Patents by Inventor Kevin M. Farrington

Kevin M. Farrington 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).

  • Web application server with secure common gateway interface
    Patent number: 5857191
    Abstract: A web browser communicates through a secure local proxy to a web server that has an interface for secure communications. The application server has an application program conforming to the CGI programming model that can run continuously as a process and can maintain state information, such as pointers to next records, thus requiring less computational and memory overhead for a succession of requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Gradient Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William C. Blackwell, Jr., Robin Alston, Kevin M. Farrington
  • Ally mechanism for interconnecting non-distributed computing environment (DCE) and DCE systems to operate in a network system
    Patent number: 5497463
    Abstract: A distributed system includes a non-distributed computing environment (DCE) computer system and at least one DCE computer system which are loosely coupled together through a communications network operating with a standard communications protocol. The non-DCE and DCE computer systems operate under the control of proprietary and UNIX based operating systems respectively. The non-DCE computer system further includes application client software for providing access to distributed DCE service components via a remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism obtained through application server software included on the DCE computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Stein, Bruce M. Carlson, Chung S. Yen, Kevin M. Farrington