Patents by Inventor Andrew James Flegg

Andrew James Flegg 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).

  • Guaranteeing hypertext link integrity
    Patent number: 8135705
    Abstract: There is described a method, system and computer program product for processing a link embedded in a link document in a client computer, said link comprises a URL reference for a URL document in the client computer or another computer, there being stored a record containing a link reference and an intended fingerprint, said intended fingerprint representing the content of the URL document associated with the URL of the link at the time of or after the link was created, said method comprising the steps of: fetching the intended fingerprint for the link; fetching the URL document; creating a current fingerprint of the fetched URL document; comparing the intended fingerprint and the current fingerprint; and identifying that the intended fingerprint and the current fingerprint are different in a material way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Margaret Ann Ruth Beynon, Andrew James Flegg
  • Guaranteeing hypertext link integrity
    Patent number: 7290131
    Abstract: There is described a method, system and computer program product for processing a link embedded in a link document in a client computer, said link comprises a URL reference for a URL document in the client computer or another computer, there being stored a record containing a link reference and an intended fingerprint, said intended fingerprint representing the content of the URL document associated with the URL of the link at the time of or after the link was created, said method comprising the steps of: fetching the intended fingerprint for the link; fetching the URL document; creating a current fingerprint of the fetched URL document; comparing the intended fingerprint and the current fingerprint; and identifying that the intended fingerprint and the current fingerprint are different in a material way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Margaret Ann Ruth Beynon, Andrew James Flegg
  • Hypertext request integrity and user experience
    Publication number: 20040267726
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for processing a URL (uniform resource location) request containing a URL for an intended URL document, comprising: retrieving fingerprint information relating to the URL request; identifying that the intended URL document is not the current document located at the URL; locating current fingerprint information which matches the retrieved fingerprint and has a corresponding URL document; and returning the corresponding URL document in answer to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Margaret Ann Ruth Beynon, Andrew James Flegg