Patents by Inventor Conor Aylward

Conor Aylward 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).

  • Publication number: 20190171806
    Abstract: In an authentication method, a wireless communication is established between a mobile device and a wearable device. A proximity is detected between the mobile device and the wearable device by comparing mobile device position information and wearable device position information. Access to the mobile device is granted based on a detected proximity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hugo EMBRECHTS, Dimitri TORFS, Conor AYLWARD
  • Publication number: 20190058994
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device which comprises a circuitry configured to authenticate a second electronic device when the circuitry detects based on a privacy preserving algorithm that the two electronic devices are associated with the same body. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a method comprising authenticating data communication between a first electronic device and a second electronic device when detecting based on a privacy preserving algorithm that the two electronic devices are associated with the same body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hugo EMBRECHTS, Dimitri Torfs, Conor Aylward
  • Patent number: 10084601
    Abstract: A method comprising generating an auxiliary key based on a secret key which is stored in an electronic device, generating a representation of the auxiliary key, displaying the representation of the auxiliary key on a display of the first electronic device, capturing the representation of the auxiliary key with a camera of a second electronic device, and restoring the auxiliary key from the captured representation of the auxiliary key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tom Hostyn, Jan Spooren, Hugo Embrechts, Conor Aylward
  • Patent number: 9866709
    Abstract: It is described an apparatus for determining trends in picture taking activity. The apparatus comprises a meta information accessing unit for accessing a set of meta information, each meta information in the set of meta information being associated with a picture having been taken with a camera device at a respective geographic location and at a respective time. The apparatus further comprises a processing unit for determining trends in picture taking activity based on the set of meta information accessible by the meta information accessing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tom Hostyn, Olivier Demarto, Kenny Helsens, Jan Spooren, Philip Marivoet, Teemu Veikko Tapani Pohjola, Magdalena Wasowska, Conor Aylward, Gaetan De Brucker, Joachim Giard, Chris Minnoy
  • Publication number: 20170230406
    Abstract: A method comprising partitioning a space of user requests into subsets, and determining a risk score for a user request based on the evolution of the number of user requests in the subset of user requests to which this user request belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Lee Kirsten GOULD, Conor AYLWARD, Cristian TRAUM, Igor BONDARENKO, Alexei KARPOV, Hugo EMBRECHTS
  • Publication number: 20150365235
    Abstract: A method comprising generating an auxiliary key based on a secret key which is stored in an electronic device, generating a representation of the auxiliary key, displaying the representation of the auxiliary key on a display of the first electronic device, capturing the representation of the auxiliary key with a camera of a second electronic device, and restoring the auxiliary key from the captured representation of the auxiliary key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Europe Limited
    Inventors: Tom HOSTYN, Jan SPOOREN, Hugo EMBRECHTS, Conor AYLWARD
  • Publication number: 20150242405
    Abstract: It is described a method determining context information of at least one media file stored in a media storage, and matching reference context information with the context information to determine at least one context-matching media file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tom HOSTYN, Chris MINNOY, Kenny HELSENS, Gerard MAAS, Murat Burak MIGDISOGLU, Michel TILMAN, Jan SPOOREN, Philip MARIVOET, Teemu Veikko Tapani POHJOLA, Magdalena WASOWSKA, Conor AYLWARD, Olivier DEMARTO, Gaetan DE BRUCKER, Joachim GIARD
  • Publication number: 20150170039
    Abstract: It is described an apparatus for determining trends in picture taking activity. The apparatus comprises a meta information accessing unit for accessing a set of meta information, each meta information in the set of meta information being associated with a picture having been taken with a camera device at a respective geographic location and at a respective time. The apparatus further comprises a processing unit for determining trends in picture taking activity based on the set of meta information accessible by the meta information accessing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tom Hostyn, Olivier Demarto, Kenny Helsens, Jan Spooren, Philip Marivoet, Teemu Veikko Tapani Pohjola, Magdalena Wasowska, Conor Aylward, Gaetan De Brucker, Joachim Giard, Chris Minnoy