Patents by Inventor Halsey M. Minor

Halsey M. Minor 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: 20200389467
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and system for communicating data between a data source and a client in a cellular communication network is disclosed. The cellular communication network includes a plurality of macro cells controlled by a cellular communication network and a plurality of relay nodes with each relay node controlled by an entity independent from the cellular communication network. The method includes receiving data from the data source in a relay node of the plurality of relay nodes; retransmitting the data from the relay node to the client; computing, in the relay node, a transaction having proof that the data was retransmitted from the relay node to the client; providing the transaction from the relay node to a transaction tracker; and receiving compensation for retransmitting the data from the relay node to the client, the compensation predicated on verification of the computed transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: Live Planet, Inc.
    Inventors: Devadutta D. Ghat, Halsey M. Minor, Hanno Basse
  • Patent number: 5740252
    Abstract: A method of passing demographic information between computers includes the step of associating a computer operator with a set of demographic information. When the computer operator requests a transfer to another computer, a remote site information repository is accessed to identify a remote site destination address and a remote site encryption key. The demographic information is then encrypted using the remote site encryption key to form an encoded demographic signal. The encoded demographic signal is then combined with the remote site destination address to form an encoded demographic hyperlink transfer request, which is used to access the remote computer specified by the remote site destination address. The remote computer decrypts the encoded demographic information. The demographic information can be used by the remote computer in a number of ways, including the generation of a customized reply to an inquiry from the computer operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: C/NET, Inc.
    Inventors: Halsey M. Minor, Munish Gandhi, William E. Headapohl, Jonathan Rosenberg