Patents by Inventor Eliahu Antopolsky

Eliahu Antopolsky 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: 20240028778
    Abstract: A method for managing privacy of videos and photos recorded through a communication application by displaying a recording button on the screen of the user's mobile device, recording the video or photo and displaying it in the chat of the user and the contact, displaying on the user's mobile device a blur button that is associated with the video or photo, applying on the video or photo a blur mode for blurring the video or photo, displaying on the user's mobile device an unblur button that is associated with the blurred video or photo, applying an unblur mode on the blurred video or photo by using the unblur button on the user's mobile device or displaying on the screen of the contact's mobile device a payment link and applying the unblur mode upon making the payment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Patent number: 11853467
    Abstract: A method for managing privacy of videos and photos recorded through a communication application by displaying a recording button on the touch screen of the user's mobile device, recording the video or photo and displaying it in the message box of the user and the contact, displaying on the mobile devices a blur button that is associated with the video or photo, applying on the video or photo a blur mode for blurring the video or photo, displaying on the mobile devices an unblur button that is associated with the blurred video or photo, applying an unblur mode on the blurred video or photo by using the unblur button on the user's mobile device when the blur mode was applied by the user's or by using the unblur button on the contact's mobile device when the blur mode was applied by the contact's mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Publication number: 20230153473
    Abstract: A method for managing privacy of videos and photos recorded through a communication application by displaying a recording button on the touch screen of the user's mobile device, recording the video or photo and displaying it in the message box of the user and the contact, displaying on the mobile devices a blur button that is associated with the video or photo, applying on the video or photo a blur mode for blurring the video or photo, displaying on the mobile devices an unblur button that is associated with the blurred video or photo, applying an unblur mode on the blurred video or photo by using the unblur button on the user's mobile device when the blur mode was applied by the user's or by using the unblur button on the contact's mobile device when the blur mode was applied by the contact's mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Publication number: 20230098214
    Abstract: A smartphone that is suitable to shoot or take a video or a photo and save them in an external storage device that can communicate with a connecting unit in the smartphone. The smartphone is capable of being operated in external save mode and to save the video or the photo solely in the external storage device. The smartphone may include an encryption subsystem to encrypt the video or the photo or a voice recordation, and a decryption subsystem. The encryption subsystem can encrypt the video or the photo or the voice recordation in such a way that they can be decrypted by using personal keys that were identified by a personal key identification reader of the smartphone before the camera shoots the video or takes the photo or before the microphone executes the voice recordation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Publication number: 20230082233
    Abstract: A device for documenting and encrypting a face to face personal meeting that includes a casing, a connecting unit that can communicate with external data storage device, a camera or microphone, an encryption subsystem, a decryption subsystem, and a personal key reader that is capable to identify personal keys of participants of the meeting. The device can encrypt the video that can be decrypted by using the personal keys of the participants. The device can save the encrypted video only in external storage device that communicates with the connecting unit while the camera shoots the video, and it is saved with information of the participants' identified personal keys. The decryption subsystem can decrypt the encrypted video when external storage device in which the encrypted video is saved communicates with the connecting unit and when the reader identifies the identified personal keys of the participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Patent number: 11586767
    Abstract: A method for managing privacy of videos and photos recorded through a communication application by displaying a secret recording button on touch screens of a user's and contact's mobile devices, recording a video or a photo by the user's mobile device, applying on the recorded video or photo a re-watch mode by using the secret recording button, displaying in the message box of the user and the contact the recorded video or photo. The re-watch mode causes the mobile device to transmit the recorded video or photo to be saved in the server, displaying on the touch screens of the mobile devices a re-watch button, sending to the server a re-watch command by using the re-watch button in both mobile devices, receiving from the server the recorded video or photo to the mobile devices, and posting it in the message box of the user and the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Publication number: 20220277104
