公开(公告)号：US06237033B1

公开(公告)日：2001-05-22

申请号：US09231358

申请日：1999-01-13

申请人： Terrence M. Doeberl ,  Ronald P. Sansone ,  Suti Prakash ,  Paul W Porter ,  Marcy F. Macdonald ,  Judith A. Martin ,  Ronald Reichman

发明人： Terrence M. Doeberl ,  Ronald P. Sansone ,  Suti Prakash ,  Paul W Porter ,  Marcy F. Macdonald ,  Judith A. Martin ,  Ronald Reichman

IPC分类号： G06F1300

CPC分类号： G06F17/30899 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/22 ,  H04L67/306 ,  H04L69/22 ,  H04L69/329

摘要： A system for enabling a user of a computer attached to a computer network, and accessing sites on the network, to manage user-characterizing protocol headers on the user's computer. A particular application of the present invention is to manage so-called Internet cookies on a computer attached to the Internet and using a browser to access websites through the World Wide Web. Such cookies have a type and a value. The managing includes displaying to a user an interpretation of cookies that have been set on the user's computer; the interpretation is made by an interpreter referring to a local cookie dictionary, on the user's computer, having entries corresponding to different types of cookies. In various alternative embodiments, the managing also includes changing the values set by the websites, and fabricating cookies of types not necessarily used by a website in order to express to the website preferences a user wants the website to know. In some embodiments, the system also includes a means by which the fabricated cookies are made knowable to websites on the Internet, namely a universal cookie dictionary; and a site-specific cookie dictionary maintained by a third party so as to contain updated entries for interpreting cookies used by websites on the Internet. In one aspect of the invention, a user can periodically update the local cookie, using a local cookie dictionary, to include changes to the site-specific and universal cookie dictionaries.

摘要翻译： 一种用于使连接到计算机网络的计算机的用户能够访问网络上的站点的系统来管理用户计算机上的用户表征协议头部。 本发明的具体应用是在连接到因特网的计算机上管理所谓的因特网cookie，并使用浏览器通过万维网访问网站。 这样的cookie有一个类型和一个值。 管理包括向用户显示已经在用户计算机上设置的Cookie的解释; 解释是由解释器引用本地cookie字典，在用户的计算机上，具有对应于不同类型的cookie的条目。 在各种替代实施例中，管理还包括改变网站设置的值，以及制作网站不一定使用的类型的cookie，以便表达用户希望网站知道的网站偏好。 在一些实施例中，该系统还包括一种装置，通过该装置将制造的饼干知道为因特网上的网站，即通用饼干字典; 以及由第三方维护的特定于站点的Cookie字典，以便包含用于解释因特网上的网站使用的cookie的更新条目。 在本发明的一个方面，用户可以使用本地cookie字典来周期性地更新本地cookie，以包括对站点特定的和通用的cookie字典的改变。

公开(公告)号：US06650739B1

公开(公告)日：2003-11-18

申请号：US09221550

申请日：1998-12-28

申请人： Terrence M. Doeberl ,  Ronald P. Sansone ,  Judith A. Martin ,  Nathaniel M. Gifford ,  Shawn P. Uleske ,  Michael W. Wilson

发明人： Terrence M. Doeberl ,  Ronald P. Sansone ,  Judith A. Martin ,  Nathaniel M. Gifford ,  Shawn P. Uleske ,  Michael W. Wilson

IPC分类号： H04M164

CPC分类号： H04M1/72566 ,  H04M1/72547 ,  H04M3/4211 ,  H04M3/53 ,  H04M2203/2016 ,  H04M2203/2072

摘要： This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing automated personal messaging assistance with the capability of checking a user's destination for arrival and forwarding messages by a preferred modality. The present invention is directed to, in a general aspect, a method of providing personal messaging using a virtual messaging assistant. The virtual messaging assistant has a voice user interface and provides a human-like voice which interfaces with the user' and with callers. The personal messaging assistant provides forwarding of messages to a destination in accordance with user selected preferences. The personal messaging assistant receives incoming messages. The personal messaging checks the user's calendar to find out where the user is expected to be. Then the personal messaging assistant calls the expected destination and inquires whether the user has arrived. If the user has arrived, the personal messaging assistant forwards messages by a preferred mode, such as, for example, via facsimile, to the destination. The personal messaging assistant handles important confidential messages by making sure that the user is at the destination prior to forwarding those messages. Thus, the user is provided with a service was previously unavailable in a continuous manner.

摘要翻译： 本发明克服了现有技术的缺点，即通过提供具有检查用户目的地的自动化个人消息传递援助的能力，并通过优选方式转发消息。 本发明在一般方面涉及使用虚拟消息传递助理提供个人消息的方法。 虚拟消息传递助理具有语音用户界面，并提供与用户和呼叫者接口的类似人声的语音。 个人消息传递助理根据用户选择的偏好提供消息到目的地的转发。 个人消息传递助理接收传入的消息。 个人消息检查用户的日历以了解用户预期的位置。 然后，个人消息传递助理呼叫预期目的地并询问用户是否到达。 如果用户已经到达，则个人消息传递助理将优先模式（例如通过传真）将消息转发到目的地。 通过确保用户在转发这些消息之前在目的地处理重要的机密消息，个人消息传递助理处理。 因此，向用户提供以前不可用的服务。

公开(公告)号：US06549640B1

公开(公告)日：2003-04-15

申请号：US09458237

申请日：1999-12-09

申请人： Ronald P. Sansone ,  Judith A. Martin

发明人： Ronald P. Sansone ,  Judith A. Martin

IPC分类号： G06K900

CPC分类号： G07D7/004 ,  G07B17/00733 ,  G07B2017/00516 ,  G07B2017/00532 ,  G07B2017/0058 ,  G07B2017/0083

摘要： A system that hides information in a customer supplied graphic. The apparatus of this invention provides a device for verifiable security in a postage meter or other devices using dot or drop printing. Security is achieved by counting the number of signal pulses that are used to produce ink drops or ink dots that are required to reproduce the customer supplied graphic. The aforementioned may be accomplished by adding a smart module to digital print head modules. The smart module would capture driver pulses from the print head module and interpret the pulses associated with regions of the graphic. Thus, the smart module would take data from the printer controller that is used to cut off printing when the ink is consumed and relate “set” values to the drops produced during the production of the graphic or portions of the graphic, thereby linking the postal value printed in the indicia to the information hidden in the graphic or portions of the graphic.

摘要翻译： 在客户提供的图形中隐藏信息的系统。 本发明的装置提供了一种用于在邮资计费器或使用点或点式打印的其它装置中可验证的安全性的装置。 通过计数用于产生墨水滴或墨点的信号脉冲的数量来实现安全性，这些墨滴或墨点是再现客户提供的图形所必需的。 上述可以通过将智能模块添加到数字打印头模块来实现。 智能模块将从打印头模块捕获驱动器脉冲，并解释与图形区域相关联的脉冲。 因此，智能模块将从打印机控制器获取数据，该打印机控制器在墨水消耗时用于切断打印，并将“设置”值与图形或图形部分生成期间产生的墨滴相关联，从而将邮政 打印在标记中的值被隐藏在图形或图形部分中的信息。