Patents Issued in May 30, 2023
  • Patent number: 11664961
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a guard period associated with switching from a first communication mode to a second communication mode. The UE may be operating in a half-duplex frequency division duplexing mode of operation. The guard period may be determined based at least in part on at least one of: a number of phased locked loops to be used for the first communication mode and the second communication mode, and a particular subcarrier spacing associated with the UE. The UE may switch from the first communication mode to the second communication mode based at least in part on the guard period. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hung Dinh Ly, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11664962
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a serving cell, first signaling that includes one or more time division duplexing (TDD) patterns associated with a neighboring cell. The UE may receive second signaling that includes a slot format indicator (SFI) associated with the neighboring cell. The UE may determine a slot configuration allocating transmission time intervals (TTIs) in the neighboring cell to one or more of downlink communication or uplink communication based at least in part on the one or more TDD patterns associated with the neighboring cell and the SFI associated with the neighboring cell. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11664963
    Abstract: Circuits and methods related to radio-frequency (RF) architectures having carrier aggregation. In some implementations, a method for performing carrier aggregation (CA) can include providing a duplexer configured to provide duplexing functionality for a first frequency band and a second frequency band with a common antenna. The method can further include providing a first amplification path and a second amplification path coupled to respective ports of the duplexer, each of the first amplification path and the second amplification path configured to amplify a signal in its respective frequency band, each amplification path including a transmit/receive (TX/RX) switch configured to provide time-division duplexing (TDD) functionality for the amplified signal and a received signal. In some implementations, the first frequency band includes a B39 band, and the second frequency band includes a B41 band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Ethan Chang, Roman Zbigniew Arkiszewski, John G. Freed, Edward James Anthony, Reza Kasnavi
  • Patent number: 11664964
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe adapting a PIM model to compensate for changing PIM interference. A PIM model can include circuitry that generates a PIM compensation value that compensates for (i.e., mitigates or subtracts) PIM interference caused by transmitting two or more transmitter (TX) carriers in the same path. The disclosed adaptive scheme generates updated coefficients for the PIM model which are calculated after the RX signal has been removed from the RX channel. In this manner, as the PIM interference changes due to environmental conditions (e.g., temperature at the base station), the adaptive scheme can update the PIM model to generate a PIM compensation value that cancels the PIM interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Hongzhi Zhao, Christophe Erdmann
  • Patent number: 11664965
    Abstract: A decentralized communication device is provided that facilitates optimal positioning and orientation of one or more antennas for wireless communication with external devices. The decentralized communication device includes one or more master components and one or more slave components. The master and the slave components are physically separate and communicate wirelessly. In some embodiments the slave acts as a carrier frequency translator between the master and an external wireless device, where it communicates with the external device using a first frequency and communicates with the master using a second frequency which is different from the first frequency. In another embodiment the slave has most or all the physical layer to do the digital coding, digital modulation, data framing, data formatting and data packetization for communicating with an external device, in which case digital coding and digital modulation is distributed between the master and the slave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: GOLBA LLC
    Inventor: Mehran Moshfeghi
  • Patent number: 11664966
    Abstract: A co-frequency co-time full duplex (CCFD) signal receiving method includes: taking the sent baseband signal as the self-interference reference signal, reconstructing self-interference, and then performing primary self-interference cancellation on the received signal; processing, by using a timing synchronization loop, the signal after the primary self-interference cancellation, realizing timing recovery at the optimal sampling point of the useful signal through resampling a, and controlling resampling b1 and resampling b2 after performing low-pass filtering on the timing error signal in the timing synchronization loop, to recover the optimal sampling points of the self-interference reference signal and the received signal respectively; and performing joint self-interference cancellation and equalization on the resampled self-interference reference signal and the resampled received signal, and receiving the useful signal through signal demodulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Changming Zhang, Xianbin Yu, Xuemin Li, Jie Shen
  • Patent number: 11664967
    Abstract: A network device adapted for sending a synchronization packet to a slave device. The synchronization packet includes a timestamp field and a correction field. The network device includes a counting circuit, a communication chip, and a processor. The counting circuit is configured to provide a calendar time TOD. The communication chip includes a first port, a second port, and a timestamp circuit which has a bit number N. The processor is coupled to the first port of the communication chip. The processor is configured to: obtain a remainder R according to the calendar time TOD and the bit number N; and write the calendar time TOD and the remainder R into the synchronization packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bang-Jun Tai, Yu-Yun Lee
