Showing papers on "Guard (information security) published in 2003"

System for enabling collaboration and protecting sensitive data

Abstract: The inventive system facilitates collaboration between multiple network users with respect to collaboration subject matter while maintaining the integrity of sensitive data. In one implementation, the system (200) includes a radiant collaboration subsystem (202) and a radiant sanitizer/guard subsystem (206). The guard (202) receives input information (206), reformats the input information (206) as necessary, and processes the input information and sanitizes the input information (206) based on predefined rules regarding dissemination of sensitive information to particular recipients. Sanitized outputs are provided by the guard (204) on a recipient-specific basis. The collaboration subsystem (202) allows for establishing a conference of collaborators identifying a document or documents to be included in the conference and allowing such documents as well as such documents to be represented to individual collaborators in accordance with the noted rules governing distribution of sensitive information. In this manner, collaboration is facilitated among collaborators that may have different limitations regarding access to sensitive data. The system (200) is useful in a variety of contexts, including the sharing of information as between public and private sector entities related to homeland security.

Ldmos device with isolation guard rings

Abstract: A method of forming a LDMOS semiconductor device and structure for same. A preferred embodiment comprises forming a first guard ring around and proximate the drain of a LDMOS device, and forming a second guard ring around the first guard ring. The first guard ring comprises a P+ base guard ring, and the second guard ring comprises an N+ collector guard ring formed in a deep N-well, in one embodiment. The first guard ring and second guard ring prevent leakage current from flowing from the drain of the LDMOS device to the substrate.

Network firewall policy configuration facilitation

Abstract: Systems for providing information on network firewall policy configuration facilitation include a firewall facilitation coordinator configured to receive a request to add an application not currently supported by a user's firewall policy, and to generate a time window during which a user can run the application and observe which types of packets are utilized by the application. A policy modification agent associated with the firewall is configured to communicate with the firewall facilitation coordinator. The policy modification agent is further configured to receive a firewall modification request from the firewall facilitation coordinator, to accomplish the observation of packets flowing through the firewall during the time window, and to subsequently modify the user's firewall policy such that the application is able to communicate as needed through the firewall, rather than being blocked. Other systems and methods are also provided.

Fan guard structure for additional supercharging function

Abstract: A fan guard has a function of supercharging a fan in addition to supporting a rotor device is disclosed. The fan guard is to be mounted beside the rotor device for supporting the rotor device, and additionally, the fan guard interacts with an airflow generated by the revolution of the rotor blades to supercharge the fan. The fan guard essentially includes a main frame, and a set of guard blades radially arranged inside the main frame and fixed onto an inner surface of the main frame by each one end thereof. Each of the guard blades is preferred to have a shape similar to the shape of the rotor blades, and the set of guard blades can be arranged either upstream or downstream of the rotor blades.

System and method for minimizing guard time in a time division duplex communication system

Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for optimizing capacity in a multi-user time division duplex ('TDD') communication system such as a broadband wireless radio frequency communication system. More specifically the invention minimizes guard time (353) in duplexed signals to thereby allow for higher data throughput which results in an increase in system communication capacity. Depending upon instantaneous traffic load associated with the subscribers using a particular TDD carrier, guard times (353) may be adjusted to provide a desired level of throughput. As traffic loads demand, the order of assignment of burst periods in either or both the transmit (351) and receive (352) frames of a TDD carrier with respect to the subscriber systems operable thereon are adjusted to accommodate desired guard times(353).

Infusion device with safety guard

Abstract: An infusion device has a body (12), flexible wings (14) and a needle (16) projecting generally at right angles from one end of the body. A guard is pivoted to the one end of the body (12). On one side, the guard has a channel so that the guard overlies the body in a first position thereof during application of the needle (16) to the patient. The guard is pivotable through about 180 degree to a position generally parallel to the body and on a side of the needle remote from the body. As the needle is withdrawn from the patient, the guard is pivoted about 90 degree further to receive the needle between one or more flexible contoured members along the opposite side of the guard. The needle (16) is thus captured and encapsulated within the guard, with audible confirmation, the members precluding the guard from pivoting away from the needle (16).

Shoe heel guard

Abstract: A heel guard device used to protect the heel portion of a man or woman's shoe while driving in an automobile, the guard having a main body made of an elastic material which conforms to the shape of the heel and rear portion of a shoe. The peripheral edge of the forward opening of the guard has an elastic member that secures the guard on the shoe during use. Optional pads of soft or hard material may be added to the guard to provide additional protection and comfort to the heel of the shoe.

