section decoding lens |
| Jan-3-2006 |
The present invention is a multi-section lens for decoding at least two encodings, as a function of the parameters of a lens section, of at least one latent image, as implemented by a software program... |
| 6980654 |
System and method for authenticating an article |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A method of applying an authentication image to an article is presented. The method comprises obtaining a digitized version of the authentication image, encoding the digitized version of the authentication... |
| 6978019 |
Method and system for user registration on terminal |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A method and system for registration of a user to use a particular terminal of a computer system. The method includes providing a printed registration form including registration information and coded... |
| 6971007 |
Assured printing of documents of value |
| Nov-29-2005 |
The transmission and reproduction of an original document transferred via a data network can be assured when the printing mechanism generates a unique serial number for the document being printed. The... |
| 6970843 |
Financial management system |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A financial transaction network includes a customer network serviced by a host processor. The financial transaction network provides customers with a plurality of diverse and interchangeable financial... |
| 6959101 |
Method of judging digital watermark information |
| Oct-25-2005 |
A method and apparatus for embedding information into a target element in which information is to be embedded and a storage medium. The method and apparatus include obtaining plural sets of data values... |
| 6941461 |
System and method of uniquely authenticating each replication of a group of soft-copy documents |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A system and method for unique authentication of each replication of a plurality of soft-copy documents, forming a group. One soft-copy document, out of the group, becomes a carrier for an authentication... |
| 6925498 |
Information processing system, information processing device, control method therof, memory media having stored programs thereof and program thereof |
| Aug-2-2005 |
When printing output data that become output objects, copyright data attached to the corresponding said output data or information on copyright managed by a copyright managing device are selectively used... |
| 6909783 |
Alphabet soup cryptography |
| Jun-21-2005 |
Computer methods, systems, and devices, providing automatic permutations of a programmed modified random symbol square matrix producing one time pad messages are disclosed enabling messages to be encrypted... |
| 6876460 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium |
| Apr-5-2005 |
There is disclosed an image processing apparatus for solving a problem that much time is required for judging specific information when the specific information such as a digital watermark is judged and... |
| 6865557 |
Network open metering system |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A transaction evidencing system includes a plurality of computer systems operatively configured to form a network with one of the computer systems functioning as a server and the remaining computer systems... |
| 6862583 |
Authenticated secure printing |
| Mar-1-2005 |
Authorized printout of an image corresponding to print data received at a print node from a network. The authorized printout comprises encrypting print data by a print node and storing the encrypted print... |
| 6859534 |
Digital anti-counterfeiting software method and apparatus |
| Feb-22-2005 |
This invention relates generally to a method and apparatus, as implemented by a software program on a computer system, for digitally producing counterfeit-deterring scrambled or coded indicia images, typically... |
| 6847952 |
Postage metering system having multiple postage meter configuration capability |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A postage metering system includes a base and a user interface mounted to the base. The user interface includes a micro controller, an internal socket for receiving an integrated circuit chip and a smart... |
| 6842742 |
System for providing early warning preemptive postal equipment replacement |
| Jan-11-2005 |
An improved system for providing early warning preemptive postal equipment replacement. Selected performance parameters the postal equipment are monitored and compared against predetermined operational... |
| 6804784 |
Back-channeling in a memory vault system |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A file system security driver and vault method and system particularly applicable to a system in which protected data is segregated from other data, which allows for back-channeling of file data in order... |
| 6801999 |
Passive and active software objects containing bore resistant watermarking |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A technique for imparting substantial break-once-run-everywhere (BORE) resistance to passive and active software objects, and for controlling access and use of resulting protected objects by a client computer... |
| 6792110 |
Apparatus and method for enhancing the security of negotiable instruments |
| Sep-14-2004 |
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for enhancing the security of selected information associated with a negotiable document, such as the monetary value of a cheque. In the invention, one... |
| 6766056 |
Image pattern detection method and apparatus |
| Jul-20-2004 |
Disclosed is method of detecting a predetermined mark (30) forming part of an image. A digitized form (48, 49) of the image (21) comprising a plurality of picture elements is provided and within a current... |
| 6735310 |
Technique of password encryption and decryption for user authentication in a federated content management system |
| May-11-2004 |
A technique for password encryption and decryption for user authentication in a federated content management system. One or more commands are executed in a computer to perform a datastore operation on... |
| 6724914 |
Progressive watermark decoding on a distributed computing platform |
| Apr-20-2004 |
The disclosure describes a method of progressively decoding a digital watermark on a distributed computing platform. A client device equipped with a digital camera, such as a PDA or cell phone, captures... |
| 6718045 |
Method and device for inserting a watermarking signal in an image |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A method of inserting a watermarking signal (w) in a set (X) of coefficients (X.sub.i) representing a digital image (I), in which at least one subset of coefficients is modified by said watermarking signal... |
| 6711680 |
