A mobile robot guest for interacting with a human resident performs a room-traversing search procedure prior to interacting with the resident, and may verbally query whether the resident being sought is present. Upon finding the resident, the mobile robot may facilitate a teleconferencing session with a remote third party, or interact with the resident in a number of ways. For example, the robot may carry on a dialogue with the resident, reinforce compliance with medication or other schedules, etc. In addition, the robot incorporates safety features for preventing collisions with the resident; and the robot may audibly announce and/or visibly indicate its presence in order to avoid becoming a dangerous obstacle. Furthermore, the mobile robot behaves in accordance with an integral privacy policy, such that any sensor recording or transmission must be approved by the resident.

Companion robot for personal interaction

A secure data parser is provided that may be integrated into any suitable system for securely storing and communicating data. The secure data parser parses data and then splits the data into multiple portions that are stored or communicated distinctly. Encryption of the original data, the portions of data, or both may be employed for additional security. The secure data parser may be used to protect data in motion by splitting original data into portions of data, that may be communicated using multiple communications paths.

Secure data parser method and system

This disclosure is directed to a system and method for preventing malware, spyware and other undesirable applications from affecting mobile communication devices (e.g., smartphones, netbooks, and tablets). A mobile communication device uses a server to assist in identifying and removing undesirable applications. When scanning an application, a device transmits information about the application to a server for analysis. The server receives the information, produces an assessment for the application, and transmits the assessment to the device. By performing analysis on a server, the invention allows a device to reduce the battery and performance cost of protecting against undesirable applications. The servers transmits notifications to devices that have installed applications that are discovered to be undesirable. The server receives data about applications from many devices, using the combined data to minimize false positives and provide comprehensive protection against known and unknown threats.

System and method for server-coupled malware prevention

A system and method identifies mobile applications that can have an adverse effect on a mobile device or mobile network. In an implementation, a server monitors behavioral data relating to a mobile application and applies a model to determine if the application has an adverse effect or has the potential to cause an adverse effect on a mobile device or a network the mobile device may connect to. A mobile device may monitor behavioral data, apply a model to the data, and transmit a disposition to the server. The server may aggregate behavioral data or disposition information from multiple devices. The server may transmit or make available the disposition information to a subscriber through a web interface, API, email, or other mechanism. After identifying that an application may have an adverse effect, the server may enact corrective actions, such as generating device or network configuration data.

System and method for adverse mobile application identification

Embodiments are directed to a system and method for authenticating a user of a client computer making a request to a server computer providing access to a network resource through an authentication platform that issues a challenge in response to the request requiring authentication of the user identity through a reply from the client computer, determining one or more items of context information related to at least one of the user, the request, and the client computer, and determining a disposition of the request based on the reply and the one or more items of context information. The reply includes a user password and may be provided by an authorizing client device coupled to the client computer over a wireless communications link.

Multi-factor authentication and comprehensive login system for client-server networks

An electronic circuit 120 includes a more-secure processor ( 600 ) having hardware based security ( 138 ) for storing data. A less-secure processor ( 200 ) eventually utilizes the data. By a data transfer request-response arrangement ( 2010, 2050, 2070, 2090 ) between the more-secure processor ( 600 ) and the less-secure processor ( 200 ), the more-secure processor ( 600 ) confers greater security of the data on the less-secure processor ( 200 ). A manufacturing process makes a handheld device ( 110 ) having a storage space ( 222 ), a less-secure processor ( 200 ) for executing modem software and a more-secure processor ( 600 ) having a protected application ( 2090 ) and a secure storage ( 2210 ). A manufacturing process involves generating a per-device private key and public key pair, storing the private key in a secure storage ( 2210 ) where it can be accessed by the protected application ( 2090 ), combining the public key with the modem software to produce a combined software, signing the combined software; and storing the signed combined software into the storage space ( 222 ). Other processes of manufacture, processes of operation, circuits, devices, wireless and wireline communications products, wireless handsets and systems are disclosed and claimed.

Methods, apparatus, and systems for securing SIM (subscriber identity module) personalization and other data on a first processor and secure communication of the SIM data to a second processor

Systems and methods for providing a wireless communication device with secure terminal identity information and secure collaborative terminal identity authentication between the wireless communication device and a wireless operator. In one embodiment, the system for providing a wireless communication device with secure terminal identity information includes: (1) a public key generator configured to generate a unique public key and a unique private key based on an identity of the wireless communication device and cause the private key to be stored within a secure execution environment of the wireless communication device and (2) a certificate generator coupled to the public key generator and configured to create a device-bound certificate based on the identity and cause the device-bound certificate to be stored within the secure execution environment.

System and method for secure collaborative terminal identity authentication between a wireless communication device and a wireless operator

An integrated circuit ( 122 ) includes an on-chip boot ROM ( 132 ) holding boot code, a non-volatile security identification element ( 140 ) having non-volatile information determining a less secure type or more secure type, and a processor ( 130 ). The processor ( 130 ) is coupled to the on-chip boot ROM ( 132 ) and to the non-volatile security identification element ( 140 ) to selectively execute boot code depending on the non-volatile information of the non-volatile security identification element ( 140 ). Other technology such as processors, methods of operation, processes of manufacture, wireless communications apparatus, and wireless handsets are also disclosed.

Less-secure processors, integrated circuits, wireless communications apparatus, methods and processes of making

In general, a variable rate coder can obtain the same speech quality as a fixed rate coder, while reducing the average bit rate. We have developed a variable-rate multimodal speech coder with an average bit rate of 3 kb/s for a speech activity factor of 80% and quality comparable to the GSM full rate coder. The coder has four coding modes and uses a robust classification method involving the pitch gain, zero crossings, and a peakiness measure. Also the coder employs a novel gain-matched analysis-by-synthesis technique for very low rate coding of unvoiced frames and an improved noise-level-dependent postfilter. This paper describes the details of our algorithm and presents the results from subjective listening tests.

A variable rate multimodal speech coder with gain-matched analysis-by-synthesis

Packetized CELP-encoded speech playout with frame truncation during silence and frame expansion method dependent upon voicing classification with voiced frame expansion maintaining phasealignment.

Erdal Paksoy

Papers

Methods, apparatus, and systems for securing SIM (subscriber identity module) personalization and other data on a first processor and secure communication of the SIM data to a second processor

System and method for secure collaborative terminal identity authentication between a wireless communication device and a wireless operator

Less-secure processors, integrated circuits, wireless communications apparatus, methods and processes of making

A variable rate multimodal speech coder with gain-matched analysis-by-synthesis

Adaptive voice playout in VOP