Mclaughlin, GA
Craig Mclaughlin, Suwanee, GA US
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20130103484 | System and Methods for Fulfilling Loyalty Points Redemption Program Rewards - Systems and methods for managing a variety of loyalty points redemption programs offered by loyalty program providers (LPPs) for providing fulfillment of loyalty points redemption program rewards to customers who are members of the loyalty points redemption program. Customers are able to redeem loyalty points for eligible goods and services offered by various suppliers and merchants associated with particular loyalty programs, especially enabled for instore pickup. A loyalty points management system hosts a portal that provides a user interface, manages multiple redemption catalogs of eligible goods/services, and manages loyalty points redemption programs for multiple LPPs. Each loyalty points redemption program is subjected to predetermined rules and regulations (business rules) that determine conditions for transactions involving loyalty points. Redeemed goods and services can be picked up by customers at store location of participating suppliers and merchants, or alternatively, can be shipped to a convenient location via a shipping service. | 04-25-2013 |
Mark R. Mclaughlin, Atlanta, GA US
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20090019552 | Healthcare Medical Information Management System - A medical information management system and corresponding methods are described for providing access to healthcare records. The system includes a database system comprising healthcare records of a patient, a healthcare workstation coupled to the database system and an authentication system comprising a processor coupled to the database system. The healthcare workstation is located at a treatment facility or point of treatment that is remote to the database system. The authentication system generates an image of a finger of the patient at the point of treatment, and generates from the image an identification number. The authentication system compares the identification number to a stored number corresponding to the patient, and authenticates the patient's identity when the comparison produces a match between the identification number and stored number. Access to the healthcare records is controlled via the healthcare workstation in response to authentication of the patient. | 01-15-2009 |
20090024416 | Healthcare Medical Information Management System - A medical information management system and corresponding methods are described for providing access to healthcare records. The system includes a database system comprising healthcare records of a patient, a healthcare workstation coupled to the database system and an authentication system comprising a processor coupled to the database system. The healthcare workstation is located at a treatment facility or point of treatment that is remote to the database system. The authentication system generates an image of a finger of the patient at the point of treatment, and generates from the image an identification number. The authentication system compares the identification number to a stored number corresponding to the patient, and authenticates the patient's identity when the comparison produces a match between the identification number and stored number. Access to the healthcare records is controlled via the healthcare workstation in response to authentication of the patient. | 01-22-2009 |
Patrick Mclaughlin, Savannah, GA US
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20160101867 | AIRCREW SEAT - An aircrew seat for use in a flight deck includes, but is not limited to, a seat assembly that includes a seat back. The seat assembly is configured to be mounted in the flight deck. The aircrew seat further includes, but is not limited to, an armrest that is mounted to a side of the seat back. An end of the armrest is configured to move fore and aft between an extended position and a retracted position. | 04-14-2016 |
Steven Mclaughlin, Decatur, GA US
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20090031192 | CHANNEL ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A channel encoding apparatus and method are provided in which part of the parity bits are set to erroneous bits, and full parity bits are created by correcting the erroneous bits using a channel decoding apparatus of a receiver in a communication system. In the channel encoding apparatus, in order to generate a coded bit stream by adding a parity bit stream to a message bit stream, a partial parity generator generates a partial parity bit stream as a part of the parity bit stream using the message bit stream, an erasure generator generates a bit stream having an erroneous value as the remaining part of the parity bit stream, and a decoder calculates the value of the parity bit stream by correcting the bit stream having the erroneous value using a parity-check matrix that determines the parity bit stream, the message bit stream, and the partial parity bit stream. | 01-29-2009 |
Steven W. Mclaughlin, Decatur, GA US
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20140153723 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PHYSICAL LAYER SECURITY - Systems, devices, and methods of physical layer security are disclosed. One such device includes a physical layer security module and a physical layer processing module. The physical layer security module is operable to transform user data in accordance with security characteristics. The physical layer processing module is operable to process the transformed data into a format suitable for the communication channel and further operable to transmit the processed data onto the communication channel. The security characteristics of the physical layer security module are such that decoding the intercepted user data by the eavesdropper results in a bit error rate of about one-half. | 06-05-2014 |
