Patents by Inventor Panu Hamalainen

Panu Hamalainen 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 and arrangement for real-time betting with an off-line terminal
    Patent number: 8037313
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to a method and arrangement for real-time betting with an off-line terminal, and especially to the technological field of keeping reliable time in the off-line terminal when handling, within a communications system comprising a distributed domain and a central domain, electronic records that contain predictions of the outcome of a certain incident. Within the distributed domain a multitude of electronic records that contain predictions of the outcome of the incident are generated and furnished with a cryptographically protected proof of a certain moment of the distributed domain's local time associated with the generation of the electronic record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Innoka Oy
    Inventors: Panu Hämäläinen, Marko Hännikäinen, Timo D. Hämäläinen
  • Method and arrangement for real-time betting with an off-line terminal
    Publication number: 20090300363
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to a method and arrangement for real-time betting with an off-line terminal, and especially to the technological field of keeping reliable time in the off-line terminal when handling, within a communications system comprising a distributed domain and a central domain, electronic records that contain predictions of the outcome of a certain incident. Within the distributed domain a multitude of electronic records that contain predictions of the outcome of the incident are generated and furnished with a cryptographically protected proof of a certain moment of the distributed domain's local time associated with the generation of the electronic record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Panu Hamalainen, Marko Hännikäinen, Timo D. Hämäläinen