Patents by Inventor Steven Mark Eker

Steven Mark Eker 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).

  • System and method for authenticating a manufactured product with a mobile device
    Patent number: 8534544
    Abstract: A system and method for authenticating an individual item of a manufactured product with a mobile computing device includes generating a first identifier including an at least partially random visual feature on the item during manufacture of the item, and generating a second identifier associated with the item, where the second identifier is cryptographically related to the first identifier. One or more digital images of the first and second identifiers may be created by a camera of the mobile computing device. The digital images may be used to validate the authenticity of the item at the mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Steven Mark Eker, Patrick D. Lincoln
  • System and method for authenticating a manufactured product with a mobile device
    Patent number: 8534543
    Abstract: A system and method for authenticating an individual item of a manufactured product with a mobile computing device includes generating a first identifier including an at least partially random visual feature on the item during manufacture of the item, and generating a second identifier associated with the item, where the second identifier is cryptographically related to the first identifier. One or more digital images of the first and second identifiers may be created by a camera of the mobile computing device. The digital images may be used to validate the authenticity of the item at the mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Steven Mark Eker, Patrick D. Lincoln
  • Method and apparatus for processing network packets
    Patent number: 7706378
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring and detecting strings of interest to effect intrusion detection, packet filtering, load balancing, routing, and other network-related operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Patrick Denis Lincoln, Steven Mark Eker
  • Modeling and evaluation metabolic reaction pathways and culturing cells
    Patent number: 7308363
    Abstract: Biological and chemical systems are represented as a symbolic model. Minimal sets of elements of the system are identified from the model, for example, by automatic inference. The model can be constructed from Boolean propositions that are mapped to a binary decision diagram. The model can also be probed using a branch and bound algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Steven Mark Eker, Patrick Denis Lincoln, Peter D. Karp, Pedro Romero
  • Method and apparatus for processing network packets
    Publication number: 20040179477
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring and detecting strings of interest to effect intrusion detection, packet filtering, load balancing, routing, and other network-related operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Patrick Denis Lincoln, Steven Mark Eker
  • Modeling reaction pathways
    Publication number: 20030154003
    Abstract: Biological and chemical systems are represented as a symbolic model. Minimal sets of elements of the system are identified from the model, for example, by automatic inference. The model can be constructed from Boolean propositions that are mapped to a binary decision diagram. The model can also be probed using a branch and bound algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Steven Mark Eker, Patrick Denis Lincoln