Patents by Inventor William Gerard McCartney

William Gerard McCartney 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).

  • Authenticated access to internet based research and data services
    Patent number: 6185567
    Abstract: Access to a database is provided via the Internet using a World Wide Web server including a search engine, a CGI gateway and user selectable data queries for extracting data, generating reports, and the like. Access by the user is authenticated by querying the user's central machine for authentication. The authentication process operates by sending a page request from the web browser through three checkpoints before the requested page can be served to the web browser. The first checkpoint determines if the requested page is protected. If not, the requested page is served to the web browser. However, if the requested page is protected, the authentication process on the web server checks the host name of the system where the page request is coming from. If the domain of the requesting host is the same domain specified in the web authentication configuration, then the requested page is served to the web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Paul J. Ratnaraj, William Gerard McCartney, Son To, Steven J. Crispi, Jalal D. Akhavein