Patents by Inventor Cameron W. Cotrill
Cameron W. Cotrill 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: 8990197Abstract: A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond. A profiled information communication link between the root server and each of the multiple distribution sites enables formation of a path for delivery of the search results to a destination site, from a site or sites represented by the metadata of the profiled information search request.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Thinkstream, Inc.Inventors: Michael K. Malone, Jon David Loucks, Robert K. Terhune, III, Cameron W. Cotrill
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Publication number: 20140095488Abstract: A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond. A profiled information communication link between the root server and each of the multiple distribution sites enables formation of a path for delivery of the search results to a destination site, from a site or sites represented by the metadata of the profiled information search request.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Thinkstream, Inc.Inventors: Michael K. Malone, Jon David Loucks, Robert K. Terhune, III, Cameron W. Cotrill
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Patent number: 8600988Abstract: A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond. A profiled information communication link between the root server and each of the multiple distribution sites enables formation of a path for delivery of the search results to a destination site, from a site or sites represented by the metadata of the profiled information search request.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Thinkstream, Inc.Inventors: Michael K. Malone, Jon David Loucks, Robert K. Terhune, III, Cameron W. Cotrill
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Patent number: 8364674Abstract: A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond. A profiled information communication link between the root server and each of the multiple distribution sites enables formation of a path for delivery of the search results to a destination site, from a site or sites represented by the metadata of the profiled information search request.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Thinkstream, Inc.Inventors: Michael K. Malone, Jon David Loucks, Robert K. Terhune, III, Cameron W. Cotrill
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Publication number: 20110320489Abstract: A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond. A profiled information communication link between the root server and each of the multiple distribution sites enables formation of a path for delivery of the search results to a destination site, from a site or sites represented by the metadata of the profiled information search request.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: Thinkstream, Inc.Inventors: Michael K. Malone, Jon David Loucks, Robert K. Terhune, III, Cameron W. Cotrill
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Patent number: 8019757Abstract: A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond. A profiled information communication link between the root server and each of the multiple distribution sites enables formation of a path for delivery of the search results to a destination site, from a site or sites represented by the metadata of the profiled information search request.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Thinkstream, Inc.Inventors: Michael K. Malone, Jon David Loucks, Robert K. Terhune, III, Cameron W. Cotrill
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Publication number: 20090094205Abstract: A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond. A profiled information communication link between the root server and each of the multiple distribution sites enables formation of a path for delivery of the search results to a destination site, from a site or sites represented by the metadata of the profiled information search request.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: Thinkstream, Inc.Inventors: Michael K. Malone, Jon David Loucks, Robert K. Terhune, III, Cameron W. Cotrill
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Patent number: 7430587Abstract: A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond. A profiled information communication link between the root server and each of the multiple distribution sites enables formation of a path for delivery of the search results to a destination site, from a site or sites represented by the metadata of the profiled information search request.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2004Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Thinkstream, Inc.Inventors: Michael K. Malone, Jon David Loucks, Robert K. Terhune, III, Cameron W. Cotrill
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Patent number: 7197638Abstract: A machine system includes access-constraining mechanisms for protecting the information of certain classes of files from unauthorized intelligible access or from other kinds of access by way of requests supplied from unauthorized classes of programs which may be made at unauthorized periods of time and/or from unauthorized locations and/or under association with unauthorized users. Permission rules are provided for what constitutes an unauthorized access attempt for intelligible or another kind of access to the data of a given file. The given file may be a native one stored in a local machine or an external file stored in a remote server and/or on easily removable media. The machine system includes localizing means for Transparently and Temporarily Localizing (TTL'ing) external files and their respective access permission rules so that such may be processed within relatively physically-secure confines of the local machine.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2001Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Symantec CorporationInventors: David Grawrock, Cameron W. Cotrill, Paul R. Spear, Paul Puttonen
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Publication number: 20020038348Abstract: A distributed information network (10) is constructed for gathering information from sites (16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30) distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server (14) that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser (12) delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2001Publication date: March 28, 2002Inventors: Michael K. Malone, Jon David Loucks, Robert K. Terhune, Cameron W. Cotrill