20140171856 | Applications for Physical-Layer Security - Applications for physical layer security are disclosed. One such application is a system comprising a medical sensor device and a wireless communication module. The medical sensor device is operable to generate data representative of a condition of a patient. The wireless communication module is operable to transmit, on a wireless communication channel, the generated data representative of the condition of the patient. The system also includes a physical layer security module residing at a physical layer of the wireless communication module. The physical layer security module is operable to provide a secrecy zone around the physical layer security module by transforming the generated data such that transmission of the generated data is secured from interception by an eavesdropper on the wireless communication channel. | 06-19-2014 |
Steven W. Mclaughlin, Atlanta, GA US
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20110047432 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CODING IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for coding in a communication system. The coding method includes generating an information codeword vector from an information vector, generating a first vector in the information vector from an information part of a parity check matrix, generating a first parity codeword vector by performing an exclusive OR operation of the first vector and a second vector corresponding to a cyclically shifted version of the first vector, and generating a second parity codeword vector by performing an exclusive OR operation of the first vector, the first parity codeword vector, and a third vector. The third vector is a cyclically shifted version of a vector resulting from the exclusive OR operation of the first vector, the first parity codeword vector, and a fed-back third vector. | 02-24-2011 |
Steven William Mclaughlin, Decatur, GA US
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20080219447 | Systems and Methods of Secure Coding for Physical Layer Communication Channels - Systems and methods of securely communicating from a sender device to a receiver device on a communication channel are disclosed. One disclosed method is for securely communicating from a sender device to a receiver device on a main channel when an eavesdropper device is listening on an eavesdropper channel. The main channel has an signal-to-noise ratio SNR | 09-11-2008 |
20100128877 | Systems and Methods for Providing Opportunistic Security for Physical Communication Channels - Systems and methods of providing opportunistic security for physical communication channels are disclosed. One disclosed method is for opportunistic secure communication on a main channel between a sender device and a receiver device when an eavesdropper device is listening on an eavesdropper channel. This example method includes transmitting, in a first time period in which signal quality on the main channel is better than signal quality on the eavesdropper channel, symbols that are randomly selected from a set of symbols. The method also includes transmitting, in a second time period in which signal quality on the main channel is not better than signal quality on the eavesdropper channel, coding information associated with the randomly selected symbols. The method also includes reconciling the randomly selected symbols using the coding information. | 05-27-2010 |
20100275093 | Secure Communication Using Error Correction Codes - Systems and methods for selecting a puncturing pattern for a low density parity check (LDPC) code are disclosed. One such method comprises: selecting a puncture pattern distribution for the LDPC code; calculating a security threshold and a reliability threshold for the LDPC, the LDPC having the selected puncture pattern distribution and also described by a degree distribution; storing the selected puncture pattern distribution responsive to a security gap for the LDPC being a lowest value encountered in any prior iterations; selecting another puncture pattern distribution for the LDPC code; and repeating the calculating, the storing, and the selecting another puncture pattern distribution steps. | 10-28-2010 |
20110246854 | Secure Communication Using Non-Systematic Error Control Codes - A transmitter device ( | 10-06-2011 |
20120174187 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PHYSICAL LAYER SECURITY - The present invention describes systems and methods for providing physical layer security. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of providing physical layer security involving receiving message data at a pre-processing device in a wireless transmission device. Furthermore, the method of providing physical layer security involves pre-processing the message data into channel data with the pre-processing device and transmitting the channel data from the wireless transmission device over a wireless transmission link having a path loss. Subsequently, the method of providing physical layer security involves receiving the channel data at a post-processing module in a reception device. Additionally, the method involves post-processing the channel data into the message data with the post-processing module, such that an unauthorized reception device is unable to post-process the channel data when a path loss experienced over the transmission link is greater than a predetermined value. | 07-05-2012 |
Thomas M. Mclaughlin, Marietta, GA US
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20080303911 | Method for Capturing, Measuring and Analyzing Motion - A system and method for capturing, measuring and analyzing motion in real-time is provided which operates with or without markers. A threshold image is based on a background image and is created to minimize noise during the motion capture. A captured image is compared to the threshold image to identify collections of hot pixels or globs. The globs are compared to expected characteristics of the markers or the subject and are tracked between frames. Glob information is used to determine the location of the markers or subject in each frame. | 12-11-2008 |
20090148000 | System and Method for Motion Capture - A system and method for measuring, animating, and analyzing motion in real-time is provided which operates with or without markers. System variables are used with a motion model to restrict the number of possible locations of a subject. The system variables are based on known or detected relationships between the motions of the various elements of the model. Visual comparisons and quantitative comparisons provide feedback and help a subject learn or improve a motor skill. | 06-11-2009 |