Patents by Inventor Charles C. Hardy

Charles C. Hardy 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: 10797899
    Abstract: Sending data on a network based on limiting the propagation of data based on a distance between a sender of the data and one or more receivers of the data. A method includes determining a maximum distance that a message should travel in a network from a sender to a receiver. The method further includes configuring a distance property or distance proxy property conforming with the determined distance. The method further includes sending the message by transmitting the message in a fashion that causes the message to be carried on the network in compliance with the configured distance property or distance proxy property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael S. Feeney, Matthew J. Reimann, Thomas R. Giallorenzi, Brian Thorp, Chad S. Komer, Charles C. Hardy, Stephen M. Dudley
  • Patent number: 8582767
    Abstract: A self-synchronizing cryptographic device can be shared among a plurality of communications links. Blocks of data can be transferred to the cryptographic device, wherein each block of data includes a head portion which is the tail portion of a previous block of data for the same communication link. The head/tail portion is sufficient to reestablish cryptographic synchronization of the cryptographic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Inventors: Charles C. Hardy, Thomas R. Giallorenzi, Jami R. Smith, Ralph E. Carson, Scott A. Jansa