Patents by Inventor Christopher Wood

Christopher Wood 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: 10323209
    Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted lipid with high levels, for example 90% to 95% by weight, oleic acid. The present invention also provides genetically modified plants, particularly oilseeds such as safflower, which can used to produce the lipid. Furthermore, provided are methods for genotyping and selecting plants which can be used to produce the lipid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Craig Christopher Wood, Qing Liu, Xue-Rong Zhou, Allan Green, Surinder Pal Singh, Shijiang Cao
  • Patent number: 10320760
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates mutating and caching content in a CCN. During operation, the system receives, by an intermediate node, a content object that indicates an encrypted payload, a signature, and a parameter for a group to which the content object belongs, wherein the content object includes a name that is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier which comprises contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. The system re-encrypts the content object based on the encrypted payload and the parameter to obtain a new encrypted payload and a new signature, wherein re-encrypting is not based on a private key or a public key associated with the encrypted payload. The system transmits the re-encrypted content object to a client computing device, thereby allowing the client computing device to decrypt the re-encrypted content object and verify the new signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Wood, Glenn C. Scott
  • Patent number: 10305865
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates encryption of manifest content based on permutation. During operation, the system partitions, by a computer system, a collection of data into a first set of content objects, wherein a content object is a chunk comprised of a plurality of bytes. The system performs a first permutation function on the first set of content objects to obtain a first set of permuted content objects. The system creates a manifest based on the permuted content objects, wherein a manifest is a content object which indicates a second set of content objects, wherein a respective content object of the second set is a data object or another manifest. The system encodes the first permutation function and the permuted content objects in the manifest, thereby facilitating an authorized entity that receives the manifest to reassemble the manifest contents based on the permutation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher A. Wood
  • Patent number: 10305864
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates efficient content exchange in a CCN. During operation, the system receives, generates, by a client computing device, an interest with a name that includes a routable prefix and a first hash of one or more original name components, wherein the name is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier that includes contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. The system computes a key based on a second hash of the original name components and a randomly generated first nonce. The system encrypts a payload of the interest with the key, wherein the interest indicates the first nonce. In response to transmitting the interest, wherein the interest allows a receiving content producing device to compute the key and decrypt the payload, the system receives receiving a content object with a payload encrypted based on the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher A. Wood
  • Publication number: 20190149603
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates secure communication between computing entities. During operation, the system generates a first interest that indicates a vote for a value associated with a group prefix and a round number. In response to the first interest, the system receives a first content object that indicates an acknowledgment of the vote and has a payload that includes a nonce validator. In response to a second interest that indicates an acknowledgment of the first content object, the system receives a second content object that indicates a decision for the value and has a payload that includes a nonce which is used as a pre-image of the nonce validator. The system verifies the second content object based on the nonce and the nonce validator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher A. Wood, Glenn C. Scott
  • Publication number: 20190138475
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus for forming an interface for interfacing a remote access appliance (“RAC”) to a target device (“TD”) and enabling video and serial communications between the RAC and TD. The apparatus makes use of a housing having a first port, a second port and a third port. A circuit board may be housed within the housing for enabling serial and video communications between the TD and the RAC. The first port enables an interface to the apparatus via a communications cable in communication with the RAC. The second port enables a serial connection between the apparatus and the TD via an independent serial communications cable. The third port forms a video connector connectable directly to a video port of the target device for enabling video communications between the TD and the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher WOOD, Phillip R. KENT
  • Patent number: 10267532
    Abstract: A thermostat or other in-line, two-conductor control device employs a power-stealing technique to obtain DC power for its electronic controls where the thermostat wire run has an R wire but no C (common) wire. The controlled switch for a reactive load, such as the gas valve relay or compressor contactor, is formed of a pair of power capacitors and a pair of switching transistors or other electronic controlled switches. The conductors for feeding DC power to control electronics are connected with the junctions of the power capacitors and their respective switching transistors. The power capacitors and switching transistors can be configured in respective series combinations, with the series combinations forming a parallel combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: International Controls and Measurements Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Christopher Wood, Andrew S. Kadah, Michael James Cariseo
  • Patent number: 10263965
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates selective encryption of bit groups of a message. During operation, the system determines, by a content requesting device or content producing device, a message that includes a plurality of bit groups, each corresponding to a type, a length, and a set of values, wherein one or more bit groups are marked for encryption, and wherein the message indicates a name that is a hierarchically structured variable-length identifier comprising contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. The system computes a plurality of cipher blocks for the message based on an authenticated encryption protocol. The system encrypts the one or more bit groups marked for encryption based on one or more symmetric keys, wherein the marked bit groups include one or more name components. Subsequently, the system indicates the encrypted bit groups as encrypted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc E. Mosko, Christopher A. Wood
  • Patent number: 10264099
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates content closures in a CCN. During operation, the system generates, by a client computing device, an initial interest with a name that is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier which comprises contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level, wherein the initial interest indicates a request for a result of a computation. The system receives from a content producing device a content object which indicates a function that outputs the requested result and data to be used as input to the function. The system performs the function based on the indicated data, which outputs the requested result, thereby facilitating a content producing device to offload computation of the function to the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Wood, Glenn C. Scott
  • Patent number: 10257271
