Patents by Inventor Bob Lord

Bob Lord 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).

  • Techniques and/or systems to manage secure network connections
    Patent number: 11483323
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments, such as methods and/or systems for managing and/or monitoring secure network connections between endpoints without intervening between the endpoints, for example, are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Bob Lord
  • TECHNIQUES AND/OR SYSTEMS TO MANAGE SECURE NETWORK CONNECTIONS
    Publication number: 20190207963
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments, such as methods and/or systems for managing and/or monitoring secure network connections between endpoints without intervening between the endpoints, for example, are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventor: Bob Lord
  • System for displaying a hierarchical directory
    Patent number: 6961909
    Abstract: A segmented-tree system for web browser display of a selected part of a tree-structured directory of hierarchically-related entities in a computer system. In the segmented-tree design of the present system, only the amount of information necessary to render the part of the tree in which the user is interested is transmitted from a server to the browser client. The server maintains information describing the complete tree, and it serves this information to the client in segments called ‘views’. The tree state for a particular client is maintained in relatively small data strings transferred back and forth. The server is thereby enabled to handle tree requests from many clients without special synchronization or the storage of the client state. Because the client/server tree state is kept in sync as the user navigates and modifies objects in the tree, the browser display always represents the true state of the tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bob Lord, Armando E. Sedillo, John M. Fandel
  • System for displaying a hierarchical directory
    Publication number: 20030063134
    Abstract: A segmented-tree system for web browser display of a selected part of a tree-structured directory of hierarchically-related entities in a computer system. In the segmented-tree design of the present system, only the amount of information necessary to render the part of the tree in which the user is interested is transmitted from a server to the browser client. The server maintains information describing the complete tree, and it serves this information to the client in segments called ‘views’. The tree state for a particular client is maintained in relatively small data strings transferred back and forth. The server is thereby enabled to handle tree requests from many clients without special synchronization or the storage of the client state. Because the client/server tree state is kept in sync as the user navigates and modifies objects in the tree, the browser display always represents the true state of the tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Bob Lord, Armando E. Sedillo, John M. Fandel