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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:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2002
Applicants:
John R. Hind, Raleigh, NC (US);
Marcia L. Stockton, Bakersfield, CA (US);
Inventors:
John R. Hind, Raleigh, NC (US);
Marcia L. Stockton, Bakersfield, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and program product for randomly relaying a protected web request from a client, through a set of peers, to a privacy proxy. Once received, the web request is proxied to a web services provider. When a provider reply is received by the privacy proxy, it is protected and relayed back through a set of peers to the client.