Patents by Inventor Gary Bob Kip Hansen

Gary Bob Kip Hansen 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).

  • Gathering enriched web server activity data of cached web content
    Patent number: 7216149
    Abstract: A method and system for gathering enriched web server activity data in a global communications network in which requested information files are cached at a plurality of network devices. With the prevalence of web caching on the Internet, the origin web servers do not serve the majority of requests for web site content. A single pixel clear Graphics Image Format (GIF) request is added to the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) source file for a web page. Appended to the GIF request is a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) string of data that contains enhanced web activity data information, including the number of images (“hits”) that have to be retrieved by a client browser to build the web page, and the referring identifier that resulted in access to the web page. The single pixel clear GIF request is not cacheable and results in the request being transmitted to the origin web server when the client browser interprets the HTML file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Roger Briscoe, Cameron Donald Ferstat, Matthew Robert Ganis, Stephen Carl Hammer, Gary Bob Kip Hansen, Sean Alan Harp, Michael Shannon Nichols, Herbert Daniel Pearthree, Paul Reed, Brian James Snitzer
  • Gathering enriched web server activity data of cached web content
    Patent number: RE41440
    Abstract: A method and system for gathering enriched web server activity data in a global communications network in which requested information files are cached at a plurality of network devices. With the prevalence of web caching on the Internet, the origin web servers do not serve the majority of requests for web site content. A single pixel clear Graphics Image Format (GIF) request is added to the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) source file for a web page. Appended to the GIF request is a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) string of data that contains enhanced web activity data information, including the number of images (“hits”) that have to be retrieved by a client browser to build the web page, and the referring identifier that resulted in access to the web page. The single pixel clear GIF request is not cacheable and results in the request being transmitted to the origin web server when the client browser interprets the HTML file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Roger Briscoe, Cameron Donald Ferstat, Matthew Robert Ganis, Stephen Carl Hammer, Gary Bob Kip Hansen, Sean Alan Harp, Michael Shannon Nichols, Herbert Daniel Pearthree, Paul Reed, Brian James Snitzer