Patents Assigned to PersonalPath Systems, Inc.
  • Privacy and security method and system for a world-wide-web site
    Patent number: 8296341
    Abstract: Personal information of users is used to customize the browsing experiences of the users on a World-Wide-Web site. To ensure privacy of the users' personal information, each user is assigned a unique Universal Anonymous Identifier (UAI). The UAI is generated by a trusted third party and provided to the Web site operator. The Web site operator then indexes the users' personal information by UAI. Only the user has the ability to correlate his/her true identity with his/her personal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: PersonalPath Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Hagan, David Levy, Matthew Kamerman
  • Method of customizing a user's browsing experience on a World-Wide-Web site
    Patent number: 7428706
    Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, a method of customizing the browsing experience of a user of a Web site comprised of a plurality of Web pages is provided. Each Web page is indexed using at least one coding system. A user record for each user is maintained on the Web site, which contains personal information of the user coded in accordance with said coding system. The user's browsing experience on the site may thus be readily customized using the user's personal information via code comparison. In accordance with a second aspect of the present invention, a method of ensuring the privacy of the user's personal information is provided through use of a unique Universal Anonymous Identifier (UAI) assigned to each user by a third party registration authority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: PersonalPath Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Hagan, David Levy
  • Method of customizing a browsing experience on a world-wide-web site
    Patent number: 6734886
    Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, a method of customizing the browsing experience of a user of a Web site comprised of a plurality of Web pages is provided. Each Web page is indexed using at least one coding system. A user record for each user is maintained on the Web site, which contains personal information of the user coded in accordance with said coding system. The user's browsing experience on the site may thus be readily customized using the user's personal information via code comparison. In accordance with a second aspect of the present invention, a method of ensuring the privacy of the user's personal information is provided through use of a unique Universal Anonymous Identifier (UAI) assigned to each user by a third party registration authority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: PersonalPath Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Hagan, David Levy