Patents by Inventor Richard Bruno

Richard Bruno 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: 20220156777
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method including establishing a worldwide rewards program with a digital network for receiving credit card holder member data and providing interactive services and functions to members, contracting with companies on a participation basis for funding the credit card holder member rewards, awarding rewards purchase points to a credit card holder member for use in redeeming rewards, offering purchases of contracted companies products including vehicles using credit card holder member points for redemption purchases, and personalizing member data authorized by members using a rewards digital device application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: Richard Bruno Muller
  • Patent number: 11133924
    Abstract: Disclosed examples decrypt a first block of sequential blocks using a first decryption key generated based on a first hash of a second decryption key and bit stream data, the first decryption key associated with the first block of the sequential blocks to generate a first segment of a band entropy coded bit stream; generate a third decryption key for a second block of the sequential blocks based on a second hash of the first decryption key and data of the first block of the sequential blocks; decrypt the second block of the sequential blocks using the third decryption key associated with the second block of the sequential blocks to generate a second segment of the band entropy coded bit stream; and merge the first and second segments of the band entropy coded bit stream to generate a source data bit stream using a bit mask for demultiplexing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Bruno
  • Publication number: 20200258107
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method including establishing a worldwide rewards program with a digital network for receiving credit card holder member data and providing interactive services and functions to members, contracting with companies on a participation basis for funding the credit card holder member rewards, awarding rewards purchase points to a credit card holder member for use in redeeming rewards, offering purchases of contracted companies products including vehicles using credit card holder member points for redemption purchases, and personalizing member data authorized by members using a rewards digital device application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Richard Bruno Muller
  • Publication number: 20200177367
    Abstract: Disclosed examples decrypt a first block of sequential blocks using a first decryption key generated based on a first hash of a second decryption key and bit stream data, the first decryption key associated with the first block of the sequential blocks to generate a first segment of a band entropy coded bit stream; generate a third decryption key for a second block of the sequential blocks based on a second hash of the first decryption key and data of the first block of the sequential blocks; decrypt the second block of the sequential blocks using the third decryption key associated with the second block of the sequential blocks to generate a second segment of the band entropy coded bit stream; and merge the first and second segments of the band entropy coded bit stream to generate a source data bit stream using a bit mask for demultiplexing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Richard Bruno
  • Patent number: 10567164
    Abstract: A disclosed example separates a source data bit stream into at least a high bit stream and a low bit stream, the high bit stream and the low bit stream associated with an entropy band having an entropy designation indicating a level of entropy content, the entropy designation selected from an entropy designation range between a high entropy designation and a low entropy designation; entropy code the high bit stream and the low bit stream separately; create the at least two band entropy coded bit streams; generate a bit mask with a hash, the hash having inputs of at least a strong encryption key and selected data that is from the source data bit stream, the selected data not encrypted during any encryption process; merge the at least two band entropy coded bit streams into a resultant band entropy coded bit stream based on a sequence of at least one indexed value obtained from the bit mask; and at least one of store or share the resultant band entropy coded bit stream in a same file format as the source data b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Bruno
  • Publication number: 20190253236
    Abstract: A disclosed example separates a source data bit stream into at least a high bit stream and a low bit stream, the high bit stream and the low bit stream associated with an entropy band having an entropy designation indicating a level of entropy content, the entropy designation selected from an entropy designation range between a high entropy designation and a low entropy designation; entropy code the high bit stream and the low bit stream separately; create the at least two band entropy coded bit streams; generate a bit mask with a hash, the hash having inputs of at least a strong encryption key and selected data that is from the source data bit stream, the selected data not encrypted during any encryption process; merge the at least two band entropy coded bit streams into a resultant band entropy coded bit stream based on a sequence of at least one indexed value obtained from the bit mask; and at least one of store or share the resultant band entropy coded bit stream in a same file format as the source data b
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventor: Richard Bruno
  • Patent number: 10356071
    Abstract: A technique allows for transparently managing, suspending, restoring, sharing, limiting and migrating user sessions on a device without having access to user credentials. A user may automatically log in and out of each or all their online accounts instantaneously and, in doing so, the user may share sessions without sharing passwords across client devices as well as with other authenticated and authorized users. Sharing may be done in a secure manner with the initiating-user being able to restrict shared session rights, as well as being able to remove access to each of the shared sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Whiteside, Richard Bruno, Richard Reiner
