The internet we use every day was assembled from hundreds of patented inventions — most of which you've never heard of. Netscape's SSL patent made e-commerce possible. PageRank turned a sea of web pages into a navigable library. Load balancing patents enabled web services to scale from thousands to billions of users. Streaming video patents defined how media travels across networks. Many of these inventors became household names while others remained obscure despite inventing things used by billions of people daily. These are the patents behind the infrastructure.
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US 6285999 · 2001 · Leland Stanford Junior University
How Websites Get Ranked by Counting Links and Their Importance
US 5960411 · 1999 · Amazon com Inc
How Amazon's One-Click Online Ordering System Works
US 5657390 · 1997 · Netscape Communications Corp
How Netscape's SSL Encrypted Web Connections Work
US 7352772 · 2008 · Lenovo Singapore Pte Ltd
How Wi-Fi Routers Stop Slow Devices From Ruining Fast Connections
US 6122658 · 2000 · Microsoft Corp
Microsoft's Method for Serving Localized Web Content
US 5774660 · 1998 · Resonate Inc
World-wide-web server with delayed resource-binding for resource-based load balancing on a distributed resource multi-node network
US 6073184 · 2000 · Alcatel SA
Method of transmitting a notification to a receiver from plural notification services in a distributed application network, and a network for implementing the method
US 6178160 · 2001 · Cisco Technology Inc
Load balancing of client connections across a network using server based algorithms
US 6990497 · 2006 · Microsoft Corp
Dynamic streaming media management
US 6732183 · 2004 · BroadWare Technologies LLC
Video and audio streaming for multiple users
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