United States Patent (19)
`Reisman
`
`USOO6125388A
`Patent Number:
`11
`(45) Date of Patent:
`
`6,125,388
`Sep. 26, 2000
`
`54 SYSTEM FORTRANSPORTING
`INFORMATION OBJECTS BETWEEN A
`USER STATION AND MULTIPLE REMOTE
`SERENSlest stored
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`IN THE USER STATION
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`Inventor: Richard R. Reisman, 20 E. 9th St.
`#14K, New York, N.Y. 10003
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`Appl. No.: 08/982,157
`Filed:
`Dec. 1, 1997
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`Related U.S. Application Data
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`51
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`58
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`Continuation of application No. 08/251,724, May 31, 1994,
`Pat. No. 5,694,546.
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`709/303; 707/1; 707/10; 707/100; 707/103;
`707/104; 712/28
`Field of Search ..................................... 345/333,331,
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`ABSTRACT
`A novel electronic information transport component can be
`incorporated in a wide range of electronic information
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`mass distribution of updates, Such as current issues, from a
`remote Server to a wide user base having a diversity of
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`SYSTEM FORTRANSPORTING
`INFORMATION OBJECTS BETWEENA
`USER STATION AND MULTIPLE REMOTE
`SOURCES BASED UPON USER
`MODIFIABLE OBJECT MANIFEST STORED
`IN THE USER STATION
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`This application is a continuation of application Ser. No.
`08/251,724 filed May 31, 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,694,546
`dated Dec. 2, 1997.
`TECHNICAL FIELD
`The present invention relates to computer-implemented
`transport of electronic information objects. More specifi
`cally it relates to information transport Software which can
`be used for transporting information objects between a
`remote Server and any one of multiple, uncoordinated intel
`ligent computer WorkStations. Still more particularly, it
`provides a computer-implemented Software component that
`can be used to facilitate the distribution of information
`objects from a remote Source to a large number of customers
`or Subscribers.
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`enabled by a wide range of hardware devices and Software
`drivers, utilities, applications and application modules. Tele
`phone modems that couple a computer with the telephone
`network are familiar devices. RF modems that couple com
`puters into wireleSS networks are less familiar but are
`beginning to appear in consumer devices known broadly as
`personal information communicators (PIC's) of which per
`Sonal digital assistants (PDA's) Such as Apple Corp.’s
`NEWTONOR product are a first generation. New kinds of
`digital communications devices can be expected to emerge
`as digital technology replaces analog transmission.
`General-purpose, online, modem-accessed, electronic
`information services, such as PRODIGY, COMPUSERVE
`and AMERICAONLINE (trademarks), and some Internet
`Services, provide wide access to timely information products
`from a central Server, but are limited and complex. They
`provide no means for the integration of downloaded infor
`mation with information products offered on disk or CD, and
`provide only rudimentary facilities for local viewing and
`search of downloaded files.
`Such online information Services provide their own user
`interface which is generally unlike that of a disk or
`CD-based information product, and can be customized very
`little, if at all, by a publisher using the Service for product
`distribution.
`Online Services are oriented to extended online Sessions
`which require complex user interaction to navigate and find
`desired information objects. Initial Setup and use is rendered
`complex by requirements related to extended Session use of
`data networks and the frequent need to navigate acroSS the
`network, and through massive data collections, to locate
`desired data items. General-purpose online information Ser
`vices do not provide a Suitable medium for electronic
`information publishers to distribute updates, and the like,
`because of limited interface flexibility, because a publisher
`cannot expect all their customer base to be Service
`Subscribers, and because of cost and payment difficulties.
`Such Services are centered on monolithic processes intended
`for national use by millions of Subscribers which processes
`are not readily adaptable.
`Online Service charging mechanisms are also inflexible
`and inappropriate for most individual information products,
`requiring monthly Subscription fees of S5-10 or more, plus
`time charges for extended use, which are billed directly to
`users, after a user Sign-up and credit acceptance process.
`Such cost mechanisms are too expensive and too complex
`for distribution of many products Such as magazine and
`other low cost update products. They do not presently permit
`a publisher to build an acceSS fee into a purchase price or a
`product Subscription.
`Recent press announcements from corporations Such as
`AT&T, Lotus, Microsoft and MCI describe plans for new
`online Services providing what are called "groupware” Ser
`vices to offer rich electronic mail and group collaboration
`functions, primarily for busineSS organizations. Although
`offering multiple electronic object transport operations Such
`Services are believed to have complex Setup procedures and
`Software requirements and complex message routing fea
`tures and protocols, and to lack interface flexibility.
`Accordingly, they are not Suitable for mass distribution of
`low cost electronic information update products and cannot
`achieve the objectives of the invention.
`Communications Products
`Many Software products exist that enable one computer to
`communicate with another over a remote link Such as a
`telephone cable or the air waves, but none enables a vendor
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`BACKGROUND
`Electronic publication is an exploding industry in which