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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:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2002
Applicants:
Richard Brown, Bristol, GB;
Marco Casassa Mont, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Richard Brown, Bristol, GB;
Marco Casassa Mont, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a digital certificate (), the certificate comprising a credential attribute function () associated with a credential attribute property (), which credential attribute function is embedded in the certificate as an executable file, in which the credential attribute function can determine the value () of the credential attribute property at least partly by execution of the executable file. A corresponding method is also disclosed.