Thinking Machines Corporation

Applied Minds, Inc.

Applied Invention, LLC

The Long Now Foundation

T. M. Patents, L.p.

Other

Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Elwha LLC

Gearbox LLC

Metaweb Technologies, Inc.

American Tire Distributors, Inc.

W Daniel Hillis

Bran Ferren

David C Douglas

Randall Adam Yates

Brewster A Kahle

Shaw-Wen Yang

Charles E Leiserson

Bradley C Kuszmaul

Guy Lewis Steele, Jr

Ira M Lichtman

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Roderick A Hyde

Mahesh N Ganmukhi

Russel Howe

Clinton Blake Hope

Jeffrey V Hill

Robert C Zak, Jr

Mathias L Kolehmainen

Carl R Feynman

Clarence T Tegreene

Edward K Y Jung

Jordin T Kare

Nathan P Myhrvold

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Monica C Wong-Chan

Jon P Wade

David S Wells

Robert E Lambert

Dev Kumar

Clint Blake Hope

Zahi S Abuhamdeh

George G Robertson

Eric Leuthardt

Daniel R Cassiday

Marc S Harrison

Donald E Moodie

Bruce J Walker

Robert D Lordi

Clifford A Lasser

Karl P Sims

Maya Lin

Michael Dubno

Frank Kastenholz

Steven Willis

William Gerner

Alexander Rose

Margaret A St Pierre

Scott J Smith

Victoria Y H Wood

Charles Whitmer

Thomas A Weaver

William Henry Gates, Iii

David Bazeley Tuckerman

Alistair K Chan

Robert C Petroski

William David Duncan

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Geoffrey Frank Deane

Thomas F Knight, Jr

Max Nathan Mankin

David Monroe Chapman

John Latham

James Wallace Sarrett

Luke Walter Khanlian

Mark E Duttweiler

Jascha Tucker Little

David Potter

Jeffrey D Carpenter

Theodore W Bilodeau

Alan Bawden

Cynthia J Spiller

James B Salem

John J Earls

Monica C Wong

Robert C Zak

David P Christman

Cliff A Lasser

Brewster L Kahle

Michael Drumbeller

Guy Blelloch

Abhiram Ranade

Carl Feyman

Richard Clayton

Tamiko Thiel

Bradley C Kuzmaul

Clement K Liu

The invention provides an instrument control panel that is easily customized and reconfigured, and yet provides the familiar tactile sensation of physical knobs, sliders, and buttons. The instrument control panel comprises one or more interface components that are removably coupled to an interface display wherein the interface components communicate with one or more control components disposed behind the interface display. The present invention lends itself particularly well to an instrument panel.

Customizable and reconfigurable virtual instrument panel

A secure communication system enabling secure transport of information is disclosed. The system comprises a secure network with one or more packet processing units connected by links through an internal communication system. The secure network transports packets of information between credentialed and authenticated agents. Each packet is associated with a visa issued by a visa service. The visa specifies the procedures governing the processing of the packet by the packet processing units as it is transported along a compliant flow, between agents thorough the network, according to a set of policies specified in a network configuration. Packet processing units include docks and forwarders. Adaptors serving the agents communicate with the network through tie-ins to docks. The system also includes and admin service, accessible to one more admins, that facilitates configuration and management of the network.

Secure communication system

A network security system includes a barrier surrounding an enclosure. The enclosure contains a first network and a first networked device connected to the first network. The barrier prevents the first network from breaching the enclosure and permits a second network to penetrate a first portion of the barrier. A container located within the enclosure mounts to the first portion of the barrier, such that a second portion of the container superposes the first portion of the barrier. The container permits the first network and the second network to enter the container. The container prevents the second network from breaching the container and entering a third portion of the enclosure located outside the container. A firewall device located within the container controls network traffic between the first networked device and a second networked device connected to the second network.

Physically secured network access control devices and systems

Data in a portable electronic device is protected by using external and internal status detection means to determine if the device is misplaced, lost, or stolen. The device then takes, singly or in combination, one of several actions to protect the data on the device, including declaring its location to an owner or service provider, locking the device or specific functions of the device to disable all data retrieval functionality, erasing or overwriting all the stored data in the device or, where the data has been stored in the device in an encrypted format, destroying an internally-stored encryption key, thereby preventing unauthorized access to the encrypted data in the device.

Method and apparatus for protecting data in a portable electronic device

Secure network communications are described. In one aspect, a secure network can include a passbuilder that provides policy information related to performance characteristics of the secure network. A sender can receive the policy information and transmit packets to a receiver if the policy information is complied with by the potential packet transmission.

Secure communication network

The disclosed technology includes a system comprising a tire-mounted inertial measurement unit (IMU). The IMU can be configured to measure linear acceleration data and angular velocity data associated with a tire, and the system can be configured to determine various indicators of tire health based on the linear acceleration data and angular velocity data. The system can be configured to determine a distance between the IMU and an outer rolling surface of the tire. The system can be configured to monitor changes in this distance over time, which can be indicative of tread wear over time. Accordingly, the system can be configured to monitor change in the tread depth over time such that the system is configured to monitor tread depth of the tire.

Tire health monitoring systems and methods thereto

A method of operating a security token to authenticate a user in a multi-factor authentication system is disclosed. The method includes: monitoring user custody of the token, the token having an identifying characteristic representing a possession factor for use through possession factor authentication; during a period of continuous user custody of the token based on the monitoring, obtaining a knowledge factor from a user having the continuous user custody; caching the knowledge factor in a memory of the token; and in response to a second authentication request, retrieving the knowledge factor from the memory to demonstrate to an authentication system knowledge of the knowledge factor, during the period of continuous user custody.

Security information caching on authentication token

A phased adoption procedure is disclosed for adopting a new communication system that provides potential adopters a high degree of confidence in the reliability of the proposed communication system prior to committed adoption.

Method and apparatus for communication system upgrade via phased adoption

Growing community of inventors

Cambridge, MA, United States of America

W Daniel Hillis