Patents by Inventor Charles F. Spitz

Charles F. Spitz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for obtaining digital signatures
    Patent number: 8103867
    Abstract: A digital signature system includes a database holding access control rules that identify documents authorized users are allowed to have electronically signed and a signing system capable of receiving signature requests from a plurality of authorized users, each signature request including a document to be signed, wherein the signing system parses the document to be signed and compares information obtained thereby to the access control rules stored in the database to determine whether the authorized user is authorized to have the document signed, and wherein if it is determined that the authorized user is authorized to have the document signed, the signing system signs the document using authentication information unique to the signing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles F. Spitz
  • Integrated visualization of security information for an individual
    Patent number: 7145457
    Abstract: A security method including receiving data from devices and normalizing the received data based on uniquely identified objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles F. Spitz, Howard A. Abrams
  • Method and system for obtaining digital signatures
    Patent number: 7039807
    Abstract: A digital signature system includes a database holding access control rules that identify documents authorized users are allowed to have electronically signed and a signing system capable of receiving signature requests from a plurality of authorized users, each signature request including a document to be signed, wherein the signing system parses the document to be signed and compares information obtained thereby to the access control rules stored in the database to determine whether the authorized user is authorized to have the document signed, and wherein if it is determined that the authorized user is authorized to have the document signed, the signing system signs the document using authentication information unique to the signing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles F. Spitz
  • Method and system for obtaining digital signatures
    Publication number: 20020099938
    Abstract: A digital signature system includes a database holding access control rules that identify documents authorized users are allowed to have electronically signed and a signing system capable of receiving signature requests from a plurality of authorized users, each signature request including a document to be signed, wherein the signing system parses the document to be signed and compares information obtained thereby to the access control rules stored in the database to determine whether the authorized user is authorized to have the document signed, and wherein if it is determined that the authorized user is authorized to have the document signed, the signing system signs the document using authentication information unique to the signing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Charles F. Spitz