Click on the patent number in the Lookup column to examine the patent in IBM's Patent Database.
| Title |
Holder |
Date Issued |
Summary |
Lookup |
| One-Click Ordering |
Amazon |
09/28/1999 |
Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network |
5960411 |
| Indexing the Web |
Digital/CMGI |
January 26, 1999 |
This patent, "a method for parsing, indexing and searching world wide web pages," is the Altavista patent for web crawlers, spiders and robots. |
5864863 |
| Affiliate Program |
Amazon |
02/22/2000 |
Internet-based referral system that enables individuals and other business entities ('associates') to market products, in return for a commission, that are sold from a merchant's website |
6029141 |
| XPointer |
Sun Microsystems |
Aug. 19, 1997 |
This "method and system for implementing hypertext scroll attributes" was obtained by Jakob Nielsen and Sun Microsystems. Sun claims that this patent affects the W3C's Xpointer activity.
|
5659729 |
| Style Sheets |
Microsoft |
01/12/1999 |
The use of style sheets in an electronic publishing system |
5860073 |
| P3P |
Intermind |
01/19/1999 |
Computer-based communication system and method using metadata defining a control structure. (P3P is "Platform for Privacy Preferences") |
5862325 |
| WAP |
GeoWorks |
07/05/1994 |
A flexible user interface for mobile communications devices |
5327529 |
| Web-page Downloading |
Sony |
11/02/1999 |
Apparatus for and method of automatically downloading and storing internet web pages.
|
5978807 |
| Embedded Hypermedia |
Michael Doyle, UC Regents |
11/17/1998 |
Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document. |
5838906 |
| Error Handling |
MCI |
10/26/1999 |
Hierarchical error reporting system |
5974568 |
| Web Advertising |
Double Click, Inc. |
09/07/99 |
Method of Delivery, Targeting, and Measuring Advertising over Networks
|
5948061 |
| GIF |
Unisys |
12/10/1985 |
High speed data compression and decompression apparatus and method |
4558302 |
| Selling Airline Tickets |
Priceline |
04/27/1999 |
Method and apparatus for the sale of airline-specified flight tickets |
5897620 |
| Web User Tracking Across Sites |
Infonautics |
01/27/1998 |
Method and apparatus for attaching navigational history
information to universal resource locator links on a world wide web
page |
5712979 |
| E-commerce Tracking |
Stephen Dale Messer |
11/23/1999 |
Data processing system for integrated tracking and management of commerce related activities on a public access network |
5991740 |
| Display of Spherical Images (VR) |
Interactive Pictures Corporation |
11/23/1999 |
Method and apparatus for the interactive
display of any portion of a spherical image |
5990941 |
| Stateless Shopping Cart |
Sun Microsystems |
04/28/1998 |
Stateless shopping cart for the Web |
5745681 |
| E-commerce Sales |
Open Market |
02/03/1998 |
Network sales system |
5715314 |
| One-Button Sync |
3Com |
12/07/1999 |
Extendible method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple files on two different computer systems |
6000000 |
| Y2K Fixes |
Bruce Dickens, McDonnell Douglas |
10/08/1998 |
Date formatting and sorting for dates spanning the turn of the century |
5806063 |
If you know of controversial patents that we should add to our list, send them to Dale Dougherty.