  • Patent number: 10270590
    Abstract: A pre-encryption process for symmetric encryption processes that inputs a bit stream into any existing or future encryption standard to increase encryption complexity with a disproportionate increase in processing time. The first encoding step is the two-stage generation of two strong keys based on a seed strong crypto key and known information from the Source Data bit stream. The second step is to split and encode the bit stream based on entropy levels. After entropy coding, the aligned bit streams are multiplexed in a cyclic fashion to generate one resulting bit stream. The third step is to slice the resulting bit stream into blocks, encrypting each block and adding each block to a coded output bit stream. Each new strong crypto key is derived from the previous crypto key and the previous pre-processed bit stream data. The decoding process is provided that is a simplified inverse of the encoding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Bruno
  • Patent number: 9858407
    Abstract: A method and process for users to have secure access to multiple mobile, embedded or web based applications, is provided whereby each requires different authentication, and access to such applications is automated through the use of a single authenticating and authorizing software; the software thereby securely managing the individual authorizations and, in so doing, the authentication required by any individual application independent of the device used. To protect against any intrusion and manipulation while assuring that only legitimate user(s) that are properly authenticated have access to their applications the method secures the secret information required to access these applications and minimizes exposure to any sensitive information. Moreover, any secrets that protect information are themselves secured and made strong and the means of access is simplified and automated as much as possible while safeguarding security and confidentiality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Etienne Caron, Kwaku Zigah, Mathieu René, Richard Bruno
  • Patent number: 9674156
    Abstract: A future proof method and system for securely transferring digital data from a data owner to a data assignee through a third party involving securely registering the data owner possessing the digital data with the third party and securely predefining to the third party a trigger event associated with a data assignee, registering the data assignee with the third party, receiving encrypted digital data and an encrypted trigger event associated with the data assignee transmitted from the data owner to the third party, and securely transferring and releasing the digital data to the at least one data assignee by the third party upon validation by the third party of the occurrence of the trigger event in such a manner that digital data can be used by data assignee on data assignee system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: McAfee, Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Stiglic, Daniel Robichaud, Marc-Antoine Ross, Richard Bruno
  • Publication number: 20170093835
    Abstract: A technique allows for transparently managing, suspending, restoring, sharing, limiting and migrating user sessions on a device without having access to user credentials. A user may automatically log in and out of each or all their online accounts instantaneously and, in doing so, the user may share sessions without sharing passwords across client devices as well as with other authenticated and authorized users. Sharing may be done in a secure manner with the initiating-user being able to restrict shared session rights, as well as being able to remove access to each of the shared sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: GREGORY WHITESIDE, RICHARD BRUNO, RICHARD REINER
  • Publication number: 20160234011
    Abstract: A pre-encryption process for symmetric encryption processes that inputs a bit stream into any existing or future encryption standard to increase encryption complexity with a disproportionate increase in processing time. The first encoding step is the two-stage generation of two strong keys based on a seed strong crypto key and known information from the Source Data bit stream. The second step is to split and encode the bit stream based on entropy levels. After entropy coding, the aligned bit streams are multiplexed in a cyclic fashion to generate one resulting bit stream. The third step is to slice the resulting bit stream into blocks, encrypting each block and adding each block to a coded output bit stream. Each new strong crypto key is derived from the previous crypto key and the previous pre-processed bit stream data. The decoding process is provided that is a simplified inverse of the encoding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventor: Richard Bruno
  • Publication number: 20160103988
    Abstract: A method and process for users to have secure access to multiple mobile, embedded or web based applications, is provided whereby each requires different authentication, and access to such applications is automated through the use of a single authenticating and authorizing software; the software thereby securely managing the individual authorizations and, in so doing, the authentication required by any individual application independent of the device used. To protect against any intrusion and manipulation whilst assuring that only legitimate user(s) that are properly authenticated have access to their applications the method secures the secret information required to access these applications and minimizes exposure to any sensitive information. Moreover, any secrets that protect information are themselves secured and made strong and the means of access is simplified and automated as much as possible whilst safeguarding security and confidentiality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Etienne Caron, Kwaku Zigah, Mathieu René, Richard Bruno
  • Publication number: 20150256336
