ENHANCED VIDEO PROGRAMMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DISTRIBUTED COMMUNITY NETWORK
Patent №
US 6,513,069
Granted
2003-01-28
Filed 1999
Owner
ACTV, INC.
Lab
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AI components
3
kr · evo · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09396693
A distributed community network for providing services to an arbitrarily large community of end users by distributing the load among many machines. The network uses hubs on the machines for routing packets. The hubs obtain routing instructions from a router and use those instructions for routing the packets. The packets include content for the machines based upon a particular network service, such as a chat service for permitting users to interact in chat rooms or a push/pull service for pushing content to the user machines either directly or based upon information received from the users.
AI classification
Ownership
ACTV, INC.
assignment · 102840049
Assignors
ULLMAN, CRAIG D., HARRINGTON, JEFFREY M., ABATO, MICHAEL R., DUDA, CARL R.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.