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates secure communication between computing entities. During operation, the system generates a first interest that indicates a vote for a value associated with a group prefix and a round number. In response to the first interest, the system receives a first content object that indicates an acknowledgment of the vote and has a payload that includes a nonce validator. In response to a second interest that indicates an acknowledgment of the first content object, the system receives a second content object that indicates a decision for the value and has a payload that includes a nonce which is used as a pre-image of the nonce validator. The system verifies the second content object based on the nonce and the nonce validator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Wood, Glenn C. Scott
  • Patent number: 10220956
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining the position of an object having one or more magnetic elements. The apparatus includes magnetostrictive optical sensors, each arranged to produce a signal which is indicative of a proximity of the sensor to the one or more magnetic elements. The apparatus is arranged to determine the position of the object based on a plurality of such proximity signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Christopher Wood, Alan Sharp, Carsten Heuer
  • Publication number: 20190017776
    Abstract: A firearm retaining harness is described comprising a shoulder portion and a transverse member. The shoulder portion is worn around a shoulder of an operator, while the transverse member wraps around the operator's chest. The shoulder portion and the transverse member may be releasably coupled to one another for putting on and removing the harness. A coupling slidably engages the transverse member on a first side, while is releasably coupled to a firearm on a second side. Because the coupling is slidably coupled to the transverse member, an operator may quickly move the firearm between a storage, ready, and active position. Since the transverse member is elastic, it is pulled taught when in an active position such that positive pressure is provided to the operator. Such positive pressure may reduce an amount of recoil, as well as provide stabilization during discharge of the firearm and faster target acquisition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventor: Christopher Wood
  • Publication number: 20180375771
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system for facilitating efficient communication of an interest group packet indicating a collection of interests. During operation, the system receives, by an intermediate node, a first packet which has a name and indicates a set of member interests, wherein a member interest has a name, wherein a name is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier that includes contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. In response to obtaining a content object which satisfies a member interest, the system removes the indicated member interest from the first packet. The system adds an entry in a pending interest table for the first packet, wherein the entry indicates the name for the first packet, the name for each member interest, and an indicator of whether each member interest is satisfied. The system transmits the first packet to another node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher A. Wood, Glenn C. Scott
  • Publication number: 20180359225
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates efficient and transparent encryption of packets between a client computing device and a content producing device. During operation, the system receives, by a content producing device, an interest packet that includes a masked name which corresponds to an original name, wherein the original name is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier that includes contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. The system obtains the original name based on the masked name. The system computes a symmetric key based on the original name and a generated nonce. The system generates a content object packet that corresponds to the original name and includes the masked name, the nonce, and a payload encrypted based on the symmetric key, wherein the content object packet is received by a client computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher A. Wood
  • Patent number: 10148572
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system for facilitating efficient communication of an interest group packet indicating a collection of interests. During operation, the system receives, by an intermediate node, a first packet which has a name and indicates a set of member interests, wherein a member interest has a name, wherein a name is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier that includes contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. In response to obtaining a content object which satisfies a member interest, the system removes the indicated member interest from the first packet. The system adds an entry in a pending interest table for the first packet, wherein the entry indicates the name for the first packet, the name for each member interest, and an indicator of whether each member interest is satisfied. The system transmits the first packet to another node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Wood, Glenn C. Scott
  • Publication number: 20180337013
    Abstract: Switch apparatus (54), designed to detect relative movement between first and second members (60, 62), includes a switch assembly (48) comprising a switch unit (20), a biasing element (50), and an operating member (52). The unit (20) has a conductive housing (22) with first, second, and third electrical pin contacts (36-40) and a shiftable body (46). The body (46) is magnetically correlated with both the element (50) and operating member (52). When the members (60, 62) are close, the operating member (52) maintains the shiftable body (46) in one switch position, whereas when the members (60, 62) are separated, the biasing element (50) magnetically moves body (46) to another switch position, thereby detecting the relative movement).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: Magnasphere Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Woods, Randall Woods, Joseph C. Hedeen
  • Publication number: 20180337902
    Abstract: A router between a content consuming device and a content storage device obtains an interest corresponding to a content object. The interest includes a name identifying the content storage device, signaling information, an authentication token, and an inner interest identifying an actual content object stored at the content storage device. The inner interest is encrypted with an encryption key shared between the content storage device and the content consuming device, but not shared with the router. The router authenticates the interest by verifying the authentication token using an authentication key shared with the content consuming device. The router then provides the interest to the content storage device. The router obtains the content object, which includes at least a portion of the actual content object encrypted with the encryption key, from the content storage device. The router provides the content object to the content consuming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher A. Wood, Marc E. Mosko
  • Publication number: 20180337857
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates efficient communication based on a forwarding information base (FIB). The system receives, by an intermediate node, a first interest which includes a name and maximum interest information which indicates whether to forward a subsequent interest with a same name prefix as the first interest. In response to obtaining a first entry from a FIB based on the name for the first interest, the system adds to the first entry, for an outgoing interface corresponding to an arrival interface of the first interest, the maximum interest information included in the first interest as an interest limit for the first entry. In response to determining that the interest limit for the first entry is reached, the system refrains from forwarding the subsequent interest, thereby facilitating the intermediate node to manage traffic based on information in the forwarding information base provided by a content producer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher A. Wood, Glenn C. Scott
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    Patent number: D836442
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: NOVEMBAL USA INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Wood, Michel Luzzato
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    Patent number: D838171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: NOVEMBAL USA INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Wood, Michel Luzzato