Patents by Inventor Clyde Riley Wallace

Clyde Riley Wallace 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: 6920560
    Abstract: A server and a computer are connected to a network. User data may be used to establish a state between a server and a user operating the computer. Secure network user states includes creating a first key from a received user key; encrypting user data with the cryptographic key; storing the encrypted user data in a cookie; and sending the cookie to the computer; such that subsequently, a secure state between the server and the user is established by receiving the cookie and the user key from the computer; creating a second key that matches the first key; decrypting, using the second key, encrypted user data extracted from the cookie; and establishing the secure state based on the decrypted user data. A key is created in any repeatable manner, which mathematically must include at least one insertion or deletion. Optionally, user data may be seeded to heighten security of the state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Inventor: Clyde Riley Wallace, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6601169
    Abstract: A server and a computer are connected to a network. User data may be used to establish a state between a server and a user operating the computer. Key-based secure network user states includes encrypting user data with a cryptographic key; embedding, into the encrypted user data, the cryptographic key or reference data associated with the cryptographic key; storing the encrypted user data with embedded key data in a cookie; and sending the cookie to a computer; such that subsequently, a secure state between the server and the user is established by receiving the cookie from the computer; extracting, from the cookie, the encrypted user data and embedded key data; decrypting, using said key data, the encrypted user data; and establishing the secure state between the server and the user based on the decrypted user data. Key data is the cryptographic key or reference data for obtaining the cryptographic key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Inventors: Clyde Riley Wallace, Jr., Timothy Mark Thompson
  • Patent number: 6601170
    Abstract: A method and system for creating secure Internet user states between one or more servers and one or more users. The invention is carried out by a server receiving over the Internet from a user private data relating to the user and a user key; creating an encryption key from the user key; encrypting the private data with the encryption key; assigning the encrypted private data to the data field of a cookie; and sending the cookie back to the user's computer for storage, so that when the user later requests data from the server or a related server, the cookie is sent back by the user's computer to the server or related server, which extracts the encrypted private data; receives the user key; recreates the encryption key; decrypts the encrypted private data with the encryption key and uses the decrypted private data to establish an Internet state between that server and the user. Optionally, the private data may be seeded by a server prior to encryption and assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Inventor: Clyde Riley Wallace, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20020152378
    Abstract: A server and a computer are connected to a network. User data may be used to establish a state between a server and a user operating the computer. Key-based secure network user states includes encrypting user data with a cryptographic key; embedding, into the encrypted user data, the cryptographic key or reference data associated with the cryptographic key; storing the encrypted user data with embedded key data in a cookie; and sending the cookie to a computer; such that subsequently, a secure state between the server and the user is established by receiving the cookie from the computer; extracting, from the cookie, the encrypted user data and embedded key data; decrypting, using said key data, the encrypted user data; and establishing the secure state between the server and the user based on the decrypted user data. Key data is the cryptographic key or reference data for obtaining the cryptographic key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Clyde Riley Wallace, Timothy Mark Thompson
  • Publication number: 20020112154
    Abstract: A server and a computer are connected to a network. User data may be used to establish a state between a server and a user operating the computer. Secure network user states includes creating a first key from a received user key; encrypting user data with the cryptographic key; storing the encrypted user data in a cookie; and sending the cookie to the computer; such that subsequently, a secure state between the server and the user is established by receiving the cookie and the user key from the computer; creating a second key that matches the first key; decrypting, using the second key, encrypted user data extracted from the cookie; and establishing the secure state based on the decrypted user data. A key is created in any repeatable manner, which mathematically must include at least one insertion or deletion. Optionally, user data may be seeded to heighten security of the state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventor: Clyde Riley Wallace
  • Publication number: 20020046095
    Abstract: A system and method for increasing participant retention of advertisement information, including one or more advertisements for presentation to one or more participants; associated with each of said one or more advertisements, one or more questions for presentation to said one or more participants, the one or more questions being conclusively answerable based on the information contained in an associated advertisement; and a prize awarded to at least one of said one or more participants. Optionally, the present invention may be embodied in whole or in part in computer-readable media tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a computer. Also optionally, presenting and submitting may occur in whole or in part over one or more communication networks. Also optionally, a timer may be utilized to measure how fast each of said one or more participants submits answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventor: Clyde Riley Wallace