Thomas J Colson

US Patent:

7458512, Dec 2, 2008

Filed:

Feb 1, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/047782

Inventors:

Thomas J. Colson - Clarence Center NY, US
Peter J. Vanderheyden - Naperville IL, US
Mark R. O'Donnell - Fairport NY, US

Assignee:

IP.com, Inc. - West Henrietta NY

International Classification:

G06K 17/00

US Classification:

235386, 235 51

Abstract:

The invention broadly comprises a computer-based method and system for verifying an electronic voting process, comprising the steps of generating an original digital fingerprint of an electronic record at a first time and transmitting the original digital fingerprint. The method generates a validation digital fingerprint of the electronic record at a second time later than the first time and compares the original and validation digital fingerprints. The method generates and compares digital fingerprints of voting software during certification and testing, during installation in a voting machine, while the machine is in government possession, and during active use in a voting period.

US Patent:

7797241, Sep 14, 2010

Filed:

Aug 16, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/931492

Inventors:

Thomas J. Colson - Clarence Center NY, US
John E. Cronin - Milton VT, US
Samuel C. Baxter - Fairport NY, US
Robert Cantrell - Arlington VA, US

Assignee:

IP.com, Inc. - West Henrietta NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

705 52, 707 1, 707100, 707101, 705 1

Abstract:

A system and a method of publishing an product document for clients for the purpose of publicly disclosing an invention to end users on the Global Information Network. The system includes a first Web site system having a publicly accessible database for storing a plurality of product documents received from clients. The Web site also includes a search engine accessible to the end user. The search engine is in electronic communication with the database and can receive a search request the end user, allowing the end user access to one or more of the product documents. The product document preferably includes a primary text file and attachment files which may include drawing files. The product documents may be digitally notarized and time/date stamped.

US Patent:

7904408, Mar 8, 2011

Filed:

May 15, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/803601

Inventors:

Thomas J. Colson - Clarence NY, US
Samuel C. Baxter - Brewster MA, US

Assignee:

IP.com I, LLC - Amherst NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
G06N 5/02

US Classification:

706 47, 717108, 707748

Abstract:

A computer based method for monitoring innovation activity including: accumulating first metadata associated with a first plurality of intellectual knowledge files; extracting a first plurality of patterns from the first plurality of intellectual knowledge files; creating a first plurality of concept spaces, using rules-based processing, the first metadata, and the first patterns; grouping, using rules-based processing, the first metadata, and the first plurality of patterns, the first plurality of intellectual knowledge files into first respective concept spaces in the first plurality of concept spaces; and generating a report, the report correlating the first plurality of intellectual knowledge files and the first respective concept spaces. The steps of accumulating, extracting, creating, grouping, and generating are performed by a general-purpose computer specially programmed to perform the steps of accumulating, extracting, creating, grouping, and generating.

US Patent:

20020107709, Aug 8, 2002

Filed:

Feb 7, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/778635

Inventors:

Thomas Colson - Clarence NY, US
Samuel Baxter - Fairport NY, US

Assignee:

IP.Com, Inc. - West Henrietta NY

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/007000

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for collecting and communicating information related to validity of a patent over a global information network, including the steps of soliciting bounty hunters via a global information network for prior art related to validity of the patent, receiving substantive information related to the validity of the patent from at least one of the bounty hunters in response to the solicitation, sanitizing the substantive information to remove indicia of source, and, submitting sanitized substantive information to a bounty offeror.

US Patent:

20040103112, May 27, 2004

Filed:

Nov 13, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/713315

Inventors:

Thomas Colson - Buffalo NY, US
Thomas Chronis - Pittsford NY, US
George Osborne - Maccdon NY, US

International Classification:

G06F017/00

US Classification:

707/102000

Abstract:

A computer based method and apparatus for mining data from a patent-related document having, a number of independent claims including the steps of analyzing the patent-related document and identifying a section of the document containing claims of the patent-related document and determining which of the claims are independent in nature. The invention also provides a method and apparatus for ranking a set of patents according to strength.