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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert B Carroll, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713155 ; 713156 ; 713171 ; 380258 ; 380281 ;
Abstract
A secure server in a secure distributed information system isolates interaction from terminals to specific personal vaults including and to only those personal vaults, creating a 'virtual logon'. The secure server includes a secure connection server coupled to the system and to a vault deposit server having personal vaults in which user specific vault processes execute on dedicated encrypted data, after authentication of the user by a vault supervisor. The supervisor forwards vault process results to the user through the browser.