Patents by Inventor Cian M. Quinlan

Cian M. Quinlan 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).

  • Patent number: 6397253
    Abstract: A client system utilizes a standard browser component and a transaction protocol gateway (TPG) component that operatively couples to the standard browser component. The browser component initiates the utilization of new session connections and reuse of existing session connections as a function of the coding of the universal resource locators (URLs) contained in each issued request. Each URL is passed to the TPG component that examines a context field included within the URL. If the context field has been set to a first value, the TPG component opens a new session connection to the server system and records the session connection information in a persistent session table (PST) component maintained by the TPG component. If the context field has been set to a second value, then the TPG component obtains the session connection information in the PST component for the established session connection and passes the data from the browser component to the server system over the existing persistent session connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Cian M. Quinlan, Michael L. Giroux
  • Patent number: 6338089
    Abstract: A client system utilizes a standard browser component and a transaction protocol gateway (TPG) component that operatively couples to the standard browser component. The browser component initiates the utilization of new session connections and reuse of existing session connections through the use of session pools as a function of the coding of the universal resource locators (URLs) contained in each issued request. The gateway component builds a plurality of session pool table structures at client system startup that define an initial number of pre-established persistent session connections for enabling communication with a number of server systems. Each browser URL is passed to the TPG component that examines a context field within the URL. If the context field has been set to a predetermined value, the TPG component in lieu of opening a new session connection to the designated server system, obtains a pre-established session connection from a session pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Cian M. Quinlan