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Knowledge Management System and Process for Managing Knowledge

NIST Inventors
John T. Elliott , Talapady N. Bhat , Ursula R. Kattner , Carelyn E. Campbell , Ram D. Sriram , Eswaran Subrahmanian and Jacob Collard
Patent Description This method is a general approach to generating sets of normalized terminology from a digital corpus of natural language documents in any given domain to address the need for flexible, intuitive, reusable, and normalized terminology. The terms that this approach generates are root

Active Security Token with Security Phantom for Porting a Password File

Patent Description The invention describes a novel method for storing a database of usemames and corresponding passwords on software and hardware security modules( such as smart cards and USB security tokens) that do not offer native password database storage capability. External applications can

Oracle-Free Match Testing of a Program Using Covering Arrays and Equivalence Classes

NIST Inventors
D. Richard Kuhn and Raghu N Kacker
Patent Description This is a method and software for testing computer software. The method applies to a broad range of software but is particularly applicable software with complex conditions and decision, e.g., process control, avionics, and other areas. This method also verifies equivalence
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Next Generation Access Control System and Process for Controlling Database Access

NIST Inventors
Joshua Roberts , Gopi Katwala and David Ferraiolo
Patent Description The Policy Machine is an access control framework that served as the basis for the development of an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/ the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS – the central U.S. forum dedicated to creating technology
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