"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore ; The basis for the later misquote by US Republicans that Gore had "invented" the Internet. Gore was the leading political champion of the modern-day Internet.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7908337 | System and method for using network layer uniform resource locator routing to locate the closest server carrying specific content A request for an information object at an address identified by a uniform resource locator (URL) is received; and the URL is mapped to a corresponding anycast address for the information object. Thereafter, the anycast address for the information object may be resol... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7725596 | System and method for resolving network layer anycast addresses to network layer unicast addresses An information object repository is configured to resolve a network layer anycast address to a network layer unicast address in response to a request for an information object at the network layer anycast address. The information object repository may be further con... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7664876 | System and method for directing clients to optimal servers in computer networks A communication protocol includes one or more messages passed between Web routers over a reliable transmission protocol used for inter-Web router communication. These messages include information that allows the Web routers to dynamically update mappings of client a... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7577754 | System and method for controlling access to content carried in a caching architecture A set of access control labels is assigned to each of a number of users of a caching infrastructure in a network. The labels are used in specifying access control lists for content of the users. Requests for the content are referred to selected information object re... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7552233 | System and method for information object routing in computer networks An address of a server that should supply an information object or service to a requester is returned in response to a request therefor. The address of the server that is returned is an optimal server selected according to specified performance metrics. The specifie... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7343422 | System and method for using uniform resource locators to map application layer content names to network layer anycast addresses A request for an information object at an address identified by a uniform resource locator (URL) is received; and the URL is mapped to a corresponding unicast address for the information object. Thereafter, the unicast address for the information object may be used ... | 03/11/2008 |