Patents by Inventor Leonardo Coutinho Massarani

Leonardo Coutinho Massarani 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).

  • Simulating web cookies for non-cookie capable browsers
    Patent number: 6751654
    Abstract: In a computer network such as the Internet including one or more servers and one or more user units or clients wherein at least some user units do not transmit client identification information such as Web cookies, a method and system for performing the method for a server to communicate with at least one of the client units, comprising the steps of: receiving an access request from one of the user units, the user unit including a network browser; determining whether the access request received originated from a cookies capable or cookies enabled network browser; and simulate and proxy cookies support at the server, on behalf of the network browser, at the server when it is determined that the access request received did not originate from a non-cookies capable or non-cookies enabled network browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Leonardo Coutinho Massarani, Tapas Kumar Som
  • SIMULATING WEB COOKIES FOR NON-COOKIE CAPABLE BROWSERS
    Publication number: 20030158889
    Abstract: In a computer network such as the Internet including one or more servers and one or more user units or clients wherein at least some user units do not transmit client identification information such as Web cookies, a method and system for performing the method for a server to communicate with at least one of the client units, comprising the steps of: receiving an access request from one of the user units, the user unit including a network browser; determining whether the access request received originated from a cookies capable or cookies enabled network browser; and simulate and proxy cookies support at the server, on behalf of the network browser, at the server when it is determined that the access request received did not originate from a non-cookies capable or non-cookies enabled network browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: LEONARDO COUTINHO MASSARANI, TAPAS KUMAR SOM