PatentBrief

Inventor

Kipp E. B. Hickman

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1997

Associated with

Years active

1997

Total patents

1

Most recent

1997

Frequent collaborator

Taher Elgamal

Domains

softwaretelecommunicationsecommerce

Activity by decade

1990s
1

Patents

1

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1997

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19971998

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US 5657390·1997·Netscape Communications Corp

How Netscape Created the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for Web Security

Netscape's 1995 patent defining the architecture for SSL, the foundational technology that allows browsers to securely transmit encrypted data over the internet.

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