Method, product, and apparatus for processing reusable information

• US 6,442,549 B1
• Filed: 11/15/1999
• Issued: 08/27/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Original Assignee: Eric Schneider
• Inventors: Schneider, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Coby, Frantz
• Application Number:
  US09/440,606
• Time in Patent Office: 1,016 Days
• Field of Search: 707/10, 707/103, 707/104, 707/100, 709/223, 709/201, 709/203, 709/217, 709/218
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR

Abstract

In a communication network having at least one communication link connecting a provider and a client, wherein the provider is in communication with a registrar storing one or more identifiers such as potentially available or soon to be available telephone numbers or domain names, a method includes communicating from the provider to the client the one or more identifiers wherein each identifier is not available for registration at the time of the communication (e.g., client renders a web page of identifiers communicated from provider, which could be pushed to client or provided in response to a search, navigation, or query), selecting at least one identifier from the one or more identifiers, and at least one of a reserving, subscribing, reserving in a pre-ordering queue, pre-ordering, pre-registering, ordering, and monitoring the at least one selected identifier with the provider, wherein the at least one selected identifier is communicated to the provider before the at least one selected identifier is available for registration.

Claims

1. In a communication network having at least one communication link connecting a provider and a client, wherein the provider is in communication with a registrar storing one or more identifiers, a method comprising the steps of:

communicating from the provider to the client said one or more identifiers wherein each said identifier is a potentially available or soon to be available telephone number or domain name and each said identifier is not available for registration at the time of said communication;

selecting at least one identifier from said one or more identifiers; and

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at least one of a reserving, subscribing, reserving in a pre-ordering queue, pre-ordering, preregistering, ordering, and monitoring said at least one selected identifier with the provider, wherein said at least one selected identifier is communicated to the provider before said at least one selected identifier is available for registration.

2. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said registrar is also the provider.

3. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said registrar is one of a domain name registrar and telephone registrar.

4. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein the client is one of a subscriber and registrant and the provider is one of a telephone company and registration provider.

5. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein the communication network is one of telephone network and Internet.

6. A method, as set forth in claim 1, further including determining that a newly available domain name corresponds to said at least one selected identifier.

7. A method, as set forth in claim 6, further including automatically attempting to register said newly available domain name with said registrar in response to determining that said newly available domain name corresponds to said at least one selected identifier.

8. In a communication network having a computer system including a storage facility with an executable computer program stored therein, a method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein selecting said at least one identifier includes executing said computer program to assist in making said selection.

9. A method, as set forth in claim 8, wherein said executing said computer program includes at least one of a client and provider executing said computer program.

10. A method, as set forth in claim 8, wherein said executing said computer program includes determining whether said one or more identifiers has one of a personal significance, vanity, commercial interest, and commercial purpose to the client.

11. A method, as set forth in claim 8, wherein said executing said computer program includes converting one of a plurality of digits into a mnemonic expression and mnemonic expression into a plurality of digits.

12. In a computer system having a storage facility, a method for receiving new information from a provider comprising the steps of;

storing a first data received from the provider at a first time, said first data including information of first use wherein at least a portion of said first data is potentially reusable;

storing a second data received from the provider at a second time, said second data including reference data, said reference data indicating that at least a portion of said potentially reusable portion of said first data is reusable wherein one of a reference data and second time is unknown at said first time; and

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generating from said reference data and said first data, a third data having information of second use independent of said first use wherein said third data comprises updated subset of said first data, wherein at least a portion of said third data is potentially reusable and said third data includes one of a soon to be available data, newly available data, and newly issued data.

13. A method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein at least one of a first data and reference data is periodically stored.

14. A method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein one of a first data, second data, and third data includes newly issued data.

15. A method, as set forth in claim 14, wherein at least a portion of said newly issued data is potentially reusable.

16. A method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein said second data includes news and advertising data.

17. A method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein one of a first data and second data includes an executable computer program.

18. A method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein at least one of a first data and second data is copied from a computer readable medium to said storage facility.

19. A method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein said storage facility is at least one cache and at least a portion of one of a first data, second data, and third data is stored in said cache.

20. A method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein at least one of a first data, second data, and third data includes at least one of an issue date, expiry date, release date, due date, soon to be available date, renewal date, fuzzy date, and anniversary date.

21. A method, as set forth in claim 20, wherein at least one of a first data, second data, and third data is partitioned by at least one of an issue date, expiry date, release date, due date, soon to be available date, renewal date, fuzzy date, and anniversary date.

