Patents by Inventor Walter Mason

Walter Mason 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).

  • Patent number: 7506155
    Abstract: A network is protected from e-mail viruses through the use of a sacrificial server. Any executable programs or other suspicious parts of incoming e-mail messages are forwarded to a sacrificial server, where they are converted to non-executable format such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and sent to the recipient. The sacrificial server is then checked for virus activity. After the execution is completed, the sacrificial server is rebooted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Gatekeeper LLC
    Inventors: Walter Mason Stewart, Marcelo Carrera, Robert G. Hook
  • Publication number: 20080229416
    Abstract: A network is protected from viruses through the use of a sacrificial server, which may be physical or virtual. Any executable programs or other suspicious parts of incoming e-mail messages are forwarded to a sacrificial server, where they are converted to non-executable format such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and sent to the recipient. The sacrificial server is then checked for virus activity. After the execution is completed, the sacrificial server is rebooted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: G. K. Webb Services LLC
    Inventors: Walter Mason Stewart, Marcelo Carrera, Robert G. Hook, Ronald Rust, Charles Shotton
  • Publication number: 20080090034
    Abstract: A colored glass frit with a specific surface area of less than 2 square meters per gram that contains from about 1 to about 80 weight percent of metallic element material and from about 30 to about 80 mole percent of glassy network forming oxide material. The frit has a transmission density per micron of thickness of at least about 0.1; when formed into a continuous film of 3 microns thickness and deposited onto a glass substrate, its transmission density is at least 0.3. The glassy network forming oxide material is homogeneously disposed in the flit, and the metallic element material is inhomogeneously dispersed within the glassy network forming oxide material. The metallic element material is in particulate form and has a particle size distribution such that at least 95 weight percent of its particles are smaller than 300 nanometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Daniel Harrison, Pamela Geddes, Bernard Balling, William La Course, Walter Mason
  • Patent number: 6901519
    Abstract: A network is protected from e-mail viruses through the use of a sacrificial server. Any executable programs or other suspicious parts of incoming e-mail messages are forwarded to a sacrificial server, where they are converted to non-executable format such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and sent to the recipient. The sacrificial server is then checked for virus activity. After the execution is completed, the sacrificial server is rebooted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Infobahn, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Mason Stewart, Marcelo Carrera, Robert G. Hook