Patents by Inventor Mark Anthony Curtis

Mark Anthony Curtis 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).

  • Method for certifying and verifying digital web content using public cryptography
    Patent number: 8352379
    Abstract: There is provided a method of, computer programs for and apparatus for providing and accessing digital content such as a news item. A news provider generates a news item, creates a digitally signed version of the news item and packages them together with a digital certificate issued by a certificate authority containing the public key required to decrypt the digitally signed version. The package is posted to a server and is transmitted, or made available or transmission, over a public data network together with a computer program for verifying the news item. A receiving party receives, over the public data network, the package at a client device and is provided with means for launching, and if necessary first downloading, the verifying program. The verifying program uses the public key contained in the certificate to verify the digitally signed news item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Reuters Limited
    Inventors: Nicholas Fulton, James Matthew Butler, Mark Anthony Curtis, David Parrott, Miles Jonathan Whitehead, Hui Wu
  • Method for certifying and verifying digital web content using public cryptography
    Publication number: 20030158823
    Abstract: There is provided a method of, computer programs for and apparatus for providing and accessing digital content such as a news item. A news provider generates a news item, creates a digitally signed version of the news item and packages them together with a digital certificate issued by a certificate authority containing the public key required to decrypt the digitally signed version. The package is posted to a server and is transmitted, or made available or transmission, over a public data network together with a computer program for verifying the news item. A receiving party receives, over the public data network, the package at a client device and is provided with means for launching, and if necessary first downloading, the verifying program. The verifying program uses the public key contained in the certificate to verify the digitally signed news item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Nicholas Fulton, James Matthew Butler, Mark Anthony Curtis, David parrott, Miles Jonathan Whitehead, Hui Wu