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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. 22, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2008
Applicants:
Edward L. Schwartz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Greg Wolff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael J. Gormish, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kurt Piersol, Campbell, CA (US);
Inventors:
Edward L. Schwartz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Greg Wolff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael J. Gormish, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kurt Piersol, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatically publishing content based identifiers are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises accessing an electronic communication to obtain a content based identifier (CBI) contained in the electronic communication. In one embodiment, the method may also comprise using the CBI to validate integrity of a hash chained log.