Patents by Inventor Roderick William MacDonald

Roderick William MacDonald 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: 20130275547
    Abstract: Providing tailored supplemental content to a user in a Network Address Translation (NAT) environment is described. Network traffic from a user to a supplemental content provider is monitored within a first network and a supplemental content identifier (ID) is identified in the monitored traffic and linked to a profile of the device or user of the device. A supplemental content provider on a second network receives a request for supplemental content that includes the supplemental content ID and uses the received supplemental content ID to retrieve the profile linked to the supplemental content ID. Supplemental content may then be generated or retrieved based on the retrieved profile and returned to the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: KINDSIGHT INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Boon Ling Chew, Roderick William Macdonald, Russell Offen, Richard Kenneth Algernon Chin
  • Publication number: 20120310941
    Abstract: A web mapping system and method are described. The web map system receives a content pointer and provides a category result associated with the content pointer. The category result is determined by successively selecting and applying one of a plurality of categorization algorithms that each attempt to provide a category result for a URL based on a plurality of rules. If no category result is determined, the content pointer may be passed to a categorization manager to generate a rule for the content pointer so that subsequent categorization requests for the content pointer will result in a category result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: KINDSIGHT, INC.
    Inventors: Roderick William MacDonald, Hao Tang, Haijun Cao, Kumaran Sangareddi
  • Publication number: 20110010563
    Abstract: A system, a method and a computer readable medium for anonymizing collected data associated with one or more data owners is provided. An identifier is received and a hash process is performed using the identifier and a cryptographic salt to produce a hash output. The hash output is associated with an anonymous identifier. The anonymous identifier is then associated with the data. The anonymized data may then be provided to one or more third party processors for processing an analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: KINDSIGHT, INC.
    Inventors: Denny Lung Sun Lee, Michael Gassewitz, Rob Gaudet, Kelvin Edmison, Roderick William Macdonald
  • Patent number: 7406260
    Abstract: A method and system for network wide fault isolation in an optical network are described. A single fault in a network can produce a large number of alarms at different points in an optical network. The described method and system identify the root cause alarm while masking all correlated alarms. In the embodiment of the invention, the method and system are based on a wavelength tracker technology allowing identification and tracking of individual channels in the optical network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent Canada Inc.
    Inventor: Roderick William MacDonald