Patents by Inventor Michael HORST
Michael HORST 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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Publication number: 20260017402Abstract: A system for secure processing and storing of sensitive data and non-sensitive data for a tenant in an execution environment of a Software as a Service provider or a Platform as a Service provider is disclosed. In the present disclosure, the sensitive data includes a plaintext sensitive data element. The non-sensitive data does not include a plaintext sensitive data element. The execution environment of the system comprises a general execution area. The general execution area allows full access by the Software or the Platform as a Service provider, and a general application service running in the general execution area, wherein the general application service does not have access to the sensitive data, and wherein the general application service only processes the non-sensitive data. Furthermore, the execution environment of the system comprises a trusted execution area, and a trusted application service running in the trusted execution area.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2024Publication date: January 15, 2026Applicant: comforte AGInventors: Michael HORST, Robert MOL
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Patent number: 12155749Abstract: A computer-implemented method of replacing a security-relevant unencrypted data string by a placeholder. The steps involved include: providing a plurality of mutually different replacement tables, wherein specified in each of the plurality of replacement tables for each character of the alphabet is precisely one replacement character from the same alphabet and wherein the replacement characters in each of the plurality of replacement tables are all different from each other; receiving the security-relevant unencrypted data string, wherein the data string is formed from a plurality of characters of an alphabet; and generating the placeholder replacing the unencrypted data string, and outputting the placeholder. To provide a method which is distinguished by enhanced performance with comparable cryptographic security it is proposed. Generation of the placeholder includes the specifically identified steps.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: COMFORTE AGInventors: Henning Horst, Michael Horst
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Patent number: 11568076Abstract: A computer-implemented method of transferring a data string from an application to a data protection device. To provide a computer-implemented method of transferring a data string from an application to a data protection device that the database query contains the data string and the database query is coded in a database language.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: COMFORTE AGInventors: Henning Horst, Michael Horst
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Patent number: 10929151Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for replacing a data string by a placeholder in a replacement device and, when necessary, for reconstituting the data string from the placeholder in the replacement device. There is a need for a central system for replacing a data string by a placeholder for a whole company which enables all applications to be protected and, when necessary, to have controlled access to sensitive data strings. It is necessary to make possible a central administration but at the same time to offer application-related access points throughout the company without long network communication paths.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: COMFORTE AGInventors: Michael Horst, Henning Horst
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Publication number: 20200351079Abstract: A computer-implemented method of replacing a security-relevant unencrypted data string by a placeholder. The steps involved include: providing a plurality of mutually different replacement tables, wherein specified in each of the plurality of replacement tables for each character of the alphabet is precisely one replacement character from the same alphabet and wherein the replacement characters in each of the plurality of replacement tables are all different from each other; receiving the security-relevant unencrypted data string, wherein the data string is formed from a plurality of characters of an alphabet; and generating the placeholder replacing the unencrypted data string, and outputting the placeholder. To provide a method which is distinguished by enhanced performance with comparable cryptographic security it is proposed. Generation of the placeholder includes the specifically identified steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: COMFORTE AGInventors: Henning HORST, Michael HORST
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Patent number: 10744925Abstract: The present invention is an organizer to be installed in a truck bed of a vehicle. The organizer includes a rectangular base plate. The organizer also includes a first rear plate and a second rear plate hingedly coupled to a rear edge of the base plate. The first rear plate and the second rear plate are arranged side-by-side along a length of rear edge of the base plate. The organizer further includes one or more means for constraining the first rear plate and the second rear plate either relative to each other or to the truck bed for disposing the first rear plate and the second rear plate in open position and closed position independent of each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Inventor: Michael Horst
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Publication number: 20190362093Abstract: A computer-implemented method of transferring a data string from an application to a data protection device. To provide a computer-implemented method of transferring a data string from an application to a data protection device that the database query contains the data string and the database query is coded in a database language.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: COMFORTE AGInventors: Henning HORST, Michael HORST
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Patent number: 10345821Abstract: A self-driving floor-treatment device navigates by recording images at respective locations along a travel path by a camera the device travels to form a topological map in a database to which a node is added by the floor-treatment device for every location at which an image is recorded and to which an environment images is associated. Each newly recorded environment image with at least one neighboring location in limited proximity of the location belonging to the newly recorded environment image for which a node and an associated environment image have been stored in the map by the same or another floor-treatment device. A new connection is added from the newly recorded node to the associated node of each and every identified neighboring location on the topological map.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELDInventors: Michael Horst, Ralf Moeller, Florian Patzelt
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Publication number: 20190138326Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for replacing a data string by a placeholder in a replacement device and, when necessary, for reconstituting the data string from the placeholder in the replacement device. There is a need for a central system for replacing a data string by a placeholder for a whole company which enables all applications to be protected and, when necessary, to have controlled access to sensitive data strings. It is necessary to make possible a central administration but at the same time to offer application-related access points throughout the company without long network communication paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Michael Horst, Henning Horst
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Publication number: 20180052471Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the navigation of at least one self-driving floor treatment device (1, 2, 3, 4), preferably a plurality of floor treatment devices (1, 2, 3, 4), wherein the drives of each floor treatment device (1, 2, 3, 4) are controlled in accordance with obstacle information of obstacles detected by the floor treatment device (1, 2, 3, 4), wherein obstacles are at least formed by real objects, the obstacle information of which is sensed by means of sensors on the particular floor treatment device (1, 2, 3, 4), and wherein each floor treatment device (1, 2, 3, 4) records environment images at points (6) along the motion path at time intervals and/or spatial distances by means of a camera that is carried along, wherein a topological map is formed in a database (5), to which map a node is added by a particular floor treatment device (1, 2, 3, 4) for each point (E, 6) at which an environment image is recorded, with which node at least the environment image is associated, and links (V) areType: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Michael HORST, Ralf MOELLER, Florian PATZELT
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Patent number: 9047461Abstract: A computer-implemented method for replacing a security-relevant unencrypted data string from a data record by a token in a tokenisation device. The method is structured in such a way that it works more efficiently than a replacement table with randomly generated tokens and is more secure than the generation of tokens by exclusive application of a mathematical function to the unencrypted data string.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: COMFORTE 21 GMBHInventor: Michael Horst
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Publication number: 20140150086Abstract: A computer-implemented method for replacing a security-relevant unencrypted data string from a data record by a token in a tokenisation device. The method is structured in such a way that it works more efficiently than a replacement table with randomly generated tokens and is more secure than the generation of tokens by exclusive application of a mathematical function to the unencrypted data string.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: comForte 21 GmbHInventor: Michael HORST