  • Patent number: 11664968
    Abstract: A line card receives a SYNC input signal and a first system clock signal. The line card generates a second system clock signal in a PLL and generates a SYNC output signal by dividing the second system clock signal in a divider circuit. The SYNC output signal is fed back as a SYNC feedback signal. The line card determines determining a closest edge of the first system clock signal to a transition of the SYNC input signal and determines a time difference between the closest edge of the first system clock signal and a transition of the SYNC feedback. The SYNC output signal is adjusted based on the time difference using a coarse adjustment by adjusting a divide ratio of the divider circuit and using a fine adjustment in the PLL based on a residue of a remainder of the time difference not accounted for by the coarse time adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Vivek Sarda
  • Patent number: 11664969
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a first counter configured to synchronize with a reference time, a second counter configured to synchronize with the first counter, a generation unit configured to generate a synchronization signal each time when a value of the second counter is incremented by a predetermined number, a correction unit configured to correct the value of the second counter toward a value of the first counter, and a control unit configured to control the correction unit to cause the correction unit to calculate a difference between the value of the first counter and the value of the second counter and, in a case where the calculated difference is greater than a predetermined threshold value, the correction unit to correct the value of the second counter step by step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsumasa Abe
  • Patent number: 11664970
    Abstract: A container corresponding to executable code may be received. In response receiving the container, an assertion value may be stored in an assertion register. A final canary value may be generated based on a cycles combining a prior canary value and a mix value. A determination may be made as to whether the final canary value matches with the assertion value stored in the assertion register. In response to determining that the final canary value matches with the assertion value, one or more privilege registers may be programmed to provide access to hardware resources for the container corresponding to the executable user code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Cryptography Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Hamburg, Megan Anneke Wachs
  • Patent number: 11664971
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods associated with the authentication of a welding or cutting torch with a power supply are provided. According to some implementations, the authentication includes encryption/decryption techniques initiated by the physical or virtual closure of one or more of a trigger switch and a parts-in-place switch. The delivery of high voltage welding or cutting power from the power supply to the torch being enabled only upon a successful authentication of the torch with the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: The ESAB Group Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Nadler
  • Patent number: 11664972
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a blockchain structure includes providing a first data block and a second data block, wherein a first data processing rule is assigned to first data of the first data block, and a second data processing rule is assigned to second data of the second data block. The first data processing rule is linked to the second data processing rule to obtain a third data processing rule, wherein the first data processing rule is executed before the second data processing rule when the third data processing rule is executed. The second data processing rule is linked to the first data processing rule to obtain a fourth data processing rule. When the fourth data processing rule is executed, the first data processing rule is executed after the second data processing rule. The third data processing rule is stored in the second data block and the fourth data processing rule is stored in the first data block to obtain the blockchain structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Bundesdruckerei GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Wilke, David Fabian, Ilya Komarov
  • Patent number: 11664973
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of establishing, by a first blockchain trust anchor node, a trusted connection to a trust anchor node of a second blockchain, detecting, by the first blockchain trust anchor node, changes of the first blockchain, and executing a smart contract to reflect the detected changes on the second blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Dulce B. Ponceleon
  • Patent number: 11664974
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for summarizing data in a distributed system. Embodiments include generating an ordered list of blocks by iterating through a first group of blocks of a hash chain starting at a last block of the hash chain and adding each of the first group of blocks of the hash chain to the ordered list. Embodiments further include generating summary data by applying a summary function to the first group of blocks based on the ordered list. The summary function may take the ordered list as an input and provide the summary data of the first group of blocks as an output. Embodiments further include generating a summary block comprising the summary data and adding the summary block to a summary chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: INTUTI, INC.
