Patents by Inventor W. Olin Sibert
W. Olin Sibert 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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Patent number: 10360411Abstract: A hardware Secure Processing Unit (SPU) is described that can perform both security functions and other information appliance functions using the same set of hardware resources. Because the additional hardware required to support security functions is a relatively small fraction of the overall device hardware, this type of SPU can be competitive with ordinary non-secure CPUs or microcontrollers that perform the same functions. A set of minimal initialization and management hardware and software is added to, e.g., a standard CPU/microcontroller. The additional hardware and/or software creates an SPU environment and performs the functions needed to virtualize the SPU's hardware resources so that they can be shared between security functions and other functions performed by the same CPU.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Intertrust Technologies CorporationInventor: W. Olin Sibert
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Patent number: 10255414Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for protecting a computer program from unauthorized analysis and modification. Obfuscation transformations can be applied to the computer program's local structure, control graph, and/or data structure to render the program more difficult to understand and/or modify. Tamper-resistance mechanisms can be incorporated into the computer program to detect attempts to tamper with the program's operation. Once an attempt to tamper with the computer program is detected, the computer program reports it to an external agent, ceases normal operation, and/or reverses any modifications made by the attempted tampering. The computer program can also be watermarked to facilitate identification of its owner. The obfuscation, tamper-resistance, and watermarking transformations can be applied to the computer program's source code, object code, or executable image.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Intertrust Technologies CorporationInventors: James J. Horning, W. Olin Sibert, Robert E. Tarjan, Umesh Maheshwari, William G. Horne, Andrew K. Wright, Lesley R. Matheson, Susan S. Owicki
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Patent number: 10129222Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a trusted database system that leverages a small amount of trusted storage to secure a larger amount of untrusted storage. Data are encrypted and validated to prevent unauthorized modification or access. Encryption and hashing are integrated with a low-level data model in which data and meta-data are secured uniformly. Synergies between data validation and log-structured storage are exploited.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Intertrust Technologies CorporationInventors: Umesh Maheshwari, Radek Vingralek, W. Olin Sibert
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Patent number: 10002239Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for protecting electronic content from the time it is packaged through the time it is experienced by an end user. Protection against content misuse is accomplished using a combination of encryption, watermark screening, detection of invalid content processing software and hardware, and/or detection of invalid content flows. Encryption protects the secrecy of content while it is being transferred or stored. Watermark screening protects against the unauthorized use of content. Watermark screening is provided by invoking a filter module to examine content for the presence of a watermark before the content is delivered to output hardware or software. The filter module is operable to prevent delivery of the content to the output hardware or software if it detects a predefined protection mark. Invalid content processing software is detected by a monitoring mechanism that validates the software involved in processing protected electronic content.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Intertrust Technologies CorporationInventors: Michael K. MacKay, W. Olin Sibert, Richard A. Landsman, Eric J. Swenson, William Hunt
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Publication number: 20180013731Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a trusted database system that leverages a small amount of trusted storage to secure a larger amount of untrusted storage. Data are encrypted and validated to prevent unauthorized modification or access. Encryption and hashing are integrated with a low-level data model in which data and meta-data are secured uniformly. Synergies between data validation and log-structured storage are exploited.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: Intertrust Technologies CorporationInventors: Umesh Maheshwari, Radek Vingralek, W. Olin Sibert
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Publication number: 20170300670Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for embedding information in software and/or other electronic content such that the information is difficult for an unauthorized party to detect, remove, insert, forge, and/or corrupt. The embedded information can be used to protect electronic content by identifying the content's source, thus enabling unauthorized copies or derivatives to be reliably traced, and thus facilitating effective legal recourse by the content owner. Systems and methods are also disclosed for protecting, detecting, removing, and decoding information embedded in electronic content, and for using the embedded information to protect software or other media from unauthorized analysis, attack, and/or modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: Intertrust Technologies CorporationInventors: William G. HORNE, Umesh MAHESHWARI, Robert E. TARJAN, James J. HORNING, W. Olin SIBERT, Lesley R. MATHESON, Andrew K. WRIGHT, Susan S. OWICKI
