Patents Assigned to Open Invention Network, LLC
  • Patent number: 9335173
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable storage medium, in one embodiment, associating at least one wireless device and at least one user, requesting audio information from at least one remote source by the at least one wireless device, receiving the audio information from the remote source, broadcasting an audio identifier to the at least one wireless device, using the audio information, authenticating the association between the at least one wireless device and at least one transport, based on the audio information, determining at least one characteristic of the at least one user based on at least one of at least one user search history and at least one user preference selection and determining at least one probable route of the at least one transport based on the at least one characteristic and at least one of at least one route history and at least one input destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 9338188
    Abstract: A client-side user agent operates in conjunction with an identity selector to institute and exercise privacy control management over user identities managed by the identity selector. The user agent includes the combination of a privacy enforcement engine, a storage of rulesets expressing user privacy preferences, and a preference editor. The editor enables the user to direct the composition of privacy preferences relative to user identities. The preferences can be applied to individual cards and to categorized groups of attributes. The engine evaluates the proper rulesets against the privacy policy of a service provider. The privacy preferences used by the engine are determined on the basis of specifications in a security policy indicating the attribute requirements for claims that purport to satisfy the security policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Gail-Joon Ahn
  • Patent number: 9336045
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing application isolation to one or more applications and their associated resources. The system may include one or more isolated environments including application files and executables, and one or more interception layers intercepting access to system resources and interfaces. Further, the system may include an interception database maintaining mapping between the system resources inside the one or more isolated environments and outside, and a host operating system. The one or more applications may be isolated from other applications and the host operating system while running within the one or more isolated environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 9335894
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of providing a touch sensitive interface to multiple users is disclosed. Example may include a method and apparatus to create a user menu option that a user may select to operate a particular application. The method may include determining an event has occurred based on a user selection operation and storing the occurrence of the event in memory, and determining the user's last command executed and storing the last command in the memory. Further operations may include identifying a sequence of events stored in the memory that match the user's last command executed and providing the menu option to the user based on the identified sequence of events stored in the memory, and prompting the use to select the menu option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Farid Khafizov, Margarita Khafizova
  • Patent number: 9336009
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relates to processing functionality of a Configuration Manager Computer Association Tool (CMCA) to an Operating System Deployment (OSD) computer association process. The disclosure includes processing the Operating System Deployment (OSD) functionality of a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to configure a server, wherein the OSD causes the server to a Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE Boot). The SCCM may be launched for the PXE boot process to be associated with the server and configure the SCCM to associate with a specific OSD Task Sequence. Boot from a Network Interface Card (NIC) that has an associated MAC address, using the PXE, wherein the PXE boot process then hands the operation over to the designated OSD Task Sequencer (TS) which handles the configuration process according to at least one variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Colin Lee Feeser, Robert Moore Gilbert, Richard A. Paul, Jr., Robert Keith Cahoon
  • Patent number: 9323623
    Abstract: A method and system of checkpointing single process application groups and multi-process application groups. In an exemplary embodiment, the method may include creating at least one full checkpoint for each application in an application group, and creating at least one incremental application checkpoint for each application in the application group. Further, each of the at least one incremental application checkpoint may be automatically merged against a corresponding full application checkpoint. Further, checkpointing may be synchronized across all applications in the application group. In the exemplary embodiment, each application may use both fork( ) and exec( ) in any combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 9325559
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of adding thin client functionality are disclosed. One example method provides generating a call function directed to an electronic device and at least one peripheral device. The method also includes redirecting the call function to an auxiliary device, extracting payload data from information sent to the at least one peripheral device, discarding values outside a previously negotiated range from the extracted payload data, performing at least one of incrementing and decrementing the remaining values of the payload data to create a data subset, and redirecting the data subset to at least one other peripheral device resulting in output information being sent to the at least one other peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Martin Wieland
  • Patent number: 9323914
    Abstract: A portable data or information carrier in the form of a smart card with partially or fully virtualized components. To maximize the confidentiality of information stored in the carrier, and more specifically to limit the amount of information available to a potential defrauder, electronic components such as circuits, I/O, cryptographic, memory and dummy objects are built, modified or influenced on demand from physical characteristics of an eligible person or device. Digitized unique biometric or hardware identifiers are read upon start-up and runtime of the device and, in case of an eligible person or device, subsequently supply all values necessary for determination of the characteristics of the user specific virtual smart cards objects, their placement and connections. By multi-factor authentication, the end-user or device will retain sole control of its keys and use them for authentication, signature or encryption purposes as if he had a physical smart card in his hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Martin Wieland
  • Patent number: 9317717
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that processes data. During operation, the system uses a first key to protect a write operation on the data. Next, the system uses a second key to protect a read operation on the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey G. Thomas, John Whaley, Thomas Joseph Purtell, II
  • Patent number: 9311104
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relates to processing managing an operating system to set up a computer association tool. The technique includes processing an Operating System Deployment (OSD) functionality of a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to configure a server, wherein the OSD causes the server to a Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE Boot). The SCCM may be launched for the PXE boot process to be associated with the server and configuring the SCCM to associate with a specific OSD Task Sequence. Boot from a Network Interface Card (NIC) that has an associated MAC address, using the PXE, wherein the PXE boot process then hands the operation over to the designated OSD Task Sequencer (TS) which handles the configuration process according to at least one variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Colin Lee Feeser, Robert Moore Gilbert, Richard A. Paul, Jr., Robert Keith Cahoon
  • Patent number: 9313167
