Patents by Inventor Alain Mayer

Alain Mayer 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: 12056976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a secure container for storing value documents, e.g. banknotes, having respective value document identification numbers marked thereon, and a corresponding securing system that, upon detection of an intrusion, neutralizes the value documents and delivers in real time over a communication network an alert message containing at least the value document identification numbers to authorities and/or ATMs or carrier, and prevents any transaction based on said neutralized value documents via said ATMs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Raynald Demange, Alain Mayer, Kalin Nicolov, Bart Suichies, Christine Reinhard
  • Publication number: 20230360460
    Abstract: The invention relates to a secure container for storing value documents, e.g. banknotes, having respective value document identification numbers marked thereon, and a corresponding securing system that, upon detection of an intrusion, neutralizes the value documents and delivers in real time over a communication network an alert message containing at least the value document identification numbers to authorities and/or ATMs or carrier, and prevents any transaction based on said neutralized value documents via said ATMs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Raynald DEMANGE, Alain MAYER, Kalin NICOLOV, Bart SUICHIES, Christine REINHARD
  • Publication number: 20230118679
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for categorizing and visualizing web domain details. In implementations, one or more processors are configured to automatically determine domain variants, using a provided seed domain, based on a level of similarity with the seed domain. The one or more processors may be configured to categorize the domain variants into a plurality of categories. One or more servers may be communicatively coupled with one or more computing devices and may be configured to provide one or more user interfaces for display on the one or more computing devices. The one or more user interfaces may include a visual display of the categories and, for each category, an indicator indicating a total number of the domain variants within that category. Implementations may include training a machine learning module to automatically determine the domain variants and to categorize the domain variants into the plurality of categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Alain Mayer, Abhishek Dubey, Shashi Prakash, Abhilash Garimella
  • Patent number: 11298966
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thin optical security element comprising a reflective or refractive light-redirecting surface having a relief pattern operable to redirect incident light from a light source and form a projected image on a projection surface, the projected image comprising a caustic pattern reproducing a reference pattern that is easily visually recognizable by a person. The invention also relates to a method for designing a relief pattern of a light-redirecting surface of a thin optical security element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Andrea Callegari, Pierre Degott, Todor Dinoev, Christophe Garnier, Alain Mayer, Yuliy Schwartzburg, Romain Testuz, Mark Pauly
  • Patent number: 11292283
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thin optical security element comprising a reflective or refractive light-redirecting surface having a relief pattern operable to redirect incident light from a light source and form a projected image on a projection surface, the optical parameters of this optical security element fulfilling a specific projection criterion such that the projected image comprises a caustic pattern reproducing a reference pattern that is easily visually recognizable by a person. The invention also relates to a method for designing a relief pattern of an optical security element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Andrea Callegari, Pierre Degott, Todor Dinoev, Christophe Garnier, Alain Mayer, Yuliy Schwartzburg, Romain Testuz, Mark Pauly
  • Publication number: 20200269627
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thin optical security element comprising a reflective or refractive light-redirecting surface having a relief pattern operable to redirect incident light from a light source and form a projected image on a projection surface, the projected image comprising a caustic pattern reproducing a reference pattern that is easily visually recognizable by a person. The invention also relates to a method for designing a relief pattern of a light-redirecting surface of a thin optical security element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Andrea CALLEGARI, Pierre DEGOTT, Todor DINOEV, Christophe GARNIER, Alain MAYER, Yuliy SCHWARTZBURG, Romain TESTUZ, Mark PAULY
  • Publication number: 20200230995
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thin optical security element comprising a reflective or refractive light-redirecting surface having a relief pattern operable to redirect incident light from a light source and form a projected image on a projection surface, the optical parameters of this optical security element fulfilling a specific projection criterion such that the projected image comprises a caustic pattern reproducing a reference pattern that is easily visually recognizable by a person. The invention also relates to a method for designing a relief pattern of an optical security element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Andrea CALLEGARI, Pierre DEGOTT, Todor DINOEV, Christophe GARNIER, Alain MAYER, Yuliy SCHWARTZBURG, Romain TESTUZ, Mark PAULY
  • Patent number: 10391806
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the field of the protection of security documents, especially banknotes, against illegal actions such as robbery or theft. In particular, the present disclosure relates to the field of ink-stained documents that are resistant to chemicals. The disclosed security documents are covered on at least one side by from about 70% to about 90% of a protective varnish and have from about 10% to about 30% of one or more varnish-free areas with one or more varnish-free indentations, the percentages being based on the total surface of the one side of the security document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Raynald Demange, Patrick Veya, Alain Mayer, Pierre Degott
