A system and method for data communication connecting on-line networks with on-line and off-line computers. The present system provides for broadcast of up to the minute notification centric information thereby providing an instant call to action for users who are provided with the ability to instantaneously retrieve further detailed information. The notification centric portions of information is wirelessly broadcast to wireless receiving devices which are attached to computing devices. Upon receipt of the information at the personal computer, the user is notified through different multimedia alerts that there is an incoming message. Wirelessly broadcasted URL\'s, associated with the data, are embedded in data packets and provide an automated wired or wireless connection back to the information source for obtaining detailed data.

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91 granted claims

›1.independentA method for transmitting data to selected remote computing devices, comprising the steps of:nreceiving data from an information source at a central b…+7

›2.↳ 1The method of claim 1 wherein transmitting the data from the content manager to the information gateway for building data blocks and assigning address…d2

›3.↳ 1The method of claim 1 wherein transmitting the data blocks to the receivers communicating with the remote computing devices further comprises wireless…d2+1

›5.↳ 1The method of claim 1 wherein transmitting the data from the content manager to the information gateway for building the data blocks and assigning the…d2

›6.↳ 1The method of claim 1 wherein notifying the remote computing devices of receipt of the data blocks whether the remote computing devices are on or off …d2

›7.↳ 1The method of claim 1 wherein providing the data to servers in the central broadcast server comprises preprocessing the data at the central broadcast …d2

›8.↳ 1the method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting the data blocks from the information gateway to a transmission gateway for preparing the data bl…d2

›9.independentA method for transmitting data to remote computing devices, comprising the steps of:nreceiving data from an information source at a central broadcast …+4

›14.independentA method for transmitting data to selected remote computing devices, comprising the steps of:nreceiving data from an information source at a central b…+77

›15.↳ 14The method of claim 14 comprising assigning addresses to the data blocks based on information in a subscriber database.d2

›16.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein transmitting the data blocks to the receivers comprises wirelessly transmitting the data blocks to the receivers.d2+1

›18.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein transmitting the data from the content manager to the information gateway for building the data blocks and assigning th…d2

›19.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein transmitting the data from the content manager to the information gateway for building data blocks and assigning addres…d2

›20.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein transmitting the data blocks to the receivers communicating with the selected remote computing devices further comprise…d2+4

›25.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein transmitting the data blocks to the receivers communicating with the selected remote computing devices further comprise…d2

›26.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising attaching to the data blocks an Internet address location for providing an automatic connection back to the …d2+12

›27.↳ 26The method of claim 26 wherein said Internet address location is a Uniform Resource Locator.d3

›28.↳ 26The method of claim 26 wherein attaching to the data blocks an Internet address location for providing the automatic connection back to the informatio…d3+1

›30.↳ 26The method of claim 26 wherein the connection back to the information source for obtaining further information related to the data blocks is an automa…d3

›31.↳ 26The method of claim 26 wherein the connection back to the information source for obtaining further information related to the data blocks is an automa…d3

›32.↳ 26The method of claim 26 wherein attaching to the data blocks an Internet address location for providing the automatic connection back to the informatio…d3

›33.↳ 26The method of claim 26 wherein attaching to the data blocks an Internet address location for providing the automatic connection back to the informatio…d3

›34.↳ 26The method of claim 26 wherein attaching to the data blocks an Internet address location for providing the automatic connection back to the informatio…d3

›35.↳ 26The method of claim 26 further comprising extracting the Internet address location from the data blocks.d3

›36.↳ 26The method of claim 26 further comprising displaying the Internet address location such that a single action related to the Internet address location …d3

›37.↳ 26The method of claim 26 further comprising launching an Internet browser and passing the Internet address location to the Internet browser for automati…d3

›38.↳ 26The method of claim 26 wherein the Internet address is a proprietary on-line addressing scheme.d3

›39.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein notifying the remote computing devices of receipt of the data blocks whether the remote computing devices are online or…d2+3

›43.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein notifying the remote computing devices of receipt of the data blocks whether the remote computing devices are online or…d2+1

›45.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising deriving redundant data packets for transmission to the remote computing devices.d2+10

›46.↳ 45The method of claim 45 wherein deriving the redundant data packets for transmission to the remote computing devices further comprises parceling a data…d3+8

›47.↳ 46The method of claim 46 wherein parceling the data block into at least one incoming message further comprises parceling the incoming message into infor…d4+7

›55.↳ 45The method of claim 45 wherein the data packets include information packets and parity-check packets.d3

›56.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising combining Huffman compression and dictionary-based compression based algorithms.d2+2

›59.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising utilizing a differencing algorithm for compressing the data blocks to reduce a number of bytes sent with eac…d2

›60.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising processing the data in accordance with feed type from the information source.d2+4

›65.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein the step of notifying the remote computing devices of receipt of the data blocks whether the remote computing devices a…d2

›66.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising encoding the data with information relating to message parameters for filtering.d2

›67.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein notifying the remote computing devices of receipt of the data blocks whether the remote computing devices are online or…d2+10

›68.↳ 67The method of claim 67 wherein filtering the data blocks further comprises filtering the data blocks in accordance with preferences set by the one or …d3+6

›69.↳ 68The method of claim 68 wherein filtering the data blocks in accordance with preferences set by the one or more users further comprises filtering the d…d4

›72.↳ 68The method of claim 68, further comprising controlling a viewer at one or more remote computing device from the central broadcast server.d4+4

›70.↳ 67The method of claim 67 wherein filtering the data blocks further comprises filtering the data blocks in accordance with virtual addresses.d3

›71.↳ 67The method of claim 67 wherein filtering the data blocks further comprises filtering the data blocks in accordance with physical addresses.d3

›77.↳ 67The method of claim 67 further comprising:nstoring entries in a viewer server; andfiltering predetermined types of messages.d3

›78.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising activating the data blocks at a scheduled time.d2

›79.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising wirelessly modifying the data blocks.d2+1

›81.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein the data blocks comprise advertising.d2

›82.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein the data blocks comprise advertising and one or more control to connect to a second information source.d2

›83.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein the information source is an Internet access provider providing data feeds.d2

›84.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein the information source is an online service provider providing data feeds.d2

›85.↳ 14The method of claim 14 wherein transmitting the data to the information gateway for building data blocks and assigning addresses to the data blocks fu…d2

›86.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising displaying contextual graphics on one or more remote computing devices to show data in a predefined format.d2+1

›88.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising attaching to preprocessed data an Internet address location for a message that causes a process or transacti…d2

›89.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising sending the data on groups of pooled capcodes.d2+1

›91.↳ 14The method of claim 14 further comprising:nassigning data packets to a group of capcodes;transmitting the data over a paging network using the group o…d2

Classifications

5 codes

IPC · International Patent Classification

Section G — Physics

G08B5/22
G06F15/16

USPC · US Patent Classification

709/219709/236340/7.29

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26 Jan 1996

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Type	Document	Date
provisional	US 60010651 00	26 Jan 1996
related publication	US 20060195554 A1	31 Aug 2006

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