Yes, I have to confess that I'm proud.
I'm proud because some of the invention reports some colleagues and I have submitted became patent applications.
And some patent applications were granted.
The first idea was born while working at Nokia. We were developing basestations, these are devices of a mobile network to which a cell phone usually establishes a mobile connection.
The base stations need to be configured with a huge amount of parameters: frequencies, bandwidth, connection settings etc.
Lot of effort has been spend to drive for autoconfiguration of these base stations: once the basestation is physically installed in fetches its configuration from the network.
So the Location-based address resolution patent was born out of the idea that a basestation when it owns a GPS device can provide the GPS data to the core network and by this fetch the correct configuration.
A patent has been granted in the US.
The second patent is about secure network connections. Secure networks may be build on certificates. There is a chain of certificates based upon the idea of "trust". The chain starts at the "trust anchor certificate".
Usually certificates have a lifetime. So once they expire they cannot be used anymore to establish a secure connection. So in a global team of colleagues from around the world we discussed how a "trust anchor certificate" is to be exchanged prior to expiration. This then led to the development of our first idea. We submitted an invention report which became a patent application. Unfortunately no patent was granted.
But meanwhile we had a better idea which became a patent application and now has become a patent in the US and a patent in China.
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