Patents by Inventor John Douglas Wright

John Douglas Wright 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).

  • System and method for transferring information over a computer network
    Patent number: 6502137
    Abstract: Upon the receipt by an HTTP server over the Internet from a web browser for title information for audio or video data, the HTTP server retrieves the title information and sends it to the web browser along with a passcode particularly associated with the requested title information. Then, when an application server coupled to the HTTP server receives a request for the audio or video data from a viewer application associated with a web browser, the audio or video data will only be sent from a video server to the viewer application over the Internet if the request for the audio or video data is accompanied by the passcode. After sending the audio or video data to the viewer application, the passcode is invalidated. If the request for the audio or video data requests titles other than those associated with the passcode, the request is denied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lynn Erich Peterson, Mack Edward Phelps, Gary Roy Shippy, John Douglas Wright