Design Patterns for Fault Containment

Abstract: Fault containment is an important constituent of fault tolerance. Means for fault containment allow a system to limit the impact of manifested faults to some predefined system boundaries. This document presents some of the best known techniques for fault containment formatted as design patterns. These patterns are elicited from the areas of self-stabilization, specification closure and fault tolerant OS kernels. The presented fault containment patterns are: the Input Guard pattern which confines an error outside the guarded system boundaries; the Output Guard which confines an error inside the guarded system boundaries; and the Fault Containerpattern which is the fault tolerant counterpart of the well-known Adapter pattern and which combines the properties of the Input Guard and Output Guard patterns.

Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard, 1636-2000

Abstract: They were there at Concord Bridge. They shaped the vast volunteer armies of the Civil War. They have fought in America's major wars around the world. And they made the first military response on 9/11 after the World Trade Center towers crashed in Manhattan. The National Guard has had a singular place in American history as citizen-soldiers responding both to homeland crises and to the need for fighting power overseas. Michael Doubler now offers the first comprehensive history of the Guard to appear in over thirty years, tracing its role from the days of colonial militias to the dawn of a new millennium. Spanning more than four centuries, he records the Army National Guard's outstanding accomplishments in peace and war on behalf of both state and Federal authorities. Originally published as I Am the Guard by the Government Printing Office and with only limited public distribution, this sweeping history is now available in a paperback edition that (in a new preface) updates the National Guard story up to the events of 9/11. Beginning with the first regiments formed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Doubler chronicles how American militiamen have transformed themselves from a loose collection of local defense forces into a modern efficient reserve force. After action in the Spanish-American War, the militia era ended in 1903 with the creation of the modern National Guard as the federal reserve of the U.S. Army. In covering the last century, Doubler takes readers from Guard service in both world wars to Cold War duties, the Gulf War, and assignments in the Balkans. He tells of its not always friendly relations with the Regular Army, as well as of those times when Regulars and Guardsmen effectively reinforced each other to get the job done. The militia and National Guard have always concerned themselves with homeland defense, and as the current administration reviews national security, this book provides an opportunity to reconsider the role of the Army National Guard in America's latest war. With 2003 marking the modern National Guard's centennial, Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War offers a virtual primer on the military policy of the United States, showing us that citizen-soldiers have played a vital role in struggles against imperialism, fascism, and communism - and assuring us that they will be ready for the war on terrorism as well.

Disposable guarded surgical scalpel

Abstract: A disposable guarded surgical scalpel includes a handle with a blade fixed to it and a slidably mounted guard. The guard can be moved using a single hand. When the scalpel is in use the guard is moved to a retracted position where the blade is exposed; the guard locks in this position to prevent any unintentional movement. When the scalpel is not in use, the guard is moved to an extended position where the blade is covered. When the scalpel has been used on a patient the guard is moved to a disposal position beyond the extended position thus exposing a visual indicia on the handle that indicates that the scalpel should not be reused. The guard also has grooves on the outer surface so as to provide better grip to a surgeon during operation.

Archery bow with swing arm cable guard and fall-away arrow rest

Abstract: A compound archery bow having an adjustable cable guard. In one preferred embodiment, the cable guard includes a swing arm with an adjustable cable saver. In an alternate preferred embodiment, a compound archery bow includes a cable guard and a fall-away arrow rest assembly.

Rotating guard for angle grinder

Abstract: A guard for a rotary cutting tool allows for automatic adjustment of the guard relative to the cutting disc and to a workpiece Such an automatic adjustment allows a user to cut around substantially the entire circumference of a rounded workpiece, such as a pipe, without requiring alteration of the angle at which the tool is held, repositioning by the user, or repositioning or removal of the guard The guard includes a bracket for mounting the guard to the rotary cutting tool, a hood mounted to the bracket and enclosing a portion of the cutting disc, and a spring for biasing one end of the hood into substantially continuous contact with the workpiece during operation of the rotary cutting tool

Anti-hijack and-theft networked alarm method and system for taxi

Abstract: The networked hijack and theft preventing alarm method for taxi includes the steps of: the in-taxi safety guard to transmit the image to the monitoring center via the mobile communication network; the monitoring center to watch the taxi condition continuously; and to take corresponding measures. The networked hijack and theft preventing alarm system includes in-taxi safety guard device, mobile communication network and monitoring center. The present invention is reliable and has great deterrence to criminal.

Avoidance of guard periods in block transmission systems

Abstract: To meet the requirement of efficient cancellation of intersymbol interference (ISI) in high data rate transmissions over time dispersive channels block based transmissions are often adopted. This is the case in orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing (OFDM), cyclic prefix based single carrier (CP-SC) and block transmissions with null guard periods (ZP-SC). Guard periods are inserted between the data blocks that lower the spectral efficiency significantly. In this paper techniques are presented and analyzed that aim at omitting the guard periods in the aforementioned systems without increasing the computational complexity significantly. One is the application of overlapping methods, another the reasonable selection of the block size, a third the usage of guard periods shorter than the initial ones. The techniques can be combined arbitrarily. They are applied in transmissions over a mobile vector channel and assessed in terms of bit error rate (BER), spectral efficiency and computational complexity.

Between order and loyalty: the Civil Guard and the Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1936

Abstract: This thesis seeks to understand the variety of factors that influenced the fairly widespread defection of much of the Spanish paramilitary constabulary, the Civil Guard, during the military rebellion that sparked the 1936-1939 Civil War. The significance of this phenomenon for the initial stages of the uprising has been recognised in the literature, but the explanations presented for it have been often either overly deterministic or focus too much on structural aspects, at the expense of social and historical factors. Indeed, most academic studies have conflated the issue of the Civil Guard with that of the "military problem", that is, the ubiquitous presence of the military in the political evolution of modern Spain, which often allowed the Spanish armed forces to interfere and eventually assume the control of the governing of the nation. This study, while noting the importance of the links between the Civil Guard and the military, gives equal if not greater importance to the fact that the former is primarily a policing body, and thus a variety of other dynamics have to be considered when attempting to understand the attitudes and actions of the corps. Indeed, while much of the military was detached from the daily workings of society, civil guards were on the front line of social conflict, and this unavoidably affected attitudes within the corps towards the viability of the Republic, and the legitimacy of its left- wing governments. Furthermore, the Civil Guard was not immune to the political passions of the day. Indeed, the antagonism between the Left and the Civil Guard reached a new intensity in the wake of the October 1934 Revolution, leading to a further deterioration when the leftist Popular Front coalition won the February 1936 elections. The polarization that infected Spanish politics during this period, as well as the increasing levels of social unrest and political violence, were key factors in influencing civil guards' loyalties once the military rebellion began in July 1936.

Auto rack railroad car panel bumper guard

Abstract: The present invention reveals an auto rack sidewall panel bumper guard for auto rack railroad cars which eliminates contact between the vehicle door and the sidewall panel even in extreme heat The bumper guard includes a pair of opposed mounting bases, a pair of extension arms connected to the mounting bases and a contact member connected to the arms opposite the mounting bases The contact member has a lesser thickness than the arms to absorb the forces of the vehicle door

Surgical scalpel with retractable guard

Abstract: A safety scalpel blade assembly adapted for attachment to a handle (12), the assembly comprising a scalpel blade (10) and guard (11) which extends at least about the cutting edge of the blade (10), the guard (11) having attachment means to lock the blade to the guard as the assembly is being attached to the handle and which releases the blade from the guard when the blade is attached to the blade carrier on the handle. Improvements include a removable safety tab (60) on the guard (11), means (68,71) to prevent the blade guard (11) lifting relative to the handle (12), a safely catch (75) to prevent excessive retraction of the guard (11) and location means (80,82) to locate the guard (11) in the extended and retracted positions.

Anti-intruder security system with sensor network and actuator network

Abstract: The system in one embodiment operates while automatically switching among three processes including an absent-at-home guard process, an at-home guard process, and a non-guard process according to the positional relationship between the movable localizer and the internal guard surfaces/the external guard surface. When an actuator (such as a speaker and a white smoke generating unit) is integrated into the localizer, the localizer located at an intruder generates alarm sound or white smoke in the absent-at-home guard process. When the intruder moves inside the house, the localizer generating the alarm sound and the localizer generating the white smoke change following the intruder. The actuator is controlled such that an intruder is discouraged to approach the internal guard surface or such that a house member inside the internal guard surface can evacuate in a direction departing from the intruder in the at-home guard process.

