Patents by Inventor Brian A. Hope

Brian A. Hope 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: 11944696
    Abstract: A detergent product containing one or more active agents is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Gregory Charles Gordon, Frank William Denome, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Stephen Joseph Hodson, Brian Patrick Croll, John Gerhard Michael, Andreas Josef Dreher, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Patent number: 7644268
    Abstract: A system and method of automating the management of public and private key pairs of a sender and recipient of electronic messages over a network and for retrieving public keys of senders or recipients from secured servers, local key rings, PKI server, or Certificate Authority without requiring client-side software or user maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: GlobalCerts, LC
    Inventors: Adrian Filipi-Martin, Brian A. Hope
  • Patent number: 7305545
    Abstract: A system and method of automating the management of public and private key pairs of a sender and recipient of electronic messages over a network and for retrieving public keys of senders or recipients from secured servers, local key rings, PKI server, or Certificate Authority without requiring client-side software or user maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: GlobalCerts, LC
    Inventors: Adrian Filipi-Martin, Brian A. Hope
  • Publication number: 20070260872
    Abstract: A system and method of automating the management of public and private key pairs of a sender and recipient of electronic messages over a network and for retrieving public keys of senders or recipients from secured servers, local key rings, PKI server, or Certificate Authority without requiring client-side software or user maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Adrian Filipi-Martin, Brian Hope
  • Patent number: 7123722
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a distributed database system for storing and publishing public and private keys of an encryption system. Through the use of a distributed database network, keys can be stored, associated with member's accounts, published, retrieved and utilized automatically without the necessity of the individual member managing the public or private keys. The distributed eliminates the necessity of the public or private keys from being located at a single location allowed the flexibility for a multitude of user to manage public and private keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: GlobalCerts, LC
    Inventors: Adrian Filipi-Martin, Brian Hope
  • Patent number: 7120793
    Abstract: A system and method of verifying whether a certificate has been revoked by providing a DNS responder containing a certificate revocation list (CRL), parsing the CRL into DNS zones, and distributing this information to the respective primary DNS responders based upon DNS zones. Information about a specific certificate is gathered by querying a DNS responder for certificate validation information, receiving such information, and reporting the results of the queries to a client software application so that the user of the system can be informed as to whether the certificate has been revoked or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: GlobalCerts, LC
    Inventors: Brian A. Hope, Adrian Filipi-Martin, Michael Smith
  • Publication number: 20030154371
    Abstract: A system and method of automating the management of public and private key pairs of a sender and recipient of electronic messages over a network and for retrieving public keys of senders or recipients from secured servers, local key rings, PKI server, or Certificate Authority without requiring client-side software or user maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Adrian Filipi-Martin, Brian A. Hope
  • Publication number: 20030079125
    Abstract: A system and method of verifying whether a certificate has been revoked by providing a DNS responder containing a certificate revocation list (CRL), parsing the CRL into DNS zones, and distributing this information to the respective primary DNS responders based upon DNS zones. Information about a specific certificate is gathered by querying a DNS responder for certificate validation information, receiving such information, and reporting the results of the queries to a client software application so that the user of the system can be informed as to whether the certificate has been revoked or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Brian A. Hope, Adrian Filipi-Martin, Michael Smith
  • Publication number: 20020076055
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a distributed database system for storing and publishing public and private keys of an encryption system. Through the use of a distributed database network, keys can be stored, associated with member's accounts, published, retrieved and utilized automatically without the necessity of the individual member managing the public or private keys. The distributed eliminates the necessity of the public or private keys from being located at a single location allowed the flexibility for a multitude of user to manage public and private keys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Adrian Filipi-Martin, Brian Hope