    Inventors: Michael R. Gabriel, Glenn Scott
  • Patent number: 11664975
    Abstract: A system includes a campaign management service to detect a campaign initiation request indicating a number of computerized devices to be updated for a campaign and store data corresponding to the computerized devices to be updated. The campaign management service can generate a bloom filter data structure comprising hash values based on the data for each of the computerized devices to be updated and transmit the bloom filter data structure to a network edge. The system can include the network edge that can use the bloom filter data structure from the campaign management service to determine whether a computerized device is to obtain a device update from the campaign management service. The network edge can retrieve the device update and modify the computerized device by transmitting the device update to the computerized device, which then installs it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: INTEGRITY SECURITY SERVICES LLC
    Inventor: Neil Locketz
  • Patent number: 11664976
    Abstract: A method for hyper security encoding includes receiving data to be encrypted, and padding the data to be encrypted with padding data to avoid un-obfuscated bits after encryption. The method also includes encrypting, with a Mojette Transform, the data to be encrypted after the data to be encrypted is padded with the padding data, and outputting a result of the encryption as encrypted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ZEBWARE AB
    Inventor: Johan Andersson
  • Patent number: 11664977
    Abstract: A method performed by one or more network node(s) of a wireless telecommunications network to dynamically manage encryption keys for multiple narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) devices of the network. The network node(s) can maintain a database that stores a device profile for each of the NB-IoT devices and obtain multiple encryption keys for the multiple NB-IoT devices. The encryption keys are associated with different encryption strengths ranging from high to ultra-low encryption strengths. The network node(s) can allocate the encryption keys to the NB-IoT devices, detect a change in the condition of the network, capability or communications service of NB-IoT devices, and refresh the encryption keys accordingly to ensure that the network nodes properly balance encryption while providing efficient network performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Venson Shaw
  • Patent number: 11664978
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for secure access control to digitally stored information. Owners of digitally stored information enter access control data using a first graphical user interface (GUI) on a first device. Vault space is allocated in memory for receiving and storing the information remotely from the first device. A keyholder and a guardian identified by the access control data are associated with the information. A keyholder access request for the information is transmitted via a second GUI on a second device. Responsive to determining the keyholder to be associated with the information, a third device of a guardian receives a notification of the access request, and the guardian may use a third GUI to transmit an access authorization. The information may be transmitted to the second device upon determining that the guardian is associated with the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Fidelius, LLC
    Inventor: Zachary A. Jablonski
  • Patent number: 11664979
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage system includes a processor, a storage device, and a first memory. The storage device includes a nonvolatile memory, a control circuit, and a second memory. The processor retrieves, based on a retrieval key and retrieval information stored in the first memory, location information of data including the retrieval key and a value, and transmits the location information and the retrieval key to the control circuit. The control circuit reads the data from the nonvolatile memory based on the location information and the retrieval key, stores the data in the second memory, retrieves the value corresponding to the retrieval key from the data, and transmits the value to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Hiwada
  • Patent number: 11664980
    Abstract: A method includes extracting, by an individual computing system, physical movement intentions of an individual from neural signals; mapping, by a secure element of the individual computing system, the physical movement intentions to a character string representing a knowledge factor; and establishing, by the individual computing system, a secure, mutually authenticated communication channel between the individual computing system and a provider computing system by using the knowledge factor as an input to a password authenticated key exchange protocol and generating a symmetric encryption key using the knowledge factor as an input to a key exchange protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Phillip H. Griffin
  • Patent number: 11664981
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of protecting data in a message for communication from a sender to a receiver, the sender and receiver sharing a secret, the method including splitting the message into a plurality of ordered message blocks, the order being a proper order such that an aggregation of the blocks in the proper order constitutes the message; generating a hash value for each message block, each hash value being generated on the basis of at least a content of the block and the secret; generating, for each block, an encoded indication of a position of the block in the proper order of blocks, the encoding being reversible and based on at least the hash value for the block and a position of the block in the proper order; communicating the blocks to the receiver in an order different to the proper order so as to obfuscate the message; and communicating the encoded indications to the receiver such that the blocks can be reassembled by the receiver in the proper order on the basis of the shared secret.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Fadi El-Moussa, Fabio Giubilo
  • Patent number: 11664982
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing cryptographic keys in on-premises and cloud computing environments and performing multi-party cryptography are disclosed. A cryptographic key can be retrieved from a hardware security module by a key management computer. The key management computer can generate key shares from the cryptographic key, and securely distribute the key shares to computer nodes or key share databases. The computer nodes can use the key shares in order to perform secure multi-party cryptography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Oleg Gryb, Sekhar Nagasundaram
