Patents by Inventor Carl A. Gunter

Carl A. Gunter 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).

  • Method and system for managing access to services
    Publication number: 20020162019
    Abstract: A method and system manage access to services. Permission relating to the services is delegated over an ad hoc network in a personal area network. The permission is represented using a digital signature. Data representing credential information is received from a permitted delegatee via a credential transmission mechanism, such as a URL, a cookie within an http request, or a header of an http request for a web page, over a second computer network. Access to the services is provided over the second computer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Michael C. Berry, Carl A. Gunter, Michael McDougall
  • Method and system for managing access to services
    Publication number: 20020162001
    Abstract: A method and system manage access to services. A delegator delegates to a delegatee permission to access services and delegate further permissions to subsequent delegatees. The permission is represented using a digital signature. At least one delegation occurs over a personal area network while physical presence exists between the delegator and the delegatee.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Carl A. Gunter, David J. Ruggieri
  • Method and system for managing access to services
    Publication number: 20020162018
    Abstract: A method and system manage access to services. Permission relating to the services is delegated over an ad hoc network in a personal area network. The permission is represented using a digital signature. Access to the services is provided to each permitted delegatee over a second computer network that is different from the personal area network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Carl A. Gunter, David J. Ruggieri
  • Increased life reflector lamps
    Patent number: 6471376
    Abstract: A light source comprising a light generating element and a reflector, said reflector comprised of a generally parabolic shaped body including an at least substantially closed end and an open end, the light source disposed generally adjacent said closed end, said reflector including a light reflecting coating on both an internal and an external surface of said body, wherein a portion of said external surface of said body adjacent the closed end of the reflector is substantially devoid of said coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Charles D. Tschetter, Rajasingh Israel, Carl Gunter
  • LPCVD coated reflector
    Patent number: 6462465
    Abstract: A shroud (26) for a light producing element (46). The shroud having an elongated reflecting portion (20) with a curved cross-section and an elongated light-transmissive portion (24) with a curved cross-section. A cavity in which the light producing element is disposed is formed between the reflecting portion and the light-transmissive portion. A lamp (40) having a shroud (26) according to the invention is also disclosed as is a method of fabricating a shroud according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rajasingh Israel, Carl Gunter, Ashfaqul Chowdhury