Patents by Inventor Thomas Harwood
Thomas Harwood 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: 20190050598Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing data and performing logical comparisons and other operations on said data, the results of said comparisons and operations reveal only limited information about the stored data. Stored data may include, but is not limited to, confidential information such as passwords, biometric data, credit card data, personal identifiers that uniquely identify an individual, authorisation levels where an entity may make a claim to have a certain level of access right or authorisation, votes cast in an election, and encryption keys. Control logic within the apparatus prevents direct access to the data store other than via a restricted command interface which prevents data from being revealed. For example, operations such as checking a putative password against a password in the data store is performed by the apparatus which returns a pass or fail, but does not reveal the stored password.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: William Thomas HARWOOD, Roger Alan GROSS
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Patent number: 9744515Abstract: PFRs for running multiphasic processes are disclosed. The PFRs are single or multi-chamber devices having at least three types of regions (a liquid-contacting region, a gas-contacting region and a Ssquid-coSection region), and a porous substrate providing fluid communication at least between the liquid-contacting and gas-contacting regions. Removal of liquid from the porous substrate, such as by collecting the liquid as it flows off the bottom of the porous substrate in the Siquid-coSSection region or such as by evaporation of the liquid from the porous substrate in the evaporation region supports a continuous flow process. Methods of using the PFRs are also disclosed, for example methods of using the PFRs as photobioreactors for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms, for producing fermentable sugars, for producing ethanol, for fermenting synthesis gas and producing single cell protein from natural gas.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Calysta, Inc.Inventors: Marc Gregor Von Keitz, Jimmy Lee Gosse, Stefan Thust, Thomas Harwood
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Publication number: 20170053137Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing data and performing logical comparisons and other operations on said data, the results of said comparisons and operations reveal only limited information about the stored data. Stored data may include, but is not limited to, confidential information such as passwords, biometric data, credit card data, personal identifiers that uniquely identify an individual, authorisation levels where an entity may make a claim to have a certain level of access right or authorisation, votes cast in an election, and encryption keys. Control logic within the apparatus prevents direct access to the data store other than via a restricted command interface which prevents data from being revealed. For example, operations such as checking a putative password against a password in the data store is performed by the apparatus which returns a pass or fail, but does not reveal the stored password.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Inventors: William Thomas HARWOOD, Roger Alan GROSS
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Patent number: 9521132Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing data and performing logical comparisons and other operations on said data, the results of said comparisons and operations reveal only limited information about the stored data. Stored data may include, but is not limited to, confidential information such as passwords, biometric data, credit card data, personal identifiers that uniquely identify an individual, authorization levels where an entity may make a claim to have a certain level of access right or authorization, votes cast in an election, and encryption keys. Control logic within the apparatus prevents direct access to the data store other than via a restricted command interface which prevents data from being revealed. For example, operations such as checking a putative password against a password in the data store is performed by the apparatus which returns a pass or fail, but does not reveal the stored password.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: SILICON SAFE LIMITEDInventors: William Thomas Harwood, Roger Alan Gross
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Publication number: 20150046998Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing data and performing logical comparisons and other operations on said data, the results of said comparisons and operations reveal only limited information about the stored data. Stored data may include, but is not limited to, confidential information such as passwords, biometric data, credit card data, personal identifiers that uniquely identify an individual, authorisation levels where an entity may make a claim to have a certain level of access right or authorisation, votes cast in an election, and encryption keys. Control logic within the apparatus prevents direct access to the data store other than via a restricted command interface which prevents data from being revealed. For example, operations such as checking a putative password against a password in the data store is performed by the apparatus which returns a pass or fail, but does not reveal the stored password.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: SILICON SAFE LIMITEDInventors: William Thomas HARWOOD, Roger Alan GROSS
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Publication number: 20140323694Abstract: PFRs for running multiphasic processes are disclosed. The PFRs are single or multi-chamber devices having at least three types of regions (a liquid-contacting region, a gas-contacting region and a liquid-collection region), and a porous substrate providing fluid communication at least between the liquid-contacting and gas-contacting regions. Removal of liquid from the porous substrate, such as by collecting the liquid as it flows off the bottom of the porous substrate in the liquid-collection region or such as by evaporation of the liquid from the porous substrate in the evaporation region supports a continuous flow process. Methods of using the PFRs are also disclosed, for example methods of using the PFRs as photobioreactors for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms, for producing fermentable sugars, for producing ethanol, for fermenting synthesis gas and producing single cell protein from natural gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Marc Gregor Von Keitz, Jimmy Lee Gosse, Stefan Thust, Thomas Harwood
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Patent number: 8024407Abstract: In a method for providing access to resources, a virtual world application executing on a first server transmits, to a client, data representative of at least one virtual world object. The virtual world application receives, from the client, a request to access a resource executed on a second server. The virtual world application requests access to the requested resource and, in response, receives output data generated by the resource. The virtual world application transmits, to the client, the received output data and data representative of a second virtual world object. In some aspects, the virtual world application receives a request to render, on a virtual world object, output data generated by a resource executed on the client. An agent intercepts the output data generated by the resource executed on the client. A virtual world client applies the intercepted output data as a texture to a virtual world object.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2007Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventors: William Thomas Harwood, Hugh Tonks