Patents by Inventor Satya Prakash Sharma
Satya Prakash Sharma 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).
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Publication number: 20210110061Abstract: Authorized access to a digital asset is obtained by associating an authentication tag with a physical object accessible to a user, by configuring the tag with a first dataset comprised of a random distribution of three-dimensional elements and with a second dataset comprised of machine-readable data elements, and by authorizing a mobile device to scan the elements. The first and second datasets together comprise an authentication key that uniquely identifies the object and, in turn, the user. The authentication key is scanned by a device in response to a prompt from the digital asset to obtain scanned key data. Predetermined key data and a device identifier indicative of the authorized device are stored in a database. Access to the digital asset is allowed when the scanned key data matches the stored predetermined key data, and when the device scanning the data is authorized.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Satya Prakash SHARMA, Joseph MARINO
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Patent number: 10885220Abstract: Authorized access to a digital asset is obtained by associating an authentication tag with a physical object accessible to a user, by configuring the tag with a first dataset comprised of a random distribution of three-dimensional elements and with a second dataset comprised of machine-readable data elements, and by authorizing a mobile device to scan the elements. The first and second datasets together comprise an authentication key that uniquely identifies the object and, in turn, the user. The authentication key is scanned by a device in response to a prompt from the digital asset to obtain scanned key data. Predetermined key data and a device identifier indicative of the authorized device are stored in a database. Access to the digital asset is allowed when the scanned key data matches the stored predetermined key data, and when the device scanning the data is authorized.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: ZORTAG INC.Inventors: Satya Prakash Sharma, Joseph Marino
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Patent number: 10558979Abstract: Unauthorized products are prevented from being sold on online websites. Product identifier keys and private authentication keys are stored in a database of an authentication server. Each identifier key serves as an address for its corresponding authentication key in the database. A product and a security seal are displayed on a webpage served by a website. An identifier key and an authentication key for the displayed product are encoded into the security seal. In response to selecting the security seal, the website extracts the encoded identifier key and authentication keys, and sends them to the database. The authentication server determines whether the displayed product is genuine and authorized when a match is made between the extracted keys and the stored keys.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Zortag, Inc.Inventors: Satya Prakash Sharma, Joseph Marino
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Publication number: 20190228178Abstract: Authorized access to a digital asset is obtained by associating an authentication tag with a physical object accessible to a user, by configuring the tag with a first dataset comprised of a random distribution of three-dimensional elements and with a second dataset comprised of machine-readable data elements, and by authorizing a mobile device to scan the elements. The first and second datasets together comprise an authentication key that uniquely identifies the object and, in turn, the user. The authentication key is scanned by a device in response to a prompt from the digital asset to obtain scanned key data. Predetermined key data and a device identifier indicative of the authorized device are stored in a database. Access to the digital asset is allowed when the scanned key data matches the stored predetermined key data, and when the device scanning the data is authorized.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2018Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Satya Prakash SHARMA, Joseph MARINO
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Patent number: 10192084Abstract: Objects are identified by authentication tags, each configured with an authentication key that includes a first dataset comprised of a random distribution of three-dimensional elements, and with a second dataset comprised of machine-readable data elements. The authentication keys are readable by image capture and/or RFID reading devices, at least one of which is authorized to read at least one of the keys under predetermined conditions. An object is deemed genuine when the device reading a key has been authorized, and when the reading is performed when the conditions have been met.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Zortag, Inc.Inventors: Satya Prakash Sharma, Joseph Marino, Charles Gary Furedy
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Patent number: 10192155Abstract: Light-modifying elements of a multi-dimensional barcode are arranged along first and second directions that are orthogonal to each other in a pattern that stores first and second quantities of information stored in the barcode. Some of the elements have different elevations along a third direction that is orthogonal to the first and second directions to store a third quantity of the information. Some of the elements are colored to store a fourth quantity of the information. A surrounding medium at least partially encases at least some of the elements. The surrounding medium has a characteristic that stores a fifth quantity of the information.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Zortag, Inc.Inventors: Satya Prakash Sharma, Joseph Marino
