Patents by Inventor Guy A. Stewart

Guy A. Stewart 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: 20220391887
    Abstract: Systems and devices to account for automated conditional payments from within an NFT platform to maintain resources including (but not limited to) computer systems and/or sources of data relied upon by the platform are disclosed. One embodiment is a system that includes a paying module and a bounty hunting module. The paying module generates an agreement, the agreement including terms of the performance of service. The bounty hunting module performs steps for ensuring the service is performed. The bounty hunting module obtains publicly verifiable evidence related to the performance of service. The bounty hunting module generates an assertion including the publicly verifiable evidence and a reference to a public key. The bounty hunting module posts the assertion to an immutable ledger entry. The bounty hunting module obtains payment based on validity of the assertion, wherein the assertion is valid when the assertion is determined to be true.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Artema Labs, Inc
    Inventors: Bjorn Markus Jakobsson, Stephen C. Gerber, Guy A. Stewart
  • Publication number: 20130246800
    Abstract: System and method for securing sensor data in a computer system that includes a host processor and memory that stores an operating system, and an embedded controller coupled to the host processor. The embedded processor receives sensor data for a user from at least one sensor, and encrypts and/or digitally signs the sensor data, thereby generating protected sensor data, or performs pattern recognition on the sensor data, thereby generating user identification data. The embedded processor then sends the protected sensor data or the user identification data to the operating system or another process coupled to the computer system. The protected sensor data or the user identification data are used for secure transmission of the sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventor: Guy A. Stewart
  • Publication number: 20120331303
    Abstract: A method and system for preventing execution of malware in a computing device. The method includes loading code into a non-executable memory of the computing device and validating an authentication signature associated with the code. Subsequently, the code is decrypted and finally, the decrypted code is executed in an executable memory upon a determination that the authentication signature is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Jonathan E. ANDERSSON, Shannon Cash, Guy A. Stewart
  • Patent number: 7849253
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention comprises a flash-media controller used for writing new data from an external system to a local flash-memory device. The newly written data may replace old data previously written to the flash-memory device, and may be written directly to unused locations within the flash-memory device. The flash-media controller may comprise a table of block descriptors and sector descriptors used to track specified characteristics of each block and sector of the flash-memory device, thereby allowing for write sequences to non-contiguous sectors within a block. Accordingly, copy operations may be deferred under the expectation that they will eventually become unnecessary, thereby designating old data as having become stale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Standard Microsystems Corporation
    Inventor: Guy A. Stewart
  • Patent number: 7310498
    Abstract: A system and method for maintaining communications with a radio frequency (RF) peripheral device such as an RF input device and an RF output device. A computer may search for an RF peripheral device by transmitting a signal request on available channels until a response is received from an RF peripheral device. If the RF channel becomes busy and/or jammed, the RF peripheral device may tune into a predetermined channel while the computer scans for another channel to use. Once the computer finds a better channel, the computer may go to the predetermined channel and broadcast the new channel location to the RF peripheral device. In addition, if an RF signal arrives incomplete or corrupt, the computer may transmit a negative acknowledgement to the RF peripheral device, which may retransmit the previous RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Standard Microsystems Corporation
    Inventors: Trenton B. Henry, Klaas Wortel, Guy A. Stewart, Henry Wurzburg, James R. MacDonald
  • Publication number: 20040203388
    Abstract: A system and method for maintaining communications with a radio frequency (RF) peripheral device such as an RF input device and an RF output device. A computer may search for an RF peripheral device by transmitting a signal request on available channels until a response is received from an RF peripheral device. If the RF channel becomes busy and/or jammed, the RF peripheral device may tune into a predetermined channel while the computer scans for another channel to use. Once the computer finds a better channel, the computer may go to the predetermined channel and broadcast the new channel location to the RF peripheral device. In addition, if an RF signal arrives incomplete or corrupt, the computer may transmit a negative acknowledgement to the RF peripheral device, which may retransmit the previous RF signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Trenton B. Henry, Klaas Wortel, Guy A. Stewart, Henry Wurzburg, James R. MacDonald