RicRicho

Partial List:

• 2007
Polaroid based heads up display for consumer use.
Wireless telephone answering system for centralized message management.
Blind-spot mirror design for safe driving.
Audit Server – a new approach to software license management.
Software Throttling – a user friendly way of managing software copy counting.
System for adjustable flex in surfboard design (patent writer and invention advisor)
• 2006
Universal Database - Ever wanted to capture responses from visitors to your site without setting up a database or a mailto form? R2Labs Universal Database is a simple multi-use database that captures data from forms on your web page and forwards the results to you privately using email… a simple but much needed facility for the web.
• 2005
Password Packing - With key loggers and Trojans waiting to snatch your banking password something is needed to make their life a bit harder. Password Packing is a technique that adds nonsense characters to your password making it harder for a hacker to know what your password is yet no harder for you to remember.
Site Triage - A simplified password system for people who want privacy but do not want their visitors to sign up for anything
Cyclical Unlock codes - Unlocking codes for software that evades brute force number crunching attacks.
• 2004
Terremail - Send from email to post box.
• 2003
Personal Server - Automates collection of important information on your home computer and gets it to you over the web or on your cell or pda.

Digital Furnace - One computer for the whole household, a new multi-user approach to household computing.
Wireless Repeater - Uses light sockets to power wireless internet connections around the home and around the world.
Push payment system - Provides web buyers with a way to pay people over the web without using sellers shopping cart. Privacy
MicroPMT - Want to pay 2 cents to see an important page on the web…
Pop Central - An experiment using push technology to flash information to the user without interrupting their workflow.
Cell Redirector - Centralize your phone calls at home or on the move with automatic call cost optimization between your cell and home phone line accounts.
Cell2Cell2World - Use two cell phones to make all your calls from a landline while on the move.
• 2000
Logarex - A new way of compressing data using Logarithms.
Installer image wrapper patent.
• 1992
The Uniloc patent – locking a license to a specific device using hardware fingerprinting

Back in 1995 an opportunity came up to do a world first… combine a popular computer game AND digital music onto one CD. The game was an unlockable Uniloc-enabled copy of shoot-em-up DOOM and the music of the popular pop group Kulcha.

The idea was that the CD was purchased for the music and every buyer would get the opportunity to install and try the game DOOM as an added bonus. The game would only work for the first few levels of the game but would have to be purchased by getting an unlock code over the phone to play the game fully. It really worked well because the same kids that got into Kulcha aslo were only starting to get into computer games.

The album was set to be released by Warner Music but there was one big problem. When a CD player started playing it would try to play the game data which sounded like million gnats flying out your speakers and did real speaker damage.

A simple invention that I unfortunately never patented was the idea of hiding the game data from the CD players index, thereby tricking the player to see the fist track as the fisrt music track rather than the data. It worked. And the Kulcha CD was a success.

The CD was used as a lead component in a presentation to visiting Time Warner Chairman Gerald Levin, and resulted in an invitation to Ric to come visit the fortune 100 company later that year.