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Gord Larose's
Patent Portfolio
Gord's non-patent publications have their own page here.
Gord is a named inventor on all of these patents and the sole inventor on several of them. Gord performed much of the specification drafting (and some of the claims work) for these submissions, and is quite familiar with the overall patent process in the USA and elsewhere.
The first two have been issued or allowed in several countries. The others are still pending, at the normal glacial pace of the patent process.
Most of the patents have multiple versions in different jurisdictions; on this page is one representative PTO link for each.
Distribution and Controlled Use of Software Products
This patent describes Digital Rights Management technology by which a software program can be transformed, without source code, into a version which is robustly dependent upon added network-based DRM functions.
Method and system for networked installation of uniquely customized, authenticable, and traceable software applications
This patent describes a system by which a computer user is supplied with a software program which is automatically synthesized, individually customized, and optionally traceable to him, by use of Internet-based client server technology.
Software program protection mechanism
This patent describes a system in which the protection of a software program can be expanded beyond protecting the executable (e.g. .EXE) file, to include other file types such as DLLS and the large files that contain level information for games. This is in recognition of the fact that executable files are a small and easily-replaced component of most current software.
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System and Method for Managing Digital Content
This submission describes a system that makes the association between "secondary" material such as advertising, and "primary" material desired by consumers, such as rock videos, into one which is simultaneously very robust and very flexible.
Method and system for software integrity control using secure hardware assist
This patent describes a system that expands the usefulness of security adjunct hardware, such as smart-cards, beyond its current niche in vertical markets such as VPNs. The methods describe make such adjuncts useful, not just for establishing trust through a PC to an authenticable server, but also of software operating locally on the PC. In this respect it bears some resemblance to Microsoft's Palladium initiative.
Adaptive software installation process supporting multiple layers of
security-related attributes
This submission builds on the previous one by describing a way to produce a multi-tiered family of software, of increasing functionality and security, usually tied to a trusted adjunct device.
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