Patents Examined by Bernar E. Gregory
  • Patent number: 5661803
    Abstract: A method of token verification in a Key Management System provides a logical device identifier and a master key created in a logical security domain to a transaction evidencing device, such as a digital postage meter. The method creates a master key record in a key verification box, securely stores the master key record in a Key Management System archive, and produces in the transaction evidencing device evidence in the logical security domain of transaction information integrity. The method inputs the evidence of the transaction information integrity to a token verification box, and inputs in the token verification box the master key record from the Key Management System archive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Cordery, John F. Braun, Frank M. D'Ippolito, Kathyrn V. Lawton, Steven J. Pauly, Leon A. Pintsov, Frederick W. Ryan, Jr., Monroe A. Weiant, Jr.