Web Foundations

Patents That Built The Internet

The protocols, algorithms, and architectures that made the modern web possible — from public-key cryptography and packet networks to the link graph that powers search.

In this collection

8 patents

US 4063220 · 1977 · Xerox Corp

How Computers Share a Network Cable Without Crashing

US 4405829 · 1983 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

How RSA Public-Key Encryption Secures Digital Messages

US 4200770 · 1980 · Leland Stanford Junior University

The Math That Makes Every HTTPS Connection Secure

US 5657390 · 1997 · Netscape Communications Corp

Secure socket layer application program apparatus and method

US 5673322 · 1997 · Bell Communications Research Inc

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

US 5774670 · 1998 · Netscape Communications Corp

The HTTP Cookie — How Websites Remember Who You Are

US 5838906 · 1998 · University of California San Diego UCSD

Microsoft's Browser Patent — At the Center of the Biggest Antitrust Case in Tech

US 6285999 · 2001 · Leland Stanford Junior University

How Websites Get Ranked by Who Links to Them

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