Patent №
US 5,956,491
Granted
1999-09-21
Filed 1996
Owner
AMERICAN INFORMATION SYSTMES, INC.
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Lab
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AI components
2
planning · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
08617658
A computerized human communication arbitrating and distributing system, including a controller digital computer and a plurality of participator digital computers, each of the participator computers including an input device for receiving human-input information from a human user and an output device for presenting information to the user, each said user having a user identity. A connection, such as Internet, links the controller computer with each of the participator computers. Controller software runs on the controller computer to arbitrate in accordance with predefined rules including said user identity, which ones of the participator computers can interact in one of a plurality of groups through the controller computer and to distribute real time data to the respective ones of the groups. Participator software runs on each of the participator computers to handle a user interface permitting one said user to send a multimedia information message to the controller computer, which arbitrates which of the participator computers receive the multimedia information message and conveys the multimedia information message to the selected participator computers to present the multimedia information to the respective user.
AI classification
Ownership
AMERICAN INFORMATION SYSTMES, INC.
assignment · 101380026
TRZYNA, PETER K.
assignment · 106330724
WINDY CITY INNOVATIONS, LLC
assignment · 155090166
Assignors
MARKS, DANIEL L.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.