  • Publication number: 20150072117
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of the protection of security documents, especially banknotes, against illegal actions such as robbery or theft. In particular, the present invention relates to the field of ink-stained documents that are resistant to chemicals. The disclosed security documents are covered on at least one side by from about 70% to about 90% of a protective varnish and comprising from about 10% to about 30% of one or more varnish-free areas comprising one or more varnish-free indentations (I), the percents being based on the total surface of the one side of the security document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Raynald Demange, Patrick Veya, Alain Mayer, Pierre Degott
  • Publication number: 20060288409
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for managing a firewall. The disclosed firewall manager facilitates the generation of a security policy for a particular network environment, and automatically generates the firewall-specific configuration files from the security policy simultaneously for multiple gateways. The security policy is separated from the vendor-specific rule syntax and semantics and from the actual network topology. Thus, the security administrator can focus on designing an appropriate policy without worrying about firewall rule complexity, rule ordering, and other low-level configuration issues. In addition, the administrator can maintain a consistent policy in the presence of intranet topology changes. The disclosed firewall manager utilizes a model definition language (MDL) and an associated parser to produce an entity relationship model. A model compiler translates the entity-relationship model into the appropriate firewall configuration files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Yair Bartal, Alain Mayer, Avishai Wool
  • Publication number: 20060129672
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for analyzing a network configuration against a corporate network policy and determining violation(s) against the corporate network policy. A report indicating the violation(s) can be generated indicating instances of the violation(s). An analysis platform reads in a network policy. The analysis platform collects configuration files from the relevant network devices in the network and builds up an internal instance of a network configuration model based on the configuration files and the network topology. The analysis platform analyzes this network configuration model according to the network policy and adds an entry to its final report each time that it detects a violation against the network policy in the network configuration model. The data in the entries pinpoints the cause of the deviation(s) from the network policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: RedSeal Systems, Inc., a Corporation of Delaware
    Inventor: Alain Mayer
  • Publication number: 20060129670
    Abstract: A method for a computer system includes determining network devices within a network topology, wherein the network devices includes a first application server hosting a first application, receiving a policy for the network comprising requirements of a first application server including a description of a set of required network traffic, receiving a plurality of configuration files associated with the plurality of network devices, determining a network configuration model in response to the plurality of configuration files, computing network traffic on all network paths to and from the first application server to determine a plurality of computed paths, determining if the network traffic includes at least the set of required network traffic associated with the first server, and generating a report indicating whether the network traffic includes at least the set of required network traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: RedSeal Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alain Mayer
  • Patent number: 7016980
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for analyzing the operation of one or more network gateways, such as firewalls or routers, that perform a packet filtering function in a network environment. Given a user query, the disclosed firewall analysis tool simulates the behavior of the various firewalls, taking into account the topology of the network environment, and determines which portions of the services or machines specified in the original query would manage to reach from the source to the destination. The relevant packet-filtering configuration files are collected and an internal representation of the implied security policy is derived. A graph data structure is used to represent the network topology. A gateway-zone graph permits the firewall analysis tool to determine where given packets will travel in the network, and which gateways will be encountered along those paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Alain Mayer, Avishai Wool, Elisha Ziskind
  • Patent number: 5682691
    Abstract: The wall-mountable ironing board for use with an ironing cloth comprises a top panel provided with a peripheral flange defining a housing underneath and a bottom panel sized to closely fit into the housing of the top panel, whereby the ironing cloth skirting the top panel is clampable between the top and bottom panel. The rear end of the top panel is pivotally secured to a wall such that the ironing board is pivotable between a service position and a storage position. The ironing board is also provided with a support member secured under the board for maintaining the ironing board in a service position and a locker for maintaining the ironing board in a storage position. The ironing board according to the present invention allows to easily clamp and hide the hanging skirt of an ironing cloth between the top and bottom panel of the ironing board. Thereby, the ironing board is aesthetically advantageous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Inventors: Alain Mayer, Suzanne Laflamme