Patents by Inventor PAUL A. RAGONE

PAUL A. RAGONE 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: 20200395107
    Abstract: A method controls a modification of an adjustable device. A system establishes a circle of trust for a plurality of devices, where at least one of the plurality of devices is an adjustment control device for adjusting an adjustable device. Operations of the adjustment control device are controlled via a blockchain, where the blockchain must approve the adjustment control device before an adjustment of the adjustable device is performed by the adjustment control device. The system receives an approval from the blockchain for the adjustment control device to adjust the adjustable device, and the adjustment control device adjusts the adjustable device in response to receiving the approval from the blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: ADAM L. GRIFFIN, SRINIVAS B. TUMMALAPENTA, NIKHILKUMAR V. SHAH, HUYANH D. NGO, PAUL A. RAGONE
  • Publication number: 20200052882
    Abstract: A method manages software images in a blockchain-based environment of trusted devices. A trusted device creates a software image for sharing among members of a set of trusted devices that includes the trusted device. A blockchain mechanism stores the software image on a virtual machine that is in communication with the set of trusted devices, where the blockchain mechanism uses the set of trusted devices as peer members of the blockchain mechanism. A trusted device from the set of trusted devices receives, via the virtual machine, an access request for the software image from a requesting device from the set of trusted devices. The blockchain mechanism authorizes the access request by providing the software image to the requesting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: SRINIVAS B. TUMMALAPENTA, ADAM L. GRIFFIN, NIKHILKUMAR V. SHAH, HUYANH D. NGO, PAUL A. RAGONE