    Abstract: An end-to-end encryption method is provided for encrypting Digital Data to be made available by a Data Owner to a Data Assignee at some future point in time. The Data Owner shares the coordinates of the Data Assignee and an invitation associated the Data Assignee with a 3rd party. The Data Owner subsequently generates a Secret and encrypts the Digital Data with the Secret. The Secret is then encrypted by Data Owner with the Data Assignee's Public Key, and securely transmitted along with the encrypted Digital Data Set to the 3rd party. The Data Assignee can then obtain the encrypted Digital Data Set and the encrypted Secret from the 3rd party, decrypt the Secret with the Data Assignee Private Key and subsequently decrypt the Digital Data Set with the Secret. All secrets are maintained in a non-discoverable fashion and access to secret information can be rendered securely on multiple systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Anton Stiglic, Daniel Robichaud, Marc-Antoine Ross, Alexandre Cormier, Richard Bruno
  • Publication number: 20150195254
    Abstract: A future proof method and system for securely transferring digital data from a data owner to a data assignee through a third party involving securely registering the data owner possessing the digital data with the third party and securely predefining to the third party a trigger event associated with a data assignee, registering the data assignee with the third party, receiving encrypted digital data and an encrypted trigger event associated with the data assignee transmitted from the data owner to the third party, and securely transferring and releasing the digital data to the at least one data assignee by the third party upon validation by the third party of the occurrence of the trigger event in such a manner that digital data can be used by data assignee on data assignee system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Anton Stiglic, Daniel Robichaud, Marc-Antoine Ross, Richard Bruno
  • Patent number: 7551923
    Abstract: A method for improving the use of a transmission spectrum in a multi-sector wireless communication system includes generating a first signal, processing a first signal with a first Auto Tune Combiner, transmitting the first signal on an antenna associated with a first sector, sampling the first signal with a radio frequency test device, generating a second signal, processing the second signal with a second Auto Tune Combiner, transmitting the second signal on an antenna associated with a second sector, and sampling the second signal with the radio frequency test device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Kraig Keys, Christopher Scott Erwin, Richard Bruno, David Bogart, Martin Chang
  • Patent number: 7200393
    Abstract: An apparatus for improving the use of a transmission spectrum in a wireless communications system. The apparatus includes a first radio source for generating a first signal, a first Auto Tune Combiner for processing the first signal, a first antenna associated with a sector for transmitting the first signal, a first radio frequency test device for sampling the processed first signal and producing a first feedback signal, a second radio source for generating a second signal, a second Auto Tune Combiner for processing the second signal, a second antenna associated with the sector for transmitting the second signal, a second radio frequency test device for sampling the processed second signal and producing a second feedback signal, and a multicoupler for directing the first and second feedback signals to the first and second radio sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Cingular Wireless II, LLC
    Inventors: David Bogart, Martin Chang, Richard Bruno, Christopher Scott Erwin, Kraig Keys
  • Publication number: 20060209817
    Abstract: Telecommunications switching systems that require real-time computer control can be controlled using remotely located computers coupled to the switching systems via data links. By coupling several switching systems to one or more centrally located control computers, maintenance staffing can be reduced while increasing overall system reliability by providing back up control computers in multiple centralized locations. Centrally located control computers can be backed up with redundant computers at the central control site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Richard Bruno, Nicholas De Trana, Craig DeCaluwe, Hossein Eslambolchi, James Gallagher, Paul Greendyk, Patricia Klink, Clayton Lockhart, Gary Martyn
  • Patent number: 7065352
    Abstract: A method for improving the use of a transmission spectrum in a multi-sector wireless communication system includes generating a first signal, processing a first signal with a first Auto Tune Combiner, transmitting the first signal on an antenna associated with a first sector, sampling the first signal with a radio frequency test device, generating a second signal, processing the second signal with a second Auto Tune Combiner, transmitting the second signal on an antenna associated with a second sector, and sampling the second signal with the radio frequency test device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Cingular Wireless II, LLC
    Inventors: David Bogart, Richard Bruno, Martin Chang, Christopher Scott Erwin, Kraig Keys
  • Publication number: 20040204107
    Abstract: An apparatus for improving the use of a transmission spectrum in a wireless communications system. The apparatus includes a first radio source for generating a first signal, a first Auto Tune Combiner for processing the first signal, a first antenna associated with a sector for transmitting the first signal, a first radio frequency test device for sampling the processed first signal and producing a first feedback signal, a second radio source for generating a second signal, a second Auto Tune Combiner for processing the second signal, a second antenna associated with the sector for transmitting the second signal, a second radio frequency test device for sampling the processed second signal and producing a second feedback signal, and a multicoupler for directing the first and second feedback signals to the first and second radio sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: David Bogart, Martin Chang, Richard Bruno, Christopher Scott Erwin, Kraig Keys