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Publication number: 20170242988Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for protecting electronic content from the time it is packaged through the time it is experienced by an end user. Protection against content misuse is accomplished using a combination of encryption, watermark screening, detection of invalid content processing software and hardware, and/or detection of invalid content flows. Encryption protects the secrecy of content while it is being transferred or stored. Watermark screening protects against the unauthorized use of content. Watermark screening is provided by invoking a filter module to examine content for the presence of a watermark before the content is delivered to output hardware or software. The filter module is operable to prevent delivery of the content to the output hardware or software if it detects a predefined protection mark. Invalid content processing software is detected by a monitoring mechanism that validates the software involved in processing protected electronic content.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Michael K. MacKay, W. Olin Sibert, Richard A. Landsman, Eric J. Swenson, William Hunt
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Publication number: 20170164046Abstract: A novel method and apparatus for protection of streamed media content is disclosed. In one aspect, the apparatus includes control means for governance of content streams or content objects, decryption means for decrypting content streams or content objects under control of the control means, and feedback means for tracking actual use of content streams or content objects. The control means may operate in accordance with rules received as part of the streamed content, or through a side-band channel. The rules may specify allowed uses of the content, including whether or not the content can be copied or transferred, and whether and under what circumstances received content may be “checked out” of one device and used in a second device. The rules may also include or specify budgets, and a requirement that audit information be collected and/or transmitted to an external server. In a different aspect, the apparatus may include a media player designed to call plugins to assist in rendering content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Talal G. SHAMOON, Ralph D. HILL, Chris D. RADCLIFFE, John P. HWA, W. Olin SIBERT, David M. VAN WIE
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Patent number: 9659157Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for embedding information in software and/or other electronic content such that the information is difficult for an unauthorized party to detect, remove, insert, forge, and/or corrupt. The embedded information can be used to protect electronic content by identifying the content's source, thus enabling unauthorized copies or derivatives to be reliably traced, and thus facilitating effective legal recourse by the content owner. Systems and methods are also disclosed for protecting, detecting, removing, and decoding information embedded in electronic content, and for using the embedded information to protect software or other media from unauthorized analysis, attack, and/or modification.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Intertrust Technologies CorporationInventors: William G. Horne, Umesh Maheshwari, Robert E. Tarjan, James J. Horning, W. Olin Sibert, Lesley R. Matheson, Andrew K. Wright, Susan S. Owicki
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Patent number: 9641490Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a trusted database system that leverages a small amount of trusted storage to secure a larger amount of untrusted storage. Data are encrypted and validated to prevent unauthorized modification or access. Encryption and hashing are integrated with a low-level data model in which data and meta-data are secured uniformly. Synergies between data validation and log-structured storage are exploited.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Intertrust Technologies CorporationInventors: Umesh Maheshwari, Radek Vingralek, W. Olin Sibert
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Publication number: 20170103233Abstract: A hardware Secure Processing Unit (SPU) is described that can perform both security functions and other information appliance functions using the same set of hardware resources. Because the additional hardware required to support security functions is a relatively small fraction of the overall device hardware, this type of SPU can be competitive with ordinary non-secure CPUs or microcontrollers that perform the same functions. A set of minimal initialization and management hardware and software is added to, e.g., a standard CPU/microcontroller. The additional hardware and/or software creates an SPU environment and performs the functions needed to virtualize the SPU's hardware resources so that they can be shared between security functions and other functions performed by the same CPU.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventor: W. Olin SIBERT
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Patent number: 9594923Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for protecting electronic content from the time it is packaged through the time it is experienced by an end user. Protection against content misuse is accomplished using a combination of encryption, watermark screening, detection of invalid content processing software and hardware, and/or detection of invalid content flows. Encryption protects the secrecy of content while it is being transferred or stored. Watermark screening protects against the unauthorized use of content. Watermark screening is provided by invoking a filter module to examine content for the presence of a watermark before the content is delivered to output hardware or software. The filter module is operable to prevent delivery of the content to the output hardware or software if it detects a predefined protection mark. Invalid content processing software is detected by a monitoring mechanism that validates the software involved in processing protected electronic content.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Intertrust Technologies CorporationInventors: Michael K. MacKay, W. Olin Sibert, Richard A. Landsman, Eric J. Swenson, William Hunt
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Patent number: 9536111Abstract: A hardware Secure Processing Unit (SPU) is described that can perform both security functions and other information appliance functions using the same set of hardware resources. Because the additional hardware required to support security functions is a relatively small fraction of the overall device hardware, this type of SPU can be competitive with ordinary non-secure CPUs or microcontrollers that perform the same functions. A set of minimal initialization and management hardware and software is added to, e.g., a standard CPU/microcontroller. The additional hardware and/or software creates an SPU environment and performs the functions needed to virtualize the SPU's hardware resources so that they can be shared between security functions and other functions performed by the same CPU.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Intertrust Technologies CorporationInventor: W. Olin Sibert
