Patents by Inventor Jimson Xu

Jimson Xu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Browser privacy mode support
    Patent number: 9137319
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, support a browser privacy mode in a plugin of the browser. In one aspect, a method includes applying a private browsing mode of a browser in a plugin program of the browser, the applying including: obtaining, in a process, an indication of the private browsing mode of the browser; specifying, in response to the indication, that an instance of the plugin program initiated within the process is set to run in a private data mode that cannot be exited; receiving, in the instance of the plugin program initiated within the process and set to run in the private data mode, information that results in locally cached data; and saving, in response to the receiving, the locally cached data entirely in volatile memory without saving to persistent storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Jimson Xu, Deneb Meketa, Ian G. Melven, Matthew T. Wobensmith, Jethro Villegas
  • Browser Privacy Mode Support
    Publication number: 20130167045
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, support a browser privacy mode in a plugin of the browser. In one aspect, a method includes applying a private browsing mode of a browser in a plugin program of the browser, the applying including: obtaining, in a process, an indication of the private browsing mode of the browser; specifying, in response to the indication, that an instance of the plugin program initiated within the process is set to run in a private data mode that cannot be exited; receiving, in the instance of the plugin program initiated within the process and set to run in the private data mode, information that results in locally cached data; and saving, in response to the receiving, the locally cached data entirely in volatile memory without saving to persistent storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jimson Xu, Deneb Meketa, Ian G. Melven, Matthew T. Wobensmith, Jethro Villegas