Patents by Inventor Dirk Marien
Dirk Marien 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).
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Patent number: 10063535Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for authenticating a user using data related to the historical interactions of the user with computer based applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: ONESPAN NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventor: Dirk Marien
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Patent number: 9510192Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for securing a mobile application are disclosed. Users of the mobile application may be authenticated using a smartphone or other device including a Near-Field Communication (NFC) transfer device capable of NFC communication. An authentication device may be adapted to present itself to the NFC transfer device as an NFC tag and make a dynamic credential available to the NFC transfer device by including the dynamic credential in an NFC tag readable by the NFC transfer device using NFC mechanisms for reading data contents of NFC tags. An access device comprising the NFC transfer device may then provide the dynamic credential to an application server for verification.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: VASCO DATA SECURITY, INC.Inventor: Dirk Marien
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Patent number: 9495546Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for generating digital signatures are disclosed. An apparatus may present itself to a host computer as a mass storage device to provide cryptographic processing results through a standard mass storage access mechanism for exchanging files.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Vasco Data Security, Inc.Inventor: Dirk Marien
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Patent number: 9490700Abstract: An electronic power supply circuit for battery-powered hardware devices is disclosed which can be electronically switched to supply any of at least two predetermined voltages wherein the batteries are switched in parallel or in series depending on the desired voltage. Also disclosed is an electronic apparatus comprising the electronic power supply circuit, which in some modes of operation uses the highest of the two predetermined voltages and which in other modes of operation can function with the lower of two predetermined voltages, and includes control logic that switches the electronic power supply circuit to supply said higher voltage when the apparatus in a mode in which it uses this higher voltage and that switches said electronic power supply circuit to supply said lower voltage at least during some of the modes in which the apparatus can function with the lower voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Vasco Data Security, Inc.Inventor: Dirk Mariƫn
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Publication number: 20160191498Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for authenticating a user using data related to the historical interactions of the user with computer based applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventor: DIRK MARIEN
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Patent number: 9184915Abstract: Strong authentication tokens for generating dynamic security values having an acoustical input interface for acoustically receiving input data are disclosed. The tokens may also include an optical interface for receiving input data and may have a selection mechanism to select either the acoustical or the optical input interface to receive data. A communication interface may be provided to communicate with a removable security device such as a smart card and the token may be adapted to generate dynamic security values in cooperation with the removable security device. The acoustic signal received by the token may comprise a plurality of modulated carrier frequencies whereby each carrier frequency has been modulated with a data signal representing the full input data such that the input data are redundantly emitted over more than one modulated carrier frequency.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: VASCO DATA SECURITY, INC.Inventors: Serguei Konstantinovitch Savtchenko, Dirk Marien
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Patent number: 9124433Abstract: Authentication devices and methods for generating dynamic credentials are disclosed. The authentication devices include a communication interface for communicating with a security device such as a smart card.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: VASCO DATA SECURITY, INC.Inventors: Dirk Marien, Frank Coulier, Frank Hoornaert, Frederik Mennes
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Patent number: 9098691Abstract: Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding data transmitted acoustically and/or optically to strong authentication tokens to generate dynamic security values are disclosed. The tokens may also include a selection mechanism to select either an acoustical or an optical input interface to receive data. A communication interface may be provided to communicate with a removable security device such as a smart card and the token may be adapted to generate dynamic security values in cooperation with the removable security device.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: VASCO DATA SECURITY, INC.Inventors: Frank Hoornaert, Dirk Marien
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Publication number: 20150189505Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for securing a mobile application are disclosed. Users of the mobile application may be authenticated using a smartphone or other device including a Near-Field Communication (NFC) transfer device capable of NFC communication. An authentication device may be adapted to present itself to the NFC transfer device as an NFC tag and make a dynamic credential available to the NFC transfer device by including the dynamic credential in an NFC tag readable by the NFC transfer device using NFC mechanisms for reading data contents of NFC tags. An access device comprising the NFC transfer device may then provide the dynamic credential to an application server for verification.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventor: DIRK MARIEN
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Publication number: 20150186658Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for generating digital signatures are disclosed. An apparatus may present itself to a host computer as a mass storage device to provide cryptographic processing results through a standard mass storage access mechanism for exchanging files.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2014Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventor: DIRK MARIEN
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Patent number: 9054873Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of securing electronic transactions and more specifically to systems to indicate and verify the approval of the risk level of a transaction and to systems for generating transaction risk level approval codes.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: VASCO DATA SECURITY, INC.Inventors: Frank Hoornaert, Dirk Marien
