Timothy Joe Griswold

US Patent:

7543227, Jun 2, 2009

Filed:

Jan 24, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/039961

Inventors:

Timothy J. Griswold - Fairfax VA, US
William R. Dutcher - Great Falls VA, US
Patrick J. Conley - Rochester NY, US

Assignee:

VeriSign, Inc. - Dulles VA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715234, 455 301

Abstract:

A system that provides users of both fixed and wireless Internet devices, a method of entering numbers instead of the text characters of Internet Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and other Internet identifiers to access Internet resources and functions, such as Web sites, e-mail services, individual documents or files, location services, etc. When the user enters a WebNum, the digits of the WebNum are sent to a database on a system that is accessible over the Internet. The database maps the WebNum back to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which contains a hostname in the Internet domain name structure. This would subsequently be resolved through the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) to an IP address to identify the IP address of the Web site. The cell phone provider or WID network provider would then retrieve the home page of the Web site over the Internet, to return content to the cell phone or WID display.

US Patent:

20020052912, May 2, 2002

Filed:

Aug 16, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/930445

Inventors:

Timothy Griswold - Fairfax VA, US
William Dutcher - Great Falls VA, US
Patrick Conley - Rochester NY, US

Assignee:

VERISIGN, INC.

International Classification:

G06F015/16

US Classification:

709/200000, 709/223000

Abstract:

A system that provides users of both fixed and wireless Internet devices, a method of entering numbers instead of the text characters of Internet Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and other Internet identifiers to access Internet resources and functions, such as Web sites, e-mail services, individual documents or files, location services, etc. When the user enters a WebNum, the digits of the WebNum are sent to a database on a system that is accessible over the Internet. The database maps the WebNum back to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which contains a hostname in the Internet domain name structure. This would subsequently be resolved through the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) to an IP address to identify the IP address of the Web site. The cell phone provider or WID network provider would then retrieve the home page of the Web site over the Internet, to return content to the cell phone or WID display.

US Patent:

20020087529, Jul 4, 2002

Filed:

Dec 7, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/004842

Inventors:

William Dutcher - Great Falls VA, US
Timothy Griswold - Fairfax VA, US

Assignee:

VERISIGN

International Classification:

G06F007/00

US Classification:

707/003000

Abstract:

A system that provides users of both fixed and wireless Internet devices, a method of entering numbers instead of the text characters of Internet Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and other Internet identifiers to access Internet resources and functions, such as Web sites and digital business cards. When the user enters a WebNum, the digits of the WebNum are processed by the WebNum system and the WebNum is mapped back to a URL or a file containing the content of a digital business card. The content is specially formatted for display on a wireless device. For a WebNum mapping to a digital business card, a WebNum application server retrieves the content and returns it to the device for displaying.

US Patent:

20030054841, Mar 20, 2003

Filed:

Sep 10, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/237595

Inventors:

Timothy Griswold - Herndon VA, US
Troy Hickok - Purcellville VA, US
Mark Fruehan - Allen TX, US

International Classification:

H04Q007/20
H04M001/00
H04B001/38

US Classification:

455/460000, 455/564000

Abstract:

A device such a cellular telephone is provided with an I-key. A register of the telephone is used to stored the digits entered on the keypad of the phone. If the I-key is pressed after a sequence of digits has been entered on the keypad, the phone interprets the number in the register as an private number for an information resource such as are available on the Internet. The phone translates the private number into an URL, and obtains a TCP/IP address corresponding to the URL. The phone transmits an access request to the Internet resource corresponding to the private number and launches a browser or another suitable application to display the data returned from the resource.

US Patent:

20050132277, Jun 16, 2005

Filed:

Jan 24, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/039953

Inventors:

Timothy Griswold - Fairfax VA, US
William Dutcher - Great Falls VA, US
Patrick Conley - Rochester NY, US

International Classification:

G06F017/21
G06F017/30
G06F015/173
G06F015/16
H04M011/10

US Classification:

715513000, 715500100, 707001000, 707006000, 709226000, 709229000, 455414200

Abstract:

A system that provides users of both fixed and wireless Internet devices, a method of entering numbers instead of the text characters of Internet Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and other Internet identifiers to access Internet resources and functions, such as Web sites, e-mail services, individual documents or files, location services, etc. When the user enters a WebNum, the digits of the WebNum are sent to a database on a system that is accessible over the Internet. The database maps the WebNum back to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which contains a hostname in the Internet domain name structure. This would subsequently be resolved through the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) to an IP address to identify the IP address of the Web site. The cell phone provider or WID network provider would then retrieve the home page of the Web site over the Internet, to return content to the cell phone or WID display.