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Patent number: 9532005Abstract: A novel method and apparatus for protection of streamed media content is disclosed. In one aspect, the apparatus includes control means for governance of content streams or content objects, decryption means for decrypting content streams or content objects under control of the control means, and feedback means for tracking actual use of content streams or content objects. The control means may operate in accordance with rules received as part of the streamed content, or through a side-band channel. The rules may specify allowed uses of the content, including whether or not the content can be copied or transferred, and whether and under what circumstances received content may be “checked out” of one device and used in a second device. The rules may also include or specify budgets, and a requirement that audit information be collected and/or transmitted to an external server. In a different aspect, the apparatus may include a media player designed to call plugins to assist in rendering content.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Intertrust Technologies CorporationInventors: Talal G. Shamoon, Ralph D. Hill, Chris D. Radcliffe, John P. Hwa, W. Olin Sibert, David M. Van Wie
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Publication number: 20160342778Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for embedding information in software and/or other electronic content such that the information is difficult for an unauthorized party to detect, remove, insert, forge, and/or corrupt. The embedded information can be used to protect electronic content by identifying the content's source, thus enabling unauthorized copies or derivatives to be reliably traced, and thus facilitating effective legal recourse by the content owner. Systems and methods are also disclosed for protecting, detecting, removing, and decoding information embedded in electronic content, and for using the embedded information to protect software or other media from unauthorized analysis, attack, and/or modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: William G. HORNE, Umesh MAHESHWARI, Robert J. TARJAN, James J. HORNING, W. Olin SIBERT, Lesley R. MATHESON, Andrew K. WRIGHT, Susan S. OWICKI
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Patent number: RE46430Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing illumination in a manner that is energy efficient and intelligent. In particular, the present invention uses distributed processing across a network of illuminators to control the illumination for a given environment. The network controls the illumination level and pattern in response to light, sound, and motion. The network may also be trained according to uploaded software behavior modules, and subsets of the network may be organized into groups for illumination control and maintenance reporting.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventor: W. Olin Sibert
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Patent number: RE48090Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing illumination in a manner that is energy efficient and intelligent. In particular, the present invention uses distributed processing across a network of illuminators to control the illumination for a given environment. The network controls the illumination level and pattern in response to light, sound, and motion. The network may also be trained according to uploaded software behavior modules, and subsets of the network may be organized into groups for illumination control and maintenance reporting.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: IDEAL Industries Lighting LLCInventor: W. Olin Sibert
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Patent number: RE48263Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing illumination in a manner that is energy efficient and intelligent. In particular, the present invention uses distributed processing across a network of illuminators to control the illumination for a given environment. The network controls the illumination level and pattern in response to light, sound, and motion. The network may also be trained according to uploaded software behavior modules, and subsets of the network may be organized into groups for illumination control and maintenance reporting.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: IDEAL Industries Lighting LLCInventor: W. Olin Sibert
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Patent number: RE48299Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing illumination in a manner that is energy efficient and intelligent. In particular, the present invention uses distributed processing across a network of illuminators to control the illumination for a given environment. The network controls the illumination level and pattern in response to light, sound, and motion. The network may also be trained according to uploaded software behavior modules, and subsets of the network may be organized into groups for illumination control and maintenance reporting.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: IDEAL Industries Lighting LLCInventor: W. Olin Sibert
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Patent number: RE49480Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing illumination in a manner that is energy efficient and intelligent. In particular, the present invention uses distributed processing across a network of illuminators to control the illumination for a given environment. The network controls the illumination level and pattern in response to light, sound, and motion. The network may also be trained according to uploaded software behavior modules, and subsets of the network may be organized into groups for illumination control and maintenance reporting.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: IDEAL INDUSTRIES LIGHTING LLCInventor: W. Olin Sibert