Patents by Inventor Kee Nethery
Kee Nethery 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).
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Patent number: 11475108Abstract: This Application describes devices, and techniques for using them, capable of providing a secure hardware backdoor for digital devices, thus allowing valid access to secure target device data without the owner's consent, while still assuring the owner's knowledge whenever any access has occurred, whether validly or not. Each target device's data is protected by maintaining protected data encrypted on the target device, maintaining encryption keys for protected data in a “secure enclave”, causing the secure enclave to generate secure data in response to a hardware trigger, the secure data being usable to provide access to the device, and providing relatively difficult yet achievable retrieval of the secure data with physical access to the target device, and using the secure data to access protected data on the target device, while also assuring that the target device's owner can determine when the secure data was retrieved.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery
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Patent number: 11238136Abstract: This Application describes devices, and techniques for using them, capable of allowing valid access to targeted device data without the owner's consent, while still informing the owner whenever any invalid access has occurred. In one embodiment, each targeted device's data is protected by several techniques: (A) maintaining protected data on the targeted device encrypted, thus preventing hardware or software access without authorization; (B) maintaining encryption keys for protected data in a “secure enclave”, not software accessible without authorization, and not hardware accessible without substantial effort; (C) maintaining the secure enclave within a tamper-evident enclosure, the tamper-evident enclosure having a unique identifier that is not easily duplicable; and (D) providing relatively easy retrieval of the unique identifier and checking that the unique identifier has not been altered.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery
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Publication number: 20200342075Abstract: This Application describes devices, and techniques for using them, capable of providing a secure hardware backdoor for digital devices, thus allowing valid access to secure target device data without the owner's consent, while still assuring the owner's knowledge whenever any access has occurred, whether validly or not. Each target device's data is protected by maintaining protected data encrypted on the target device, maintaining encryption keys for protected data in a “secure enclave”, causing the secure enclave to generate secure data in response to a hardware trigger, the secure data being usable to provide access to the device, and providing relatively difficult yet achievable retrieval of the secure data with physical access to the target device, and using the secure data to access protected data on the target device, while also assuring that the target device's owner can determine when the secure data was retrieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery
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Publication number: 20200342074Abstract: This Application describes devices, and techniques for using them, capable of allowing valid access to targeted device data without the owner's consent, while still informing the owner whenever any invalid access has occurred. In one embodiment, each targeted device's data is protected by several techniques: (A) maintaining protected data on the targeted device encrypted, thus preventing hardware or software access without authorization; (B) maintaining encryption keys for protected data in a “secure enclave”, not software accessible without authorization, and not hardware accessible without substantial effort; (C) maintaining the secure enclave within a tamper-evident enclosure, the tamper-evident enclosure having a unique identifier that is not easily duplicable; and (D) providing relatively easy retrieval of the unique identifier and checking that the unique identifier has not been altered.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery
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Patent number: 10331792Abstract: This Application relates to localization of embedded databases in an “app”: translation of language text, units of measure, and other matters; determining and extracting data from word and phrase translation databases (translation tables) in the app; presenting translated display pages to a (human or machine) translator, the latter translating the words or phrases as they appear in the context of the presented page; inserting the translated words and phrases into the translation tables, wherein the app uses them in their translation table format. Embodiments can be applied to translating words or phrases into equivalent meaning in a different language, or in the same language but suited to a different audience.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: TG IncInventors: Sergiu Chirila, Stanton Kee Nethery
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Patent number: 9906034Abstract: A power generation and control system is easily installed in a consumer household, a business, or and end-user establishment for generating power and preventing power from flowing to a power grid from a consumer circuit during a power outage. A communications transceiver is adapted to transmit an enabling signal for enabling power generation only after the control system has been installed. The control system can be adapted to replace an existing circuit breaker in a household circuit box and prevents power from traveling from consumer power generators to the grid during a power outage. In the same manner that end-users can add appliances to existing circuits, end-users can easily add additional power generation devices without hiring a professional electrician and without worrying about causing harm to utility workman during power outages.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery
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Publication number: 20150303696Abstract: A power generation and control system is easily installed in a consumer household, a business, or and end-user establishment for generating power and preventing power from flowing to a power grid from a consumer circuit during a power outage. A communications transceiver is adapted to transmit an enabling signal for enabling power generation only after the control system has been installed. The control system can be adapted to replace an existing circuit breaker in a household circuit box and prevents power from traveling from consumer power generators to the grid during a power outage. In the same manner that end-users can add appliances to existing circuits, end-users can easily add additional power generation devices without hiring a professional electrician and without worrying about causing harm to utility workman during power outages.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery
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Patent number: 9083173Abstract: A power generation and control system is easily installed in a consumer household, a business, or an end-user establishment for generating power and preventing power from flowing to a power grid from a consumer circuit during a power outage. A communications transceiver is adapted to transmit a permission signal for allowing power generation only after the control system has been installed. The control system can be adapted to replace an existing circuit breaker in a household circuit breaker box and prevents power from traveling from consumer power generators to the grid during a power outage. In the same manner that end-users can add appliances to existing circuits, end-users can easily add additional power generation devices without hiring a professional electrician and without worrying about causing harm to utility workman during power outages.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery, III
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Patent number: 8805738Abstract: An apparatus and method for verifying a customer's financial information is disclosed wherein a seller accepts information about the details of price and quantity of the goods to be purchased, and accepts information about customer's financial account. Payment is authorized or processed for desired goods in a variable transaction amount that is not equal to the total price of the goods. Then the amount of the transaction is received from the customer and compared to the amount charged to the bank. If the two amounts match then the goods are shipped to the customer and if not already processed payment is settled.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2009Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Kagi, Inc.Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery, III
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Patent number: 7765153Abstract: An apparatus and method for verifying a customer's financial information is disclosed wherein a seller accepts information about the details of price and quantity of the goods to be purchased, and accepts information about customer's financial account. Payment is authorized for desired goods in two or more separate transactions, the amount of each transaction totaling the total price of the goods. Then the amount of each transaction is received from the customer and compared to the amount charged to the bank. If the two amounts match then the goods are shipped to the customer and payment is settled. In an alternative embodiment a ratio of the two amounts received from the customer is used rather than the amounts themselves to compensate for currency variations.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Kagi, Inc.Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery, III
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Publication number: 20100052429Abstract: A power generation and control system is easily installed in a consumer household, a business, or an end-user establishment for generating power and preventing power from flowing to a power grid from a consumer circuit during a power outage A communications transceiver is adapted to transmit a permission signal for allowing power generation only after the control system has been installed. The control system can be adapted to replace an existing circuit breaker in a household circuit breaker box and prevents power from traveling from consumer power generators to the grid during a power outage. In the same manner that end-users can add appliances to existing circuits, end-users can easily add additional power generation devices without hiring a professional electrician and without worrying about causing harm to utility workman during power outages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery, III
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Publication number: 20100023423Abstract: An apparatus and method for verifying a customer's financial information is disclosed wherein a seller accepts information about the details of price and quantity of the goods to be purchased, and accepts information about customer's financial account. Payment is authorized for desired goods in a variable transaction amount totaling the total price of the goods. Then the amount of each transaction is received from the customer and compared to the amount charged to the bank. If the two amounts match then the goods are shipped to the customer and payment is settled.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: KAGI, INC.Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery, III
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Publication number: 20040254867Abstract: An apparatus and method for verifying a customer's financial information is disclosed wherein a seller accepts information about the details of price and quantity of the goods to be purchased, and accepts information about customer's financial account. Payment is authorized for desired goods in two or more separate transactions, the amount of each transaction totaling the total price of the goods. Then the amount of each transaction is received from the customer and compared to the amount charged to the bank. If the two amounts match then the goods are shipped to the customer and payment is settled. In an alternative embodiment a ratio of the two amounts received from the customer is used rather than the amounts themselves to compensate for currency variations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: Kagi, Inc.Inventor: Stanton Kee Nethery
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Patent number: 6070798Abstract: A seller's computer system, accessible by a customer's computer over the internet for ordering products, includes a product information unit, a purchase transaction information entry and verification unit; a transaction information storage unit, a transaction code generator, a purchase order generator, a transaction code interpreter and payment processor, and a product purchase control unit. The product information is accessed by the customer's computer to enable the customer to view the product information. Upon receipt of a purchase request from the customer, the seller's computer requests and receives transaction information including information of the product or products to be purchased, customer information, and payment information.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1997Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Inventor: Kee Nethery
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Patent number: 6032863Abstract: A machine readable bar code is formed from a bar code datum by generating a first bar code image section encoding the bar code datum by a horizontal arrangement of first vertical bar sections separated by first vertical space sections wherein the first vertical bar sections have first widths selected to produce a first printed bar code section of correct ratios of space width to bar width for a first type of printer; and generating a second bar code image section encoding the bar code datum by a horizontal arrangement of second vertical bar sections separated by second vertical space sections wherein the second vertical bar sections have second widths larger than the first widths and selected to produce a second printed bar code image section of correct ratio of space width to bar width for a second type of printer. A document containing a print of this dual bar code is then readable by a conventional bar code scanner irrespective of the type of printer used to print the document.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1998Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Inventor: S. Kee Nethery, III