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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:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2004
Applicants:
Christian R. Lehew, Redmond, WA (US);
Harry S. Pyle, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nicholas Jie Fang, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Christian R. Lehew, Redmond, WA (US);
Harry S. Pyle, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nicholas Jie Fang, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for use in connection with the trusted transmission and reception of content, such as encryption key information, from one computing device in a network to a second computing device are provided. In one embodiment, the invention provides a way to trust or validate the transfer of a public key using a very short code entered out of band of the network that is easy for end-users to remember, or write down.