Eric Silva

Secure Seed Provisioning

Application

#8060750 Nov 15, 2011

Filed

Jun 29, 2007

Inventor

William M. Duane (Westford, MA) · Eric A. Silva (Somerville, MA) · Marco Ciaffi (Sudbury, MA)

Appl. No.

11/824434

Assignee

EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, MA)

International Classification

G06F 21/00

U.S. Classification

713182, 380262, 380 44, 713172, 713159, 726 6, 726 7, 726 9, 726 20

Abstract

A technique is utilized in the configuration and seeding of security tokens at third party facilities, particularly at facilities of a configuration agent, such that a token can be configured without the configuration agent having security-defeating knowledge about the token. Such a technique allows a third party to provision a token with a seed, but in such a way that the third party will not know, or be able to construct, the seed after the seed provisioning process is complete. The seed may include, by way of example, a symmetric key or other secret shared by two or more entities. In some arrangements, a method is used for secure seed provisioning. Data is derived from inherent randomness in a token or other authentication device. Based on the data, the token or other authentication device is provisioned with a seed.

Encoding Token Commands/Data Within Data Streams For Standard Interfaces

Application

#7831837 Nov 9, 2010

Filed

Jun 15, 2006

Inventor

William Duane (Westford, MA) · Eric A. Silva (Somerville, MA) · Jeffrey Hamel (Methuen, MA)

Appl. No.

11/424427

Assignee

EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, MA)

International Classification

G06F 21/00

U.S. Classification

713185

Abstract

A method of communicating within a system that includes a device, a controller for the device, a token, and a driver which implements a predefined interface for enabling communication with and/or control of the device through the controller, the method involving: via the predefined interface, receiving instructions and/or data at the controller from the driver for controlling the device; via the predefined interface, receiving at the controller a preselected control parameter indicating that communication with the token is desired; and in response to receiving the preselected control parameter, directing communications to the token.

Method And Apparatus For Generating Location Stamps

Application

#2013010 Apr 25, 2013

Filed

Oct 24, 2011

Inventor

Dimitris Kalofonos (Cambridge, MA) · James Card (Nashua, NH) · Zoe Antoniou (Waltham, MA) · Mark Peterson (Quincy, MA) · Hans Peter Brondmo (San Francisco, CA) · Eric Cheng (Newton, MA) · Jacob Barss-Bailey (Cambridge, MA) · Eric Anthony Silva (Somerville, MA)

Appl. No.

13/280059

Assignee

Nokia Corporation (Espoo)

International Classification

H04W 4/02

U.S. Classification

4554562

Abstract

An approach for generating location stamps in response to a request from a device is presented. A location stamping platform receives a request from a device for one or more location stamps. The location stamping platform then processes and/or facilitates a processing of a hierarchy of one or more policies to determine one or more candidate location stamps in response to the request.

Method And Apparatus For Resolving Incoherent Data Items

Application

#2013006 Mar 14, 2013

Filed

Jul 26, 2012

Inventor

Eric Anthony Silva (Somerville, MA) · Hans Peter Brondmo (San Francisco, CA) · Jacob Barss-Bailey (Cambridge, MA)

Appl. No.

13/558849

Assignee

Eric Anthony Silva (Somerville, MA) · Hans Peter Brondmo (San Francisco, CA) · Jacob Barss-Bailey (Cambridge, MA)

International Classification

G06F 17/30

U.S. Classification

707690, 707E17005

Abstract

An approach is provided for resolving incoherent data items of a user spanning multiple different groups and/or services. An incoherency platform determines an incoherency of a first data item and at least a second data item that are shared by a first user in a first group and at least a second group, respectively. The platform also processes the incoherency, the first data item, the at least a second data item, or a combination thereof to cause, at least in part, a generation of a resolved data item. The platform further causes, at least in part, a substitution of the resolved data item for the first data item, the at least a second data item, or a combination thereof.