Patents by Inventor Thomas K. Scanlan

Thomas K. Scanlan 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).

  • Patent number: 6029245
    Abstract: A method and means are provided for dynamically assigning security parameters to hypertext markup language (HTML) pages of an information provider on the worldwide web, whereby only one set of HTML pages need be stored and maintained for retrieval by client computers using differing security protocols. A security injection profile is provided for storing security parameters for each respective security protocol. When a browser enabled with a particular security protocol requests one of the HTML pages in the secure set, the page is accessed from web server storage, security parameters of the particular protocol are accessed and injected into the accessed page, and the page is sent to the requesting browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas K. Scanlan