Patents and standards

Over the years I have been granted 25 patents (including patent applications) addressing the variety of ideas from areas such as authentication and identity management, mobile communication and smart cards, trust management, e-commerce, digital rights management.

I've lead and contributed to a handful of standards that helped e-commerce and mobile payment, standards such as OMA/WAP EFI, JSR177, JSR232, MeT and others.

Following is a list of my patents. Unfortunately I do not own any patent from this list. They belong to my respective employers. Unfortunately ...

Hodgson, P., Cofta, P. (2008) Authentication of an Identity of an Entity. WO2008GB01163.

Cofta, P., Mallet, C. (2008) Wireless Communications. EP20070251085.

Piotr Cofta: Communications Device Monitoring. (2007) WO 2007/107701. GB 2007/000859.

Piotr Cofta: Methods, Appartuses and Software for Authentication of Devices Temporarily Provided With a SIM to Store a Challege-Response. (2007) WO 2007/104923, GB 2007/000783.

Piotr Cofta: SIM Based Authentication. (2007) WO 2007/104909, GB 2007/000446.

Piotr Cofta: Method and System for Recursive Authentication in a Mobile Network. (2006) WO 2007/085779, GB 2006/004033.

Piotr Cofta: Well-Behaved SMS Notification. (2006) US 20060116142.

Zheng Yan, Piotr Cofta: System and Method to Establish and Maintain Conditional Trust by Stating Signal of Distrust. (2005) US 20050033987.

Gabor Paller, Piotr Cofta, Jaana Majakangas: Resource Management System and Method. (2005) US 20050240795.

Piotr Cofta: Methods for Evaluating Trust. (2004) 60/583,212.

Petri Hyyppa, Panu Markkanen, Lauri Piikivi, Topi Saukkonen, Piotr Cofta: Electronic Exchange of Information. (2004) 2372904

Piotr Cofta, Olli Immonen: Trusted Signature with Key Access Permission. (2004) US20050246539

Piotr Cofta, Lauri Paatero: Key Storage Administration. (2003) PCT/IB03/02661. US 20050044375.

Piotr Cofta, Lauri Paatero: Method and System for Visualising a Level of Trust of Network Communication Operations and Connections of Servers. (2003) US 20030030680.

Julian Durand, Tommy Arnberg, Piotr Cofta, Kimmo Djupsjobacka, Pekka Koponen, Pasi Toiva, Jari Vaario, Jukka Parkkinen: Rendering of Content. (2002) US 20020159596.

Piotr Cofta: Method and System to Visualise Trust on User Interface. (2002) US 09/922672.

Piotr Cofta: Method and Device to Dispense Electronic Tickets. (2001)

Julian Durand, Kimmo Djupsjobacka, Pekka Koponen, Tommy Arnberg, Jari Vaario, Piotr Cofta: System for Protecting Copyrighted Material. (2001) WO 03/003213 A1. US 20030005327.

Petri Hyyppa, Panu Markkanen, Lauri Piikivi, Piotr Cofta: Electronic transactions. (2001) UK 0105267.9. US 20020188523.

Petri Hyyppa, Panu Markkanen, Lauri Piikivi, Piotr Cofta: Electronic transactions. (2001) UK 0105265.3. US 20020187772.

Petri Hyyppa, Panu Markkanen, Lauri Piikivi, Piotr Cofta: Formatted electronic transactions. (2000) EP 1197929A2. UK 0105264.6. US 20020193102.

Piotr Cofta: Method and Token for Authenticating a Control Point. (2000) WO 02/19280 A2.

Piotr Cofta, Olli Immonen, Mikael Linden, Mikko Lukkaroinen: Method for Binding a Program Module. (1999) WO 01/48604 A. FI 19992786. US 20010016042.

Piotr Cofta: Transaction System and Method. (1999) EP 1111561 A2. GB 9930592.2. US 20010005832.

Mikael Linden, Olli Immonen, Mikko Lukkaroinen, Piotr Cofta: Apparatus and Method for Authentication of Device Drivers. (1999) WO 00/62174.