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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1996
Mark D Riggins, McLeansville, NC (US);
R Stanley Bailes, San Jose, CA (US);
Hong O Bui, Cupertino, CA (US);
David I Cowan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Daniel I Mendez, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mason Ng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sean Michael Quinlan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Prasad Wagle, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Christine C Ying, Foster City, CA (US);
Christopher R Zuleeg, San Jose, CA (US);
Joanna A Aptekar-Strober, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Visto Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for communicating through a computer network. The system includes a communications engine for establishing a communications link with a server, a browser, coupled to the communications engine, for receiving applet information corresponding to a service from the server, and an applet engine for using the applet information to control user interface I/O of the service. The communications engine may confirm user access privileges before establishing a communications link between the client and the server. The communications engine receives configuration data, and configures client attributes using the configuration data to provide a user-specific user interface to the client. It will be appreciated that the system may be stored on a floppy disk or hard drive.