Håkon Liberg

Title: Håkon Liberg and His Public-Key Certificate Authentication Patents.

Introduction

Håkon Liberg is an inventor associated with Oslo, Norway, and International Business Machines Corporation. His patent work addresses the authentication of public-key certificates, helping relying parties assess whether a certificate authority meets their security requirements. The supplied information lists 2 patents for Liberg.

Latest Patents

- Method and system for the authentication of a public key certificate. This invention describes a certificate classification service that compares the quality levels required by a relying party with those possessed by the certificate authority. The assessment considers characteristics related to the authority’s certificate policy, and the service reports whether the certificate satisfies the relying party’s requirements.

- Method, system and service for the authentication of a public key certificate. This patent describes a similar approach in which a certificate classification service evaluates a certificate authority’s quality levels against the relying party’s requirements. The service authenticates the certificate when the comparison shows that the authority meets the specified quality thresholds.

Career Highlights

Liberg’s listed inventions focus on public-key infrastructure and certificate trust. By formalizing comparisons between relying-party requirements and certificate-authority practices, the work offers a structured way to support certificate authentication decisions.

Collaborations

The supplied information identifies Trond Lemberg and Per Myrseth as Liberg’s coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the listed patents.

Conclusion

Håkon Liberg’s patent portfolio, developed in connection with IBM, centers on methods and systems for evaluating certificate authorities and authenticating public-key certificates.