International Business Machines Corporation

Vernon Ralph Austel

Robert J Von Gutfeld

Chai Wah Wu

Charles Philippe Tresser

Paul Ashley Karger

Pradeep Kumar Dubey

Marco Martens

Gaurav Aggarwal

Sean William Smith

Bruce A Scott

Steve Harris Weingart

Avijit Chatterjee

David Claude Toll

Nabil M Amer

Ashutosh Kulshreshtha

Alfred Inselberg

A method (and system) for guaranteeing authenticity of an object, includes providing a sample of material obtainable only by at least one of chemical and physical processes such that the sample is random and not reproducible, associating a number reproducibly to the sample by using a specific reader, and forming at least one coded version of the number, the at least one coded version being obtained by a key signature, and the version being recorded into an area of the object.

Method and apparatus for producing duplication- and imitation-resistant identifying marks on objects, and duplication- and duplication- and imitation-resistant objects

Access to files by accessing programs, where files comprise other files, programs and data is controlled. An initial access class is assigned to each file and to each accessing program. An access class comprises an integrity access class and a secrecy access class. An integrity access class comprises rules governing modification of data contained in files and a security access class comprises rules governing disclosure of data contained in files. An integrity access class comprises a set of rules for allowing the performance of a read function, and another set of rules for allowing the performance of write/execute function. An execute function comprises transferring and chaining, where chaining comprises starting another process running at potentially different secrecy and integrity access classes. A secrecy access class comprises a set of rules for allowing the performance of a write function, and another set of rules for allowing the performance of read/execute function. The respective access classes of the target file, target program, and accessing program are compared. If the comparison results meet the security requirements, the function is performed.

Security policy for protection of files on a storage device

A multi-variate data set is displayed in a plurality of multi-dimensional presentations on a computer having a graphical interface and a keyboard input. The data set includes a plurality of independent variables and, for each independent variable, a plurality of dependent variables. A computer displays the data set in parallel coordinate form on the graphical interface so that each dependent variable of the data set is presented as a series of values along an axis, plural axes arranged in parallel. The graphical interface provides a polygonal line which connects a value on each parallel axis and illustrates a relationship between an independent variable and the dependent variables appearing on each axis. The user input enables a user to superimpose on the graphical interface graphical delimiters either on or between two succeeding parallel axes. The graphical delimiters identify a data subset that includes at least one independent variable and adjacent dependent variables. In response to placement of the graphical delimiters, the computer modifies a presentation of any polygonal lines connecting the adjacent dependent variables and which lies between the graphical delimiters, and differentiates then from other polygonal lines which represent remaining data subsets of the data set. The computer further enables an illustration of the delimited data subset in Cartesian coordinates.

System and method for visually querying a data set exhibited in a

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