Future Examination Deadlines

Details of future set examination deadlines are indicated in the table below:

• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• India
• Israel
• Japan
• Mexico
• New Zealand
• China
• South Korea
• Russia
• Singapore
• South Africa
• United Arab Emirates
• Nigeria
• Egypt
• Ukraine
• Colombia
• Indonesia
• United States

In addition, considering the 38 designated states in the European patent application – already in the regional phase – Arctran has sought patent protection in 58 countries, comprising over 4.5 billions of potential users.

By way of example, in the computer system and computerized method described herein, the person or people who authorize an electronically-made request to an electronic entity, such as a debit or credit card payment request to a bank, logging-on to a computer account such as an e-mail account, social networking account, or bank account must input authorization from a particular predetermined or particular electronic authorization device (such as a smartphone, computer (laptop or desktop), tablet computer or other suitable electronic device or mobile or portable electronic device). This is an additional security step. This arrangement puts responsibility on authorizing electronically-made requests to the person or people who can make the authorization. In this way, it is very clear to the person or people that a fraudulent electronic request has been made.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the method described, widely known as phishing, is only one way in which a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack can be perpetrated. Many variants or similar attacks are possible, for example: placing Trojan code on a customer PC, corrupting a user host file, keylogging, setting up a rogue Wi-Fi access point or gaining access to a Domain Name Server (DNS), among others.

We are happy to announce that our patent application has now been granted. Patent number HK1177070

In one embodiment of the present invention, a centralized alarm method is provided for temporarily blocking electronic activities and collecting further authorization before deciding whether to conduct or abort the original activities, the method comprising: receiving, from a reliable source, a description of an activity which is currently paused, waiting for the authorization of one or more users enrolled in the program; receiving, in addition, the minimum number of endorsements required from the intended recipients, a period of time delimiting the valid interval to cast a vote on the action, and the proper channels to communicate the final resolution back to the source; dispatching a notification of the alarm to each of the intended recipients and accepting their votes upon proper authentication of their identities; offering to the recipients the possibility to veto the action, as a technique to report and immediately abort a fraudulent activity; computing the votes supplied and determining the resolution of the poll, whether by reaching a verdict or by means of time exhaustion; informing the source about the authoritative decision on whether to proceed or to abort the current activity;

An auto-response mechanism may be provided to automatically cast a vote on behalf of a requested recipient according to certain rules, the configuration stated by the user in his or her profile and the characteristics of the current activity.

In one embodiment of the present invention, a centralized alarm method is provided for temporarily blocking electronic activities and collecting further authorization before deciding whether to conduct or abort the original activities, the method comprising: receiving, from a reliable source, a description of an activity which is currently paused, waiting for the authorization of one or more users enrolled in the program; receiving, in addition, the minimum number of endorsements required from the intended recipients, a period of time delimiting the valid interval to cast a vote on the action, and the proper channels to communicate the final resolution back to the source; dispatching a notification of the alarm to each of the intended recipients and accepting their votes upon proper authentication of their identities; offering to the recipients the possibility to veto the action, as a technique to report and immediately abort a fraudulent activity; computing the votes supplied and determining the resolution of the poll, whether by reaching a verdict or by means of time exhaustion; informing the source about the authoritative decision on whether to proceed or to abort the current activity;