128 Bit Secure Sockets Layer: “SSL” is the standard Internet protocol that uses a cryptographic system that employs two keys to encrypt data - a public key known to everyone to encrypt data, and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message to decrypt it. (SECURITY LEVEL #1). SSL is the standard encryption method employed by your online banking system.

Offered by most patent search vendors as “THE” security offering, we believe that SSL just isn’t good enough to protect your intellectual property. PatentCafe takes the extra step in security – currently, FOUR more steps than any other patent search tools provider:

But did you know that LSA also delivers another level in search security that the Boolean patent search engine can’t provide? Using a proprietary LSA algorithm, your search query text is encrypted and converted into a mathematical vector that only PatentCafe’s patent database can read (SECURITY LEVEL #2). LSA then compares your unique search vector against all patent vectors in our database. Unlike Boolean keyword engines, your search queries are not human-readable, and every search query is encrypted differently.

Each time you open a new case or update a case, your application title, claims text and specifications text are all encrypted using a key unique to you (SECURITY LEVEL #4). This encryption algorithm is also another FIPs standard.

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