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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2006
Applicant:
Jonathan K. Tash, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jonathan K. Tash, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Vulcan Ventures, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for efficiently scheduling incoming information objects so that timely objects from a variety of content classes are scheduled for broadcast. The incoming information objects are preferably received from one or more information sources, and are tagged with attributes that associate each object with one or more classes of information (e.g., sports, news, etc.), and provide a gauge of the timeliness or 'age' of the object. The tags can be used to select and broadcast objects from a variety of classes, and to identify the most timely objects at any give time.