Patents by Inventor Derek Ritz

Derek Ritz 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: 20080065878
    Abstract: A method for the secure transmission of an electronic message from a sender to a recipient. The method comprises receiving an encrypted sender transmission file transmitted from a sender computer station at a management server, wherein the sender transmission file comprises one or more signed hash values, a sender identifier and one or more recipient identifiers. The signature values are created from one or more message components associated with the electronic message composed at the sender computer station. The encrypted sender transmission file is decrypted; and a comparision is made with of the one or more signed hash values. For each of the one or more recipient identifiers, one or more recipient public keys; is retrieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Hutson, Derek Ritz, Charles Bouvette, Jeff Cummings, Rick Ensing, Simon Blake-Wilson, Russ Baird
  • Publication number: 20050180574
    Abstract: A method and system for document transmission via communication networks is provided for. A user will create a document specifying the recipient upon a document and transmit it to the recipient such that they will not be required to specify the means by which the document is to be transmitted to the recipient and whom the document should be sent to. The document transmission system and method created a human and machine readable file representative of the document the user wishes to transmit and transmits it from the sender to the recipient such that it is transmitted securely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Derek Ritz, Andrea Love, Jeff Cummings, Rick Ensing, Russell Baird, Mike Hutson
  • Publication number: 20050182933
    Abstract: A method and system for document transmission via communication networks is provided for. A user will create a document specifying the recipient upon a document and transmit it to the recipient such that they will not be required to specify the means by which the document is to be transmitted to the recipient and whom the document should be sent to. The document transmission system and method created a human and machine readable file representative of the document the user wishes to transmit and transmits it from the sender to the recipient such that it is transmitted securely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Derek Ritz, Andrea Love, Jeff Cummings, Rick Ensing, Russell Baird, Mike Hutson