Patents by Inventor William Charles Hare, Jr.

William Charles Hare, Jr. 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: 11688253
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate recognizing and providing notification of events, states, and/or conditions associated with the CPE (customer premise equipment) device and/or associated networks or devices. An application running on a mobile device (e.g., smart phone) can be used to observe and diagnose electronic equipment (e.g., CPE device). Equipment can have indicators (audio, visual, etc.) that a human would have difficulty interpreting correctly. A mobile device application can be programmed to observe audio and/or visual indicators, report status and possibly recommend course(s) of corrective action to the user. Since the information observed by the mobile device is unidirectional (from the equipment to the mobile device) there is no increased security risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: William Charles Hare, Jr., Yury Melnikov, William Mohr
  • Publication number: 20230198957
    Abstract: A method for anonymizing user identifiable information to be transmitted outside of a local network includes generating a network entity hash input based on (i) a first MAC address assigned to a client station of the local network, (ii) a second MAC address assigned to the network gateway device of the local network, and (iii) an identifier of a cloud entity of an external network to which data of the client station is to be transmitted. The method further includes generating a hash value output based on the network entity hash input and a random token value using a hashing function, generating an anonymized MAC address associated with the client station based on the hash value output, and transmitting the anonymized MAC address associated with the client station to the cloud entity of the external network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Kurt Alan LUMBATIS, William Charles HARE, JR., Ali NEGAHDAR
  • Patent number: 11606340
    Abstract: A method for anonymizing user identifiable information to be transmitted outside of a local network includes generating a network entity hash input based on (i) a first MAC address assigned to a client station of the local network, (ii) a second MAC address assigned to the network gateway device of the local network, and (iii) an identifier of a cloud entity of an external network to which data of the client station is to be transmitted. The method further includes generating a hash value output based on the network entity hash input and a random token value using a hashing function, generating an anonymized MAC address associated with the client station based on the hash value output, and transmitting the anonymized MAC address associated with the client station to the cloud entity of the external network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Alan Lumbatis, William Charles Hare, Jr., Ali Negahdar
  • Publication number: 20220189261
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate recognizing and providing notification of events, states, and/or conditions associated with the CPE device and/or associated networks or devices. An application running on a mobile device (e.g., smart phone) can be used to observe and diagnose electronic equipment (e.g., CPE device). Equipment can have indicators (audio, visual, etc.) that a human would have difficulty interpreting correctly. A mobile device application can be programmed to observe audio and/or visual indicators, report status and possibly recommend course(s) of corrective action to the user. Since the information observed by the mobile device is unidirectional (from the equipment to the mobile device) there is no increased security risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: William Charles HARE, JR., Yury MELNIKOV, William MOHR
  • Patent number: 11288935
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate recognizing and providing notification of events, states, and/or conditions associated with the CPE (customer premise equipment) device and/or associated networks or devices. An application running on a mobile device (e.g., smart phone) can be used to observe and diagnose electronic equipment (e.g., CPE device). Equipment can have indicators (audio, visual, etc.) that a human would have difficulty interpreting correctly. A mobile device application can be programmed to observe audio and/or visual indicators, report status and possibly recommend course(s) of corrective action to the user. Since the information observed by the mobile device is unidirectional (from the equipment to the mobile device) there is no increased security risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: William Charles Hare, Jr., Yury Melnikov, William Mohr
  • Publication number: 20210225136
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate recognizing and providing notification of events, states, and/or conditions associated with the CPE device and/or associated networks or devices. An application running on a mobile device (e.g., smart phone) can be used to observe and diagnose electronic equipment (e.g., CPE device). Equipment can have indicators (audio, visual, etc.) that a human would have difficulty interpreting correctly. A mobile device application can be programmed to observe audio and/or visual indicators, report status and possibly recommend course(s) of corrective action to the user. Since the information observed by the mobile device is unidirectional (from the equipment to the mobile device) there is no increased security risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: William Charles HARE, JR., Yury MELNIKOV, William MOHR
  • Publication number: 20200280542
    Abstract: A method for anonymizing user identifiable information to be transmitted outside of a local network includes generating a network entity hash input based on (i) a first MAC address assigned to a client station of the local network, (ii) a second MAC address assigned to the network gateway device of the local network, and (iii) an identifier of a cloud entity of an external network to which data of the client station is to be transmitted. The method further includes generating a hash value output based on the network entity hash input and a random token value using a hashing function, generating an anonymized MAC address associated with the client station based on the hash value output, and transmitting the anonymized MAC address associated with the client station to the cloud entity of the external network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Kurt Alan LUMBATIS, William Charles HARE, JR., Ali NEGAHDAR
  • Patent number: 9270983
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can provide diagnosis of service-affecting issues in CPE devices. The diagnostic process can include retrieving a testing hierarchy associated with a received diagnostic command, executing the lowest-level diagnostic in the testing hierarchy, successively executing the remaining diagnostics in the testing hierarchy in the order implicated by the hierarchy until the commanded diagnostic is executed, and identifying the service-affecting issues found.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: William Charles Hare, Jr.