Patents by Inventor Alexander F. Webb

Alexander F. Webb 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).

  • Publication number: 20030037250
    Abstract: There is disclosed a secured access controller for use in connection with a network that communicates with content servers that store content objects and client processing systems that request access to the stored content objects. The secured access controller comprises: 1) a database for storing a plurality of encryption keys and a plurality of decoding keys associated with selected ones of the content servers and the client processing systems; and 2) an encryption controller for receiving from a first one of the client processing systems an access request for a first selected one of the content objects stored on a first one of the content servers and, in response thereto, generating a first encryption key and transmitting the first encryption key to the first client processing system, wherein the first encryption key is usable by the first client processing system to encrypt client messages transmitted to the secured access controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Applicant: DoodleBug Online, Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Walker, Alexander F. Webb, Gregory J. Feigel, James J. Lavin
  • Publication number: 20020095415
    Abstract: There is disclosed a browser capable of accessing only web pages previously authorized by a parent or supervisor of a user of the browser. In a supervisor mode of operation, a parent can browse through any accessible web site, and continually add approved web sites to a database of authorized web sites. Later, in a user mode of operation, the child is capable of accessing only those web sites that have been added to the authorized web site database. In the supervisor mode of operation, the browser also generates pixel signatures based on image data contained in web pages of the authorized web sites and generates checksum values based on text data contained in web pages of the authorized web sites. The browser later compares pixel signatures and checksum values from subsequently accessed web pages to the original pixel signatures and checksum values to determine if any of the data in the authorized web pages has been changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Applicant: DoodleBug Online, Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Walker, Alexander F. Webb
  • Patent number: 6286001
    Abstract: A browser capable of accessing only web pages previously authorized by a parent or supervisor of a user of the browser. In a supervisor mode of operation, a parent can browse through any accessible web site and continually add approved web sites to a database of authorized web sites. Later, in a user mode of operation, the child is capable of accessing only those web sites that have been added to the authorized web site database. In the supervisor mode of operation, the browser also generates pixel signatures based on image data contained in web pages of the authorized web sites and generates checksum values based on text data contained in web pages of the authorized web sites. The browser later compares pixel signatures and checksum values from subsequently accessed web pages to the original pixel signatures and checksum values to determine if any of the data in the authorized web pages has been changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: DoodleBug Online, Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Walker, Alexander F. Webb