Patents Examined by Shabana Qureshi
  • Patent number: 6539430
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for restricting access to data received by a computer over a network by filtering certain data from the data received. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a computer based method for filtering objectionable or target text data from World Wide Web pages which are received by a computer system connected to the Internet. According to the method, if the web page requested by the user contains only a minimum of objectionable or target data, the user may receive a portion of the filtered web page for downloading and viewing on his or her computer. If the web page requested contains a large amount of objectionable or target data, the invention will cause a “forbidden” page to be displayed on the user's computer monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Donald Creig Humes
  • Patent number: 6526439
    Abstract: Under the limited bandwidth of the current wireless data network and with the low memory in mobile devices in use today, the process of going through a number of intermediate pages to get to a desired page increases the latency of the information deliver and intensifies the network traffic. A method for accelerating the navigation of hypertext pages based on a compound request is disclosed. After a compound request is entered and activated, the compound request is parsed into an antecedent request followed by a final request wherein the antecedent request comprises a plurality of intermediate requests. All the intermediate requests are processed individually and sequentially as if they were entered individually and cards corresponding to the intermediate requests are fetched sequentially. A final card containing desired information by the final request is fetched based on the card corresponding to the last intermediate request and thereby displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Openwave Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Alain S. Rossmann, Andrew L. Laursen, Bruce K. Martin