Patents by Inventor Josh J Hinds

Josh J Hinds 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).

  • Network management providing network health information and lockdown security
    Patent number: 8316438
    Abstract: Network management to establish and maintain the health and security of a computing network, such as a home network. A network management tool may identify the media access control (MAC) address for each device in the network, and allow a user to identify which devices are authorized to be a member of the network. If the network gateway device supports MAC address filtering, a user can then employ the network management tool to configure the router to exclude non-authorized devices from joining or remaining in the network based upon their MAC addresses. Further, the network management tool may allow a user to configure a wireless gateway device to stop broadcasting its service set identifier (SSID), change the SSID, or both, identify to the user when a wireless gateway device is using encryption, and, if so, what type of encryption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Pure Networks LLC
    Inventors: Steve Bush, Steve Mooney, Xin Liu, John Mevissen, Josh J Hinds, Ron Gery, Brett Marl, Matthew Tebbs