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US 12,120,240 B2Granted
Apparatus, computer program and method for use in transforming data types
AssigneeVocalink Limited
InventorsJulian Robert Mark Barnes, Clifford Norman Russell, Erick Lopes Da Silva
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Abstract
An apparatus is described that comprises: communication circuitry configured to receive from a submitter, over a network, a data item being of a first data type and processing circuitry configured to: transform the first data type to a second, different, data type; remove non-significant content from the data item in the second data type; generate a hash of the data item having non-significant content removed to be signed; and provide the hash for signing.
Claims18
An apparatus comprising:
- communication circuitry configured to receive from a submitter, over a network, multiple components of a data item of a first data type, over time, wherein the data item is an image;
- and
- processing circuitry configured to:
- upon receipt of a predetermined number of the multiple components, but less than all of the multiple components of the data item, and for each of the received components:
- transform the component from the first data type to a second, different data type;
- and
- remove non-significant content from the component in the second data type;
- and then
- after transforming and removing the non-significant content from all of the multiple components of the data item:
- generate a hash of the transformed data item, which is a text string having all of the multiple components included and the non-significant content removed, to be signed;
- and
- provide the hash for signing.
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A method comprising:
- receiving over time from a submitter, over a network, multiple component of a data item being of a first data type;
- and
- upon receipt of a predetermined number of the multiple components, but less than all of the multiple components, and for each of the received components:
- transforming the component from the first data type to a second, different data type;
- and then
- removing non-significant content from the component of the data item in the second data type;
- and
- after transforming and removing the non-significant content from all of the multiple components of the data item:
- generating a hash of the transformed data item, which is a text string having all of the multiple components included and the non-significant content removed, to be signed;
- and
- providing the hash for signing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.