Patents Assigned to Open Invention Networks
  • Method and apparatus of performing data executable integrity verification
    Patent number: 9405907
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method of verifying an application installation procedure. One example method of operation may include receiving an application at a computer device and initiating the installation of the application on the computer device. The method may also provide executing the application during the installation procedure and creating a hash value corresponding to the executed application data. The method may further provide storing the hash value in memory and comparing the hash value to a pre-stored hash value to determine whether to continue the installation of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: William Charles Easttom
  • Interconnection of peripheral devices on different electronic devices
    Patent number: 9396147
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of performing a data transmission from an electronic device or a peripheral device of an electronic device to a peripheral device of a remote electronic device is disclosed. One example method of performing the data transmission may include transmitting data designated for the remote peripheral device to a local virtual device object. The data that is received by the local virtual device object is transmitted via at least one communication interface or peripheral device of the electronic device to at least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device. The data arriving at the least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device is received by a remote virtual device object and transmitted to the designated remote peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Martin Wieland
  • Protecting data in insecure cloud storage
    Patent number: 9390281
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that processes data. The system includes a first client that encrypts a first set of data, uploads the encrypted first set of data to a volume on a cloud storage system, and creates a commit record of the upload. The system also includes a synchronization server that verifies access to the volume by the first client and includes the commit record in a change set containing a set of commit records associated with the volume. The synchronization server also signs the change set and provides the change set for use in synchronizing the upload with a second client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: John Whaley, Thomas Joseph Purtell, II, Geoffrey G. Thomas
  • Systems and methods for setting up a session in a collaborative communication system
    Patent number: 9391786
    Abstract: A collaborative communication system comprises a highly flexible architecture that facilitates connecting communication devices and networks to establish multimedia collaboration sessions in a manner that allows distribution of various services and features throughout the collaborative communication system to provide scalability and selectable combination of cost, resource usage, and performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Jones, Todd Vernon, Emmanuel Puentes, Charles Wanek, William Marcum
  • Method and system for providing coordinated checkpointing to a group of independent computer applications
    Patent number: 9389959
    Abstract: A system and method thereof for performing loss-less migration of an application group. In an exemplary embodiment, the system may include a high-availability services module structured for execution in conjunction with an operating system, and one or more computer nodes of a distributed system upon which at least one independent application can be executed upon. The high-availability services module may be structured to be executable on the one or more computer nodes for loss-less migration of the one or more independent applications, and is operable to perform checkpointing of all state in a transport connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventors: Keith Richard Backensto, Allan Havemose
  • Systems and methods for setting up a collaborative communication system
    Patent number: 9392035
    Abstract: A collaborative communication system comprises a highly flexible architecture that facilitates connecting communication devices and networks to establish multimedia collaboration sessions in a manner that allows distribution of various services and features throughout the collaborative communication system to provide scalability and selectable combination of cost, resource usage, and performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Jones, Todd Vernon, Emmanuel Puentes, Charles Wanek, William Marcum
  • Method and apparatus of providing emergency communication services
    Patent number: 9386620
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical device and method of automatically searching for and connecting to known or unknown available public communication infrastructure and/or devices in the vicinity using a multi-layer communication model. Each layer may include binding information for local available communication methods and shareable hardware devices, a routing table, and, if applicable, one or more logon profiles for service providers. Communication layers may be built by searching for available public communication infrastructure and/or devices in the vicinity by actively sending out connection requests to all addressable destinations along the available transport medium. Each node is able to access and use the communication infrastructure of each other node. Switching between layers as they become inoperable and/or become available without any user interaction required is also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Martin Wieland
  • System and method for hierarchical interception with isolated environments
    Patent number: 9384347
    Abstract: A system, method, computer program, and/or computer readable medium for providing hierarchical interception for applications within isolated environments The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. The computer-executable instructions may be for installing interceptors, configuring interceptors, preloading shared libraries, using trampoline functions, removal of interceptors, mapping between resources inside and outside the isolated environment, providing an interception database, loading the interception database, redirection of resources, and providing the hierarchy of interceptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Providing a presentation on a network having a plurality of synchronized media types
    Patent number: 9383893
    Abstract: A presentation system and method is disclosed for presenting a presentation via a communications network. The presentation system includes one or more client nodes structured to receive presentation data. One or more leader stations of the presentation is structured to control content of the presentation data at the one or more client nodes, and one or more content server sites is structured to provide the presentation data to the one or more client nodes. The presentation system further includes one or more content managers structured to manage the delivery of the presentation data to the one or more content server sites and verify that the presentation data is operable to being presented at the one or more client nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Robert H. Ogdon, Frank E. Johnson
  • Systems and methods for identifying a set of characters in a media file
    Patent number: 9386256
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for notifying a user when a set of characters are identified in a media file. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a set of characters inputted by the user of a computing device, playing the media file, transcribing the media file to form a transcription, and determining whether the transcription of the media file includes the set of characters. The method also includes initiating a notification prompt on a graphical user interface of the computing device in response to determining that the media file includes the set of characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Margarita Khafizova
