Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Philips Electronics North America Corporation

Intertrust Technologies Corporation

Raymond J Krasinski

Michael A Epstein

Nevenka Dimitrova

Ying Huang

Yasser Alsafadi

Omer Bakkalbasi

Martin C Rosner

Alexander Ryan Mankovich

Vartika Agrawal

Ramakrishna Desiraju

Awi Federgruen

Christophe Begue

Lap Mui Chan

Peter Boey

Krishnakumar Bhaskaran

Jarl A Nilsson

Jin Qu

William Knox Carey

Bart Grantham

Yong Mao

Fubiao Xia

Aninda Dasgupta

Yossi Aviv

A method for assessing risk associated with a request from an inquirer for allele frequency from a database of genetic data, comprising: (i) generating an allele database comprising allele frequency information and request frequency information for each of a plurality of alleles; (ii) generating an inquirer database comprising allele request information about a plurality of inquirers; (iii) receiving a request for genetic data from an inquirer, comprising a request for allele frequency for one or more alleles and an identifier of the inquirer; (iv) updating the request frequency information based on the received request; (v) updating the allele request information for the requesting inquirer; (vi) calculating an allele risk score; (vii) calculating an inquirer risk score; and (viii) assessing, based on the allele risk score and the inquirer risk score, a risk associated with the received request.

Proactive resistance to re-identification of genomic data

The amount of genomic data as well the sensitivity of the information carried necessitates the need to develop smart and efficient ways to transmit genomic data in a secure way. While encryption schemes exist, there is also the need to first reduce the amount of massive information and then apply an encoding and encryption method that will be effective both in the economic sense as well as for security of genomic data. In this invention, we discuss novel techniques to encode processed variant information and send it across to a remote site ensuring covert transmission. The protocols not only encode and encrypts the information; it condenses the information that needs to be transferred.

Secure transmission of genomic data

Methods and apparatus for a secure framework for storing and analyzing genomic data. Embodiments of the present invention apply persistent governance to sensitive information and to the analytics that operate upon it, managing the interaction between the two.

Genomic informatics service

A method of determining proximity between a root node and a leaf node in a network is presented. The method comprises computing a link proximity value between any two mutually connected nodes in the network. At an initial node, a proximity computation request message is sent containing a proximity counter to an intermediate node to which the initial node is connected. At an intermediate node, being connected to a first node and to a second node, upon receipt of the proximity computation request message containing a proximity counter from the first node, the computed link is added to a proximity value and passed on the proximity computation request message to the second node. At a final node, upon receipt of the proximity computation request message, the proximity between the root node and the leaf node is determined as the value indicated by the proximity counter.

Proximity detection method

A system and method determines the proximity of the target node to the source node from the time required to communicate messages within the node-verification protocol. The node-verification protocol includes a query-response sequence, wherein the source node communicates a query to the target node, and the target node communicates a corresponding response to the source node. The target node is configured to communicate two responses to the query: a first response that is transmitted immediately upon receipt of the query, and a second response based on the contents of the query. The communication time is determined based on the time duration between the transmission of the query and receipt of the first response at the source node and the second response is compared for correspondence to the query, to verify the authenticity of the target node.

Secure proximity verification of a node on a network

A method of operating a system including a digital network interconnected intelligent digital devices (IDDS) generating and receiving eXtensible Markup Language (XML) documents containing data and respective Document Type Definitions (DTDs) describing the data content. Preferably, the method includes steps for transmitting a generated XML document from a first IDD to a second IDD, and, when the respective DTD for the generated XML document satisfies a predetermined criteria, operating on the data contained in the XML document at the second IDD. In a first exemplary case, the second IDD maintains a list of trusted DTDs, and the predetermined criteria is equality between the name of the respective DTD and the name of a trusted DTD. Alternatively, the predetermined criteria is satisfied by inclusion of the name of a program residing on the second IDD in the respective DTD. In a second exemplary case, the transmitting step includes transmitting the generated XML document from the first IDD to the second IDD and a third IDD, the operating step includes operating on the data contained in the XML document at the second IDD when the respective DTD for the generated XML document satisfies a first predetermined criteria, and the method further includes the step of operating on the data contained in the XML document at the third IDD when the respective DTD for the generated XML document satisfies a second predetermined criteria. A system composed of IDDs interconnected by an in home digital network (IHDN) or other mechanism, which system can be operated by the method mentioned above, is also described.

