Patents by Inventor Luc Buntinx

Luc Buntinx 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).

  • Patent number: 9167428
    Abstract: In the disclosed method, users are provided with sets of authentication codes, each set includes a secret, a private key container and a matching public key container, the private and public key container are generated from respectively a first string including a domain name of an authentication server system and a PKI private key and a second string including the same domain name and a matching PKI public key. Upon receipt on the authentication server system of the first strings as a result of a first user reading the respective private key container, an action definition procedure is performed in which the first user is requested to enter a secret of the same set of authentication codes. If a check returns a positive result, the first user can define a set of actions to be performed upon receipt of the second string belonging to the same set of authentication codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Buntinx
    Inventor: Luc Buntinx
  • Publication number: 20140026204
    Abstract: In the disclosed method, users are provided with sets of authentication codes, each set includes a secret, a private key container and a matching public key container, the private and public key container are generated from respectively a first string including a domain name of an authentication server system and a PKI private key and a second string including the same domain name and a matching PKI public key. Upon receipt on the authentication server system of the first strings as a result of a first user reading the respective private key container, an action definition procedure is performed in which the first user is requested to enter a secret of the same set of authentication codes. If a check returns a positive result, the first user can define a set of actions to be performed upon receipt of the second string belonging to the same set of authentication codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Luc Buntinx
  • Patent number: 6198919
    Abstract: A method for communicating with an object, for example a vehicle, using a wide area paging network and a cellular mobile communication network that includes the steps of coupling a module with at least a transmitter and a receiver to the object and using the module for communicating with in combination at least three communication networks, the first one being the wide area paging network, the second one being the cellular mobile communication network and the third one being a local network using a spread spectrum modulation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: SmartMove, n.v.
    Inventors: Steven Buytaert, Luc Buntinx, Maes Marc, Guy Orens