System for distributing electronic information to a targeted group of users

Patent 6047327 Issued on April 4, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

February 16, 2016. Estimated 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.

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Application

No. 602985 filed on 02/16/1996

US Classes:

709/232, Computer-to-computer data transfer regulating709/202, Processing agent709/203, Client/server709/217, REMOTE DATA ACCESSING709/219, Accessing a remote server709/226, Network resource allocating709/229Network resources access controlling

Examiners

Primary: Maung, Zarni
Assistant: Najjar, Saleh

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

International Class

G06F 017/30 9

Abstract

A communications system having a first server and a first client connected to the first server through a first network, wherein the first server selectively sends a set of InfoBites to the first client based on a filter. A method for distributing information for the above communications system, including the steps of deriving a set of InfoBites, filtering the set of InfoBites based on the filter into a filtered set of InfoBites, and, transmitting the filtered set of InfoBites to the first client.