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Ric Richardson

Official Website for Inventor Ric Richardson recognised as Inventor of Software Activation and for settling a patent infringement court case with Microsoft in 2012. He is the founder of Uniloc, co-founder of Haventec.com with business partners Macquarie Capital.

SuperKernal

In 2018 Ric filed a patent for a technique to modify

Haventec

I founded Haventec with good friend Tony Castagna after considering why we use public keys to secure all our web communications ie https) but then refuse to use it as a way of verifying the connected persons identity. It was a mystery to me why peopl...

Frank Zazza’s advertising blockchain

New York veteran advertising exec Frank Zazza asked me to help him work out how to link advertisers to consumers to basically stop click fraud and make online advertising conpanies more transparent and accountable. Aug 2019- nearly ready to file. ...

Probono Work

Most Friday mornings Ric works with, or on, inventions or projects for other inventors needing help. For some time he would frequent a local cafe in Byron Bay and speak to inventors for from 20 minutes to an hour. Some of them would travel interstate t...

Philanthropy

Ric and his wife Karen have a cause that they have decided to support with 100% of their extra funds. They have explored the organisation thoroughly and are fully confident that their contribution will be honourably and carefully used. Please respect ...

Welcome EIS19 visitors!

Ive just added some notes here for attendees to this years EIS to look up some of the resources I use or allude to in my talk this year. Firstly I talk about how all problem solving is "connecting the dots" but that innovation goes a bit further by co...

For those wanting help to reach Uniloc regarding licensing

Let me start out by declaring that I am no longer an officer or an employee of Uniloc and have not been so since 2007. That being said it is also true that Uniloc has not made a practise of taking other peoples patents and litigating on their behalf. ...

How DNA Databases Violate Everyone's Privacy

https://ift.tt/2RPZC7i If you're an American of European descent there's a 60% you can be uniquely identified by public information in DNA databases. This is not information that you have made public; this is information your relatives have made public...

Byron Bay Lighthouse Sunrise

Byron Bay Lighthouse Sunrise https://ift.tt/2IWuaAp Theo Crazzolara posted a photo Picture might be available without watermark for free, just DM. ⮚ Website ⮘ | 500px | most faved | ⮚ the best ⮘ via Byron Bay - Flickr https://ift.tt/1QFjoiq October ...

Some Inventions

Graduated InventionsUniloc (1992) - software activation and try and buy company that now licenses and manages an IP Portfolioof over 200 patents.Haventec (2015) - true passwordless logon and serverless credit card number storage for merchants. SuperKer...

My office today - Mission today fingerprinting

Through all that rain is famous surf spot Lennox Head. Mission today is to finalise our latest version of browser and device fingerprinting. In other words using non-user-configurable device information to make a unique fingerprint for the browser or t...

George Gilder: Forget Cloud Computing, Blockchain is the Future - YouTube

George Gilder: Forget Cloud Computing, Blockchain is the Future - YouTube Note from Ric: This gentleman is amazingly insightful but it takes patience to understand his terminology… shortly I will add some highlights to look at but his insights into the...

Does Haventec Authenticate qualify as multi-factor authentication?

Yes. But some would argue otherwise, and here is why they are wrong. Multi-factor authentication technically means the use of multiple factors in an authentication. A factor can be “something you know", “something you have" or “something you are". Ev...

How to use SIRI to record Audio or video

Are you irritated with trying to use SIRI to record your voice? Dumping ideas or dictating a response to an email become laborious if you have to pussy foot around SIRI’s transcription limitations. Maybe you are like me where the ideas I come up with a...

Token Franchise Offering. A model to quell ICO concerns

A big concern for anyone seriously considering an ICO (initial coin offering) is recent rulings in the US and especially the SEC regarding the view that an ICO is a securities offering and therefore should be handled through a public trading exchange s...

Last Mile Delivery project begins to take form

Recently a local entrepreneur “Chris Bird" and I have been working on how to use a shipping container as a local delivery hub for end users to use as a convenient drop off point for couriers. The results have been mixed but there is a silver lining. Th...

The ICE project near readiness to approach Tesla

Some months ago I developed a technique of modifying an operating system so that it wouldnt run rogue applications. Its not white listing and its not blacklisting. In the lab weve been calling it freezing. I designed it after Elon Musk said that a fl...

Breakthrough on Logistics Blockchain design

For over a year I have been cogitating the problem of forcing a traditional block chain (that is designed to handle digital financial transactions) to handle logistical transactions which are a lot mire complex…. And about a month or so back the cloud...

Working on service authentication for Haventec

When we first worked on solving the password problem we focussed on clients connecting to servers. i.e. People logging onto to web servers. But since that time we have also worked out how to avoid using passwords when connecting server to server and wh...

Speaking at #BrisSec18 8:45am Friday 23rd March 2018

I’ve been asked to speak at this years BrisSec conference and gladly obliged. It’s been a while since I shared war stories but as time passes I find myself reaping benefit upon benefit and will do my best to share some of them with you if you can make ...