Patents by Inventor Scott Kenneth Smith

Scott Kenneth Smith 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: 9009838
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for effecting an internet user's privacy directive. In the method, copied packets, that are based on original packets sent from a user client, are monitored for a web content request including state information that is not in compliance with a user's privacy directive. Upon detection of a copied packet having a web content request including noncompliant state information, the state information is modified to comply with the user's privacy directive. A replacement packet is forwarded to the user client such that the user client receives the replacement packet before receiving a response packet from a target server of the corresponding original packet. The replacement packet has a redirection with a renewed web content request including the modified state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Front Porch, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Brian Mathew Blocher, Thabo Husayn Fletcher, Scott Kenneth Smith, Carlos Alberto Vazquez
  • Publication number: 20140278949
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for directing an alternative cascading style sheet object to an internet user client. In the method, a system analyzes an HTTP transaction involving the internet user client to detect a request for an embedded cascading style sheet object. The system responds to the request for the embedded cascading style sheet object by forwarding the alternative cascading style sheet object to the internet user client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Derek Stephen Maxson, Scott Kenneth Smith
  • Patent number: 8510431
    Abstract: Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method that includes a network service provider analyzing an HTTP transaction involving an internet user client. The network service provider responds to the HTTP transaction by forwarding, to the internet user client, a modified web object including a monitoring implement. After forwarding the modified web object to the internet user client, the network service provider forwards a web object, originally associated with the HTTP transaction, to the internet user client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Front Porch, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Brian Mathew Blocher, Thabo Husayn Fletcher, Scott Kenneth Smith, Carlos Alberto Vazquez
  • Patent number: 8214486
    Abstract: Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method. In the method, a first packet, sent from a user client, having a web content request meeting certain monitoring selection criteria is detected. Upon detection of the first packet, a second packet is forwarded to the user client. The second packet has a redirection with a fabricated web content request to a monitoring web page including at least one monitoring implement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Front Porch, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Brian Mathew Blocher, Thabo Husayn Fletcher, Scott Kenneth Smith, Carlos Alberto Vazquez
  • Patent number: 7953851
    Abstract: Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method. In the method, copied packets that are based on original packets sent from a user client are monitored for a web content request meeting certain monitoring selection criteria. Upon detection of a copied packet having a web content request meeting the selection criteria, a replacement packet is forwarded to the user client such that the user client receives the replacement packet before receiving a response packet from a target server of the corresponding original packet, wherein the replacement packet has a redirection with a fabricated web content request to a monitoring web page including at least one monitoring implement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Front Porch, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Brian Mathew Blocher, Thabo Husayn Fletcher, Scott Kenneth Smith, Carlos Alberto Vazquez
  • Publication number: 20100306052
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, and related apparatus, for directing network service provider selected embedded objects to an internet user client. In the method, a network service provider maintains a database of internet user clients that includes a particular service-type value for each internet user client. The network service provider analyzes an HTTP transaction involving the internet user client. The network service provider responds to an HTTP transaction requesting an embedded web object by forwarding to the internet user client, an alternative embedded web object selected in accordance with the user client's particular service-type value, wherein the alternative embedded web object arrives to the internet user client before a response to the originally requested embedded web object. The network service provider causes the originally requested embedded web object to be forwarded to the internet user client after the alternative embedded web object is forwarded to the internet user client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Brian Mathew Blocher, Thabo Husayn Fletcher, Scott Kenneth Smith, Carlos Alberto Vazquez, Cameron D. Jordan, Christopher F. Smith, Zachariah James Wise
  • Publication number: 20100024032
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for effecting an internet user's privacy directive. In the method, copied packets, that are based on original packets sent from a user client, are monitored for a web content request including state information that is not in compliance with a user's privacy directive. Upon detection of a copied packet having a web content request including noncompliant state information, the state information is modified to comply with the user's privacy directive. A replacement packet is forwarded to the user client such that the user client receives the replacement packet before receiving a response packet from a target server of the corresponding original packet. The replacement packet has a redirection with a renewed web content request including the modified state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Brian Mathew Blocher, Thabo Husayn Fletcher, Scott Kenneth Smith, Carlos Alberto Vazquez
  • Publication number: 20090216882
    Abstract: Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method that includes a network service provider analyzing an HTTP transaction involving an internet user client. The network service provider responds to the HTTP transaction by forwarding, to the internet user client, a modified web object including a monitoring implement. After forwarding the modified web object to the internet user client, the network service provider forwards a web object, originally associated with the HTTP transaction, to the internet user client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Brian Mathew Blocher, Thabo Husayn Fletcher, Scott Kenneth Smith, Carlos Alberto Vazquez
  • Publication number: 20090177771
    Abstract: Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method. In the method, a first packet, sent from a user client, having a web content request meeting certain monitoring selection criteria is detected. Upon detection of the first packet, a second packet is forwarded to the user client. The second packet has a redirection with a fabricated web content request to a monitoring web page including at least one monitoring implement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Brian Mathew Blocher, Thabo Husayn Fletcher, Scott Kenneth Smith, Carlos Alberto Vazquez
  • Publication number: 20090157875
    Abstract: Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method. In the method, copied packets that are based on original packets sent from a user client are monitored for a web content request meeting certain monitoring selection criteria. Upon detection of a copied packet having a web content request meeting the selection criteria, a replacement packet is forwarded to the user client such that the user client receives the replacement packet before receiving a response packet from a target server of the corresponding original packet, wherein the replacement packet has a redirection with a fabricated web content request to a monitoring web page including at least one monitoring implement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Brian Matthew Blocher, Thabo Husayn Fletcher, Scott Kenneth Smith, Carlos Alberto Vazquez