Method of limiting key usage in a postage metering system that produces cryptographically secured indicium |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A method and system for generating messages from which it can be verified that a variable does not exceed a predetermined limit. The message can be a postal indicium. A message originator, which can be... |
| 6711276 |
Control method and apparatus for embedding information in data |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A watermark information embedding method, and apparatus, capable of suppressing the quality degradation of contents and increasing the survivability of embedded information. When embedding watermark information... |
| 6690794 |
Electronic ticket system |
| Feb-10-2004 |
An electronic ticket system for virtually preventing forgery, copying and other unauthorized uses of electronic tickets; for proving to a third party the contents of an electronic ticket contested between... |
| 6678390 |
Method and computer program for embedding and extracting an embedded message from a digital image |
| Jan-13-2004 |
A method and computer program for extracting an embedded message from a digital image, the embedded message being formed by convolution with a carrier, employs a message template indicating the relative... |
| 6665417 |
Method of judging digital watermark information |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A digital watermark information judging method is provided for detecting digital watermark information which is embedded in at least one element of digital data by altering at least one data value of the... |
| 6633652 |
Method of inserting a watermark and authenticating a digital signal |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A method of inserting an additional information item for authenticating a digital signal decomposed into a set of coefficients (X.sub.ij), each coefficient being represented in 16 bits, and the additional... |
| 6615354 |
Information processing equipment |
| Sep-2-2003 |
A relation between the data process contents in an IC card chip and the consumption current of the IC card chip is reduced. Prior to executing an input data process of the IC card chip, the input data... |
| 6600823 |
Apparatus and method for enhancing check security |
| Jul-29-2003 |
The invention is a method for creating a self-authenticating value document at a senders location and for verifying it at a receivers location. At the senders location a document is created having a machine... |
| 6577744 |
Protecting images with an image watermark |
| Jun-10-2003 |
A robust means of watermarking a digitized image with a highly random sequence of pixel brightness multipliers is presented. The random sequence is formed from 'robust- watermarking-parameters' selected... |
| 6574350 |
Digital watermarking employing both frail and robust watermarks |
| Jun-3-2003 |
Image, video, or audio data is encoded with both a frail and a robust watermark. The two watermarks respond differently to different forms of processing (e.g., copying the object may render the frail watermark... |
| 6571336 |
Method and apparatus for securing a list of passwords and personal identification numbers |
| May-27-2003 |
A method for securing passwords, personal identification numbers and identifying patterns utilizes a MasterCode camouflaged within a grid which contains all the characters, symbols or pictograms of which... |
| 6561425 |
System and apparatus for generating a unique identity for a computer-based product |
| May-13-2003 |
Computer-based products such as postal security devices are manufactured as generic, nondescript units. Each has a unique identifier or embedded hardware serial number readable by data communications such... |
| 6549624 |
Apparatus and method for enhancing the security of negotiable documents |
| Apr-15-2003 |
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for enhancing the security of selected information associated with a negotiable document, such as the monetary value of a cheque. In the invention, one... |
| 6546129 |
Image processing apparatus, method, and medium for adding identification information |
| Apr-8-2003 |
In case of managing image data among plural image processing apparatuses, an object of the present invention is to suppress or restrain, as much as possible, that the image data is illegally or unfairly... |
| 6538759 |
Non-reproducible image formation preventing apparatus and image formation apparatus |
| Mar-25-2003 |
An non-reproducible image formation preventing apparatus has a recognition section, a storage section and a comparison/determination section. The recognition section performs recognition processing for... |
| 6532080 |
Print ordering method, printing system and film scanner |
| Mar-11-2003 |
In a printing system, a developed photo filmstrip is put in a film scanner to pick up image data from all picture frames photographed on the filmstrip. An index image of the picture frames is displayed... |
| 6510514 |
Device for reliability creating electronic signatures |
| Jan-21-2003 |
A device for reliably creating electronic signatures that includes a data carrier read/write device, a data generating device, and a display device. The data carrier read/write device is for receiving... |
| 6470449 |
Time-stamped tamper-proof data storage |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A computer diary archives a diary entry by creating, time stamping, authenticating and permanently storing a reference data block along with each diary entry. An archived diary entry can only be modified... |
| 6442691 |
Authenticated time device |
| Aug-27-2002 |
A computer diary archives a diary entry by creating, time stamping, authenticating and permanently storing a reference data block along with each diary entry. An archived diary entry can only be modified... |
| 6442276 |
Verification of authenticity of goods by use of random numbers |
| Aug-27-2002 |
A method of verifying the authenticity of goods includes generating one or more random codes and storing the one or more random codes in a database. The goods are then marked with one of the generated... |
| 6351815 |
Media-independent document security method and apparatus |
| Feb-26-2002 |
A method and apparatus for providing media-independent security for a document may be programmed to create a document file having two or more components. In one embodiment, a document may include a background... |
| 6320670 |
Method and system for address determination |
| Nov-20-2001 |
The invention is a method and system for determining an address from a print buffer stream. The method begins with initializing an address detection and determination routine, and then directing a print... |
| 6317498 |
Mail processing system including data center verification for mailpieces |
| Nov-13-2001 |
A system for controlling the validity of printing of indicias on mailpieces from a potentially large number of users of postage meters includes apparatus disposed in each said postage meter for generating... |
