Patents by Inventor Gordon Hotchkiss

Gordon Hotchkiss 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).

  • Publication number: 20050076097
    Abstract: The invention dynamically produces alternate referrer pages substantially similar to pages previously viewed, through a web browser, by a visitor who linked to a target web page via a link on the previously viewed pages. When the browser links to the target page, a referrer URL is obtained for the referrer page from which the browser loaded the target page. The referrer URL is stored in a queue. The queue is inspected regularly. If the queue contains an unexamined entry, a request for that entry's referrer URL is executed to obtain the alternate referrer pages. The IP address of the computer running the browser is used to derive a country code corresponding to the IP address. The referrer URL request can be issued through a computer in a geographic region corresponding to the country code so that geographic biasing of the previously viewed pages will be reflected in the alternate pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Sullivan, Gordon Hotchkiss, Douglas Wilson