Patents by Inventor Patrick Robert Koren

Patrick Robert Koren 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 APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING AND INVESTIGATING SOFTWARE PIRACY
    Publication number: 20240045933
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for curtailing and investigating software piracy is provided. The method includes spawning user applications on a computer without use of a file on the file system. A protected application data source is retrieved by an operating system of the computer from a server and placed into a portion of memory not accessible by at least one application. The operating system also prevents the protected application data source from being written to the file system. In this manner there is no file subject to unauthorized distribution. The protected application data may also be watermarked by ordering at least one of executable functions, function call parameters, and program data according to a license identifier so that any two versions execute the same, but carry an identifier which can be used to trace piracy to the source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Patrick Robert Koren
  • Method and apparatus for preventing and investigating software piracy
    Patent number: 11829454
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for curtailing and investigating software piracy is provided. The method includes spawning user applications on a computer without use of a file on the file system. A protected application data source is retrieved by an operating system of the computer from a server and placed into a portion of memory not accessible by at least one application. The operating system also prevents the protected application data source from being written to the file system. In this manner there is no file subject to unauthorized distribution. The protected application data may also be watermarked by ordering at least one of executable functions, function call parameters, and program data according to a license identifier so that any two versions execute the same, but carry an identifier which can be used to trace piracy to the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Patrick Robert Koren
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING AND INVESTIGATING SOFTWARE PIRACY
    Publication number: 20190278891
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for curtailing and investigating software piracy is provided. The method includes spawning user applications on a computer without use of a file on the file system. A protected application data source is retrieved by an operating system of the computer from a server and placed into a portion of memory not accessible by at least one application. The operating system also prevents the protected application data source from being written to the file system. In this manner there is no file subject to unauthorized distribution. The protected application data may also be watermarked by ordering at least one of executable functions, function call parameters, and program data according to a license identifier so that any two versions execute the same, but carry an identifier which can be used to trace piracy to the source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Patrick Robert Koren
  • Method and apparatus for preventing and investigating software piracy
    Patent number: 9881142
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for curtailing and investigating software piracy is provided. The method includes spawning user applications on a computer without use of a file on the file system. A protected application data source is retrieved by an operating system of the computer from a server and placed into a portion of memory not accessible by at least one application. The operating system also prevents the protected application data source from being written to the file system. In this manner there is no file subject to unauthorized distribution. The protected application data may also be watermarked by ordering at least one of executable functions, function call parameters, and program data according to a license identifier so that any two versions execute the same, but carry an identifier which can be used to trace piracy to the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Patrick Robert Koren
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING AND INVESTIGATING SOFTWARE PIRACY
    Publication number: 20170076072
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for curtailing and investigating software piracy is provided. The method includes spawning user applications on a computer without use of a file on the file system. A protected application data source is retrieved by an operating system of the computer from a server and placed into a portion of memory not accessible by at least one application. The operating system also prevents the protected application data source from being written to the file system. In this manner there is no file subject to unauthorized distribution. The protected application data may also be watermarked by ordering at least one of executable functions, function call parameters, and program data according to a license identifier so that any two versions execute the same, but carry an identifier which can be used to trace piracy to the source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventor: Patrick Robert Koren