Patents by Inventor Edwin James Van Horne

Edwin James Van Horne 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).

  • Method and apparatus for emulating web browser proxies
    Patent number: 8166141
    Abstract: A user device disposed on a local area network (LAN) requests a proxy auto-configuration file from a first proxy server. Where the first proxy server is not present on the LAN, a second proxy server on the LAN intercepts the request and responds to it by causing a replacement proxy auto-configuration file to be sent to the user device. The user device utilizes the replacement proxy auto-configuration file to configure itself to utilize the second proxy server on the LAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Edwin James Van Horne, III
  • Forced network portal
    Patent number: 6732178
    Abstract: A system manages communications between a user and a network by receiving a user request for access to a network file during a user network connection session with a connecting network, determining whether the user has a connected user session state or a disconnected user session state with respect to a portal server, responding to a disconnected user session state by determining a user identity that specifies a physical location for the user and providing the user with a redirected page for display in a user graphical interface program in accordance with the determined user physical location user identification and in accordance with service selection information, and then changing the user session state to a connected state, and responding to a connected user session state by routing the user request for access to the network file to a network server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Van Horne, Edwin James Van Horne
  • Forced network portal
    Patent number: 6460084
    Abstract: A system manages communications between a user and a network by receiving a user request for access to a network file during a user network connection session with a connecting network, determining whether the user has a connected user session state or a disconnected user session state with respect to a portal server, responding to a disconnected user session state by determining a user identity that specifies a physical location for the user and providing the user with a redirected page for display in a user graphical interface program in accordance with the determined user physical location user identification and in accordance with service selection information, and then changing the user session state to a connected state, and responding to a connected user session state by routing the user request for access to the network file to a network server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Van Horne, Edwin James Van Horne