Patents by Inventor Aaron Dale Sanders
Aaron Dale Sanders 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).
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Patent number: 10003971Abstract: Techniques for obtaining compartmentalized authenticated access to a feature on an electronic mobile device comprising a camera are presented. The techniques may include obtaining data representing a printable authentication pattern, wherein the printable authentication pattern encodes access information, storing in electronic persistent memory the access information in association with data representing the feature, receiving, at the mobile telephone, a user request to access the feature, capturing, using a camera of the mobile device, an image of an input pattern printed on to a substrate, decoding the input pattern to obtain captured information, determining, by retrieving the access information, that the captured information matches the access information, and providing access to the feature on the mobile device as a consequence of at least the determining.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventor: Aaron Dale Sanders
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Publication number: 20180007549Abstract: Techniques for obtaining compartmentalized authenticated access to a feature on an electronic mobile device comprising a camera are presented. The techniques may include obtaining data representing a printable authentication pattern, wherein the printable authentication pattern encodes access information, storing in electronic persistent memory the access information in association with data representing the feature, receiving, at the mobile telephone, a user request to access the feature, capturing, using a camera of the mobile device, an image of an input pattern printed on to a substrate, decoding the input pattern to obtain captured information, determining, by retrieving the access information, that the captured information matches the access information, and providing access to the feature on the mobile device as a consequence of at least the determining.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventor: Aaron Dale SANDERS
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Patent number: 9536438Abstract: A reading device, such as a mobile tablet, may download an electronic reading material, such as a textbook, to local memory. The reading device may store a reader profile representing one or more aspects of a user's reading ability. The reading device may convert the downloaded reading material using the reader profile to better conform to the user's reading ability. As the user reads reading materials using the reading device, the user may provide feedback as to portions of text in the reading materials, including whether a word is not recognized, whether a grammatical construction is confusing, etc. Using the received feedback, the reading device may modify the reading profile to further improve the degree to which it represents the user's reading ability. Once modified, the reader profile may be used to re-convert already downloaded reading materials or to convert subsequently downloaded reading materials.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Aaron Dale Sanders, Erika Marie Sanders
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Patent number: 9113299Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for automatically configuring a mobile endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method stores one or more pre-defined configuration settings for the mobile endpoint device, receives a location of the mobile endpoint device, identifies a location characteristic of the location of the mobile endpoint device and configures the mobile endpoint device with one of the one or more pre-defined configuration settings based upon the location and the location characteristic of the mobile endpoint device.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Aaron Dale Sanders
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Patent number: 9094450Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for configuring a virus detection of a plurality of network elements in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method monitors an attribute of each one of the plurality of network elements, detects the attribute of one or more of the plurality of network elements breaches at least one respective threshold, configures each one of the one or more of the plurality of network elements to reduce a number of virus detection processes of the virus detection in accordance with a respective type of network element and resumes a normal virus detection for each one of the one or more of the plurality of network elements when the attribute of a respective one of the one or more network elements does not breach the respective threshold.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Aaron Dale Sanders
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Publication number: 20150128276Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for configuring a virus detection of a plurality of network elements in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method monitors an attribute of each one of the plurality of network elements, detects the attribute of one or more of the plurality of network elements breaches at least one respective threshold, configures each one of the one or more of the plurality of network elements to reduce a number of virus detection processes of the virus detection in accordance with a respective type of network element and resumes a normal virus detection for each one of the one or more of the plurality of network elements when the attribute of a respective one of the one or more network elements does not breach the respective threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventor: AARON DALE SANDERS
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Patent number: 8910274Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing a multi-factor authentication scheme utilizing barcode images in computing devices, such as standard mobile devices and smartphones having no native hardware support for reading barcodes other than standard digital camera componentry for capturing digital images of real-world phenomena. A mobile device may be configured by software to require a user, as a first authentication factor, to present a barcode, such as a Quick Response (QR) Code for image scanning using digital camera componentry built into the mobile device. The device analyzes the digital image of the barcode to decode the barcode into its encoded character data. If the device recognizes the character data as valid, then, as a second authentication factor, the device prompts the user to enter a valid password associated with the barcode. If the user-entered barcode is also valid, then the device may grant the user access.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Aaron Dale Sanders
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Publication number: 20140342714Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for automatically configuring a mobile endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method stores one or more pre-defined configuration settings for the mobile endpoint device, receives a location of the mobile endpoint device, identifies a location characteristic of the location of the mobile endpoint device and configures the mobile endpoint device with one of the one or more pre-defined configuration settings based upon the location and the location characteristic of the mobile endpoint device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventor: AARON DALE SANDERS
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Publication number: 20130309640Abstract: A reading device, such as a mobile tablet, may download an electronic reading material, such as a textbook, to local memory. The reading device may store a reader profile representing one or more aspects of a user's reading ability. The reading device may convert the downloaded reading material using the reader profile to better conform to the user's reading ability. As the user reads reading materials using the reading device, the user may provide feedback as to portions of text in the reading materials, including whether a word is not recognized, whether a grammatical construction is confusing, etc. Using the received feedback, the reading device may modify the reading profile to further improve the degree to which it represents the user's reading ability. Once modified, the reader profile may be used to re-convert already downloaded reading materials or to convert subsequently downloaded reading materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Aaron Dale Sanders, Erika Marie Sanders
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Publication number: 20130031623Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing a multi-factor authentication scheme utilizing barcode images in computing devices, such as standard mobile devices and smartphones having no native hardware support for reading barcodes other than standard digital camera componentry for capturing digital images of real-world phenomena. A mobile device may be configured by software to require a user, as a first authentication factor, to present a barcode, such as a Quick Response (QR) Code for image scanning using digital camera componentry built into the mobile device. The device analyzes the digital image of the barcode to decode the barcode into its encoded character data. If the device recognizes the character data as valid, then, as a second authentication factor, the device prompts the user to enter a valid password associated with the barcode. If the user-entered barcode is also valid, then the device may grant the user access.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventor: Aaron Dale Sanders