Toe guard assembly and method

Abstract: The toe guard assembly is for use on a surgical boot which is open toed and has an inner sole. The parts of the assembly are the guard and a piece of double stick tape which attaches the guard to the inner sole. The guard has a cup-like toe portion which fits around the toes to be guarded, a sole tab which extends from the bottom of the toe portion over the inner sole, two side tabs, each of which extends from a side of the toe portion along the sides of the boot and an upper tab which extends from the top of the toe portion over the top of the boot. The side tabs may be detachably adhesively attached to the sides of the boot. One or more of the tabs may be a separate part attached to the toe portion. The guard may be a molded part, or have a molded toe portion with tabs attached or made from flat material in a pattern which, when folded, forms the guard.

Formal Security Policy Verification of Distributed Component-Structured Software

Abstract: Component-structured software, which is coupled from independently developed software components, introduces new security problems. In particular, a component may attack components of its environment and, in consequence, spoil the application incorporating it. Therefore, to guard a system, we constrain the behavior of a component by ruling out the transmission of events between components which may cause harm. Security policies describing the behavior constraints are formally specified and, at runtime, so-called security wrappers monitor the interface traffic of components and check it for compliance with the specifications. Moreover, one can also use the specifications to prove formally that the combinations of the component security policies fulfill certain security properties of the complete component-structured application. A well-known method to express system security properties is access control which can be modelled by means of the popular Role Based Access Control (RBAC) method.

Vehicle body guard

Abstract: A vehicle body guard for a receiver assembly includes an intermediate body section and a pair of mounting ends carried on that intermediate body section. A protective plastic sleeve may be provided over a portion of the intermediate body section.

Networked alarm method and system for preventing hijack of motor vehicle

Abstract: The networked hijack preventing alarm method for motor vehicle includes the steps of: pushing emergency button to make the vehicular safety guard device send help message while transmitting the imageand sound to the monitoring center via the mobile communication network; watching the vehicle condition in the monitoring center; and taking corresponding measures. The networked hijack preventing alarm system includes vehicular safety guard device, mobile communication network and monitoring center. The present invention is reliable and has great deterrence to criminal.

Traveling supporting system and on-vehicle terminal equipment

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a traveling supporting system for performing information communication between pieces of terminal equipment for preventing the erroneous announcement of collision based on a traveling environment, and for making announcement of collision necessary for a crew. SOLUTION: In the traveling supporting system of a vehicle where inter-vehicle communication is performed by on-vehicle terminal equipment A mounted on a vehicle, the on-vehicle terminal equipment A decides the possibility of the collision of its own vehicle with another vehicle, and announces it to a crew when there is the possibility of collision. When a structure such as a guard rail or fence is present between its own vehicle and another vehicle, and actually the possibility of collision is hardly present, the on-vehicle terminal equipment A regulates the announcement of collision. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Supervised guard tour systems and methods

Abstract: The present invention comprises systems and methods for addressing exceptions (i.e., alarms) associated with a guard tour according to a predefined hierarchy. The exception is generated automatically based on data associated with the guard tour, as typicdally collected by an ETTS. The present invention receives tour data, and based upon predefined customer preferences and current conditions, generates a procedure to be followed to optimally resolve the exception, typically based on to various parameters, including customer, exception type, day, date, and time of day. In response to an exception, a contact list is generated, the contact list being associated with one or more of the parameters. Based on the nature of the exception, the present invention has the ability to prevent an operator from clearing the exception until it has been resolved in a predefined manner. For instance, a certain response from someone contacted by the operator may be required before an acceptable reason code is accepted by the system.

Skateboard truck guard

Abstract: A skateboard truck guard, which is adapted for attaching to a truck having a bottom portion and defining a ground contacting surface thereon, includes an elongated guard body, which is shaped and sized for detachably mounting to the bottom portion of the truck, having an outer side and defining a grinding surface thereon, and an inner side for covering the ground contacting surface and a fastening arrangement mounted on the guard body for securely fastening the guard body on the truck

A distributed multipurpose mail guard

Abstract: We describe a mechanism for incorporating a mail guard mechanism together with automatic, mandatory, and fully transparent digital signatures and encryption for message traffic embedded into the operating system of individual network nodes. By intercepting all inbound and outbound network traffic and analyzing for pertinent information using generalized Buchi automata, the guard mechanism can enforce the application of (centralized) mail security policies without requiring any support from mail clients. An implementation based on modular modifications to the Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP family of operating systems and OpenPGP-based messaging is described.

Integral zipper slide and guard

Abstract: An integral zipper slide and guard. The integral slide and guard is formed as a single unit, thus alleviating previous problems of attachment of zipper guards to zipper slides. Moreover, the unitary structure of the zipper slide and guard permits a one-step molding operation, thus providing inexpensive manufacture.