  • Patent number: 11664983
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a quantum key distribution enabled intra-datacenter network. An example system includes a first vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL), a second VCSEL and a network interface controller. The first VCSEL is configured to emit a first optical signal associated with data. The second VCSEL is configured to emit a second optical signal associated with quantum key distribution (QKD). Furthermore, the network interface controller is configured to manage transmission of the first optical signal associated with the first VCSEL and the second optical signal associated with the second VCSEL via an optical communication channel coupled to a network interface module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Elad Mentovich, Itshak Kalifa, Ioannis (Giannis) Patronas, Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Eyal Waldman
  • Patent number: 11664984
    Abstract: The present invention relates to data rights management and more particularly to a secured system and methodology and production system and methodology related thereto and to apparatus and methodology for production side systems and are consumer side systems for securely utilizing protected electronic data files of content (protected content), and further relates to controlled distribution, and regulating usage of the respective content on a recipient device (computing system) to be limited strictly to defined permitted uses, in accordance with usage rights (associated with the respective content to control usage of that respective content), on specifically restricted to a specific one particular recipient device (for a plurality of specific particular recipient devices), or usage on some or any authorized recipient device without restriction to any one in specific, to control use of the respective content as an application software program, exporting, modifying, executing as an application program, viewing,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: OL Security Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: David H. Sitrick, Russell T. Fling
  • Patent number: 11664985
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a system ensuring the integrity of received data. The system includes a processor, a trusted platform module, and a memory storing instructions. Upon a request from the processor, the trusted platform module generates an asymmetric key pair including a private key and a public key. The trusted platform module provides the public key and an encrypted private key to the processor. The processor generates a checksum of received content data and sends the checksum to the trusted platform module. The processor also loads the encrypted private key into the trusted platform module. The trusted platform module decrypts the encrypted private key, encrypts the checksum with the private key, and provides the encrypted checksum to the processor. The processor sends the content data together with the encrypted checksum to an external device. The external device may decrypt the encrypted checksum with the public key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Francisco Javier Martinez Canillas, Alberto Carlos Ruiz Ruiz
  • Patent number: 11664986
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system including a tangible token comprising a single integrated transparent gemstone produced by fusing together a first transparent gemstone and a second transparent gemstone, a first internal side of the first transparent gemstone is etched with information pertaining to a blockchain, and the information comprises at least a private key, a public key, and an address, the first internal side of the first transparent gemstone is aligned with a second internal side of the second transparent gemstone, and the aligning encapsulates the information within a perimeter of the second internal side such that the information does not extend beyond the perimeter. The system includes a computing device that executes instructions to: read the information, validate, via a network and the address, the public key and private key are associated with the blockchain, and present an indication of whether or not the information is validated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: EllansaLabs Inc.
    Inventor: Omar Besim Hakim
  • Patent number: 11664987
    Abstract: Examples relate to a BC network including a plurality of network devices deployed in a network. The plurality of network devices includes an authoritative network device that generates a transaction in a distributed ledger. The transaction includes location information of a new public key certificate to be deployed in each of the network devices. In order to verify the transaction, a network device of the plurality of network devices verifies, using a smart contract, whether the new public key certificate is valid and whether the new public key certificate is different from a previously recorded public key certificate in the distributed ledger. In response to successful verification by at least a predefined number of network devices of the plurality of network devices, each of the network device record the transaction in the distributed ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Gopal Gupta, Nagendra Babu Rapaka, Abhinesh Mishra, Amit Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11664988
    Abstract: A method for securing a secret of a client using an escrow agent operatively connected to the client includes initiating enrollment of the client with the escrow agent, wherein the enrollment results the escrow agent generating a key pair comprising a public key and a private key, obtaining the public key from the escrow agent, wherein the private key is not shared with the client, encrypting the secret with the public key to obtain an encrypted secret, and storing the encrypted secret on the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Seth Jacob Rothschild, Radia Joy Perlman, Alex Robbins
  • Patent number: 11664989
    Abstract: A method for commissioning an access control device according to one embodiment includes writing, by an enrollment reader, a site key and an access control device identifier to a credential device, reading, by the access control device, the site key and the access control device identifier from the credential device, writing, by the access control device, a device unique identifier (DUID) associated with the access control device and a modified access control device identifier to the credential device, and reading, by the enrollment reader, the DUID from the credential device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Drew Locketz, Joseph W. Baumgarte
  • Patent number: 11664990
