Patents by Inventor Thomas Prest

Thomas Prest has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240048385
    Abstract: A method includes, at a first communications device: processing encapsulation keys of a plurality of second communications devices using an encapsulation function to generate a symmetric key, an authenticable token, and a ciphertext; and transmitting, to each of the second communications devices, the token and a respective portion of the ciphertext depending on the respective encapsulation key of that second communications device. The token is a cryptographic commitment of the symmetric key, and the ciphertext is a multi-recipient encapsulation of the symmetric key under the encapsulation keys of the second communications devices. The method further includes, at each second communications device: processing the respective decapsulation key and the respective portion of the ciphertext using a decapsulation function to generate a respective candidate copy of the symmetric key; authenticating the token, whereby to determine that the respective candidate copy of the symmetric key corresponds to the symmetric key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas PREST, Shuichi KATSUMATA
  • Publication number: 20230224281
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are method and systems for transmitting a plurality of ciphertexts to a plurality of users. The systems and methods described herein provide for performing an encryption update comprising a plurality of encryption keys and a multi-ciphertext to a plurality of recipient nodes. Methods and systems for organizing a database are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Prest, Shuichi Katsumata, Kris Kwiatkowski
  • Patent number: 11635952
    Abstract: Certain examples described herein relate to secure update propagation. The examples present systems and methods to transmit data in the form of updates over a network and to ensure the authenticity of the updates. The examples use a set-homomorphic digital signature scheme to sign updates such that a combined digital signature may be used to verify a batch of updates in place of a set of individual digital signatures. The combined digital signature may be generated by aggregating individual digital signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PQShield Ltd
    Inventors: Shuichi Katsumata, Thomas Prest
  • Publication number: 20220294611
    Abstract: A key generation method is provided. A first peer obtains an ephemeral key from a second peer via a server. The first peer uses the ephemeral key to compute a ciphertext that encrypts a first parameter. The first peer uses the first parameter to generate a session key. The ciphertext is sent to the server by the first peer to allow the second peer to generate the session key. The key may be subsequently used for communication, such as by using a key management algorithm such as Double Rachet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Shuichi KATSUMATA, Thomas PREST
  • Publication number: 20210216300
    Abstract: Certain examples described herein relate to secure update propagation. The examples present systems and methods to transmit data in the form of updates over a network and to ensure the authenticity of the updates. The examples use a set-homomorphic digital signature scheme to sign updates such that a combined digital signature may be used to verify a batch of updates in place of a set of individual digital signatures. The combined digital signature may be generated by aggregating individual digital signatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Shuichi Katsumata, Thomas Prest
  • Patent number: 7705217
    Abstract: Basically, this invention provides for an inbred corn line designated G07-NPFF6309, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line G07-NPFF6309 with plants of another corn plants. The invention relates to the various parts of inbred including culturable cells. This invention also relates to methods for introducing transgenic transgenes into inbred corn line G07-NPFF6309 and plants produced by said methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Thomas Prest