Verizon Laboratories Inc.

Other

Cellco Partnership

Genuity Inc.

Christopher Paul Carroll

Yair Frankel

Muxiang Zhang

Varsha Clare

Brian Green

Gerry Flynn

Agnes Chan

Steve Rados

Steve Thomas

A battery-powered generator includes a first power transfer switch arranged to: i) receive, via a first input connection, a first AC electrical power signal from a gas-powered generator; ii) receive, via a second input connection, a second AC electrical power signal from a DC to AC power inverter, and iii) selectively connect an output connection to one of the first input connection associated with the first AC electrical power signal and the second input connection associated with the second AC electrical power signal. The generator includes a bank of one or more batteries arranged to output a DC electrical power signal. The DC to AC power inverter is configured to i) receive the DC electrical power signal and ii) generate the second AC electrical power signal.

Modular portable and backup power systems and methods

The application describes systems and methods for a modular portable power plant system including a first module having a first bank of one or more batteries and a second module that is detachably connectable to the first module. The second module includes a first DC to AC power inverter that is in electrical communications with the first bank of one or more batteries. The first module can be configured to house a first bank of one or more batteries arranged in a first configuration or a second configuration such that the first module includes a reconfigurable battery rack assembly arranged to be reconfigurable to provide support for a first battery set in the first configuration and a second battery set in the second configuration.

Modular portable power systems and methods

The application describes systems and methods for associating a person with one or more wireless devices. The system includes a first wireless reader arranged to detect a first set of wireless device identities at a first time period and at a first location. The system also includes a second wireless reader arranged to detect second set of wireless device identities at a second time period and at a second location. The system further includes a server, in electronic communication with the first and second wireless readers via a network, arranged to: receive the first set of detected wireless device identities from the first wireless reader and the second set of detected wireless device identities from the second wireless reader; compare the first set of wireless device identities with the second set of wireless device identities; identify a first matching set of wireless device identities including matching wireless device identities between the first set of wireless device identities and the second set of wireless device identities; and associate a first user identity with the first matching set of wireless device identities.

Systems and methods for tracking a person

The application describes systems and methods for preventing the distribution of large volumes of electronic data by loading selected sensitive files with pad data to increase the size of the files such that file transfer, distribution, or downloading to removable media storage devices is more cumbersome. In one aspect, a file loading system comprises a datastore for storing a plurality of data files where each of the plurality of data files includes information and a processor arranged to: access the plurality of data files in the datastore, and load a data pad into one or more of the plurality of data files to increase the size of the one or more of the plurality of data files.

Systems and methods for file loading

Techniques are described for enabling authentication and/or key agreement between communications network stations and service networks. The techniques described include the negotiation and use of a cryptographic primitive shared between a service network and a home environment of a station. The techniques described also feature a key usage indicator, such as a sequence number, maintained by the service network and a station. Comparison of the key usage indicators can, for example, permit efficient authentication of the service network.

Cryptographic techniques for a communications network

Systems and methods disclosed herein provide secure, efficient, and mutually authenticated cryptographic key distribution. A client or client manufacturer may pre-generate and pre-encrypt the cryptographic keys, store the encrypted keys within the client, and deliver such keys to the serving network's access server via the client, while also relying upon, if available, the authentication performed by a trusted access server of an intermediate network which the client must traverse in order to obtain access the serving network. If not available, a client password stored within the client may be used to enable client authentication by the serving network prior to acceptance of the delivered cryptographic keys.

Secure, efficient, and mutually authenticated cryptographic key distribution

Methods and systems are provided for processing information. In one embodiment, there is provided a method, providing a frame key based on a master key and a frame number of a frame of information to a keystream generator as an initial fill for one or more registers of the keystream generator such that the initial fill establishes a state for the one or more registers of the keystream generator; and generating, at the keystream generator, a keystream sequence based on the state established by the initial fill, wherein the keystream sequence includes a modulo-2 sum of a lagged-Fibonacci sequence and a pseudo-random sequence produced by a filter generator.

Stream-cipher method and apparatus

An escrowed key distribution system for over-the-air service provisioning of cellular telephones and other wireless communication devices provides a secure and efficient authentication key distribution method for wireless communications networks. To ensure security, an authentication key used to activate the wireless device is never transmitted over the air. In addition, mutual authentication is performed between the wireless communication device and the service provider using an embedded private-key algorithm to ensure proper authentication key transfer.

Escrowed key distribution for over-the-air service provisioning in wireless communication networks

A system includes at least one wireless communications device having a standard wireless interface and a wireless provisioning device that provisions the wireless communications device. The wireless provisioning device uses the standard wireless interface to transfer the provisioning information, including an authentication key, to the wireless communications device when both devices are interconnected via a wireline link between a transceiver antenna of the wireless communications device and a communication unit of the provisioning device.

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Framingham, MA, United States of America

Christopher Paul Carroll