    Abstract: A method for managing privacy of videos and photos recorded through a communication application by displaying a secret recording button on touch screens of a user's and contact's mobile devices, recording a video or a photo by the user's mobile device, applying on the recorded video or photo a re-watch mode by using the secret recording button, displaying in the message box of the user and the contact the recorded video or photo. The re-watch mode causes the mobile device to transmit the recorded video or photo to be saved in the server, displaying on the touch screens of the mobile devices a re-watch button, sending to the server a re-watch command by using the re-watch button in both mobile devices, receiving from the server the recorded video or photo to the mobile devices, and posting it in the message box of the user and the contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Publication number: 20220207599
    Abstract: A method for operating a web platform for selling a product that is performed by processing devices running on computing devices and a server that enables a user to advertise the product for sale and indicate a deadline for submitting purchase offers, enables the user to specify a minimum bid, receives from the user an undertaking to sell the product to a person who will offer at least the minimum bid, saves the minimum bid price in a memory means in the server, enables bidders to submit purchase offers, saves these offers, and on the deadline or after selects the submitted purchase offer with the highest price, and calculates a final price at which that bidder will purchase the product according to a mathematical formula in such a way that the calculated final price is between the minimum bid price and the highest price.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Patent number: 11362978
    Abstract: A method for managing text messages of a chat between a user and a contact of an instant messaging application that provides the option to apply a secret chat mode on the messages that are written or recorded and displayed in the dialog boxes after applying the secret mode. The method indicates on the screens of the computing devices of the user and the contact that the chat is under the secret chat mode. The method deletes from the dialog boxes the text messages that are under the secret chat mode upon receiving a deleting command from the user or the contact. The deleting command may be automatically created when the user or the contact leaves the chat. The method stores these text messages and re-posts them upon receiving a mutual re-posting command from both the user and the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Publication number: 20210365582
    Abstract: A method for protecting privacy of shared video files that is performed by processing devices running on mobile devices of a first user and a second user and a remote server that enables the users to create a virtual group with a shared dialog box, to store solely on the remote server files of video films that the first user shoots by his mobile device, to display on the shared dialog box links to these files, to enable the second user to select for viewing these links, to stream and playing the video films on the screen of the mobile device of the second user, to prevent the ability of the mobile device to make a screenshot when playing the videos, to prevent abilities of the mobile device of the second user to save, to share or to forward these files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Publication number: 20210336913
    Abstract: A method for managing text messages of a chat between a user and a contact of an instant messaging application that provides the option to apply a secret chat mode on the messages that are written or recorded and displayed in the dialog boxes after applying the secret mode. The method indicates on the screens of the computing devices of the user and the contact that the chat is under the secret chat mode. The method deletes from the dialog boxes the text messages that are under the secret chat mode upon receiving a deleting command from the user or the contact. The deleting command may be automatically created when the user or the contact leaves the chat. The method stores these text messages and re-posts them upon receiving a mutual re-posting command from both the user and the contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Patent number: 11050568
    Abstract: A recording system that is designed to record a personal meeting between a service provider and a key-holder participant that includes an encryption subsystem, a recording means and a memory means. The recording means films the personal meeting and streams it to the encryption subsystem that encrypts the film and sends it to the memory means. The encryption subsystem includes an encryption means, a decryption means and a key reader. The encrypted film can be decrypted only by using a personal key of the key-holder participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Eliahu Antopolsky, Yacov Gottman
  • Publication number: 20200250330
    Abstract: A mobile device for recording a face to face personal meeting between two or more participants that includes a portable casing that defines a single interior space, a recording means, a microprocessor with a computer program, a memory means, an identification sub-system, and a sensing reader. The microprocessor, the memory means and the identification sub-system are positioned inside the casing and the sensing reader is positioned inside the casing or physically connected to it. The identification sub-system is designed to identify personal keys of the participants of that meeting. The mobile device is designed to make recording of that meeting and to save it in the memory means. The computer program is designed to lock the recording to disable access to it, and to unlock the recording to enable access to it when the sensing reader identifies the personal keys of the participants of that meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Eliahu Antopolsky, Yacov Gottman
