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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:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael K. Just, Ottawa, CA;
Paul Van Oorschot, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
Entrust Technologies Limited, Ottawa, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and methods for facilitating a reduction in data transmission bandwidth removes unnecessary data relating to encryption keys prior to sending a message or storing the encrypted information for a recipient. Encrypted data, such as message data for multiple recipients, is analyzed to determine whether encryption related data for other recipients may be removed.