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Graphic with multiple blocks showing a knowledge management system

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
A knowledge management system includes: a default knowledge system including: a knowledge system and a knowledge database in communication with the knowledge system; and a knowledge store in communication with the default knowledge system and including: a taxonomy amendment, an annotation amendment

Active Security Token with Security Phantom for Porting a Password File

An active security token includes: a sentry that controls access to token data disposed on the active security token through verification of user authentication data; the token data including: reference authentication data for verification of user authentication data; and a security phantom

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

NIST Inventors
D. Richard Kuhn and Raghu N Kacker
A process for testing a program includes: receiving a variable comprising a plurality of input values; producing a plurality of equivalence classes for the input values; producing a representative value per equivalence class; producing, by a processor, a primary covering array comprising a plurality
Diagram showing the system and process for controlling database access.

Next Generation Access Control System and Process for Controlling Database Access

NIST Inventors
Joshua Roberts , Gopi Katwala and David Ferraiolo
Provides a universal access control layer between applications and DBMSs, following a standardized ABAC model (NGAC*) that is a) DBMS-agnostic, b) does not require modification of the DBMS software, and c) can enforce types of access policies and at a granularity not typically available in database
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