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).

  • Publication number: 20260017402
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 15, 2026
    Applicant: comforte AG
    Inventors: Michael HORST, Robert MOL
  • Patent number: 12155749
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: COMFORTE AG
    Inventors: Henning Horst, Michael Horst
  • Patent number: 11568076
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: COMFORTE AG
    Inventors: Henning Horst, Michael Horst
  • Patent number: 10929151
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: COMFORTE AG
    Inventors: Michael Horst, Henning Horst
  • Publication number: 20200351079
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: COMFORTE AG
    Inventors: Henning HORST, Michael HORST
  • Patent number: 10744925
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Horst
  • Publication number: 20190362093
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: COMFORTE AG
    Inventors: Henning HORST, Michael HORST
  • Patent number: 10345821
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD
    Inventors: Michael Horst, Ralf Moeller, Florian Patzelt
  • Publication number: 20190138326
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Horst, Henning Horst
  • Publication number: 20180052471
    Abstract: 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) are
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Michael HORST, Ralf MOELLER, Florian PATZELT
  • Patent number: 9047461
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: COMFORTE 21 GMBH
    Inventor: Michael Horst
  • Publication number: 20140150086
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: comForte 21 GmbH
    Inventor: Michael HORST