US Patent Issued to Intertrust Technologies on March 18 for "Secure application processing systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,879, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intertrust Technologies Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Secure application processing systems and methods" was invented by Gary Ellison (San Mateo, Calif.), Gilles Boccon-Gibod (San Francisco) and Pierre Chavanne (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for securely and efficiently processing electronic content. In one embodiment, a first application running on a first computing system establishes a secure channel with a second computing system, the secure channel being secured by one or more cryptographic session keys. The first application obtains a license...