Patents by Inventor Karl Anthony Reardon

Karl Anthony Reardon 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).

  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING THE PLAYING OF RING TONES AND OTHER MEDIA FILES ON MOBILE DEVICES
    Publication number: 20080215725
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software applications for managing the playing of ring tones and other media files on mobile devices are provided. In one embodiment, a software application executed by a processor of a mobile device tracks the playing of a media file on the mobile device and reports information regarding the playing of the media file from the mobile device to a server over a wireless network. In another embodiment, the media file is provided on the mobile device as a ring tone file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: Wireless Image Limited
    Inventors: Simon Anthony Backer, Karl Anthony Reardon
  • Authentication in a packet data system
    Patent number: 6229806
    Abstract: A communication system in which a user device (10) generates authentication information (32) unique to the user device and provides a data packet (35) including this authentication information to an infrastructure part which is a gateway (14) or a host (16). The packet also contains a host identifier (36) or time dependent information (202). This is used at the gateway (14) or the host (16) to authenticate the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Wayne Lockhart, Geoffrey Richard Scotton, Karl Anthony Reardon
  • Method for protecting a network from data packet overload
    Patent number: 6189035
    Abstract: An internal network (16) is protected from being overloaded by an excessive number of data packets that originate from a source in an external network (10). In a preferred embodiment, data packet gate (20) receives each incoming data packet and determines whether it came from a trusted source. If it was not from a trusted source, and the number of data packets received recently from the same source exceeds a threshold, then data packets from that source are rejected. Preferably, when incoming data packets from all non-trusted sources exceed another threshold, additional data packets from all non-trusted sources are rejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Motorola
    Inventors: Thomas Wayne Lockhart, Karl Anthony Reardon
  • Communications unit and method of communicating having efficient packet acknowledgement
    Patent number: 6161207
    Abstract: A communications unit (10) with a packet subdivider operable on a data packet (200) and an error detecting code generator. An acknowledgement message (NAK) is generated including error detecting code corresponding to packet portions (210-204) from the packet subdivider, thereby requesting retransmission of packet portions. At an originating unit (100) an error detection code is computed for each portion. The computed second error detection code for each sub-portion is compared with the received first error detection code for that portion. Portions for which corresponding error detection codes do not match are identified as bad portions and are retransmitted (220).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Wayne Lockhart, Karl Anthony Reardon