Patents by Inventor Phillip P. Gibbons

Phillip P. Gibbons 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).

  • Patent number: 5961593
    Abstract: For use with a network having server sites capable of being browsed by users based on identifiers received into the server sites and personal to the users, alternative proxy systems for providing substitute identifiers to the server sites that allow the users to browse the server sites anonymously via the proxy system. A central proxy system includes computer-executable routines that process site-specific substitute identifiers constructed from data specific to the users, that transmits the substitute identifiers to the server sites, that retransmits browsing commands received from the users to the server sites, and that removes portions of the browsing commands that would identify the users to the server sites. The foregoing functionality is performed consistently by the central proxy system during subsequent visits to a given server site as the same site specific substitute identifiers are reused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eran Gabber, Phillip P. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Alain J. Mayer