To provide a system and a method for managing safe transactions and protecting electronic rights.
Electronic equipment such as a computer is surely accessed and used only in an approved form, and helps to maintain completeness, usability and/or confidentiality of information. A safe sub-system used together with such electronic equipment, provides, for example, a distributed virtual distribution environment VDE capable of performing a safe chain of processing and control, for controlling and/or weighing or monitoring use of electronically stored and/or spread information. Such a virtual distribution environment can be used for protecting various participant rights in electronic commerce and the other electronic treatment or electronically facilitated treatment. A safe distribute and other operation system environment and an architecture, use, for example, safe semiconductor processing arrangement capable of establishing a safe protective environment in respective nodes.
SHEAR VICTOR H
SPAHN FRANCIS J
VAN WIE DAVID M
Jun Tsuruta
Shimichi Akihisa
Masaya Nishiyama
Higuchi Souji