Patents by Inventor Kenneth Truman Hickman

Kenneth Truman Hickman 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).

  • Associating a postmark with a message to indicate trust
    Patent number: 7831834
    Abstract: A method and system directed to the communication of the trust characteristics of electronic messages using visual and audio postmarks. The postmarks may represent a particular trust level on a continuum that can range from suspicious to trusted. A message system may determine the baseline trust level of a message and assign a postmark to the message. The postmark can communicate the trust level of the message to a user without requiring the message to be opened or read. In one embodiment of the invention the user can create rules and filters to classify messages by trust level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc
    Inventors: Kenneth Truman Hickman, Joshua Samuel Ramirez, Miles Augustus Libbey, IV