Methods for initiating activity in intelligent devices connected to an in home digital network using extensible markup language (XML) for information exchange and systems therefor

Methods and apparatus for attacking a screening algorithm. The methods include the steps of marking content to be downloaded, inserting at least one section of legitimate content into the marked content, and subjecting the content to a screening algorithm. The screening algorithm may include the steps of determining a number of segments that are included within the content, selecting at least two segments within the content, screening the two segments to determine whether the two segments verify correctly through the screening algorithm, and downloading the content when it is determined that the two segments verify correctly through the screening algorithm. Once the content has been successfully downloaded, the integrity of the downloaded content may be restored by removing the legitimate content that was previously inserted into the downloaded content.

Methods of attack on a content screening algorithm based on adulteration of marked content

A method and apparatus are disclosed for streaming XML content in a manner that allows the receiver to decode the XML data that is actually received, even if an entire XML document is not received. Each XML document is decomposed and encoded as a collection of sub-trees. Each sub-tree from the larger XML document tree can be parsed and validated by the XML receiver as if it is an independent tree. Each streamed XML document utilizes a structure node that serves as a sub-tree wrapper function around each independent sub-tree. The structure node indicates the relationship of the sub-tree to other sub-trees, thereby allowing the XML receiver to reconstruct the full tree.

Method and apparatus for streaming XML content

A method and apparatus are disclosed for compressing textual documents encoded using a tag-based markup language, such as XML or SGML documents, in a manner that allows a compressed document to be processed without decompression. A document is compressed using a standard compression algorithm that is applied only to the data elements of the document. The tag elements of the XML document that impose the hierarchical structure on the data elements are not compressed. The hierarchical relationship of the data elements can be ascertained from the compressed document. A user can thereafter selectively decompress desired portions of the document, without decompressing the entire document. An identification of the employed compression technique can be inserted into a root node tag element of the XML document or into an additional tag element pair that is inserted into the XML document. An XML decoder can utilize the uncompressed tag elements to ascertain the hierarchical structure of the compressed data and present the user with a corresponding hierarchical expression of the document.

Method and apparatus for compressing textual documents

A video processing device and method for generating a descriptor data structure representative of a feature that has been selected from among of plurality of features including visual, conceptual, textual and graphical of a visual animated data file includes a user input unit for selecting a desired feature and generating an associated descriptor data containing attribute values, and a processor identifies the selected feature inserts selected attribute values into a standard descriptor template. Various types of features, from concepts about a video sequence, to age identification, to images in a video clip, to particular objects or colors can all be classified in a standard descriptor template, to provide uniformity in storing and retrieving the various features currently lacking in freeform or single feature descriptors.

System and method for describing multimedia content

A decision support system for managing an agile supply chain including a server side and a client side. The server side includes a decision support system database that interfaces with a model engine that performs analysis of the data to support planning decisions. The server side also includes a server manager that coordinates requests for service and information. The client side includes decision frames that present the various view points available in the system to the users. A frame manager coordinates the requests from the decision support frames to access the needed data and models.

Decision support system for the management of an agile supply chain

A decision support system for the management of an agile supply chain that provides an architecture including a server side and a client side. The server side includes a decision support system database that interfaces with a model engine that performs analysis of the data to support planning decisions. The server side includes a server manager that coordinates requests for service and information. The client side includes decision frames that present the various view points available in the system to the users. A frame manager coordinates the requests from decision support frames to access the needed data and models. The decision support frames provide a view into the supply chain and integrate analytical models responsive to the view point of a business process such as demand management. The frames include a supply management frame, a demand management frame, a vendor managed replenishment frame, a Planning, Sales and Inventory planning frame, and a distribution network design frame. The frame manager includes a system integrator and a functional integrator. A database management system manages the supply and maintenance of information needed by the modeling processes through the frame manager. A domain management process limits data available to saidl frame responsive to a user selection. The system also includes a demand and supply reconciliation process; a capacity planning process; a vendor managed replenishment process; and a scenario management process.

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Suffern, NY, United States of America

Raymond J Krasinski