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

From the Uniloc website:
Device locking was invented by Uniloc’s founder, Ric Richardson, in 1992. Uniloc was subsequently granted the seminal device locking patent in 1996: US 5,490,216; System for Software Registration.

Today, Uniloc has over 10 related patents pending which leverage the power of device locking into several new markets and applications.

This is my first and most well known patent written back in 1992 in Australia and granted in the US in 1996. The patent covers the concept of locking a specific software licesne to a specific machine. This approach has been used by most of the world’s top software publishers and is even beginning to be used to secure financial and banking web transactions.

Ric has been working on businesses that exploit the patent ever since he invented the concept in 1992.