Abstract: A method for voting in a trusted electronic voting system under the control of an election authority, the method comprising: casting a ballot having ballot information, the ballot information representing votes by a voter; receiving a request to cast the ballot by a voting machine, the voting machine running as a trusted computing platform; tallying the votes in a tally module; displaying the status of the vote tallying on the voting machine.

Abstract: Safe deposit boxes, services, and methods for physically secure data storage are provided that include securing a network-enabled computer within a safe deposit box, receiving, in the network-enabled computer, data transmitted from a remote computer coupled for data communications with the network-enabled computer; and storing the data in the memory of the network-enabled computer. Securing a network-enabled computer within a safe deposit box may be carried out by providing a locked safe deposit box having the networked enabled computer stored within. Securing a network-enabled computer within a safe deposit box may be carried out by providing a lockable safe deposit box having the networked enabled computer integrated within.

Abstract: A method for identifying product placement props in a scene, the method includes: equipping one or more cameras with individual radio frequency identification (RFID) readers for filming or recording a scene for audio/video (A/V) content; placing one or more product placement props each having an RFID tag affixed thereon representing product placements within the scene; wherein the RFID readers interrogate the RFID tags to determine product placement prop related information including: which of the one or more product placement props are in the scene, and the one or more product placement props relative location with respect to the one or more cameras; and one or more recording devices for retaining the A/V content and the product placement prop related information.

Abstract: A method, system and program are provided for selectively managing data migration in a stacked filesystem that receives a request to migrate a data file to a destination context, where the data file is divided into a plurality of sub-regions such that data stored in different sub-regions may have different contexts. In response to the migration request, file data is sequentially migrated, one sub-region at a time, to the destination context by maintaining context status information for each sub-region in a metadata portion of the data file, where the context status information prevents another application from accessing any sub-region in the data file that is being migrated, but allows access to other sub-regions in the data file.

Abstract: A system for identifying product placement props in a scene, the system includes: one or more cameras individually equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) readers for filming or recording a scene for audio/video (A/V) content; one or more product placement props each having an RFID tag affixed thereon representing product placements within the scene; wherein the RFID readers interrogate the RFID tags to determine product placement prop related information including: which of the one or more product placement props are in the scene, and the one or more product placement props relative location with respect to the one or more cameras; and one or more recording devices for retaining the A/V content and the product placement prop related information.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable medium for authenticating file system content. In one embodiment of the method of invention, file system content is received or retrieved for content authentication. Security relevant portions of the file content are identified in accordance with specified parse production rules that tokenize the original file content. Next, the identified security relevant portions of the file content are isolated and extracted from the original file content. The extracted security relevant portions of the file content are authenticated by generating a hash value for the extracted portions and comparing the hash value against a prior output of that hash function applied to a trusted snapshot of the same security relevant file content.

Abstract: One or more stationary wireless readers are used to determine the relative strength of calibration signals sent from fixed locations adjacent to POS terminals. Then, the signal strength of signals being transmitted by wireless devices within range of the one or more wireless readers is evaluated to determine the relative position of each wireless device to the POS terminals. This allows an operator of the POS system to determine the proximity of each wireless device relative to the POS terminals.