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40Patents
0Active
40Granted
39Portfolio score

Filing activity: Dec 30, 1986 → Oct 10, 2001

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5533126A Key protection device for smart cards Electricity 307 Expired
US5479509A Method for signature of an information processing file, and apparatus for implementing it Physics 230 Expired
US5442645A Method for checking the integrity of a program or data, and apparatus for implementing this method Physics 211 Expired
US4825052A Method and apparatus for certifying services obtained using a portable carrier such as a memory card Physics 173 Expired
US4907270A Method for certifying the authenticity of a datum exchanged between two devices connected locally or remotely by a transmission line Electricity 121 Expired
US5867577A Method and apparatus for authenticating a data carrier intended to enable a transaction or access to a service or a location, and corresponding carrier Physics 121 Expired
US5434999A Safeguarded remote loading of service programs by authorizing loading in protected memory zones in a terminal Physics 118 Expired
US4795893A Security device prohibiting the function of an electronic data processing unit after a first cutoff of its electrical power Physics 115 Expired
US5528231A Method for the authentication of a portable object by an offline terminal, and apparatus for implementing the process Electricity 114 Expired
US6568600B1 Chip card equipped with a loop antenna, and associated micromodule Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 105 Expired
US4907272A Method for authenticating an external authorizing datum by a portable object, such as a memory card Electricity 105 Expired
US5566323A Data processing system including programming voltage inhibitor for an electrically erasable reprogrammable nonvolatile memory Physics 100 Expired
US6658566B1 Process for storage and use of sensitive information in a security module and the associated security module Electricity 90 Expired
US5796835A Method and system for writing information in a data carrier making it possible to later certify the originality of this information Physics 84 Expired
US4980802A Flexible printed circuit Electricity 40 Expired
US6751671B1 Method of communication between a user station and a network, in particular such as internet, and implementing architecture Electricity 34 Expired
US6657956B1 Method enabling secure access by a station to at least one server, and device using same Electricity 30 Expired
US6658569B1 Secret key cryptographic process for protecting a computer system against attacks by physical analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US5177790A Method for generating a random number in a data processing system/and system for implementing the method Physics 29 Expired
US6839849B1 Smart integrated circuit Physics 28 Expired
US5097117A Electronic microcircuit card and method for its manufacture Electricity 26 Expired
US5815083A Process for entry of a confidential piece of information and associated terminal Physics 24 Expired
US5341421A Security device, including a memory and/or a microcomputer for data processing machines Physics 22 Expired
US5365466A Method for generating a random number in a system with portable electronic objects, and system for implementing the method Physics 18 Expired
US6735627B2 System and method of smart card for managing transmissions of multimedia data via an internet-type network, in particular telephone or videophone data, between subscriber systems Electricity 17 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.