    Abstract: A method for distributing multiple cryptographic keys used to access data includes: receiving a data signal superimposed with an access key request, wherein the access key request includes at least a number, n, greater than 1, of requested keys; generating n key pairs using a key pair generation algorithm, wherein each key pair includes a private key and a public key; deriving an access private key by applying the private key included in each of the n key pairs to a key derivation algorithm; generating an access public key corresponding to the derived access private key using the key pair generation algorithm; and electronically transmitting a data signal superimposed with a private key included in one of the n key pairs for each of the n key pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Steven C. Davis
  • Patent number: 11664991
    Abstract: Methods and systems enabling tracking and managing apparel items are described. The apparel item (e.g. clothing item, shoes, accessories, jewelry and other type of wearables) is tagged and tracked using an inimitable identification tag that is at least partially invisible to the naked human eye, and generating a record of the apparel item in a distributed ledger using the tag data of the inimitable identification tag. The record is associated with a non-fungible token (NFT) on the ledger that allows for tracking the item throughout its life. For example, it is possible to locate and authenticate the apparel item by using the private key associated with the NFT of the token. The apparel item may be tracked starting from a manufacturing phase of the apparel and extending throughout the lifespan of the apparel item. The authenticity of the apparel item can be shown throughout the manufacturing, distribution and ownership stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: CreateMe Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas C. K. Myers, Lawrence Charles Hume, Eduardo Barrón
  • Patent number: 11664992
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating an NFT associated with an assignment. An assignment is completed and an indication of the completion of the assignment is submitted to a processor. The processor verifies the completion of the assignment by processing the submitted evidence of the completion of the assignment. An NFT is generated that is associated with the completion of the assignment. The NFT may be associated with the user that completed the assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Gravystack, Inc.
    Inventors: Travis Adams, Chad Willardson, Scott Donnell
  • Patent number: 11664993
    Abstract: A system addresses a security vulnerability in sending commands to a vehicle tracking device via SMS text messaging. The system provides a single-use credential value for authenticating the SMS communication link before it can be used to command the vehicle tracking device. The single-use credential value, also referred to herein as a One-Time Personal Identification Number (OTPIN), is preferably time-based so that it can be used only once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Spireon, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarodge Dechgan, Amir Kashani, Albert R. Beukman
  • Patent number: 11664994
    Abstract: Technologies disclosed herein provide an apparatus comprising a fuse controller coupled to an aggregator. The fuse controller includes a plurality of fuses for storing a unique identifier of a device and a first secured value of a first password associated with the unique identifier. The aggregator is to receive the unique identifier and the first secured value from the fuse controller, send the unique identifier to an unlock host, receive a second password from the unlock host, compute a second secured value of the second password using a security function, and unlock one or more privileged features on the device based on the first secured value corresponding to the second secured value. In a specific embodiment, the first secured value corresponds to the second secured value if the first password is equivalent to the second password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Neve De Mevergnies, Neel Shah, Kumar Dwarakanath, Fred Bolay, Mukesh Kataria
  • Patent number: 11664995
    Abstract: A system and method enabling an entity to prove its identity and provide authentic documents/data/information therein at any time required based upon data retrieved from an independent cryptographically verifiable source (ICVS) through a secured channel is disclosed. The system enables a virtual and secure browser on a user computing device allowing a user to login and retrieve authentic information pertaining to the user from the ICVS in a verifiable and untamperable manner. The retrieved information is bounded with origination information of the ICVS and the bounded information is provided to relying entities as authentic information for verification. Also, cryptographic value of the authentic information can be stored in an immutable storage such as blockchain, so that the cryptographic value is used by the relying-party to validate integrity of the authentic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventor: Vishal Gupta
  • Patent number: 11664996
    Abstract: A method of registering a person as an authorized user of a portable device includes acquiring biometric data or a combination of pieces of biometric data of a person, encrypting the acquired biometric data or the combination of pieces of biometric data of the person, generating a code from the encrypted biometric data or the combination of pieces of biometric data of the person, inserting the code in an extension field of a public key certificate stored in the portable device, generating a private key and a public key that corresponds to the private key, based on the public key certificate, wherein the private key contains the code, transmitting the public key to a remote entity that is in communication with the portable device, thereby enabling the remote entity to register the person as an authorized user of the portable device, and modifying the public key to generate a modified public key configured to be used in case that the remote entity is disconnected from a service providing server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventor: Unho Choi
  • Patent number: 11664997
    Abstract: A method of registering a person as an authorized user of a portable device includes acquiring biometric data or a combination of pieces of biometric data of a person, encrypting the acquired biometric data or the combination of pieces of biometric data, generating a code from the encrypted biometric data or the combination of pieces of biometric data, inserting the code in an extension field of a public key certificate stored in the portable device, generating a private key and a public key that corresponds to the private key, based on the public key certificate, wherein the private key contains the code, and transmitting the public key to a remote entity, thereby enabling the remote entity to register the person as an authorized user of the portable device. The extension field of the public key certificate further contains a code associated with identification information of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventor: Unho Choi
  • Patent number: 11664998
    Abstract: Described are techniques for preserving data security for sensitive information. The techniques including identifying sensitive information in first audio data from a first client device. The techniques further comprise generating second audio data including hashed sensitive information, where the hashed sensitive information comprises an audio clip that replaces the sensitive information and that is based on the sensitive information. The techniques further comprise transmitting the second data including the hashed sensitive information to a second client device. The techniques further comprise receiving third audio data including the hashed sensitive information from the second client device. The techniques further comprise generating fourth audio data by replacing the hashed sensitive information with the sensitive information and transmitting the fourth audio data including the sensitive information to the first client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jon Walheim, Girish Ratnam, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Nicholas Bokun, Jacob Thomas Covell
  • Patent number: 11664999
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to ensuring the integrity of data stored in a memory by using a watermark are described. An example method in a system including a processor and a memory may include receiving data for storage at an address in the memory. The method may further include after encoding the data with an error correction code to generate intermediate data having a first number of bits, reversibly altering the intermediate data with a watermark to generate watermarked data for storage in the memory, where the watermark is generated by applying a cryptographic function to a user key and the address, and where the watermarked data has a second number of bits equal to the first number of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Grant Bennett, Greg Zaverucha
  • Patent number: 11665000
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for processing privacy data of a block chain. When implemented by a block chain node, a specific implementation comprises: acquiring a data calculation transaction request initiated by a data user side based on a privacy smart contract; acquiring homomorphically encrypted source data according to the data calculation transaction request; invoking the privacy smart contract according to a calculation task in the data calculation transaction request; and performing an uplink operation on the data calculation transaction request and the calculation result to feed the data calculation transaction request and the calculation result back to the data user side of the data calculation transaction request, for the data user side to perform a homomorphic decryption and de-blinding on the calculation result, to acquire a plaintext calculation result. Thus, the scheme of processing the privacy data of the block chain is optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bing Duan, Wei Xiao
  • Patent number: 11665001
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for network security using Root of Trust (RoT). A node in the vehicle networking system receives an authentication message from an adjacent node in the vehicle networking system. The authentication message included identifying information of the adjacent node that is digitally signed with a digital signature having been generated using a private key. The adjacent node accessed the identifying information of the second node from a source image authenticated during a secure boot of the adjacent node. The node accesses a public key available to the node and authenticates the adjacent node based on the public key and the digital signature included in the authentication message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Ethernovia Inc.
    Inventors: Darren S. Engelkemier, Roy T. Myers, Jr., Poon-Kuen Leung, Hossein Sedarat, Ramin Shirani
  • Patent number: 11665002
    Abstract: A device receives an access-key package. The access-key package comprises a signature. The device obtains a validation package. The validation package comprises a validation device ID and validation timestamp. The device validates the signature in the access-key package. The device also obtains an updated timestamp. The device then compares the validation timestamp to the updated timestamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian C. Gerhard, Matthew Vaught
  • Patent number: 11665003
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an event, the event associated with a digital signature in a first time-based message comprising a first trusted time stamp token generated using a first hash of digitally signed content from a trusted timing authority; generating a first block on a distributed ledger; generating a second hash of the first trusted time stamp token; receiving a second trusted time stamp token from the trusted timing authority in response to transmitting the second hash to the trusted timing authority; and generating a second block on the distributed ledger; wherein verification of data integrity of the digitally signed content is provided via the first hash of the digitally signed content and second hash of the first trusted time stamp token and via the hash of the first block and a hash of the second block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Phillip H. Griffin, Jeffrey J. Stapleton
  • Patent number: 11665004
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that enable trusted communications between two entities. In one implementation, a controller of a vehicle may include one or more processors configured to receive data and a controller signature from a second controller of the vehicle. The controller signature may be generated based on at least a first portion of the data. The one or more processors may be further configured to transmit the data and the controller signature to a gateway of the vehicle and receive a gateway signature from the gateway. The gateway signature may be generated based on at least a second portion of the data and transmitted to the controller after the gateway verified the controller signature. In addition, the one or more processors may be configured to verify the gateway signature and process the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NEUSTAR, INC.
    Inventor: Brian R. Knopf
  • Patent number: 11665005
    Abstract: A method for verifying that event can take place before the event is executed is disclosed. A verification system is incorporated into an event processing network, such that the verification system can identify newly proposed events and determine whether they can be completed. The verification system can inform the network about verification results through distributed blockchain records. Other changes in event status can also be communicated through and stored in blockchain records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Sukrit Handa, Suman Mukherjee, Timothy P. Tidwell, Ajith Thekadath
  • Patent number: 11665006
    Abstract: In embodiments, an authentication server interfaces between a user device with a self-signed certificate and a verifying computer that accepts a user name and password. The user device generates a self-signed certificate signed by a private key on the user device. The self-signed certificate is transmitted to a verifying party computer over a network. The verifying party stores the self-signed certificate with user identification data, including at least one of a user name, user address, user email, user phone number, user tax ID, user social security number and user financial account number. In subsequent communications, the verifying party receives a certificate chain including the self-signed certificate, and matches that with the user identification data stored in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Beyond Identity Inc.
    Inventors: Nelson Melo, Michael Clark, James Clark
  • Patent number: 11665007
    Abstract: A Power over Ethernet (PoE) Powered Device (60) is described herein that includes an auxiliary processor (62) that negotiates a power level with a PoE Power Sourcing Equipment using a first link layer (650), means for holding the PoE Powered Device in a low power state, and a second link layer (50) that allows the main processor to communicate over the Ethernet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electromics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark LaBosco, Marc Dubowski, John Hartnett
  • Patent number: 11665008
    Abstract: A mesh receiver has a wakeup receiver for reception of a wakeup sequence formed by keyed RF or a sequence of wireless packets and gaps, a transmitter forming low speed RF wakeup sequence to other mesh stations, a mesh receiver for reception of high speed WLAN packets, the transmitter sending a wireless ACK packet in response to a wakeup sequence, the mesh receiver thereafter receiving wireless packets from a remote station, the mesh transmitter sending an ACK, the mesh station thereafter identifying a next hop station, and sending a wakeup sequence to that station, after receipt of an ACK, sending the data, the mesh receiver and mesh transmitter thereafter going to sleep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Partha Sarathy Murali, Ajay Mantha, Nagaraj Reddy Anakala, Subba Reddy Kallam, Venkat Mattela
  • Patent number: 11665009
    Abstract: A spoken communication system and method of transferring spoken communication, includes a plurality of communication devices, at least some configured to be positioned within an occupied structure, each of said communication devices including a processor, a microphone an audio output device and a communication circuit and being responsive to spoken communication to communicate that spoken communication to other communication devices and to receive spoken communications received by other of said communication devices and an internet connected server. The server is selectively in digital communication with the communication devices and adapted to receive a spoken audio stream request, said server responsive to receiving an audio stream request by opening communication channels with said communication devices that are connected with said server. The server is adapted to receive spoken communication captured by one of said communication devices that is in communication with said server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Vocal Power-House Systems, LLC
    Inventors: James P. DeLapa, Samuel-Hunter Berndt
  • Patent number: 11665010
    Abstract: A device may analyze data associated with a conference call. The device may provide at least a portion of the data to a machine learning model. The device may receive an output from the machine learning model in response to the machine learning model processing at least the portion of the data. The output may include a probability score associated with a determination made by the machine learning model with respect to capturing multimedia content associated with the conference call. The device may output a notification associated with capturing the multimedia content based on the output from the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Avaya Management L.P.
    Inventor: Amit Mishra