Hudson Wayne Philips

Title: Hudson Wayne Philips: Patent Work in Software Security

Introduction

Hudson Wayne Philips is an inventor associated with Boulder, Colorado, and International Business Machines Corporation. The supplied information lists 2 patents in his patent record.

Latest Patents

The provided patent information describes “Method and apparatus for enabling trial period use of software products.” Its abstract concerns protecting access to files stored on computer-accessible media. A file management program monitors system calls and checks whether a requested file contains a decryption block. Encrypted files are prepared by replacing a selected portion with a block containing information used to decrypt the file, and the program processes requested files according to whether such a block is present.

The supplied description appears twice under the same patent title, so it is presented here as one distinct patent description.

Career Highlights

Philips’s listed work addresses file management and controlled access to encrypted data within a data processing system. His company affiliation is International Business Machines Corporation, commonly known as IBM.

Collaborations

The supplied information names Thomas Edward Cooper and Robert F. Pryor as Philips’s coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the patent or describe particular joint projects.

Conclusion

Hudson Wayne Philips’s listed patent work focuses on file security and decryption management, reflecting an area of software-related invention associated with his IBM affiliation.