Patents by Inventor Philip B. Hawthorne

Philip B. Hawthorne 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).

  • Patent number: 11785274
    Abstract: The systems and method disclosed herein address introduce identifiers within the individual entitlement management messages (EMMs) addressed to that client that uniquely identify the combination of system and subscriber account to which the client is deployed, and use of them to issue automatic ‘factory reset’ behavior when the client is re-authorized for the new subscriber. In one embodiment, the EMM messages used to trigger the reset behavior are cryptographically signed specifically for the individual client to ensure that such a message cannot be maliciously sent by an untrusted third party. The facility to deliver such a message is already available within the conditional access system (CAS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Philip B. Hawthorne
  • Patent number: 11218329
    Abstract: A system and method for of providing secure communication between a client device having a non-volatile read only memory and a first server is disclosed. One embodiment is evidenced by a method that comprises determining if a generation of a certificate is complete, the certificate generated in the client device and having a public key generated from a private key, providing the generated certificate to the first server to authenticate the client device if the generation of the certificate is complete, and retrieving a fallback certificate from the non-volatile read only memory and providing the fallback certificate to the first server to ephemerally authenticate the client device until the generated certificate is provided to the first server if the generation of the certificate is not complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Silas Parker, Philip B. Hawthorne
  • Publication number: 20200322668
    Abstract: The systems and method disclosed herein address introduce identifiers within the individual entitlement management messages (EMMs) addressed to that client that uniquely identify the combination of system and subscriber account to which the client is deployed, and use of them to issue automatic ‘factory reset’ behavior when the client is re-authorized for the new subscriber. In one embodiment, the EMM messages used to trigger the reset behavior are cryptographically signed specifically for the individual client to ensure that such a message cannot be maliciously sent by an untrusted third party. The facility to deliver such a message is already available within the conditional access system (CAS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Philip B. Hawthorne
  • Publication number: 20200267005
    Abstract: A system and method for of providing secure communication between a client device having a non-volatile read only memory and a first server is disclosed. One embodiment is evidenced by a method that comprises determining if a generation of a certificate is complete, the certificate generated in the client device and having a public key generated from a private key, providing the generated certificate to the first server to authenticate the client device if the generation of the certificate is complete, and retrieving a fallback certificate from the non-volatile read only memory and providing the fallback certificate to the first server to ephemerally authenticate the client device until the generated certificate is provided to the first server if the generation of the certificate is not complete.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Silas Parker, Philip B. Hawthorne