  • Method and apparatus of providing a customized user interface
    Patent number: 9383887
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of providing a user with a customized user interface is disclosed. One example may include generating a window display area based on at least one predefined user preference, and displaying the window display area in a specified location of the user. The method may also include prompting the user to select at least one particular application that may be associated with the window display area, and prompting the user to customize the window attributes by modifying the window display area. Other operations may include saving the customized window display area in a memory of a computing device once the user has completed the customizing of the window attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventors: Farid Khafizov, Margarita Khafizova
  • Providing information to a mobile device based on an event at a geographical location
    Patent number: 9380441
    Abstract: A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for receiving information about an event from at least one mobile device, the information comprising location information and event type information and identifying the event based on the information, the event being identified by associating the event type information with a specific event and associating the location information with a particular location associated with the specific event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventors: James N. White, Monica Rose Martino, M. Gregory Smith
  • System and method for enrolling in a biometric system
    Patent number: 9378351
    Abstract: The present invention is a system and method of enrolling potential system users for a biometric system for identity verification. Potential system user information is entered into the system, either by the user or a system operator, and is stored as a partially-enabled user record. The user of a partially-enabled user record fully enables the record by presenting information previously stored in the user record and presenting the remainder of user information necessary to complete record activation. Enrollment data is used to authenticate the system user's identity and authorize related transaction accesses in a biometric system for identity verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy L. Robinson, Bradford R. Schildt, Tennille V. Goff, Mark B. Robinson
  • Systems and methods for synchronizing data between communication devices in a networked environment
    Patent number: 9380105
    Abstract: A source communication device comprises a cluster manager to group destination device connections into a plurality of performance clusters. The cluster manager then causes a synchronization mechanism to be generated for each performance cluster. Each synchronization cluster can then allow data to be optimally shared between the source device and destination devices within a given cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Jones, Todd Vernon, Jeffrey Kriese
  • System and method for on-line and off-line streaming application isolation
    Patent number: 9369358
    Abstract: Providing streaming of applications from streaming servers onto clients. The applications are contained within isolated environments, and the isolated environments are streamed from the servers onto clients. The system may include the option of running both in on-line and off-line. When on-line, the system may include authentication of the streaming servers and authentication of clients and credentialing of the isolated environments and applications the clients are configured to run. The system may further include encrypted communication between the streaming servers and the clients. When off-line, the system may include the ability to run already installed isolated environments without requiring credentialing. The system may further include a management interface where administrators may add, remove and configure isolated environments, configure client policies and credentials, and force upgrades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Remote access service inspector
    Patent number: 9369444
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for providing protected remote access from a remote access client to a remote access server over a computer network through a plurality of inspections. A remote access configuration file is created for the remote access client. A digital hash of the configuration file is then generated. The digital hash is compared with a configuration file stored at a predefined web location. If the comparison results in a match between the digital hash and the stored configuration file, a digital hash comparison is performed between an encrypted remote access configuration file and an encrypted configuration file stored at the predefined web location. If the plurality of inspections are passed, the remote access client is released from a quarantine state and a virtual private network (VPN) connection to the remote access server is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Colin Lee Feeser, Anthony W. Ondrus, Steven J. Sanders
  • Method of accessing files in electronic devices
    Patent number: 9367330
    Abstract: In a method for accessing files in an electronic device, a Random Access Memory (RAM) disk is set-up to store the file system root of the electronic device. At least one file system to be mounted is discovered in the electronic device. Mount points are established on the RAM disk for each file system. Drive identifiers are assigned for each file system. A file access request comprising a first file name path comprising a drive identifier is detected. The drive identifier is mapped to a mount point and a second file name path based on the mount point and the first file name path is formed. Thereupon, a file is accessed using the second file name path in the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Pirkka Puustinen
  • Method and apparatus for accessing a data source from a client using a driver
    Patent number: 9354950
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique to access a data source from a client using a driver. A data source name (DSN) is provided to connect to the data source using the driver. The driver is used to interface between the client and an implementation of a driver interface to access the data source based on the DSN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Marc Todd Yaeger
  • System and method for providing connectivity between two different networks using different protocols
    Patent number: 9357037
    Abstract: Providing message connectivity between a first network using a first protocol and a second network using a second protocol includes, if a message is received from the first network, the message is processed using one or more digital signal processors, a destination in the second network is determined, the processed message is logged and translated into the second protocol, and the translated message is sent to the destination in the second network. If the message is received from the second network, the message is translated into the first protocol, a destination in the first network is determined, the translated message is logged and processed using one or more digital signal processors, and the processed message is sent to the destination in the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin V. Nguyen, Monica Rose Martino
  • System and method for event-driven live migration of multi-process applications
    Patent number: 9355161
    Abstract: A system and method for event-driven live migration of applications between two or more servers. Primary applications runs on primary hosts and one or more replicated instances of each primary application run on one or more backup hosts. Event driven live migration is provided through a combination of process replication, logging, barrier synchronization, reliable messaging and message playback. The event driven live migration is transparent to the application and requires no modification to the application, operating system, networking stack or libraries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose