System and method for providing protocol translation and filtering to access the world wide web from wireless or low-bandwidth networks

US5673322A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Bell Communications Research, Inc. · US

Inventors

• David Pepe · Meriden, US
• Lisa B. Blitzer · Manalapan, US
• James Joseph Brockman · Perrineville, US
• William Cruz · Eatontown, US
• Dwight Omar Hakim · Matawan, US
• Richard Reid Hovey · Via Antonio Gattin, US
• Michael Kramer · Harleysville, US
• Dawn Diane Petr · Green Brook, US
• Josefa Ramaroson · Freehold, US
• Gerardo Ramirez · Bound Brook, US
• Yang-Wei Wang · Howell, US
• Robert White · Morristown, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 22, 1996
• Grant date: Sep 30, 1997
• Expiry date: Mar 22, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y04S40/20
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An interface between a protected computer or computer network and the World Wide Web (WWW). The interface comprises a split proxy system that encapsulates TCP/IP transmissions into a script transmission, which is not subject to problems in high latency systems, thereby greatly improving WWW access, via a wireless modem or other low-bandwidth communications network. The split proxy interface also provides compression, encryption and filtering capabilities and allows receipt of unsolicited transmissions from the service provider for such purposes as automatically updating or configuring WWW access software.