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David Johnston, Beaverton US

David Johnston, Beaverton, OR US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090089576TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION OVER MANAGEMENT CHANNELS - Techniques for communicating information over management channels are described. An apparatus may comprise a classifier module operative to classify management information for a wireless communications network as media access control security management information or media access control management information. The apparatus may further comprise a wireless transceiver to couple to the classifier module, the wireless transceiver operative to communicate the media access control security management information over an insecure management connection and the media access control management information over a secure management connection. Other embodiments are described and claimed.04-02-2009
20090172394Assigning nonces for security keys - Secure communications may be implemented by transmitting packet data units with information sufficient to enable a receiving entity to reconstruct a nonce. That is, rather than transmitting all of the bits making up the nonce, some of the bits may be transmitted together with an identifier that enables the rest of the bits of the nonce to be obtained by the receiving entity.07-02-2009
20090307474STORING A DEVICE MANAGEMENT ENCRYPTION KEY IN A NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROLLER - A device management system for securely storing an encryption key associated with a device management session. The device management system includes an encryption key generator to generate an encryption key, a client device to receive an encrypted bootstrap data file transmitted by a base station, and a network interface controller coupled to the client device, the network interface controller to store the encryption key separate from a system memory of the client device. Embodiments of the device management system ensure user credentials do not exist in the client device in plaintext form outside of the network interface controller, thus preventing software and/or malware executed on the host from extracting such credentials.12-10-2009
20100098027Media independent trigger model for multiple network types - A media independent trigger model for multiple network types is disclosed. A change in communication environment trigger is communicated from a media dependent interface to an upper media independent application. The communication environment trigger may be from a local event detected by the interface or may be a remote trigger received from another device. The upper media independent application adjusts operations according to the communication environment trigger.04-22-2010
20100128704Mulitcasting, location services, payment methods and performance management in broadband wireless access networks - Methods, apparatuses and systems for location discovery, electronic payment and multicast broadcast in a wireless broadband network disclosed.05-27-2010
20100166183OPTIMIZING SECURITY BITS IN A MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) HEADER - A method of retrieving security information in a media access control (MAC) header by a wireless station may include receiving a data unit, such as a protocol data unit (PDU), from a remote wireless station. The PDU may include the MAC header. The method may also include reading two encryption key sequence (EKS) bits in the MAC header that denote both whether the data unit is encrypted and a position in an encryption key sequence for the data unit.07-01-2010
20100246828METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PARALLELIZED DATA DECRYPTION AND KEY GENERATION - A method and system to decrypt data in a particular round of decryption substantially in parallel with the generation of a decryption key associated with the next round of the particular round of decryption. By performing an inverse next key computation, the decryption process can be symmetric to the advanced encryption standard (AES) encryption process in terms of processing time, hardware implementation and storage requirements.09-30-2010
20100332574Digital random number generator - A hardware-based digital random number generator is provided. The digital random number generator is a randomly behaving random number generator based on a set of nondeterministic behaviors. The nondeterministic behaviors include temporal asynchrony between subunits, entropy source “extra” bits, entropy measurement, autonomous deterministic random bit generator reseeding and consumption from a shared resource.12-30-2010
20110075844Adaptive packet ciphering - Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for adaptive packet ciphering.03-31-2011

Patent applications by David Johnston, Beaverton, OR US