Patents by Inventor Clare L. Hoke

Clare L. Hoke 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: 7797244
    Abstract: An Intellectual Property Archive (IPA) dedicated to archiving, verifying, referencing, gating, and consummating the transfers of digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties within digital media. Said IPA containing the legal requirements of sale, transfer and proliferation of digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties, and further providing Transaction Code Identifiers (TCI's), which serve to notify responsible third parties that transmissions within their domains contain digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties, wherein said TCI's initiate protocols within said third party domains to inspect, halt, validate and transfer digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties within said third party domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Inventor: Clare L. Hoke, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6947909
    Abstract: A method for distribution, recognition and accountability for Intellectual and Copy written Properties in digital media's by associating a Transaction Code Identifier or Designator and further bundled information which distinguishes digital files as Intellectual or Copy written Property, and therefore unique and bound to restrictions with regard to transfer, ownership, proliferation and electronic commerce. The employment of said transaction code identifier further promotes novel distribution scenarios for electronic commerce. Further delineated is the role of network providers and servers in promoting the interests of owners of Intellectual and Copy written Property in accordance with the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Inventor: Clare L. Hoke, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20040148191
    Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the present invention consists of a physically dispersed and redundant system of computers, regional IPA Servers, networks and Routers; third party IP's, NP's, CP's, DCP's, Servers, Routers, third party Preferred Internet Providers (PIP's), Network Providers (PNP's), Connectivity Providers (PCP's), Digital Content Providers (PDCP's), Servers (PS's), and Routers (PR's), and end user devices connectable to the Internet, hereafter called the Intellectual Property Archive (IPA). The IPA structurally consists of a tiered peer-to-peer network, of distributed authentication, processing, storage and distribution which serves to promote commerce and acts to verify the validity of contractual agreements within digital medias. Said IPA housing, associating, watermarking, embedding, bundling, inspecting, halting, validating and transferring, Transaction Code Identifiers (TCI's), incarcerative Transaction Code Identifiers ({TCI's}) and Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventor: Clare L. Hoke
  • Publication number: 20040122743
    Abstract: An Intellectual Property Archive (IPA) dedicated to archiving, verifying, referencing, gating, and consummating the transfers of digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties within digital media. Said IPA containing the legal requirements of sale, transfer and proliferation of digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties, and further providing Transaction Code Identifiers (TCI's), which serve to notify responsible third parties that transmissions within their domains contain digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties, wherein said TCI's initiate protocols within said third party domains to inspect, halt, validate and transfer digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties within said third party domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventor: Clare L. Hoke
  • Publication number: 20030229591
    Abstract: An authoritative archive and reference for Intellectual Properties which shall serve to promote commerce and act to verify the validity of contractual agreements within digital media's. Said digital reference library housing Intellectual Property Identifiers which establish Intellectual Properties as unique and bound to restriction with regard to sale transfer and proliferation within digital media's. Said digital reference further containing information associated with individual Intellectual Properties in the interest of effecting commerce within digital media's. Said digital reference archive further serving to validate the requirements of contractual agreements employed in commerce within and without of digital domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventor: Clare L. Hoke
  • Publication number: 20030188177
    Abstract: In digitized Intellectual Properties, clearly defining the conditions of commerce, transfer, and proliferation of Intellectual Properties within and without of digital domain. Making the legal requirements of commerce for digitized Intellectual Properties, machine and human understandable, and imbedding the legal requirements within specific Intellectual Properties. Further making the requirements themselves disruptive to an Intellectual Properties utility, until requirements as defined in said imbedded conditions are met, and defining the removal of said legal requirements for an Intellectual Property from said Intellectual Property as unlawful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventor: Clare L. Hoke
  • Publication number: 20030026645
    Abstract: A novel joinery technique, capable of rigidity, articulation, and modularity, featuring simple fabrication and customization, for use in woodworking, furniture, cabinetry, and architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Clare L. Hoke
  • Patent number: 5924230
    Abstract: A firearm which exhibits the geometric inability to jam. Further, the nature of the described firearm insures increased safety, versatility of calibers, ease of loading, higher potential capacity, unique gas operations, and reduced perceived recoil, over designs presently employed in the art of firearms manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Inventor: Clare L. Hoke, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5852486
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display employing a novel electrode structure, wherein electrodes are removed from the substrates of the liquid crystal display. Vertical barrier members are employed within the liquid crystal display and consist in part or in total of data source lines, gate lines, drain means, appropriate insulating layers, contacts, and opposing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Inventor: Clare L. Hoke, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5814744
    Abstract: An acoustical musical instrument wherein traditionally required structural considerations are removed from the instruments vibrational plates. The structure of the instrument also increasing acoustic range and amplitude, and minimizing sound losses from dampening and frequency cancellations, by more accurately transferring vibrations within the instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Inventor: Clare L. Hoke, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5445058
    Abstract: A musical instrument neck consisting of three horizontally oriented laminations. The neck using the benefits of stability associated with laminations--with the acoustically preferred method of re-aligning grain patters for increased but not overpowering sympathetic response. The neck also using material orientation and joining matrices to form directional stabilities not considered in prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Inventor: Clare L. Hoke, Jr.