Patents by Inventor Peter Reading

Peter Reading 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).

  • Asymmetric permissions in a communications system
    Patent number: 11876759
    Abstract: A communication system comprising a server and a plurality of clients constrained so that in order to communicate with each other by means of the system they must communicate via the server, the server having access to a set of stored communication rules defining permitted and/or non-permitted communications between the clients and the server being configured to, on receiving a message from a first client designating as recipients a second client and a third client, the first client matching a first set of characteristics stored in the communication rules and the second client and the third client being clients who are not permitted to directly communicate according to the communication rules, alter the communication rules to permit the second and third clients to directly communicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Novastone Media Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Reading, Douglas Orr
  • ASYMMETRIC PERMISSIONS IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210075751
    Abstract: A communication system comprising a server and a plurality of clients constrained so that in order to communicate with each other by means of the system they must communicate via the server, the server having access to a set of stored communication rules defining permitted and/or non-permitted communications between the clients and the server being configured to, on receiving a message from a first client designating as recipients a second client and a third client, the first client matching a first set of characteristics stored in the communication rules and the second client and the third client being clients who are not permitted to directly communicate according to the communication rules, alter the communication rules to permit the second and third clients to directly communicate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Peter Reading, Douglas Orr
  • Asymmetric permissions in a communications system
    Patent number: 10841254
    Abstract: A communication system comprising a server and a plurality of clients constrained so that in order to communicate with each other by means of the system they must communicate via the server, the server having access to a set of stored communication rules defining permitted and/or non-permitted communications between the clients and the server being configured to, on receiving a message from a first client designating as recipients a second client and a third client, the first client matching a first set of characteristics stored in the communication rules and the second client and the third client being clients who are not permitted to directly communicate according to the communication rules, alter the communication rules to permit the second and third clients to directly communicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Novastone Media Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Reading, Douglas Orr
  • ASYMMETRIC PERMISSIONS IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200145352
    Abstract: A communication system comprising a server and a plurality of clients constrained so that in order to communicate with each other by means of the system they must communicate via the server, the server having access to a set of stored communication rules defining permitted and/or non-permitted communications between the clients and the server being configured to, on receiving a message from a first client designating as recipients a second client and a third client, the first client matching a first set of characteristics stored in the communication rules and the second client and the third client being clients who are not permitted to directly communicate according to the communication rules, alter the communication rules to permit the second and third clients to directly communicate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Reading, Douglas Orr
  • Asymmetric permissions in a communications system
    Patent number: 10523601
    Abstract: A communication system comprising a server and a plurality of clients constrained so that in order to communicate with each other by means of the system they must communicate via the server, the server having access to a set of stored communication rules defining permitted and/or non-permitted communications between the clients and the server being configured to, on receiving a message from a first client designating as recipients a second client and a third client, the first client matching a first set of characteristics stored in the communication rules and the second client and the third client being clients who are not permitted to directly communicate according to the communication rules, alter the communication rules to permit the second and third clients to directly communicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Novastone Media Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Reading, Douglas Orr
  • ASYMMETRIC PERMISSIONS IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180041452
    Abstract: A communication system comprising a server and a plurality of clients constrained so that in order to communicate with each other by means of the system they must communicate via the server, the server having access to a set of stored communication rules defining permitted and/or non-permitted communications between the clients and the server being configured to, on receiving a message from a first client designating as recipients a second client and a third client, the first client matching a first set of characteristics stored in the communication rules and the second client and the third client being clients who are not permitted to directly communicate according to the communication rules, alter the communication rules to permit the second and third clients to directly communicate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Reading, Douglas Orr