# Mel Bellar — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Mel Bellar has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [Prodigy's System for Interactive Online Information and Shopping](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/5347632/java-programming-language) — granted 1994
  Prodigy's 1994 patent outlines an interactive online system that delivered news, shopping, and banking to personal computers by breaking applications into 'objects' stored locally or remotely, and used user data for targeted ads.

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