Here is a partial Wave-Intel related patent list collected off the IHub board over the years:
The story goes that Peter Sprague, while the head of National Semiconductor (a job he held for some 30 years, and took them from the pink sheets to a multi-billion dollar global company), came up with the idea for a digital meter. He reasoned that digital bits were like electricity in the beginning; i.e. they could get it to your house, but didn't know how to charge for it. He thought the idea so revolutionary, that he patented the idea outside of NSM, and formed a company around it. The premise was that somehow OEM's would include the meter chip in every computer, and Wave would get a small piece of every transaction that washed across it.
(IHub, #39194, 4/27/04)
1999 Nov 23, Intel patent # 5,991,399. Method for securely distributing a conditional use private key to a trusted entity on a remote system.
(IHub, #20489, 11/24/03)
2000 Mar 21, Intel patent # 6,041,122. Method and apparatus for hiding cryptographic keys utilizing autocorrelation timing encoding and computation.
(IHub, #20489, 11/24/03)
2000 Oct 24, Wave Patent # 6,138,239. "A method and system for secure transactions. The method and system comprise a security co-processor and an interface for interfacing the security co-processor to a host computer system." This may cover Microsoft's NGSCB architecture in its entirety
(IHub, #21260, 11/30/03)
2000 Nov 22, Wave Systems Receives Two New Patents.
(IHub #68211, 2/4/05)
2002 Jun 4, Intel patent # 6,401,208. "Method for BIOS authentication prior to BIOS execution."
(IHub, #20489, 11/24/03)
2003 Oct 14, Intel patent # 6,633,981. Electronic system and method for controlling access through user authentication.
(IHub, #20489, 11/24/03)
2010 May 10, Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: WAVX), a leading provider of management software for hardware-based security, announced today that it has acquired two U.S. patents pertaining to security subsystems for storage devices. The patents describe certain elements of core technology underlying self-encrypting hard drives (SEDs). The purchase price was $1.1 million in cash.
(Ihub #193,266, 5/10/10)
