Patents by Inventor William P. Supernor

William P. Supernor 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).

  • Method and system for maintaining a communications protocol session
    Patent number: 7089302
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for maintaining a communications protocol session between a client and server during times of inactivity at the client caused by other processing in the data path following a request by the client. For various client processes that may expire after a specified amount of inactivity during a particular session, an agent of the client in the data path can send a response containing illusory content to the client that causes the client to maintain the current session. The process at the client can ignore this illusory content response but, by processing it, the communications path session between the client and server can be maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: McAfee, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J. Churchyard, William P. Supernor