Patents by Inventor John W. Brownlee, Jr.

John W. Brownlee, Jr. 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).

  • Multiple ‘express buy’ profiles for multiple stores (dell.com and gigabuys.com)
    Patent number: 6862612
    Abstract: One or more sets of purchaser-specific information are saved at a central location for later retrieval and use by a plurality of server systems. Customer profile information is received from a client system during a first Internet session and saved in a customer data bank. A transaction request received from the same client system during a subsequent Internet session may be processed by a different server system than the server system that received the customer profile information. A plurality of web sites can access customer profile information that is stored in a central location, relieving the customer of the need to re-enter customer profile information during subsequent transactions with any of a plurality of server systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Michael R. Horn, John W. Brownlee, Jr., Marc C. Silverstein