Patents by Inventor Lee E. Anderson

Lee E. Anderson 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).

  • System and method for managing transmission of electronic data between trading partners
    Patent number: 6314468
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for managing transmission of electronic data between network entities. Two network entities are interfaced so that Electronic Data Interchange (“EDI”) data from one network entity is transmitted to the other network entity in a secure exchange using Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (“TCP/IP”) for connectivity and Secure Sockets Layer, Version 3 (“SSL3”) for security in transmission. The transmitted electronic message includes a header portion and a message data portion, and optional trailer portions, depending on a predefined format of message desired to be transmitted. The header portion includes a message format identifier and a length of a data message for a data message to be included in the message data portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: MCI WorldCom, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Murphy, Lee E. Anderson