iPass Patent Grants

Cold storage cryptographic authentication apparatus and system

Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number: 11451402
A secure cryptographic cold storage apparatus and system. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a cold storage apparatus configured to generate a private key, compute an associated PK/PKY and display the latter on a visual display screen. An associated interface apparatus is configured to retrieve the PK/PKH optically and store it in memory. The interface apparatus is configured to produce an associated message and render it at a visual display. The cold storage apparatus may…

HIF 1-alpha antisense oligonucleotides

Granted: May 3, 2022
Patent Number: 11319540
Provided are peptide nucleic acid derivatives targeting a part of the human HIF-1? pre-mRNA. The peptide nucleic acid derivatives potently induce exon skipping to yield splice variants of HIF-1? mRNA in cells, and are useful to treat indications or conditions involving the overexpression of HIF-1?.

SNAP25 antisense oligonucleotides

Granted: March 1, 2022
Patent Number: 11261448
Provided are peptide nucleic acid derivatives targeting a 3? splice site of the human SNAP25 pre-mRNA. The peptide nucleic acid derivatives potently induce at least a splice variant of the human SNAP25 mRNA in cells, and are useful to safely treat dermatological indications or conditions involving the expression of the human SNAP25 protein by topical administration.

SCN9A antisense pain killer

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11162104
The current invention provides peptide nucleic acid derivatives targeting the 3? splice site of exon 4 in the human SCN9A pre-mRNA. The peptide nucleic acid derivatives potently induce SCN9A mRNA splice variant(s) lacking the SCN9A exon 4 in cells, and are useful to safely treat pains or conditions involving Nav1.7 activity.

Apparatus and method for establishing WiFi access point handshake priorities

Granted: January 21, 2020
Patent Number: 10542484
A server has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to collect scan lists from client devices. Each scan list includes individual entries. Each individual entry specifies a WiFi access point network identifier collected by a client. WiFi access point networks in the scan lists are evaluated. WiFi access point handshake priorities are supplied to the client devices. The WiFi access point handshake priorities…

Kiosk for energy industry logistics

Granted: January 21, 2020
Patent Number: 10540614
An automated kiosk and related apparatus provide check-in and boarding services to energy sector passengers, such as helicopter passengers. Preferably, the kiosk and related apparatus can take and store a picture of the passenger, calculate and/or measure the weight of the passenger and the passenger's luggage, print luggage tags and boarding printouts, check third parties' databases (such as a no-fly list (NFL)) for approval for the passenger's flight and can transmit data to another…

Apparatus and method for steering wireless network connections based upon quality assessments

Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number: 10299139
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to access a list of Wi-Fi networks available to a user device. User network activity is classified. It is determined that there is a new Wi-Fi network for the user device to initiate a connection attempt. In the event of an existing licensed spectrum wireless network data connection on the user device, licensed spectrum wireless network data connection analytics are collected and an attempt is made…

Apparatus and method for identifying a moving WiFi access point and managing connections therewith

Granted: September 18, 2018
Patent Number: 10080209
A server has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to collect scan lists from client devices. Each scan list specifies a WiFi access point identifier collected by a client device and geographic coordinates of the client device when the WiFi access point identifier was collected. A cluster of geographic coordinates is formed around a designated WiFi access point. A centroid within the cluster is identified. The…

Kiosk for energy industry logistics

Granted: August 28, 2018
Patent Number: 10062040
An automated kiosk and related apparatus provide check-in and boarding services to energy sector passengers, such as helicopter passengers. Preferably, the kiosk and related apparatus can take and store a picture of the passenger, calculate and/or measure the weight of the passenger and the passenger's luggage, print luggage tags and boarding printouts, check third parties' databases (such as a no-fly list (NFL)) for approval for the passenger's flight and can transmit data to another…

Apparatus and method for tracking the position of an intermittently operable Wi-Fi tag

Granted: April 24, 2018
Patent Number: 9955304
A server has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to collect scan lists from client devices, where each scan list specifies a Wi-Fi access point identifier collected by a client device and geographic coordinates of the client device when the Wi-Fi access point identifier was collected. A cluster of geographic coordinates around a designated Wi-Fi access point is formed. A centroid within the cluster is identified.…

Digital level

Granted: January 9, 2018
Patent Number: D807210

Method and computer program for providing authentication to control access to a computer system

Granted: August 22, 2017
Patent Number: 9740838
The present invention relates to a method and computer program for providing authentication to control access to a computer. system including online services accessed via a portal, cloud based systems and browser accessed systems using for example HTML5, and relates particularly, but not exclusively, to authentication systems for mobile computer and telecommunications devices.

Advanced network characterization and migration

Granted: August 15, 2017
Patent Number: 9736748
In some embodiments, a method includes scanning for wireless networks, where scanning includes collecting network information indicating properties of the wireless networks. The method can include analyzing the network information to determine signal data indicating signal qualities for the wireless networks. The method can include characterizing, based on the signal data, one or more wireless networks as being suitable for connection by the mobile device, where the characterizing…

Advanced network characterization

Granted: August 16, 2016
Patent Number: 9420045
Some embodiments include a method for determining whether to establish a connection between a computer and a network. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving first network information from a network; determining a first trust level for the network by matching the network information to provisioning information, wherein the provisioning information indicates the first trust level and an authentication method of the network; verifying that network supports the authentication…

Automated configuration for network appliances

Granted: February 23, 2016
Patent Number: 9270654
Some embodiments include a method for initially configuring a network appliance. The method can detect, by the network appliance, a subscriber network. The method can transmit, to a remote configuration service via the subscriber network, a request for configuration information for the network appliance, and receive, via the subscriber network, the configuration information, wherein the configuration information includes first parameters for the subscriber network, and second parameters…

Advanced network characterization and migration

Granted: November 17, 2015
Patent Number: 9191874
In some embodiments, a method includes scanning for wireless networks, where scanning includes collecting network information indicating properties of the wireless networks. The method can include analyzing the network information to determine signal data indicating signal qualities for the wireless networks. The method can include characterizing, based on the signal data, one or more wireless networks as being suitable for connection by the mobile device, where the characterizing…

Advanced network characterization

Granted: October 20, 2015
Patent Number: 9167053
Some embodiments include a method for determining whether to establish a connection between a computer and a network. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving first network information from a network; determining a first trust level for the network by matching the network information to provisioning information, wherein the provisioning information indicates the first trust level and an authentication method of the network; verifying that network supports the authentication…

System and method for actively characterizing a network

Granted: July 21, 2015
Patent Number: 9088627
In one embodiment the method includes detecting a network indicator associated with a network, the network provided by a network provider. In one embodiment, after the detecting of the network indicator, the method includes obtaining from the network provider an actual attribute associated with the network. The method may also include determining, based on stored network information, whether the actual attribute matches an expected attribute for the network. If the actual attribute…

Electronic supply chain management

Granted: March 17, 2015
Patent Number: 8984150
In some embodiments a method for correlating supply chain network information received from supply chain network components controlled by different entities includes receiving connection agent information indicating access point identifiers associated with network access points; receiving provisioning information including physical location identifiers identifying venues at which the network access points reside; receiving network authorization request and response records, wherein the…

Peptide nucleic acid derivatives with good cell penetration and strong affinity for nucleic acid

Granted: November 25, 2014
Patent Number: 8895734
The present invention provides a novel class of peptide nucleic acid derivatives, which show good cell penetration and strong binding affinity for nucleic acid.