Delivery of any type of information to anyone anytime anywhere

• US 7,379,963 B1
• Filed: 07/14/2000
• Issued: 05/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Knownow-Delaware
• Inventors: Khare, Rohit, Rifkin, Adam, Oreizy, Peyman
• Primary Examiner(s): Hu; Jinsong
• Application Number:
  US09/615,663
• Time in Patent Office: 2,874 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/219, 709/231, 707 5- 6, 707/10, 707/102, 707/103, 707/2
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access

Abstract

Information delivery system and methods detects and organizes information into canonical topics, such as who, what, when, where, price, etc., and facilitates a user to persistently subscribe to topics, web users, web resources, event streams, etc. The system facilitates a user to register devices and applications on which to receive information, as it becomes available, related to the subscription(s). The system facilitates users to specify preferences for the topics, web users, web resources, and registrations, which prioritize delivery of information. The system senses information, aggregates the user'"'"'s registrations, subscriptions, and preferences, and filters information a topic-interest basis. The system notifies a user based on the preferences.

Claims

1. A method of delivering information to a client from a server, comprising:

receiving a request from the client to subscribe to establish a hypertext transport protocol communication path to the server;

monitoring and detecting publication of information in a network;

organizing the detected information into one or more events and routing the one or more events to a set of topics;

facilitating the client to persistently subscribe to at least one topic selected from among the set of topics;

opening a hypertext transport protocol communication path to the client;

automatically and transparently launching a microserver on the client; and

maintaining open the hypertext transport protocol communication path to the client while delivering at least one event of the one or more events to the client via the hypertext transport protocol communication path immediately upon detection based on a subscription to the at least one topic selected from the set of topics, wherein delivering the at least one event of the one or more events to the client is not in response to a request from the client to establish the hypertext transport protocol communication path, wherein the delivering the at least one event of the one or more events to the client is initiated by the server after the hypertext transport protocol communication path has been established.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising organizing information into non-events, alerts, messages, queries, data, data content, patterns, streams, or queues.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising facilitating a user to persistently subscribe to a web resource, based on a universal resource locator (URL).

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising facilitating a user to persistently subscribe to a web user, based on an email address, a name or a location, and to specify a level of interest in the web user.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising facilitating a user to persistently subscribe to a user'"'"'s presence, based on an email address, a name or a location, and to specify a level of interest in the web user.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising registering a pager, cellular telephone, email, instant messenger, purchase order system, microserver-equipped client computer, facsimile machine, web browser, or spreadsheet and routing information to the user on the registered pager, cellular telephone, email, instant messenger, purchase order system, microserver-equipped client computer, facsimile machine, web browser, or spreadsheet, based on the selected topic and level of interest in the selected topic.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering the information, based on the selected topic and level of interest in the selected topic, and delivering the filtered information to the user on a client system having an embedded microserver.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering the information based on the selected topic and level of interest in the selected topic, delivering the filtered information to the user on a client system having an embedded microserver, and facilitating the user to reply to the filtered information using the embedded microserver.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

permitting a client to request a new hypertext transport protocol communication path if the previous hypertext transport protocol communication path experiences a failure; and

permitting the client to be notified of the one or more events that would have been transmitted to the client during the duration of the failure.