The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality of the information. Such electronic appliances provide a distributed virtual distribution environment (VDE) that may enforce a secure chain of handling and control, for example, to control and/or meter or otherwise monitor use of electronically stored or disseminated information. Such a virtual distribution environment may be used to protect rights of various participants in electronic commerce and other electronic or electronic-facilitated transactions. Distributed and other operating systems, environments and architectures, such as, for example, those using tamper-resistant hardware-based processors, may establish security at each node. These techniques may be used to support an all-electronic information distribution, for example, utilizing the "electronic highway."
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/335,465 filed Jun. 17, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,237,786 which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/780,393 filed Jan. 8, 1997 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,915,019), which is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/388,107, filed Feb. 13, 1995 (now abandoned), all incorporated herein by reference.
A method of enabling a knowledge management community. A community is originated based on a vision of values and benefits that can be realized from the organized sharing of knowledge within a common group of people. The group is defined based on subject matter, interest, geography, or any other category. Based on the vision of a community, an initial definition of the community is created, including a community charter. Based on the community charter, the community is designed. The design of the community includes creating a matrix showing processes performed by members of the community and the outcomes of these processes, developing knowledge maps that show the knowledge used and created in performing processes, and defining metrics to measure the benefit derived from the sharing of knowledge within the community.
A system and method for actively validating a network device is provided. Nodes in a network game community are prompted to engage in interrogation and response to facilitate the identification of nodes operating with hacked, modified and non-typical game configurations. In one embodiment, a query is presented to a user's machine which triggers a response, and where the response indicates whether certain data at the user is valid and wherein invalid data is suggestive of illegal community behavior. Functions are triggered and data is queried to determine whether the state of game environment is operating according to known metrics or constraints. Various queries to test user integrity include memory peeks, confirmation of location of functions in memory, memory hashing, profiling of threads operating on the user machine, and combinations thereof. Queries may be actively initiated by a server, peer, peer group or combinations thereof and may be scheduled on a routine basis, triggered in response to passive listening, and via collaborating users who suspect cheat activity.
A method for creating a key pair in a telecommunications system comprises a user terminal and at least one network node serving the user terminal. In the method, upon a successful user authentication, a first seed value is composed in the user terminal and a second seed value is composed in the network node, such that the seed values are identical. Based on the seed values, respective public/private key pairs are generated, such that the generated public/private key pair in the user terminal and the generated public/private key pair in the network node are identical.
A method and system for providing a virus-immune, rule-base, cross-platform software system is disclosed. The system can be configured provide industry-specific and user-specific functionality to end-users without writing custom code. The system can be also be configured act as an industry-specific software product merely by changing the configuration information. The software system deploys in a client-server environment and delivers functionality independent of the client platform or operating system.
A software computing based environment for providing secured authentication of media downloaded from a network or loaded from a media player includes two peer-mode operating virtual machines. The low-level virtual machine provides decoding and decryption functions whereas the high-level virtual machine provides application level functions such as user interface, input/output.