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Patent number: 9021601Abstract: The present invention defines a strong authentication token for generating different dynamic credentials for different application providers comprising an input interface providing an output representing an application provider indicator; a secret key storage for storing one or more secret keys; a variability source for providing a dynamic variable value; a key providing agent for providing an application provider specific key as a function of said application provider indicator using one or more keys stored in said secret key storage; a cryptographic agent for cryptographically combining said application provider specific key with said dynamic variable value using symmetric cryptography; a transformation agent coupled to said cryptographic agent for transforming an output of said cryptographic agent to produce a dynamic credential; and an output interface to output said dynamic credential.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Vasco Data Security, Inc.Inventors: Benoit Grange, Dirk Marien, Frank Hoornaert
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Patent number: 8966268Abstract: A handheld authentication device comprising a data processor and a display is adapted to: generate an input value; submit the input value to an asymmetric cryptographic operation; obtain the result of said asymmetric cryptographic operation; generate an authentication message substantially comprising the result of the asymmetric cryptographic operation; encode the authentication message into one or more images; and display these images on the display.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Vasco Data Security, Inc.Inventor: Dirk Marien
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Patent number: 8930702Abstract: Strong authentication tokens for generating dynamic security values having an acoustical input interface for acoustically receiving input data are disclosed. The tokens may also include an optical interface for receiving input data and may have a selection mechanism to select either the acoustical or the optical input interface to receive data. A communication interface may be provided to communicate with a removable security device such as a smart card and the token may be adapted to generate dynamic security values in cooperation with the removable security device. The acoustic signal received by the token may be modulated using a frequency shift keying modulation scheme using a plurality of coding frequencies to code the acoustical signal where each coding frequency may be an integer multiple of a common base frequency.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Vasco Data Security, Inc.Inventor: Dirk Marien
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Patent number: 8829987Abstract: The invention relates to modulation and demodulation circuits, such as envelope detectors used to demodulate amplitude-modulated (AM) signals. By coupling an analog circuit to a port of a digital component, a compact envelope detector can be obtained, which achieves demodulation of AM signals for direct coupling into a digital input port. Accordingly, a compact envelope detector may be used in the data receiving part of a sealed device requiring post-manufacturing data transfer, in combination with additional components that provide electromagnetic coupling, such as inductive, capacitive, or radiative. An example of such a device is a credit card sized authentication token.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Vasco Data Security, IncInventor: Dirk Marien
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Publication number: 20140237242Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of securing electronic transactions and more specifically to systems to indicate and verify the approval of the risk level of a transaction and to systems for generating transaction risk level approval codes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Vasco Data Security, Inc.Inventors: FRANK HOORNAERT, DIRK MARIEN
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Publication number: 20140189359Abstract: Authentication devices and methods for generating dynamic credentials are disclosed. The authentication devices include a communication interface for communicating with a security device such as a smart card.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: VASCO DATA SECURITY, INC.Inventors: DIRK MARIEN, FRANK COULIER, FRANK HOORNAERT, FREDERIK MENNES
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Publication number: 20140068272Abstract: Strong authentication tokens for generating dynamic security values having an acoustical input interface for acoustically receiving input data are disclosed. The tokens may also include an optical interface for receiving input data and may have a selection mechanism to select either the acoustical or the optical input interface to receive data. A communication interface may be provided to communicate with a removable security device such as a smart card and the token may be adapted to generate dynamic security values in cooperation with the removable security device. The acoustic signal received by the token may comprise a plurality of modulated carrier frequencies whereby each carrier frequency has been modulated with a data signal representing the full input data such that the input data are redundantly emitted over more than one modulated carrier frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Vasco Data Security, Inc.Inventors: Serguei KONSTANTINOVITCH SAVTCHENKO, Dirk Marien
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Patent number: 8661258Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of securing electronic transactions and more specifically to methods to indicate and verify the approval of the risk level of a transaction and to apparatuses for generating transaction risk level approval codes. In a method according to the invention transactions are classified into a limited number of categories. A user submitting a transaction to a server is requested to also generate and submit a dynamic transaction category approval code for the submitted transaction. On the server side a corresponding verification value is generated for the received transaction. In an alternative method according to the invention transactions are assigned one of a limited number of risk levels. A user submitting a transaction to a server is requested to also generate and submit a dynamic risk level approval code for the submitted transaction. On the server side a corresponding verification value is generated for the received transaction.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Vasco Data Security, Inc.Inventors: Frank Hoornaert, Dirk Marien
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Publication number: 20130198519Abstract: A handheld authentication device comprising a data processor and a display is adapted to: generate an input value; submit the input value to an asymmetric cryptographic operation; obtain the result of said asymmetric cryptographic operation; generate an authentication message substantially comprising the result of the asymmetric cryptographic operation; encode the authentication message into one or more images; and display these images on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: Vasco Data Security, Inc.Inventor: DIRK MARIEN