Patents by Inventor Blair Brewster

Blair Brewster 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: 10290238
    Abstract: A sign clip for a chain link fence includes a planar surface having a front surface and a back surface, the planar surface defining therethrough at least two holes of different diameters, wherein the planar surface loops back over the front surface on a first end and forms a first channel extending from the front surface, and wherein the planar surface loops perpendicular to the planar surface on a second end and forms a second channel extending perpendicular from the back surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SmartSign LLC
    Inventors: John Mitchell, Blair Brewster, Jeff Boser
  • Patent number: 8719171
    Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy Eugene Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F. Rose
  • Patent number: 8700535
    Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U Malviarachchi, Kumar B Parambir, Yevgeniy Eugene Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F Rose, III
  • Publication number: 20100281253
    Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F. Rose, III
  • Patent number: 7774830
    Abstract: An access control policy engine associated with a resource determines whether to allow a request to access same. The engine receives the request with an security token, retrieves the token determines a type thereof, and maps access decision information in the token to a common format as at least one security claim setting forth adequate information to determine a right of the requestor. Thereafter, the engine retrieves a set of rules for accessing the resource, applies the rules to the security claims to determine whether to allow the request from the requestor, and if the request is to be allowed, provides the requestor access to the resource in accordance with the request and the rights of the requestor as determined based on the security claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Blair Brewster Dillaway, John L. Manferdelli, Shawn Martin Woods
  • Patent number: 7770206
    Abstract: A resource of a first organization provides access thereto to a requestor of a second organization. A first administrator of the first organization issues a first credential to a second administrator of the second organization, including policy that the second administrator may issue a second credential to the requestor on behalf of the first administrator. The second administrator issues the second credential to the requester, including the issued first credential. The requestor requests access from the resource and includes the issued first and second credentials. The resource validates that the issued first credential ties the first administrator to the second administrator, and that the issued second credential ties the second administrator to the requester. The resource thus knows that the request is based on rights delegated from the first administrator to the requester by way of the second administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Blair Brewster Dillaway, Brian LaMacchia, Muthukrishnan Paramasivam, Charles F. Rose, III, Ravindra Nath Pandya
  • Patent number: 7549051
    Abstract: A digital certificate is employed to produce a digital signature for a digital construct. In the digital certificate is set forth a certificate validity period defining for the digital certificate a time period during which the digital certificate is to be honored as valid for producing digital signatures, and a signature validity period defining for each digital signature produced based on the digital certificate a time period during which the digital signature is to be honored as valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Blair Brewster Dillaway, Brian LaMacchia, John Manferdelli, Muthukrishnan Paramasivam
  • Patent number: 7543140
    Abstract: A digital certificate identifies an entity as having authority over the certificate to revoke same as delegated by the issuer. The certificate also has at least one revocation condition relating to possible revocation of the certificate. To authenticate the certificate, the identification of the delegated revocation authority, a location from which a revocation list is to be obtained, and any freshness requirement to be applied to the revocation list are determined from the certificate. It is then ensured that the revocation list from the location is present and that the present revocation list satisfies the freshness requirement, that the revocation list is promulgated by the delegated revocation authority identified in the certificate, and that the certificate is not identified in the revocation list as being revoked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Blair Brewster Dillaway, Philip Lafornara, Brian A. LaMacchia, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, John L. Manferdelli, Charles F. Rose, III
  • Publication number: 20080215896
    Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F. Rose
  • Patent number: 7370212
    Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F. Rose, III
  • Patent number: 7269702
    Abstract: A trusted data store is provided for use with a trusted element of a trusted operating system on a computing machine. In the trusted data store, a storage medium stores data in a pre-determined arrangement, where the data includes trusted data from the trusted element of the trusted operating system on the computing machine. An access controller writes data to and reads data from the storage medium, and a trust controller is interposed between the computing machine and the access controller. The trust controller allows only the trusted element to perform operations on the trusted data thereof on the storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan Mark Willman, Paul England, Keith Kaplan, Alan Stuart Geller, Brian A. LaMacchia, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Marcus Peinado, Michael Alfred Aday, Selena Wilson
  • Publication number: 20040250036
    Abstract: A trusted data store is provided for use with a trusted element of a trusted operating system on a computing machine. In the trusted data store, a storage medium stores data in a pre-determined arrangement, where the data includes trusted data from the trusted element of the trusted operating system on the computing machine. An access controller writes data to and reads data from the storage medium, and a trust controller is interposed between the computing machine and the access controller. The trust controller allows only the trusted element to perform operations on the trusted data thereof on the storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Bryan Mark Willman, Paul England, Keith Kaplan, Alan Stuart Geller, Brian A. LaMacchia, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Marcus Peinado, Michael Alfred Aday, Selena Wilson
  • Publication number: 20040168073
    Abstract: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so publish the digital content and to so issue the publisher license.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Bourne, Blair Brewster Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Charles F. Rose,
  • Publication number: 20040168056
    Abstract: A digital certificate identifies an entity as having authority over the certificate to revoke same as delegated by the issuer. The certificate also has at least one revocation condition relating to possible revocation of the certificate. To authenticate the certificate, the identification of the delegated revocation authority, a location from which a revocation list is to be obtained, and any freshness requirement to be applied to the revocation list are determined from the certificate. It is then ensured that the revocation list from the location is present and that the present revocation list satisfies the freshness requirement, that the revocation list is promulgated by the delegated revocation authority identified in the certificate, and that the certificate is not identified in the revocation list as being revoked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Blair Brewster Dillaway, Philip Lafornara, Brian A. LaMacchia, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, John L. Manferdelli, Charles F. Rose