International Business Machines Corporation

Wistron Corporation

Reto Josef Hermann

Michael Baentsch

Thomas D Weigold

Dirk Husemann

Andreas Schade

Thorsten Kramp

Michael Peter Kuyper-Hammond

Francois Bernard Dolivo

Peter Buhler

Thomas Eirich

Frank Hoering

Carl Binding

Michael Elton Nidd

Michael Moser

Harold D Dykeman

Tamas Visegrady

Michael Charles Osborne

Richard J Cardone

Diego Alejandro Ortiz-Yepes

William F Trautman

Richard Leo Galbraith

Jonathan Darrel Coker

Walter Hirt

Matthias Schunter

Kevin Roy Vannorsdel

Douglas H Dykeman

Klaus Julisch

Tefcros Anthias

Christian Hoertnagl

Mike Nidd

Christos Papadopoulos

Robin Williamson

Francois Dolivo

Michael P Kuyper

The present invention is directed to a handheld companion device, including: a screen, rigid physical connection means, communication means, adapted for setting up and supporting at least one communication link with at least one external computerized system; and a memory storing computerized methods. The present invention is further directed to related systems and methods for automatically rotating contents displayed on such devices, when rigidly attached on a handheld mobile device.

Automatic rotation of display contents of a handheld companion device rigidly attached to a handheld mobile device

A method, a secure device and a computer program product for securely managing files. The method includes providing a secure device, where the secure device is protected by design against malicious software or malware and adapted to establish a connection to a server via a host, the host connected to the server through a telecommunication network, upon receiving a request for using a file stored on the secure device, processing the request at the secure device according to an updated use permission associated to the file, where the updated use permission is obtained by instructing at the secure device to establish a connection between the secure device and the server via the host and updating at the device the use permission associated to the file, according to permission data sent from the server through the established connection.

Method, secure device, system and computer program product for securely managing files

A method, a secure device, a system and a computer program product for securely managing user access to a file system. The method includes providing a secure device, where the secure device is protected by design against malicious software or malware and adapted to establish a connection to a server through a telecommunication network establishing a connection between the secure device and the server, receiving at the secure device, through the established connection, data pertaining to a file system identifying files which are at least partly stored outside the secure device, exposing at the secure device the file system to a user, based on the data received from the server, the file system navigable by the user.

Method, secure device, system and computer program product for securely managing user access to a file system

A system and method of performing electronic transactions between a server computer and a client computer. The method implements a communication protocol with encrypted data transmission and mutual authentication between a server and a hardware device via a network, performs a decryption of encrypted server responses, forwards the decrypted server responses from the hardware device to the client computer, displays the decrypted server responses on a client display, receives requests to be sent from the client computer to the server, parses the client requests for predefined transaction information by the hardware device, encrypts and forwards client requests, displays the predefined transaction information upon detection, forwards and encrypts the client request containing the predefined transaction information to the server if a user confirmation is received, and cancels the transaction if no user confirmation is received.

System and method of performing electronic transactions

An authorization device for authorizing operations of a remote server requested from user computers via a data communications network includes a computer interface configured to connect to a local user computer for facilitating communication with the remote server via a data communications network, a user interface configured to present information to a user, and control logic. The control logic is adapted to use security data accessible to the control logic to establish, via the local user computer, a mutually-authenticated connection for encrypted end-to-end communications with the server; collect from the server, via the connection, information indicative of any operation requested via a different connection to the server and requiring authorization by the user; and present the information to the user via the user interface to prompt for authorization of the operation.

Authorization of server operations

The present invention relates to a context-based service look up, wherein a service instance, having a scope includes at least one service instance data set having a hierarchy of levels. A service consumer data set, having a hierarchy of levels is received from a service consumer, having a situation. Comparisons are made of each service consumer data set with each service instance data set, for the same level. Dependent on results of the comparisons, it is determined whether said situation of said service consumer matches said scope of said service instance.

Method and apparatus for a context-based service look up

System and method of performing electronic transactions with encrypted data transmission

A peripheral device includes an interface configured to communicate with a computer, the peripheral device; logic configured to perform an integrity verification of an operating system of the computer; and a display configured to display a result of the integrity verification. A method for integrity verification of a computer using a peripheral device includes connecting the peripheral device to the computer; sending a challenge from the device to the computer; computing attestation data using the challenge and information stored in the computer, retrieving the attestation data from the computer by a client program running on the computer; sending the attestation data to the peripheral device; and verifying the attestation data by the peripheral device.

Integrity verification using a peripheral device

There is provided a method and a system for documenting a transfer of authority of control for a container from a first entity of a transportation chain to a second entity of the transportation chain. The first entity transfers an electronic container control certificate to an electronic seal of the respective container, which electronic container control certificate comprises a cryptographic key associated to the second entity, and which container control certificate is digitally signed by the first entity. The container control certificate is stored in a log of the electronic seal.

Documenting security related aspects in the process of container shipping

A system and method for providing a consistent view of data stored therein, which can change dynamically in an uncoordinated way, includes a client program and a snapshot server program. The snapshot server program permits one or more client programs to request snapshots of data from the snapshot server program such that the data included in or referenced by a snapshot originates from one or more host server programs and the data is accessible to the snapshot server program, but is managed independently of the snapshot server program.

Consistent snapshots of dynamic heterogeneously managed data

Systems, methods and computer products for establishing a mesh-network consisting of wireless personal area network (WPAN) having a large number of nodes. Exemplary embodiments include a gradient-driven mesh-network establishment method, including switching on a plurality of nodes in a vicinity of the wireless personal area network, detecting an acknowledgment signal via a wireless personal area network signal, querying for at least one or a resource and a physical quantity, selecting a subset of the plurality of nodes and instructing the subset of the plurality of nodes to send out a low power radio transceiver DISCOVER squirt signal to a neighborhood associated with the subset of the plurality of nodes, wherein nodes exclusive of the subset of the plurality of nodes turn off in response to an expiration of a time-out period.

Systems, methods and computer products for providing a gradient driven mesh-network establishment

A system and method for processing of markup language information, such as extensible markup language (XML) based control information is disclosed. The system comprises a compression sender entity and a decompression receiver entity. The sender entity uses its internal, binary representation derived from textual XML-based protocol header and encodes the binary representation as a tag-length-value (TLV) binary value. The TLV binary value is embedded as encoded data in a specifically marked comment, which may be detected by the receiver entity. The receiver entity builds up an internal, binary data structure based on the encoded data representing the original XML data. The system avoids the usage of string data to represent a small set of well known strings and uses a more compact binary encoding which reduces space and time to process the data.

System and method for processing of markup language information

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Reto Josef Hermann