Patents by Inventor Christopher Paul Carroll

Christopher Paul Carroll 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: 11283131
    Abstract: The application describes systems and methods for a modular portable power plant system including a first module having a first bank of one or more batteries and a second module that is detachably connectable to the first module. The second module includes a first DC to AC power inverter that is in electrical communications with the first bank of one or more batteries. The first module can be configured to house a first bank of one or more batteries arranged in a first configuration or a second configuration such that the first module includes a reconfigurable battery rack assembly arranged to be reconfigurable to provide support for a first battery set in the first configuration and a second battery set in the second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Carroll
  • Patent number: 10462609
    Abstract: The application describes systems and methods for associating a person with one or more wireless devices. The system includes a first wireless reader arranged to detect a first set of wireless device identities at a first time period and at a first location. The system also includes a second wireless reader arranged to detect second set of wireless device identities at a second time period and at a second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Carroll
  • Publication number: 20180096046
    Abstract: The application describes systems and methods for loading a data file with a data pad having a pattern that enables identification of the data file during certain file operations. In one aspect, a file loading system comprises a datastore configured to store a plurality of data files where the plurality of data files include a plurality of original data files and at least one loaded data file. The system also includes a removable media storage device capable of interfacing with the datastore. The system further includes a processor arranged to access the plurality of data files in the datastore and convert a first original data file of the plurality of original data files into a first loaded data file. The first loaded data file includes information and a first data pad of added data. The first data pad includes a first pattern of data elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Carroll
  • Patent number: 9842155
    Abstract: The application describes systems and methods for preventing the distribution of large volumes of electronic data by loading selected sensitive files with pad data to increase the size of the files such that file transfer, distribution, or downloading to removable media storage devices is more cumbersome. In one aspect, a file loading system comprises a datastore for storing a plurality of data files where each of the plurality of data files includes information and a processor arranged to: access the plurality of data files in the datastore, and load a data pad into one or more of the plurality of data files to increase the size of the one or more of the plurality of data files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Carroll
  • Publication number: 20160112435
    Abstract: The application describes systems and methods for preventing the distribution of large volumes of electronic data by loading selected sensitive files with pad data to increase the size of the files such that file transfer, distribution, or downloading to removable media storage devices is more cumbersome. In one aspect, a file loading system comprises a datastore for storing a plurality of data files where each of the plurality of data files includes information and a processor arranged to: access the plurality of data files in the datastore, and load a data pad into one or more of the plurality of data files to increase the size of the one or more of the plurality of data files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Carroll
  • Publication number: 20120150793
    Abstract: The application describes systems and methods for preventing the distribution of large volumes of electronic data by loading selected sensitive files with pad data to increase the size of the files such that file transfer, distribution, or downloading to removable media storage devices is more cumbersome. In one aspect, a file loading system comprises a datastore for storing a plurality of data files where each of the plurality of data files includes information and a processor arranged to: access the plurality of data files in the datastore, and load a data pad into one or more of the plurality of data files to increase the size of the one or more of the plurality of data files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Carroll
  • Publication number: 20100040230
    Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling authentication and/or key agreement between communications network stations and service networks. The techniques described include the negotiation and use of a cryptographic primitive shared between a service network and a home environment of a station. The techniques described also feature a key usage indicator, such as a sequence number, maintained by the service network and a station. Comparison of the key usage indicators can, for example, permit efficient authentication of the service network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: VERIZON LABORATORIES INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Paul CARROLL
  • Publication number: 20080032669
    Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling authentication and/or key agreement between communications network stations and service networks. The techniques described include the negotiation and use of a cryptographic primitive shared between a service network and a home environment of a station. The techniques described also feature a key usage indicator, such as a sequence number, maintained by the service network and a station. Comparison of the key usage indicators can, for example, permit efficient authentication of the service network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: VERIZON LABORATORIES INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Carroll
  • Patent number: 7131006
    Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling authentication and/or key agreement between communications network stations and service networks. The techniques described include the negotiation and use of a cryptographic primitive shared between a service network and a home environment of a station. The techniques described also feature a key usage indicator, such as a sequence number, maintained by the service network and a station. Comparison of the key usage indicators can, for example, permit efficient authentication of the service network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Carroll
  • Patent number: 6879689
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for processing information. In one embodiment, there is provided a method, providing a frame key based on a master key and a frame number of a frame of information to a keystream generator as an initial fill for one or more registers of the keystream generator such that the initial fill establishes a state for the one or more registers of the keystream generator; and generating, at the keystream generator, a keystream sequence based on the state established by the initial fill, wherein the keystream sequence includes a modulo-2 sum of a lagged-Fibonacci sequence and a pseudo-random sequence produced by a filter generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignees: Verizon Laboratories Inc., Genuity, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Paul Carroll, Muxiang Zhang, Agnes Chan
  • Patent number: 6611913
    Abstract: An escrowed key distribution system for over-the-air service provisioning of cellular telephones and other wireless communication devices provides a secure and efficient authentication key distribution method for wireless communications networks. To ensure security, an authentication key used to activate the wireless device is never transmitted over the air. In addition, mutual authentication is performed between the wireless communication device and the service provider using an embedded private-key algorithm to ensure proper authentication key transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Paul Carroll, Yair Frankel
  • Patent number: 6487403
    Abstract: A system includes at least one wireless communications device having a standard wireless interface and a wireless provisioning device that provisions the wireless communications device. The wireless provisioning device uses the standard wireless interface to transfer the provisioning information, including an authentication key, to the wireless communications device when both devices are interconnected via a wireline link between a transceiver antenna of the wireless communications device and a communication unit of the provisioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Carroll
  • Publication number: 20020006197
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for processing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventors: Christopher Paul Carroll, Muxiang Zhang, Agnes Chan
  • Publication number: 20010041591
    Abstract: A system includes at least one wireless communications device having a standard wireless interface and a wireless provisioning device that provisions the wireless communications device. The wireless provisioning device uses the standard wireless interface to transfer the provisioning information to the wireless communications device when both devices are at close proximity. The provisioning device includes a computer, having a memory and a processor, which provisions the wireless communications device, and a radio transceiver, connected to the computer, for transmitting provisioning information to the wireless communications device to activate the wireless communications device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 1999
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventor: CHRISTOPHER PAUL CARROLL