Patents by Inventor Gavin W. Manes

Gavin W. Manes 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).

  • Method to inhibit the identification and retrieval of proprietary media via automated search engines utilized in association with computer compatible communications network
    Patent number: 6732180
    Abstract: A method and article of manufacture to inhibit automated search engines in locating and retrieving proprietary media by employing cooperative scanning, manufacturing, sharing and supervisory control software processing components to replicate, and make available for sharing, decoy media in such numbers to render media search engines ineffectual. The invention's scanning processing component searches media sharing network communities for illegally shared proprietary media and its manufacturing processing component constructs decoy media files mimicking identified proprietary media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: The University of Tulsa
    Inventors: John C. Hale, Gavin W. Manes