Brevet US7996890 - System and method for trusted communication

US007996890B2 62> United States Patent 66> Patent N0.: US 7,996,890 B2 Sucher et al. (45) Date of Patent: Aug. 9, 2011 (54) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRUSTED 5,298,297 A 3/1994 Takei_ COMMUNICATION 5,746,602 A 5/1998 Kikmis 6,055,032 A 4/2000 Osterhout et al. 6,292,272 B1 9/2001 Ok h' t l. (75) Inventors: Steve Sucher, Redondo Beach, CA 6,314,574 B1 1 1/2001 Chile 1 e e (U3); Pal1lK1I1g,NeWb111'y Park, CA 6,319,010 B1 11/2001 Kikinis (US); Rosie O’Neill, Los Angeles, CA 6,372,974 B1 4/2002 Gross et al. (US); Christopher L. Goff, Redondo (Continued) Beach, CA (U S); Carrie Buse, Santa Monica, CA (U S); Joy Burns, Redondo FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS Bea°h> CA (US) DE 4139729 6/1993 (73) Assignee: Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US) (Continued) ( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this OTHER PUBLICATIONS Ielatgilét i1S5i)(%§rI3de(;8%rdi,dj§Sted under 35 The International Search Report and Written Opinion for Interna' ' ' y y ' 66661 Application No. PCTAJSO8/55038, mailed May 23, 2008. (21) Appl.No.: 12/037,845 _ Primary Examiner — Jacob Lipman (22) Feed: Feb‘ 26’ 2008 (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Kolisch Hartwell, PC (65) Prior Publication Data US 2008/0235781 A1 Sep. 25, 2008 (57) ABSTRACT _ _ A trusted communication system and methods of ensuring Related U's' Appheatlen Data trusted communications are provided. A portable memory (63) COm1nua11On_1n_pan of apphcation NO, 11 /697,356, device is configured to resemble a character, and a client is fi1ed on Apr, 6, 2007, configurable to operate specifically with that portable _ _ _ _ memory device. The client may allow a user to access net(60) Prevlslenal appheanon NO" 60/904964’ filed on Feb" work resources related to other clients belonging to other 27> 2007" users having portable memory devices. Each portable (51) Int, Cl, memory device may have stored therein a unique token. A H04L 29/06 2006 01 token from one portable memory device may be associated ( ' ) with a token of another portable memory device, e.g., by 52 U S Cl 726/9 ~ ~ ~ ~ ( ) . . ...... ...... ........................................ .. Operanng the first portable memory devlce Wlth a Chent COn_ (58) Fleld Of Classlfieatlen Search ~~ ~ 726/ 9 figured to operate with the second portable memory device. See appliealien file for eemplele Search hi5lO1'Y~ When two tokens are associated, the client configured to o erate with a ortable memo device havin one of those . P P 13’ B (56) Referenees Clted tokens may access network resources related to another of

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