63 results about "Identity protection" patented technology

A computer network, Credit and Identity Protection Network (“CIPN”), is established to detect credit damage and identity theft occurring to individuals, organizations, and other entities. It automatically advises the potential victims to verify the possible fraudulent activities and helps them to take proper actions to protect their credit and identity. In addition, this computer network provides the potential victim with assistance in notifying financial institutions, credit bureaus, merchants, and government agencies of suspicious activities and/or of confirmed fraudulent cases so that these organizations can take proper actions to protect themselves and the victims.

A system and method for creating and verifying physical documents and/or smart cards based upon positively identifying the owner, holder, or presenter of the document by relating to the measurement of biometric data of the individual at the time of document and/or smart card creation and verification. The biometric data that can be included in the creation of the document include retinal scan, face print, fingerprint, voiceprint and DNA profiles, or other viable biometric data set. Also, protected data that includes important information of the document itself that is written on the document, is combined with the biometric data to provide a security data block that is printed on the document. This security data block is decoded by a document verifier when presented by a document presenter, to provide for an enhanced level of document protection and identity protection.

A system and method for recognizing patterns in wireless device locations using wireless device location data derived from a communications signaling network is provided. By using wireless network supported signaling operations and messages, location data concerning the whereabouts of wireless devices, and hence wireless device users, may be obtained. The location data derived from the communications signaling network may be statistically analyzed to reveal potential geographic patterns that may indicate meaningful behaviors of the purported users of the wireless devices.

The invention discloses a computer security access control system and a computer security access control method, and belongs to the technical field of information security. A unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) chip and a transmission control module (TCM) chip are included; a control system comprises an operating system pre-booting access control subsystem and an operating system running access control subsystem, wherein the operating system pre-booting access control subsystem comprises USBKey equipment, a USBkey equipment initialization module, a user management module, an operating system pre-booting identity authentication module and an encryption storage module; and the operating system running access control subsystem comprises USBKey equipment, an operating system user logon module, and an operating system user running protection module. The control method comprises an initialization method, an operating system pre-booting access control method and an operating system running access control method. The invention solves the problems that in the operating system, the reliability of access control is low, user identity information storage is insecure, and identity protection is insufficient in the running process after a user with legal identity logs on.

The invention relates to the secret communication field of mobile communication technologies, and discloses a user identity protection method based on a public-key mechanism. The method comprises the following steps: an HSS (hierarchical service system) produces a pair of keys, namely, a public key PK and a secret key SK, then the public key PK is preset to a USIM (universal subscriber identity module) card of UE (user equipment) belonging to the public key PK in the form of a public key file PKF, and the secret key SK is stored in the HSS; a mobile phone sends the following information to anMME (mobility management entity), including HSS identification: HSS_ID, public-key PK version number: VER_PK; and data (IMSI || R|| VER_PK) encrypted by using an asymmetric encryption algorithm; after receiving the information, the MME sends the VER_PK and the (IMSI || R|| VER_PK) to the HSS according to the HSS_ID; and the HSS decrypts the VER_PK and the (IMSI || R|| VER_PK) by using the secret key SK. Because attackers do not know the secret key SK of the HSS, the attackers can not decrypt the (IMSI || R|| VER_PK).

A system and method for recognizing patterns in wireless device locations using wireless device location data derived from a communications signaling network is provided. By using wireless network supported signaling operations and messages, location data concerning the whereabouts of wireless devices, and hence wireless device users, may be obtained. The location data derived from the communications signaling network may be statistically analyzed to reveal potential geographic patterns that may indicate meaningful behaviors of the purported users of the wireless devices.

Methods and systems for providing photographic rights management and identity protection. The invention is premised on the assumption that the individual that first registers an uploaded image is the rightful owner for the purposes of the uploading host website. Once rightful ownership is established in an uploaded digital image instance, the rightful owner may select the degree of protection they desire to assign over their uploaded image and are given authority over their image.

Secure access by a mobile wireless terminal of a wireless telephony network is achieved by having a Home Location Register store the terminal's temporary and permanent identities. Upon accessing the network following initial registration, the terminal sends a temporary identity to a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN). If no serving node in the network knows the terminal, the terminal need not sent its permanent identity in clear as was previously required. Rather, the serving node need only query the HLR since the HLR can map the terminal's temporary identity to its permanent identity. In this way, the permanent identity of the mobile wireless terminal remains secure.

The invention is suitable for the field of mobile communication and provides an identity protection method for a mobile communication user. In the method, the identity is expressed still by an IMSI when a UE/USIM card is accessed into an LTE/SAE network for the first time by setting a pseudonym for each user, and then the user is accessed into the network by the pseudonym; the IMSI is not used, and the pseudonym can be autonomously updated by a USIM, thereby effectively protecting the identity safety of the user.

A personnel identity protection mechanism and method is provided which utilizes a pseudo-name that is used in conjunction with RFID or RFID-like tags. By correlating the location of the tag wearer to equipment or professionals attending to the tag wear, identity and/or private information relating to the tag wearer can be controlled on a need-to-know basis. Concomitantly, access to the tag wearer's identity and/or private information by attending professionals, wearing a non-pseudo-name RFID or RFID-like tag, can be automatically enabled or filtered by correlating the non-pseudo-name bearing tags' proximity to the accessing system. By use of such a pseudo-name having restricted access capabilities with a RFID or RFID-like tag system, patients or institutionalized persons can be assured of a higher degree of security with respect to their private or medical information.

This invention provides an automated system for the processing of data packets, composed of personal identifiers and personal data, such that the personally identifiable data sent by one party may be considered anonymous once received by a second party. The invention uses secret sharing techniques to facilitate distributed key management of the mapping functions and strong authentication to allow the system to be operated remotely.

A mobile wireless terminal, upon transitioning from a wireless telephony network to a wireless Local Area Network (LAN), seeks identification by sending the same identity information used for identification in the wireless telephony network. Upon receipt of the identity information, a wireless LAN Access Server in the wireless telephony network identifies a Serving General Packet Radio Service Serving Node (SGSN) that had last served the wireless terminal in the wireless telephony network prior to transition. The wireless LAN Access Server forwards the identity information to the SGSN, which, in turn, provides an identification response for validating the terminal.

The invention discloses an identity authentication protocol selection method in a wireless network. The identity authentication protocol selection method in the wireless network comprises the steps that the weight of importance of security, the weight of importance of energy consumption and the weight of importance of authentication time are set by a user, the applicability of each identity authentication protocol in the wireless network is calculated according the weights of importance, and an identity authentication protocol with high applicability is selected. According to the identity authentication protocol selection method in the wireless network, the characteristics, such as authentication delay and identity protection, of the identity authentication protocols in the wireless network are fully considered, a targeted authentication protocol selection method is designed. From the point of view of users, several elements, mostly concerned by the users, such as the security of the protocols, the energy consumption, the authentication time and the user preference are considered comprehensively, and a solution capable of meeting the individual requirements of the users is provided.