Patents by Inventor Steven Harold Levithan

Steven Harold Levithan 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).

  • Intersession communications
    Patent number: 10630780
    Abstract: A system and method for communication across browser-based applications, and from a crashed application to a web server are disclosed. The system can store structured data in local storage for each instance (e.g., tab, window, frame) of an browser-based application (e.g., website, web application). The data can be structured to group blocks of data according to instances of an application in different tabs. A first session can locate a block of data created by a second session to achieve synchronization between two sessions. In addition, if one session has crashed, data written by that session can be accessed by another session and sent to a web browser. In some implementations, a session, when writing to a block of data, can include meta-data for another session or for the web server, such as a timestamp, valid-until time, data-item identifier, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Harold Levithan
  • Intersession communications
    Patent number: 10225351
    Abstract: A system and method for communication across browser-based applications, and from a crashed application to a web server are disclosed. The system can store structured data in local storage for each instance (e.g., tab, window, frame) of an browser-based application (e.g., website, web application). The data can be structured to group blocks of data according to instances of an application in different tabs. A first session can locate a block of data created by a second session to achieve synchronization between two sessions. In addition, if one session has crashed, data written by that session can be accessed by another session and sent to a web server. In some implementations, a session, when writing to a block of data, can include meta-data for another session or for the web server, such as a timestamp, valid-until time, data-item identifier, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Harold Levithan
  • INTERSESSION COMMUNICATIONS
    Publication number: 20170171318
    Abstract: A system and method for communication across browser-based applications, and from a crashed application to a web server are disclosed. The system can store structured data in local storage for each instance (e.g., tab, window, frame) of an browser-based application (e.g., website, web application). The data can be structured to group blocks of data according to instances of an application in different tabs. A first session can locate a block of data created by a second session to achieve synchronization between two sessions. In addition, if one session has crashed, data written by that session can be accessed by another session and sent to a web server. In some implementations, a session, when writing to a block of data, can include meta-data for another session or for the web server, such as a timestamp, valid-until time, data-item identifier, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventor: Steven Harold Levithan