    Abstract: The embodiments describe an apparatus for accessing a remote object. The apparatus includes a transceiver. The transceiver is configured to transmit a Domain Name Service request of the remote object to a Domain Name Service server and receive a Domain Name Service response comprising an Internet Protocol of the remote object. The transceiver is further configured to connect to the Internet Protocol of the remote object based on the Domain Name Service response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: William Charles Easttom, II
  • Patent number: 9313623
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method of communicating with a user of a wireless device and processing message delivery. One example method of operation may include identifying a group of participants to receive a broadcast message transmitted from a wireless device, transmitting at least one broadcast message from the wireless device to a plurality of computing devices corresponding to the group of participants, receiving a plurality of response messages responsive to the at least one transmitted broadcast message, examining the plurality of response messages and extracting content of the plurality of response messages, generating a summary message based on the extracted content of the plurality of response messages, the summary message comprising portions from all of the plurality of response messages and also comprising information unique to each of the plurality of response messages, and displaying the summary message on a display interface of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 9304869
    Abstract: A computer readable medium and method providing checkpointing to Windows application groups, the computer readable medium having computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. The computer-executable instructions may be for launching an application and creating one or more application threads, receiving a checkpoint signal by an application thread, and entering a checkpoint Asynchronous Procedure Call (APC) handler at IRQL APC_LEVEL, the APC handler disposed in a kernel module, acquiring an ETHREAD block and user-mode context for the application thread, and examining an execution state of the one or more application threads at a time of the checkpoint signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Richard Backensto, Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 9304601
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium that facilitate software configuration of assistive computer devices by automatically assessing a user's capabilities through questions and tasks are provided. The analysis results of the user's capabilities are then available to assistive computer software applications which may subsequently update their interfaces accordingly. A mapping mechanism from an external input device into a target software application is facilitated for software applications that do not include assistive technology features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Kevin Usey
  • Patent number: 9300619
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for dynamically providing web-based multimedia to a mobile phone are described. According to one embodiment, an RSS feed is received that references multimedia files meeting one or more criteria. A playlist is generated dynamically from the multimedia files. The playlist is a single virtual multimedia file. An updated RSS feed is received that references one or more additional multimedia files meeting the one or more criteria. A second playlist is generated dynamically from the multimedia files and the one or more additional multimedia files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Scirocco Michelle Six, Sterling Mace, Rajeev Raman, Stephen Mui, Jason Fisher
  • Patent number: 9292455
    Abstract: A peripheral device connected to a local electronic device which is connected to at least one communication network can communicate with a peripheral device attached to a remote electronic device as if the remote peripheral device was locally attached. Data designated for the remote peripheral device is received by a local virtual device object and transmitted to the remote electronic device via at least one of the electronic devices communication interfaces or peripheral devices. Data received by the remote electronic device's communication interface or peripheral device is written to the peripheral device at the remote electronic device by a virtual device object. For compensation of different transfer speeds or outages between the peripheral device and the communication interface or another peripheral device the virtual device provides the ability to utilize the virtual devices emulation driver that is attached to the virtual device object as an I/O buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Martin Wieland
  • Patent number: 9292851
    Abstract: A system and method of obtaining and storing a signed agreement authorizing the use of a user's biometric data for the purpose of offering legal consent to agreements and transactions with one or more operators. The present invention imparts a process by which merchants and other service providers can access a verifying agreement indicating a user's intent to submit biometric data as a substitute for a written signature and the user's consent to abide by the terms and conditions of any agreements entered into by the submission of biometric data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy L. Robinson, Bradford R. Schildt, Tennille V. Goff, Daniel J. Corwin, Timothy Neil Watson
  • Patent number: 9294481
    Abstract: This invention is a method and system for tokenless biometric authorization of an electronic communication, using a biometric sample, a master electronic identicator, and a public communications network, wherein the method includes: an electronic communication formation step, wherein at least one communication comprising electronic data is formed; a user registration step, wherein a user electronically submits a registration biometric sample taken directly from the person of the user; a public network data transmittal step, wherein the registration biometric sample is electronically transmitted to a master electronic identicator via a public communications network, said master electronic identicator comprising a computer database which electronically stores all of the registration biometric samples from all of the registered users; a user registration biometric storage step, wherein the registration biometric sample is electronically stored within the master electronic identicator; a bid biometric transmittal
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Ned Hoffman
  • Patent number: 9286109
    Abstract: A method and system of checkpointing multi-threaded applications, and multi-process application groups on WINDOWS® operating systems. In an exemplary embodiment, the method may include creating at least one full checkpoint for each application in an application group, and creating at least one incremental application checkpoint for each application in the application group. Further, each of the at least one incremental application checkpoint may be automatically merged against a corresponding full application checkpoint. Further, checkpointing may be synchronized across all applications in the application group. Further, checkpointing may be configured to perform live migration. In the exemplary embodiment, checkpoints are triggered asynchronously using Asynchronous Procedure Calls (APC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Richard Backensto, Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 9280481
    Abstract: In order to optimize efficiency of deserialization, a serialization cache is maintained at an object server. The serialization cache is maintained in conjunction with an object cache and stores serialized forms of objects cached within the object cache. When an inbound request is received, a serialized object received in the request is compared to the serialization cache. If the serialized byte stream is present in the serialization cache, then the equivalent object is retrieved from the object cache, thereby avoiding deserialization of the received serialized object. If the serialized byte stream is not present in the serialization cache, then the serialized byte stream is deserialized, the deserialized object is cached in the object cache, and the serialized object is cached in the serialization cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLC
    Inventors: Deren George Ebdon, Robert W. Peterson