Patents by Inventor Patrick T. O'Brien, JR.

Patrick T. O'Brien, JR. 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: 20140359605
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for generating a bundle package, digitally signing the bundle package, selectively disturbing the bundle package, and/or indexing one or more resource packages retrieved from the bundle package. That is, a bundle package (e.g., an application or game bundle package) comprises one or more app packages comprising application code configured to execute on various computing environments (e.g., operating systems, processors, etc.). The bundle package may comprise one or more resource packages comprising supplemental data used to provide optional user experience functionality for the application (e.g., French language support, high resolution textures, a gaming pad support, etc.). In this way, a client device may selectively download portions of the bundle package that may be relevant, which may mitigate download bandwidth, storage space, or resources otherwise used to obtain unnecessary portions of the bundle package (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Leet, Sarjana Sheth, Patrick T. O'Brien, JR., Jack Roger Davis
  • Patent number: 8839446
    Abstract: An archive of an object set may include various security features that enable a detection of alterations of the contents of the objects. However, the security measures of an archive may fail to detect an inadvertent or intentional alteration of the structure of the object set, including the addition of new objects, changes to the metadata (e.g., the name, position within the object set, and location and size within the archive) of respective objects of the object set, and the deletion of directory entries for the objects. Therefore, an archive may be generated with verifiers (e.g., hashcodes) calculated not only for the contents of objects, but for the directory of the archive, and may be included in the signature of the archive. This verification may extend the detecting of alteration of the archive to include the structure of the archive as well as the contents of the objects contained therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Wai Leong Leet, Sarjana Bharat Sheth, Patrick T. O'Brien, Jr., Jack R. Davis
  • Patent number: 8819361
    Abstract: The objects of an archive may be verified with a cryptographic signature stored in the archive. However, when an object is extracted, the authentication involves re-authenticating the entire archive, re-extracting the object, and comparing the extracted object with the current object, which is inefficient or unachievable if the archive is unavailable. Instead, the archive may include a block map signed with the signature and comprising hashcodes for respective blocks of the objects of the archive. When an object is extracted, the signature and block map may also be extracted and stored as objects outside of the archive. The extracted signature and block map may later be verified by authenticating the signature, verifying the block map with the signature, and matching the hashcodes of the block map with those of the blocks of the extracted objects, thus enabling a more efficient and portable verification of extracted object with extracted authentication credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Wai Leong Leet, Sarjana Bharat Sheth, Patrick T. O'Brien, Jr., Jack R. Davis
  • Publication number: 20130067180
    Abstract: The objects of an archive may be verified with a cryptographic signature stored in the archive. However, when an object is extracted, the authentication involves re-authenticating the entire archive, re-extracting the object, and comparing the extracted object with the current object, which is inefficient or unachievable if the archive is unavailable. Instead, the archive may include a block map signed with the signature and comprising hashcodes for respective blocks of the objects of the archive. When an object is extracted, the signature and block map may also be extracted and stored as objects outside of the archive. The extracted signature and block map may later be verified by authenticating the signature, verifying the block map with the signature, and matching the hashcodes of the block map with those of the blocks of the extracted objects, thus enabling a more efficient and portable verification of extracted object with extracted authentication credentials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Wai Leong Leet, Sarjana Bharat Sheth, Patrick T. O'Brien, JR., Jack R. Davis
  • Publication number: 20130067587
    Abstract: An archive of an object set may include various security features that enable a detection of alterations of the contents of the objects. However, the security measures of an archive may fail to detect an inadvertent or intentional alteration of the structure of the object set, including the addition of new objects, changes to the metadata (e.g., the name, position within the object set, and location and size within the archive) of respective objects of the object set, and the deletion of directory entries for the objects. Therefore, an archive may be generated with verifiers (e.g., hashcodes) calculated not only for the contents of objects, but for the directory of the archive, and may be included in the signature of the archive. This verification may extend the detecting of alteration of the archive to include the structure of the archive as well as the contents of the objects contained therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Wai Leong Leet, Sarjana Bharat Sheth, Patrick T. O'Brien, JR., Jack R. Davis
  • Publication number: 20100082974
    Abstract: Documents distributed in parallel are processed. One or more digital document packages are received, where each digital document package includes a content portion and an identity-verification code (IVC) verifying an identity of a source from which the digital document package is received. Each IVC may be a private-key encryption of a content-verification code hashed from the content portion of each digital document package. A master digital document package is created, which includes a master content portion equivalent to the content portion in each unmodified digital document package, and one or more different IVCs, each IVC obtained from a digital document package received from a different source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sarjana Sheth, Justin Slone, Jack Davis, Ruke Huang, Patrick T. O'Brien, JR.