Reuters Limited

Miles Jonathan Whitehead

Nicholas Fulton

James Matthew Butler

Jeffrey Stearns

Hui Wu

Dean Ratcliffe

David Parrott

Anthony Brennan

Mark Anthony Curtis

Kathleen Elizabeth Callo

There is provided a method of, computer programs for and apparatus for providing and accessing digital content such as a news item. A news provider generates a news item, creates a digitally signed version of the news item and packages them together with a digital certificate issued by a certificate authority containing the public key required to decrypt the digitally signed version. The package is posted to a server and is transmitted, or made available or transmission, over a public data network together with a computer program for verifying the news item. A receiving party receives, over the public data network, the package at a client device and is provided with means for launching, and if necessary first downloading, the verifying program. The verifying program uses the public key contained in the certificate to verify the digitally signed news item. Before being first used to verify a news item, the verifying program receives a shared secret from the receiving party which is stored locally to the client device and is used by the verifying program to confirm that it performed the verification process.

Method for certifying and verifying digital web content using public cryptography

Financial news distribution apparatus comprising: a first terminal () comprising means () for displaying a selected one of a plurality of data entry screens () associated with news items of different types, each said data entry screen comprising: a plurality of data entry fields () for entry of respective data items of a new said news item, and respective data item label text fields () each containing text describing the corresponding data entry field in a source language, selection means () for selecting at least one of a plurality of target languages; translation means () for translating the source language text of said data item label text fields () into corresponding text in said at least one target language; means () for inputting data specifying a type of news item and a subject of a new news item; a computer () remote to said first terminal (), said computer () being arranged to read a store () containing a database of previous news items, accessible by type and subject, and to locate a preceding news item of the same type and on the same subject, and to transmit the stored data items thereof to the first terminal (); said display means () displaying each of said stored data items on said data entry screen together with the corresponding newly entered data item; and means () for transmitting said data items and associated text in said at least one target language to at least one remote second terminal ().

News distribution

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Middlesex, United Kingdom

Miles Jonathan Whitehead