Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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US Patent 6006257 - Multimedia architecture for interactive advertising in which secondary programming is varied based upon viewer demographics and content of primary programming
Estimated Patent Expiration Date:
September 27, 2016Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.AbstractThe system enables a user to dispose information such as an icon to identify the article that the user posts from the client computer, on the display screen thereof, for example, at the position closer to an icon of an article that another user posted if the former user intends to express the opinion positively to the latter user's posted article. The server computer where many client computers can post articles and read the articles posted from other client computers, manages the coordinate data of the icons respectively disposed at the client computers according to the respective intentions of the articles and reproduces the icons on the display screen of a client computer, at the respective disposed positions so that a user at the client computer can instantly understand the intentions of the posted articles without reading the contents thereof.Other References
| InventorAssigneeApplicationNo. 720035 filed on 09/27/1996US Classes:725/110, Connection to external network at receiver (e.g., set-top box)725/111, Cable modem725/114Server or headendField of Search709/217, REMOTE DATA ACCESSING709/218, Using interconnected networks709/219Accessing a remote serverExaminersPrimary: Miller, JohnAttorney, Agent or FirmUS Patent References5515098, System and method for selectively distributing commercial messages over a communications networkIssued on: 05/07/1996 Inventor: Carles5652615, Precision broadcast of composite programs including secondary program content such as advertisements Issued on: 07/29/1997 Inventor: Bryant, et al.5774170System and method for delivering targeted advertisements to consumers Issued on: 06/30/1998 Inventor: Hite, et al. Foreign Patent References
International ClassesH04N 007/14H04H 001/00 |
