Patents by Inventor William F. Abt, Jr.

William F. Abt, 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).

  • Publication number: 20170288877
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for delivering a digital identity document. A request is received to purchase a digital identity document from a user by a system. An acquisition uniform resource locator (URL) with parameters corresponding to the identity of the user and the requested digital identity document is created and provided to the user. The user utilizes the received URL to communicate with an issuer to request the digital identity document. The system then receives the requested digital identity document in encrypted form from the issuer. The system then delivers the encrypted digital identity document to the user. In this manner, the system can deliver to the user an identity document in digital form that has been vetted as trusted in a secure manner thereby reducing the number of occurrences in providing improper identity documents as well as lessening the ability to generate falsified identity documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: William F. Abt, JR., Daniel A. Gisolfi, Asher C. Johnson, Richard Redpath
  • Patent number: 9600690
    Abstract: Sensitive pieces of information stored on an individual's device can be protected using a device identification system that applies, for each sensitive piece of information, a function that integrates an identifier of the individual with a respective sensitive piece of information to create a respective identity element. Each identity element can be signed with a signature to create a trust group. The identity element and signature can be uploaded to the individual's device using an application that is configured to provide a subset of the sensitive pieces of information in response to a query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William F. Abt, Jr., Daniel A. Gisolfi, Richard Redpath
  • Publication number: 20170063552
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for privacy control. A unique identifier for each data element of a group of data elements (e.g., driver's license contains a group of data elements, such as name, driver's license number) is created. These identifiers may be stored along with documentation (e.g., label) of the associated data elements in a manifest file. Alternatively, the identifiers may be stored in a file outside of the manifest file. In this manner, by utilizing a data element identifier which corresponds to a random number, security of privacy information is improved as one would only be able to obtain such sensitive information by obtaining such an identifier. Furthermore, the user only needs to send the requested data elements, as opposed to all the data elements of the group of data elements, to the challenger. In this manner, the user is preserving the security of other privacy information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: William F. Abt, JR., Daniel A. Gisolfi, Richard Redpath
  • Patent number: 9230135
    Abstract: Sensitive pieces of information stored on an individual's device can be protected using a device identification system that applies, for each sensitive piece of information, a function that integrates an identifier of the individual with a respective sensitive piece of information to create a respective identity element. Each identity element can be signed with a signature to create a trust group. The identity element and signature can be uploaded to the individual's device using an application that is configured to provide a subset of the sensitive pieces of information in response to a query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William F. Abt, Jr., Daniel A. Gisolfi, Richard Redpath
  • Patent number: 9230133
    Abstract: Sensitive pieces of information stored on an individual's device can be protected using a device identification system that applies, for each sensitive piece of information, a function that integrates an identifier of the individual with a respective sensitive piece of information to create a respective identity element. Each identity element can be signed with a signature to create a trust group. The identity element and signature can be uploaded to the individual's device using an application that is configured to provide a subset of the sensitive pieces of information in response to a query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William F. Abt, Jr., Daniel A. Gisolfi, Richard Redpath
  • Publication number: 20150199540
    Abstract: Sensitive pieces of information stored on an individual's device can be protected using a device identification system that applies, for each sensitive piece of information, a function that integrates an identifier of the individual with a respective sensitive piece of information to create a respective identity element. Each identity element can be signed with a signature to create a trust group. The identity element and signature can be uploaded to the individual's device using an application that is configured to provide a subset of the sensitive pieces of information in response to a query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: William F. Abt, JR., Daniel A. Gisolfi, Richard Redpath
  • Publication number: 20150200783
    Abstract: Sensitive pieces of information stored on an individual's device can be protected using a device identification system that applies, for each sensitive piece of information, a function that integrates an identifier of the individual with a respective sensitive piece of information to create a respective identity element. Each identity element can be signed with a signature to create a trust group. The identity element and signature can be uploaded to the individual's device using an application that is configured to provide a subset of the sensitive pieces of information in response to a query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William F. Abt, JR., Daniel A. Gisolfi, Richard Redpath
  • Patent number: 8407290
    Abstract: Users sharing web pages and editing shared content are forced to manually refresh their web browsers to view a latest version of the content. This can be cumbersome and may not give users a true interactive content sharing experience. Functionality for dynamic sharing of content modifications and for automatic presentation of the latest version of the content can be implemented on the web browser to ensure that the latest version of the content is always presented to the user. By automatically retrieving content modifications made by one user and transmitting the content modifications to other users viewing and editing the shared content, users can be preempted from having to manually refresh the content presented on the web browser. This can result in a more interactive content sharing experience with little or no manual intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William F. Abt, Jr., Brian P. Burns, Peter J. Parente
  • Publication number: 20110055329
    Abstract: Users sharing web pages and editing shared content are forced to manually refresh their web browsers to view a latest version of the content. This can be cumbersome and may not give users a true interactive content sharing experience. Functionality for dynamic sharing of content modifications and for automatic presentation of the latest version of the content can be implemented on the web browser to ensure that the latest version of the content is always presented to the user. By automatically retrieving content modifications made by one user and transmitting the content modifications to other users viewing and editing the shared content, users can be preempted from having to manually refresh the content presented on the web browser. This can result in a more interactive content sharing experience with little or no manual intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William F. Abt, JR., Brian P. Burns, Peter J. Parente