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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:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2002
Applicants:
Marco Casassa Mont, Gifford, GB;
Richard Brown, Cottrell, GB;
Brian Quentin Monahan, Sodbury, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2006.01); H04K 1/00 (2006.01); G06Q 99/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a digital certificate () comprising a plurality of credential attribute properties (), and a trust function () embedded within the certificate as an executable file, which trust function can determine as a function of data () available to it a trust value () attributable to at least a part of the certificate at least partly by execution of the executable file. A corresponding method of communication is also disclosed.