Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Remote data accessing – Accessing a remote server
Patent
1997-01-22
1999-10-05
Lee, Thomas C.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Remote data accessing
Accessing a remote server
709225, 710 36, 370 8513, 370329, 380 25, 380 49, G06F 1314, H04L 932
Patent
active
059615931
ABSTRACT:
For use with a network having server sites capable of being browsed by users based on identifiers received into the server sites and personal to the users, alternative proxy systems for providing substitute identifiers to the server sites that allow the users to browse the server sites anonymously via the proxy system. A central proxy system includes computer-executable routines that process site-specific substitute identifiers constructed from data specific to the users, that transmits the substitute identifiers to the server sites, that retransmits browsing commands received from the users to the server sites, and that removes portions of the browsing commands that would identify the users to the server sites. The foregoing functionality is performed consistently by the central proxy system during subsequent visits to a given server site as the same site specific substitute identifiers are reused. Consistent use of the site specific substitute identifiers enables the server site to recognize a returning user and, possibly, provide personalized service.
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Gabber Eran
Gibbons Phillip P.
Matias Yossi
Mayer Alain J.
Lee Thomas C.
Lucent Technologies - Inc.
Perveen Rehana
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