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Publication number: 20180121775Abstract: Light-modifying elements of a multi-dimensional barcode are arranged along first and second directions that are orthogonal to each other in a pattern that stores first and second quantities of information stored in the barcode. Some of the elements have different elevations along a third direction that is orthogonal to the first and second directions to store a third quantity of the information. Some of the elements are colored to store a fourth quantity of the information. A surrounding medium at least partially encases at least some of the elements. The surrounding medium has a characteristic that stores a fifth quantity of the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2016Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Satya Prakash SHARMA, Joseph MARINO
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Publication number: 20170206574Abstract: Unauthorized products are prevented from being sold on online websites. Product identifier keys and private authentication keys are stored in a database of an authentication server. Each identifier key serves as an address for its corresponding authentication key in the database. A product and a security seal are displayed on a webpage served by a website. An identifier key and an authentication key for the displayed product are encoded into the security seal. In response to selecting the security seal, the website extracts the encoded identifier key and authentication keys, and sends them to the database. The authentication server determines whether the displayed product is genuine and authorized when a match is made between the extracted keys and the stored keys.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Satya Prakash SHARMA, Joseph MARINO
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Patent number: 9563831Abstract: A method of, and a system and a label for, authenticating an object in situ create an authentication pattern signature for the object to be authenticated, associate a random distribution of multiple, three-dimensional elements with the object, aim a portable, handheld, image capture device at the object to capture return light from the elements as a single image, verify from the single image that the elements are three-dimensional, process the single image to generate an image pattern of the elements, compare the image pattern with the authentication pattern signature, and indicate that the object is authentic when the image pattern matches the authentication pattern signature.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: ZORTAG, INC.Inventors: Satya Prakash Sharma, Xianfeng Gu, Robert James Hart
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Patent number: 9292717Abstract: The present invention refers to an apparatus for forming and reading an identification feature on or in an object. The apparatus comprises a formation unit for physically forming an identification feature on or in an object, at least one reading unit adapted to read the identification feature to form a signature, and a housing, wherein the formation unit and the at least one reading unit are both contained in the housing. The at least one reading unit can comprise at least two reading elements. The identification feature can comprise an identification feature based on inherent disorder. The invention also refers to a method of forming and reading an identification feature on or in an object.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Inventors: Peter Malcolm Moran, Narayan Numbudiri, Winston Cheng Lock Tan, Satya Prakash Sharma, Adrian Paul Burden
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Patent number: 9247041Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an adaptor that presents information from an inherent disorder feature as an optical signal. The adaptor is configured to direct the optical signal onto an optical processing unit built into a camera of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone, to generate an image usable to identify an object. The adaptor is configured to be user attachable to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: BILCARE TECHNOLOGIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.Inventors: Peter Malcolm Moran, Narayan Nambudiri, Satya Prakash Sharma
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Patent number: 9183056Abstract: A system, and computer usable program product for expanding memory size are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A desired size of an expanded memory and a first information about a workload in the data processing system are received. A size of a compressed memory pool to use with the memory to make the desired size of the expanded memory available is computed. A representation of the memory is configured, the representation of the memory appearing to be of a size larger than the size of the memory, the representation of the memory being the expanded memory, and the size of the representation being the size of the expanded memory. The expanded memory is made available such that the memory in the data processing system is usable by addressing the expanded memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: David Alan Hepkin, Satya Prakash Sharma, Saurabh Nath Sharma, Randall Craig Swanberg
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Publication number: 20150269469Abstract: A method of, and a system and a label for, authenticating an object in situ create an authentication pattern signature for the object to be authenticated, associate a random distribution of multiple, three-dimensional elements with the object, aim a portable, handheld, image capture device at the object to capture return light from the elements as a single image, verify from the single image that the elements are three-dimensional, process the single image to generate an image pattern of the elements, compare the image pattern with the authentication pattern signature, and indicate that the object is authentic when the image pattern matches the authentication pattern signature.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: Zortag, Inc.Inventors: Satya Prakash Sharma, Xianfeng Gu, Robert James Hart
