Patents by Inventor Alec Heller
Alec Heller 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).
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Patent number: 10455044Abstract: The teachings herein generally relate to client-server communications and the delivery of content over computer networks to clients, and provide improved methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying and/or characterizing client devices that are requesting content from a server. For example, based on information sent in a client device's request for content, a web server modified in accordance with the teachings hereof can identify a set of characteristics associated with that client device. Such characteristics might include the model name of the client device, the screen dimensions of the client device, information about the particular operating system or browser name/version it is running, content formats it is capable of consuming, and so on. The web server can use this information to modify and customize its response for the given client device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alec Heller, David H. Kaufman, Eric L. Kobrin, Stephen R. Scaffidi, Walter P. Tetzner
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Publication number: 20180324269Abstract: The teachings herein generally relate to client-server communications and the delivery of content over computer networks to clients, and provide improved methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying and/or characterizing client devices that are requesting content from a server. For example, based on information sent in a client device's request for content, a web server modified in accordance with the teachings hereof can identify a set of characteristics associated with that client device. Such characteristics might include the model name of the client device, the screen dimensions of the client device, information about the particular operating system or browser name/version it is running, content formats it is capable of consuming, and so on. The web server can use this information to modify and customize its response for the given client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alec Heller, David H. Kaufman, Eric L. Kobrin, Stephen R. Scaffidi, Walter P. Tetzner
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Patent number: 9998557Abstract: The teachings herein generally relate to client-server communications and the delivery of content over computer networks to clients, and provide improved methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying and/or characterizing client devices that are requesting content from a server. For example, based on information sent in a client device's request for content, a web server modified in accordance with the teachings hereof can identify a set of characteristics associated with that client device. Such characteristics might include the model name of the client device, the screen dimensions of the client device, information about the particular operating system or browser name/version it is running, content formats it is capable of consuming, and so on. The web server can use this information to modify and customize its response for the given client device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alec Heller, David H. Kaufman, Eric L. Kobrin, Stephen R. Scaffidi, Walter P. Tetzner
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Publication number: 20170302752Abstract: The teachings herein generally relate to client-server communications and the delivery of content over computer networks to clients, and provide improved methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying and/or characterizing client devices that are requesting content from a server. For example, based on information sent in a client device's request for content, a web server modified in accordance with the teachings hereof can identify a set of characteristics associated with that client device. Such characteristics might include the model name of the client device, the screen dimensions of the client device, information about the particular operating system or browser name/version it is running, content formats it is capable of consuming, and so on. The web server can use this information to modify and customize its response for the given client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alec Heller, David H. Kaufman, Eric L. Kobrin, Stephen R. Scaffidi, Walter P. Tetzner
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Patent number: 9692830Abstract: The teachings herein generally relate to client-server communications and the delivery of content over computer networks to clients, and provide improved methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying and/or characterizing client devices that are requesting content from a server. For example, based on information sent in a client device's request for content, a web server modified in accordance with the teachings hereof can identify a set of characteristics associated with that client device. Such characteristics might include the model name of the client device, the screen dimensions of the client device, information about the particular operating system or browser name/version it is running, content formats it is capable of consuming, and so on. The web server can use this information to modify and customize its response for the given client device.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alec Heller, David H. Kaufman, Eric L. Kobrin, Stephen R. Scaffidi, Walter P. Tetzner
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Publication number: 20160323387Abstract: The teachings herein generally relate to client-server communications and the delivery of content over computer networks to clients, and provide improved methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying and/or characterizing client devices that are requesting content from a server. For example, based on information sent in a client device's request for content, a web server modified in accordance with the teachings hereof can identify a set of characteristics associated with that client device. Such characteristics might include the model name of the client device, the screen dimensions of the client device, information about the particular operating system or browser name/version it is running, content formats it is capable of consuming, and so on. The web server can use this information to modify and customize its response for the given client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alec Heller, David H. Kaufman, Eric L. Kobrin, Stephen R. Scaffidi, Walter P. Tetzner
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Patent number: 9419852Abstract: The teachings herein generally relate to client-server communications and the delivery of content over computer networks to clients, and provide improved methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying and/or characterizing client devices that are requesting content from a server. For example, based on information sent in a client device's request for content, a web server modified in accordance with the teachings hereof can identify a set of characteristics associated with that client device. Such characteristics might include the model name of the client device, the screen dimensions of the client device, information about the particular operating system or browser name/version it is running, content formats it is capable of consuming, and so on. The web server can use this information to modify and customize its response for the given client device.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Alec Heller, David H. Kaufman, Eric L. Kobrin, Stephen R. Scaffidi, Walter P. Tetzner