Technologies

Inventions in Trusted Computing

Our inventions represent fundamental breakthroughs in secure systems and distributed computing allowing users to set enforceable policies for digital assets across dynamic, diverse computing platforms and networks.

David Maher, Chief Technology Officer

Unleashing the Potential

Every day, billions of computing events involving independent entities occur on distributed computers and service-enabled devices. The world is more dependent on an accessible networked infrastructure than ever before.

Yet, the tremendous potential of our highly networked world has yet to be fully realized. Connectivity also creates endless opportunity for malicious interference. Navigating the path from threat to potential requires technology that offers predictable, secure, automated computing outcomes.

Now More Than Ever

Whether for commercial or private purposes, related to data, devices or networks, in the health care setting or in the entertainment world, Intertrust technologies make digital events and policies reliable. Consider the following scenarios:

Protecting Portable Healthcare Records. Electronic health-care records are a reality. What’s more, they likely reside on virtual servers anywhere in the world. Are you comfortable that there are digital policies in place to protect your privacy? More >>

Enforcing Distributed Enterprise IT Policies. Today’s mobile worker downloads applications and files from anywhere, sometimes exposing the enterprise to malware. How does today’s IT professional protect the enterprise against these threats while supporting global commerce and communications? More >>

Distributing Media with a Prime-time Strategy. Consumers see the future – any content available on any device at anytime – and they want it now. But, how do you deliver compelling rich media content securely over networks and on devices you can’t control? More >>

Making it Possible

Our core digital rights management (DRM) technology consists of two reference platforms known as Octupus and NEMO, which is short for Networked Environment for Media Orchestration. Octopus is a simple, yet powerful, toolkit for building a rights management engine. It solves the limits of historical DRM systems by offering developers the ability to design and implement completed trust environments quickly and flexibly. NEMO is a secure messaging framework for interoperability between different DRM systems. NEMO resolves the issue of incompatible DRM technologies by leveraging service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to create a secure medium through which DRM systems can communicate dynamically. More >>

Additionally, we contribute our technology and participate in standards initiatives when we believe elements of our trusted computing technology can provide a useful framework for coordinating a wide variety of interested players around a particular set of market needs. Marlin and Coral are two such efforts that have yielded global open standards for digital rights management and interoperability. More >>

Fundamental to our technology development is our intellectual property. Our patents describe many aspects of the basic infrastructure necessary for protecting and managing digital media, enterprise trusted computing, and next-generation distributed computing. More >>


Improving Popular Products

Today, our technologies are integrated into many existing products, fundamentally expanding and securing their capabilities. Below are some examples of the types of products our technologies already enhance.

  • Leading consumer electronic devices that allow users to access all types of digital content (e.g., games, music, video) from many different networked sources.
  • All devices worldwide with distributed computing capabilities (of which 2 billion are handsets).
  • More than 80% of the smart phones that have technology to protect consumers against malware, including those with partioned memory areas.
  • Dominant operating systems that run the world’s electronic commerce.
  • Platform architecture technology that ensures the integrity of document workflow.
  • Assurance of mission critical applications
  • Intrinsic policy enforcement within secure application execution environments.