  • Publication number: 20190149348
    Abstract: A recording system for personal meetings between two or more participants that includes a voice recording means, a camera, a memory means, and an identification sub-system. The identification sub-system is designed to identify a personal key of each participant of the personal meeting. The personal keys may be a code, a digital code, an electronic card, a biometric feature, voice or face recognition, a finger print, a retina and the like. When activating the recording system the identification sub-system is designed to identify personal keys of the participants of that specific personal meeting. The recording is stored in the memory means and the access to the recording can be done only by using the personal keys of the participants of that personal meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Eliahu Antopolsky, Yacov Gottman
  • Publication number: 20190044722
    Abstract: A recording system that is designed to record a personal meeting between a service provider and a key-holder participant that includes an encryption subsystem, a recording means and a memory means. The recording means films the personal meeting and streams it to the encryption subsystem that encrypts the film and sends it to the memory means. The encryption subsystem includes an encryption means, a decryption means and a key reader. The encrypted film can be decrypted only by using a personal key of the key-holder participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Eliahu Antopolsky, Yacov Gottman
  • Publication number: 20190045045
    Abstract: A system performed by a processing device running on a mobile device on which a messaging application is installed that enables the user to manage incoming messages. The user has the option to pre-determine time frame in which the incoming message will be noticeable on his mobile device. The system transmitting a notification to the mobile device of the sender of a message as to said time frame in which the message will be noticeable in the mobile device of the user and options to re-complete sending of the message in a way that it will be noticeable in that time frame or to re-complete the sending of the message in a way that it will be noticeable immediately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Meir Dahan, Eliahu Antopolsky
  • Publication number: 20190044904
    Abstract: A method that enables a mobile device user to manage incoming text messages in a way that in a period of time that he sets the method prevents the operation of the alerts mechanisms of his mobile device. In case of an incoming text messages the method sends a notice to the sender mobile device notifying that the user prefers to receive now only urgent text messages. The method enables the sender to decide according to his sole discretion whether to complete this text messages in a way that the text messaged will be noticeable immediately or at the end of that time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Eliahu Antopolsky, Meir Dahan
  • Patent number: 9949105
    Abstract: A method that enables a callee to manage incoming voice calls in a way that in a period of time that he sets the method prevents the operation of the alerts mechanisms of his mobile device. In case of an incoming voice call the method sends a notice to the caller mobile device notifying that the callee prefers to receive now only urgent voice calls. The method enables the caller to decide according to his sole discretion whether to complete this voice call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Inventors: Eliahu Antopolsky, Meir Dahan
  • Patent number: 9887987
    Abstract: An application that enables documentation of meetings using a Smartphone or internet-based communication programs installed on a computer whereby the application enables each of the participants in the personal meeting to input a personal identification code designed to serve as a personal key. The application enables the user to document the personal meeting using the audio and video recording means of the Smartphone or the computer's internet-based communications programs and to save the documentation as a documentation file that may be opened only using all of the personal keys simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Inventors: Eliahu Antopolsky, Yacov Gottman
  • Patent number: 9710660
    Abstract: A system for audio and visual documenting of personal meetings between two or more persons whereby the documentation is stored in a memory means where the access to the memory means can be done only by consent of said participants and by a positive action made by each of them. The system includes a casing, a memory means, a recording voice means or a video recording means, a locking means and authorized keys. The memory means is saved in the casing and locked by the locking means. Opening the locking means and the casing can be done only by using authorized keys. The locking means is a locking means selected from the group consisting of a mechanical locking, an electronic lock, an electric lock, a lock based on magnetic cards, a biometric lock, a locking means based on finger print, retina or DNA sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventors: Eliahu Antopolsky, Yacov Gottman