22. A method, as set forth in claim 20, wherein said storing said first data further includes storing said first data at a first time corresponding to one of an issue date, expiry date, release date, due date, soon to be available date, renewal date, fuzzy date, and anniversary date.

23. A method, as set forth in claim 20, wherein said storing said second data further includes storing said second data at a second time corresponding to one of an issue date, expiry date, release date, due date, soon to be available date, renewal date, fuzzy date, and anniversary date.

24. A method, as set forth in claim 20, wherein said generating said third data further includes generating said third data at a third time corresponding to one of an issue date, expiry date, release date, due date, soon to be available date, renewal date, fuzzy date, and anniversary date.

25. A method, as set forth in claim 20, wherein the time difference between said soon to be available date and one of an issue date, expiry date, release date, due date, and renewal date is one of a publication period, subscription period, expiration period, holding period, pending period, and grace period.

26. A method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein at least one of a first data, second data, and third data includes information such as but not limited to patents, trademarks, domain names, telephone numbers, uniform resource identifiers, copyrights, real estate, property for sale—

lease—

rent—

forfeiture, judgements, mortgage, liens, auctions, job descriptions, resumes, coupons, rebates, offers, seasonal advertising, personal ads, classifieds, news, price lists, song lists, periodicals, library books, leasing, licensing, rentals, arrival/departure records, liquor licenses, parole dates, rules, regulations, citations, press releases, and confidential information.

27. A method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein said generating said third data includes generating said third data in response to storing said second data.

28. In a storage facility having an executable computer program stored therein, a method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein said generating said third data includes executing the computer program for combining said reference data with said first data.

29. A method, as set forth in claim 28, further including executing the program to configure, query, browse, select, report, archive, order, or hyperlink to the Internet from at least one of a first data, second data, and third data.

30. A method, as set forth in claim 28, further including filtering said third data in response to generating said third data.

31. In an executable computer program having a search engine, a method, as set forth in claim 28, further including using said search engine to search and retrieve from at least one of a first data, second data, and third data.

32. A method, as set forth in claim 28, wherein said first data includes a master database and said reference data includes at least one of a query and encoded bit mask.

33. A method, as set forth in claim 28, further including executing the program for combining said query with said master database to generate a first data subset, combining said reference data with said first data subset to generate a second data subset, and combining a user defined query with said second data subset to generate a third data subset.

34. A method, as set forth in claim 28, wherein said second data includes newly issued data and said reference data, further including executing the program to generate a fourth data by combining said newly issued data and at least a remaining portion of said first data which does not correspond to said reference data.

35. A method, as set forth in claim 28, wherein said fourth data can be used as said first data.

36. In a network having a first provider computer system and a first subscriber computer system having a storage facility and at least one communication link connecting the first provider computer system and the first subscriber computer system, a method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein the first provider computer system is operated by a first provider, and the first subscriber computer system is operated by a first subscriber.

37. A method, as set forth in claim 36, wherein one of a first provider and first subscriber is one of an application service provider and internet service provider.

38. A method, as set forth in claim 36, wherein said first provider is a provider of sole-source data.

39. A method, as set forth in claim 36, wherein said first subscriber is a tiered subscriber and the first subscriber system is also a second provider system having at least one communication link connecting said second provider computer system with a second subscriber computer system.

40. A method, as set forth in claim 36, wherein said storage facility is at least one network cache and at least one of a first data, second data, and third data is stored in said network cache.

41. An apparatus for receiving new information from a provider comprising:

a computer system having a storage facility;

means for storing a first data received from the provider at a first time, said first data including information of first use wherein at least a portion of said first data is potentially reusable;

means for storing a second data received from the provider at a second time, said second data including reference data, said reference data indicating that at least a portion of said potentially reusable portion of said first data is reusable wherein one of a reference data and second time is unknown at said first time; and

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means for generating from said reference data and said first data, a third data having information of second use independent of said first use wherein said third data comprises updated subset of said first data, wherein at least a portion of said third data is potentially reusable and said third data includes one of a soon to be available data newly available data, and newly issued data.

42. A computer program product comprising computer readable program code stored on a computer readable medium, the program code adapted to execute the method for receiving new information from a provider including storing a first data received from the provider at a first time, said first data including information of first use wherein at least a portion of said first data is potentially reusable, storing a second data received from the provider at a second time, said second data including reference data, said reference data indicating that at least a portion of said potentially reusable portion of said first data is reusable wherein one of a reference data and second time is unknown at said first time, and generating from said reference data and said first data, a third data having information of second use independent of said first use wherein said third data comprises updated subset of said first data, wherein at least a portion of said third data is potentially reusable and said third data includes one of a soon to be available data, newly available data, and newly issued data.