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Patent number: 9082062Abstract: A method of, and a system and a label for, authenticating an object in situ create an authentication pattern signature for the object to be authenticated, associate a random distribution of multiple, three-dimensional elements with the object, aim a portable, handheld, image capture device at the object to capture return light from the elements as a single image, verify from the single image that the elements are three-dimensional, process the single image to generate an image pattern of the elements, compare the image pattern with the authentication pattern signature, and indicate that the object is authentic when the image pattern matches the authentication pattern signature.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: ZORTAG, INC.Inventors: Satya Prakash Sharma, Xianfeng Gu, Robert James Hart
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Publication number: 20150126244Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an adaptor that presents information from an inherent disorder feature as an optical signal. The adaptor is configured to direct the optical signal onto an optical processing unit built into a camera of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone, to generate an image usable to identify an object. The adaptor is configured to be user attachable to the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2012Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: BILCARE TECHNOLOGIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.Inventors: Peter Malcolm Moran, Narayan Nambudiri, Satya Prakash Sharma
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Publication number: 20140195768Abstract: A system, and computer usable program product for expanding memory size are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A desired size of an expanded memory and a first information about a workload in the data processing system are received. A size of a compressed memory pool to use with the memory to make the desired size of the expanded memory available is computed. A representation of the memory is configured, the representation of the memory appearing to be of a size larger than the size of the memory, the representation of the memory being the expanded memory, and the size of the representation being the size of the expanded memory. The expanded memory is made available such that the memory in the data processing system is usable by addressing the expanded memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Alan Hepkin, Satya Prakash Sharma, Saurabh Nath Sharma, Randall Craig Swanberg
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Patent number: 8714442Abstract: A system and method for securing articles of commerce passing through points along a supply chain against theft, diversion, product overruns, counterfeiting and like unauthorized activity, capture authentication information and identification information associated with the articles with an interrogation device at one or more points in the supply chain. The articles may be authenticated from the captured authentication information as being authorized or unauthorized at each point, and may be identified from the captured identification information at each point. Transactional information about the article, e.g., authorized/unauthorized status and a time and place of the authentication, is reported to a brand manager/law enforcement.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Zortag IncInventors: Satya Prakash Sharma, Robert James Hart
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Patent number: 8712873Abstract: A system and method for remotely auditing inventoried assets, particularly those financed by asset-based inventory lending, by capturing unique, non-clonable, auditing information with an interrogation device at an inventory location to indicate whether each asset is present or absent at the inventory location, and by sending inventory information about such assets based on the captured auditing information to an auditor.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Zortag, Inc.Inventors: Satya Prakash Sharma, Robert James Hart
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Patent number: 8695011Abstract: Functionality is implemented to determine that a plurality of multi-core processing units of a system are configured in accordance with a plurality of operating performance modes. It is determined that a first of the plurality of operating performance modes satisfies a first performance criterion that corresponds to a first workload of a first logical partition of the system. Accordingly, the first logical partition is associated with a first set of the plurality of multi-core processing units that are configured in accordance with the first operating performance mode. It is determined that a second of the plurality of operating performance modes satisfies a second performance criterion that corresponds to a second workload of a second logical partition of the system. Accordingly, the second logical partition is associated with a second set of the plurality of multi-core processing units that are configured in accordance with the second operating performance mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Diane G. Flemming, William A. Maron, Ram Raghavan, Satya Prakash Sharma, Mysore S. Srinivas
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Patent number: 8677371Abstract: Functionality is implemented to determine that a plurality of multi-core processing units of a system are configured in accordance with a plurality of operating performance modes. It is determined that a first of the plurality of operating performance modes satisfies a first performance criterion that corresponds to a first workload of a first logical partition of the system. Accordingly, the first logical partition is associated with a first set of the plurality of multi-core processing units that are configured in accordance with the first operating performance mode. It is determined that a second of the plurality of operating performance modes satisfies a second performance criterion that corresponds to a second workload of a second logical partition of the system. Accordingly, the second logical partition is associated with a second set of the plurality of multi-core processing units that are configured in accordance with the second operating performance mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2009Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Diane G. Flemming, William A. Maron, Ram Raghavan, Satya Prakash Sharma, Mysore S. Srinivas