Patents by Inventor Jefferson Patrick Ward

Jefferson Patrick Ward 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).

  • AUTHENTICATING DEVICES AND COMPONENTS
    Publication number: 20240054206
    Abstract: In Example implementations provide a computer program product to authenticate a set of components associated with a device; the components having associated respective shares (s1..sn) of a private key of a private-key/public key pair (sk,pk); the computer program product comprising: instructions to create a signature from the shares (s1..sn) and a message, m, associated with the components; and instructions to generate authentication data comprising at least the signature for transmitting to an authentication server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Pierre Louis Robert Belgarric, Thalia May Laing, Christopher Ian Dalton, Joshua Serratelli Schiffman, Jefferson Patrick Ward, Stephen Daniel Panshin
  • Remote digital image enhancement system and method
    Patent number: 7269303
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for remotely enhancing digital images by communication of the digital images over a network to a remote processing facility. More particularly, the digital image routing method includes steps of receiving a digital image packet that includes a digital image and a customer preference parameter and transmitting the digital image packet to a remote digital image editing system selected according to the customer preference parameter. In addition, the digital image routing method may include the steps of enhancing the digital image based on the customer preference parameter, and transmitting an enhanced digital image packet that includes an enhanced digital image and an enhancement description packet that describes the enhancements made for each of the digital images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David Jeffrey Miller, Jefferson Patrick Ward
  • Remote digital image enhancement system and method
    Publication number: 20020181012
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for remotely enhancing digital images by communication of the digital images over a network to a remote processing facility. More particularly, the digital image routing method includes steps of receiving a digital image packet that includes a digital image and a customer preference parameter and transmitting the digital image packet to a remote digital image editing system selected according to the customer preference parameter. In addition, the digital image routing method may include the steps of enhancing the digital image based on the customer preference parameter, and transmitting an enhanced digital image packet that includes an enhanced digital image and an enhancement description packet that describes the enhancements made for each of the digital images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: David Jeffrey Miller, Jefferson Patrick Ward