Inventor · Dallas, TX, US

Stephen M. Curry

28Patents
18h-index
26Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 9, 1988 → Dec 13, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6105013A Method, apparatus, system and firmware for secure transactions Electricity 439 Expired
US5940510A Transfer of valuable information between a secure module and another module Physics 205 Expired
US5748740A Method, apparatus, system and firmware for secure transactions Electricity 173 Expired
US6237095A Apparatus for transfer of secure information between a data carrying module and an electronic device Electricity 146 Expired
US6272637A Systems and methods for protecting access to encrypted information Physics 146 Expired
US5949880A Transfer of valuable information between a secure module and another module Physics 144 Expired
US5805702A Method, apparatus, and system for transferring units of value Electricity 121 Expired
US5850450A Method and apparatus for encryption key creation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 100 Expired
US5998858A Microcircuit with memory that is protected by both hardware and software Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 81 Expired
US6217213A Temperature sensing systems and methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Expired
US5206905A Password protected device using incorrect passwords as seed values for pseudo-random number generator for outputting random data to thwart unauthorized accesses Electricity 49 Expired
US6112275A Method of communicating over a single wire bus between a host device and a module device which measures thermal accumulation over time Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 48 Expired
US5619066A Memory for an electronic token Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US5761697A Identifiable modules on a serial bus system and corresponding identification methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Expired
US5045675A Serial port interface to low-voltage low-power data module Physics 35 Expired
US5864872A Single wire communication system Physics 33 Expired
US6108751A Single wire data communication method Physics 29 Expired
US5604343A Secure storage of monetary equivalent data systems and processes Physics 28 Expired
US5517015A Communication module Electricity 16 Expired
US5587955A Electronic token Physics 16 Expired
US5506991A Printer port adapter with overlaid one-wire interface for electronic key Electricity 15 Expired
US5978927A Method and system for measuring a maximum and minimum response time of a plurality of devices on a data bus and adapting the timing of read and write time slots Physics 15 Expired
US5760385A Transaction system and method Physics 12 Expired
US5212774A Two processor communications system with processor controlled modem Physics 10 Expired
US5974504A Metal token having units of value stored therein using a single wire communication method Physics 9 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.