Patents by Inventor Maire O'Neill

Maire O'Neill 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).

  • Authentication method using physical unclonable functions
    Patent number: 9760709
    Abstract: A method of authenticating a target device using a reader and a data store comprising: sending a selected challenge data value from the reader to the target device multiple times; receiving at the reader the respective response data value generated by the target device in response to each instance of the challenge data value sent by the reader; determining a representative response data value from the response data values received by the reader; comparing the representative response data value against the response data values in the respective challenge-response data set; and determining that the target device is authentic if the representative data value matches any one of the response data values from a respective challenge-response data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: The Queen's University of Belfast
    Inventors: Liang Lu, Jiang Wu, Maire O'Neill
  • AUTHENTICATION METHOD USING PHYSICAL UNCLONABLE FUNCTIONS
    Publication number: 20150278505
    Abstract: A method of authenticating a target device using a reader and a data store comprising: sending a selected challenge data value from the reader to the target device multiple times; receiving at the reader the respective response data value generated by the target device in response to each instance of the challenge data value sent by the reader; determining a representative response data value from the response data values received by the reader; comparing the representative response data value against the response data values in the respective challenge-response data set; and determining that the target device is authentic if the representative data value matches any one of the response data values from a respective challenge-response data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Liang Lu, Jiang Wu, Maire O'Neill