James E Bishop

US Patent:

20070078668, Apr 5, 2007

Filed:

Sep 30, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/240856

Inventors:

Dimpy Pathria - Burr Ridge IL, US
John Davison - San Diego CA, US
Robert Warner - Poway CA, US
James Bishop - San Diego CA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 99/00

US Classification:

705001000

Abstract:

A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining whether a responder is who he or she claims to be, by evaluating responses to a series of questions drawn from various data providers, e.g. real estate data about the responder's house; family members from other publicly available sources; etc. The invention also comprises a novel empirically-derived scoring component that is used to evaluate the likelihood that correct/incorrect responses to the multiple choice questions is fraud, i.e. an impersonator.

US Patent:

59997974, Dec 7, 1999

Filed:

Nov 3, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/963544

Inventors:

William Frank Zancho - Hawthorn Woods IL
James William Bishop - Chandler AZ
Michael William Krutz - Chandler AZ

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

H04B 7185

US Classification:

455 121

Abstract:

Private Global Networks (PGNs) between communication terminals (110, 114, 116, 118) are established within a satellite communication system (100). Each PGN provides to its users a network of dedicated communication paths which have durations that exceed the duration of a particular call. A dedicated communication path is established by determining (416, 424) hand-off schedules for satellite-to-terminal links for both a source and destination terminal, and also by determining (428) satellite cross-link schedules necessary to maintain the dedicated path for a duration which exceeds the duration of a particular call.