Patents by Inventor Garry R. Elder

Garry R. Elder 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: 20110314301
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for implementing dynamic logic are disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments of the present invention provide systems for encrypting/decrypting data. Such systems include a hardware key, a memory, a hardware decoder and a message encoder. The memory includes an encoded encoding key that represents an original encoding key. The hardware decoder receives a portion of the encoded encoding key and decodes the portion of the encoded encoding key using the hardware key to recover a portion of the original encoding key. The message encoder receives a data set and the portion of the original encoding key and encodes the data set using the portion of the original encoding key to create an encoded data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Garry R. Elder, Ramanujam Thodur
  • Patent number: 7925896
    Abstract: Apparatus and method to scramble data prior to placing it on a bus or in memory uses embedded hardware keys for encryption/decryption. The hardware keys may be used in addition to software encryption. Different hardware keys may be used to process most significant bits and least significant bits of a data word. Different hardware keys may be used to process messages from/to different channels. The hardware key may be comprise a series of fixed logic cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Garry R. Elder, Ramanujam Thodur
  • Patent number: 7711949
    Abstract: An apparatus for frustrating unwanted access to data stored with a host device includes: (a) A data disrupting unit coupled with the host device for disrupting the data in response to an action signal. (b) At least one power source unit coupled with the host device. (c) A sensor unit coupled with the host device and with the at least one power source unit. The sensor unit is configured and coupled for sensing at least one alert condition associated with the host device. The sensor unit generates an alerting signal when at least one respective alert condition of the at least on alert condition is sensed. At least one respective power source unit of the at least one power source unit responds to the alerting signal to present the action signal to the data disrupting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Warren A. Wartell, Garry R. Elder
  • Publication number: 20090080659
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for implementing dynamic logic are disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments of the present invention provide systems for encrypting/decrypting data. Such systems include a hardware key, a memory, a hardware decoder and a message encoder. The memory includes an encoded encoding key that represents an original encoding key. The hardware decoder receives a portion of the encoded encoding key and decodes the portion of the encoded encoding key using the hardware key to recover a portion of the original encoding key. The message encoder receives a data set and the portion of the original encoding key and encodes the data set using the portion of the original encoding key to create an encoded data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: Garry R. Elder, Ramanujam Thodur
  • Publication number: 20080133941
    Abstract: An apparatus for frustrating unwanted access to data stored with a host device includes: (a) A data disrupting unit coupled with the host device for disrupting the data in response to an action signal. (b) At least one power source unit coupled with the host device. (c) A sensor unit coupled with the host device and with the at least one power source unit. The sensor unit is configured and coupled for sensing at least one alert condition associated with the host device. The sensor unit generates an alerting signal when at least one respective alert condition of the at least on alert condition is sensed. At least one respective power source unit of the at least one power source unit responds to the alerting signal to present the action signal to the data disrupting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Warren A. Wartell, Garry R. Elder