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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2007

Filed:

Feb. 08, 2002
Applicants:

Kevin Trilli, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ben Golub, San Jose, CA (US);

Owen Cheung, Hillsborough, CA (US);

Wentsung Hsiao, Fremont, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kevin Trilli, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ben Golub, San Jose, CA (US);

Owen Cheung, Hillsborough, CA (US);

Wentsung Hsiao, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Verisign, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Apparati, methods, and computer readable media for authenticating an entity () in a shared hosting computer network () environment. A service provider computer () contains a plurality of entity sites (). Connected to the service provider computer (), a trusted third party computer () is adapted to provide a conglomerated authenticity certification to the service provider computer (). Coupled to the trusted third party computer () is a means () for enabling an entity () to seek to convert the conglomerated authenticity certification into an individualized authenticity certification covering that entity's site ().


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