Patents by Inventor Estrada T. Colon

Estrada T. Colon 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).

  • Optical DNA
    Patent number: 8788848
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to architectures and/or mechanisms that can facilitate issuing, embedding and verification of an optical DNA (o-DNA) signature. A first mechanism is provided for obtaining a set of manufacturing errors inherent in an optical media instance. These errors can be encoded into the o-DNA that can be cryptographically signed with a private key, then embedded into the source optical media instance. A second mechanism is provided that can decrypt the o-DNA with a public key and compare the authenticated errors to the observed errors to ascertain whether the optical media instance is authentic as opposed to a forgery or counterfeit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Darko Kirovski, Estrada T. Colon, David L. Lewis, Thomas Patrick Powell, Deepak Vijaywargiay
  • OPTICAL DNA
    Publication number: 20080273435
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to architectures and/or mechanisms that can facilitate issuing, embedding and verification of an optical DNA (o-DNA) signature. A first mechanism is provided for obtaining a set of manufacturing errors inherent in an optical media instance. These errors can be encoded into the o-DNA that can be cryptographically signed with a private key, then embedded into the source optical media instance. A second mechanism is provided that can decrypt the o-DNA with a public key and compare the authenticated errors to the observed errors to ascertain whether the optical media instance is authentic as opposed to a forgery or counterfeit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Darko Kirovski, Estrada T. Colon, David L. Lewis, Thomas Patrick Powell, Deepak Vijaywargiay