Patents by Inventor Kirk B. Brown

Kirk B. Brown 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: 20030145106
    Abstract: Various methods and systems for handling and directing wireless packet data traffic is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system is a data switching system that includes a first data port interface coupled to a first data communication port, a second data port interface coupled to a second data communication port, and a data packet parsing engine responsive to the first data port interface and the second data port interface. The data packet parsing engine includes a wireless data packet evaluation routine to retrieve and evaluate content contained within the wireless data packet. In another embodiment, a method of processing wireless data traffic is provided. The method includes receiving the wireless data traffic at a gateway, evaluating a data packet within the wireless data traffic at the gateway to determine at least one of language information, user browser type information, and data content type information, and sending a data request to a particular computer server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Kirk B. Brown