Patents by Inventor Vernon Ralph Austel

Vernon Ralph Austel 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).

  • Patent number: 7188258
    Abstract: A method (and system) for guaranteeing authenticity of an object, includes providing a sample of material obtainable only by at least one of chemical and physical processes such that the sample is random and not reproducible, associating a number reproducibly to the sample by using a specific reader, and forming at least one coded version of the number, the at least one coded version being obtained by a key signature, and the version being recorded into an area of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gaurav Aggarwal, Nabil Mahmoud Amer, Vernon Ralph Austel, Pradeep Kumar Dubey, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Marco Martens, Bruce Albert Scott, Sean William Smith, Charles Philippe Tresser, Robert Jacob von Gutfeld, Steve Harris Weingart, Chai Wah Wu
  • Patent number: 6430561
    Abstract: Access to files by accessing programs, where files comprise other files, programs and data is controlled. An initial access class is assigned to each file and to each accessing program. An access class comprises an integrity access class and a secrecy access class. An integrity access class comprises rules governing modification of data contained in files and a security access class comprises rules governing disclosure of data contained in files. An integrity access class comprises a set of rules for allowing the performance of a read function, and another set of rules for allowing the performance of write/execute function. An execute function comprises transferring and chaining, where chaining comprises starting another process running at potentially different secrecy and integrity access classes. A secrecy access class comprises a set of rules for allowing the performance of a write function, and another set of rules for allowing the performance of read/execute function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vernon Ralph Austel, Paul Ashley Karger, David Claude Toll