Chong S Lee

US Patent:

6678727, Jan 13, 2004

Filed:

Sep 24, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/404924

Inventors:

Chong C. Lee - Portland OR
Charles E. Neal - Hillsboro OR

Assignee:

Veicon Technology, Inc. - Beaverton OR

International Classification:

G06F 15177

US Classification:

709221, 709222, 709228

Abstract:

A system and method for providing a remote user with secure, temporary access to electronic mail and/or the Internet. The invented system includes one or more remote terminals, each including an input device and a display, and a system server for communicating with the terminals. The server is capable of displaying prompts on each of the displays and reading user inputs on each of the input devices. Furthermore, the server is operatively connected with the users home system, typically via an electronic network. The system further includes a program executing on the system server for prompting one or more users located at the one or more remote terminals to enter inputs and for automatically configuring a configuration file for each remote user. Each configuration file contains information responsive to a corresponding one of the users inputs, and each of the files is usable by the system server to operatively connect the corresponding user with that users home system via the electronic network, based at least in part on the users individual inputs. The system server executes the configuration file in such a manner as to provide each user with customized remote access to the users home system in a secure operating environment dictated at least in part by the users network client choices.

US Patent:

59580070, Sep 28, 1999

Filed:

May 13, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/855100

Inventors:

Chong C. Lee - Portland OR
Charles E. Neal - Beaverton OR

Assignee:

Phase Three Logic, Inc. - Beaverton OR

International Classification:

G06F 1300
G06F 9445

US Classification:

709219

Abstract:

A system and method for providing a remote user with secure, temporary access to electronic mail and/or the Internet. The invented system includes one or more remote terminals, each including an input device and a display, and a system server for communicating with the terminals. The server is capable of displaying prompts on each of the displays and reading user inputs on each of the keyboards. Furthermore, the server is operatively connected with the user's home system, typically via an electronic network. The system further includes a program executing on the system server for prompting one or more users located at the one or more remote terminals to enter inputs and for automatically configuring a configuration file for each remote user. Each configuration file contains information responsive to a corresponding one of the user's inputs, and each of the files is usable by the system server to operatively connect the corresponding user with that user's home system via the electronic network, based at least in part on the user's individual inputs. The system server executes the configuration file in such a manner as to provide each user with customized remote access to the user's home system in a secure operating environment dictated at least in part by the user's network client choices.