(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 7,865,395 B2 Sep 28, 1999, Now Pat No. 6591.245, Which Is a (7) ABSTRACT
US007865395 B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 7,865,395 B2 Kluget al. (45) Date of Patent: Jan. 4, 2011 (54) MEDIA CONTENT NOTIFICATION VLA (56) References Cited COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS (75) Inventors: John R. Klug. Evergreen, CO (US); 4,654,482 A 3/1987 DeAngelis Thad D. Peterson, Atlanta, GA (US) (73) Assignee: Registrar Systems LLC, Denver, CO (Continued) (US) FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this DE 4440419 A1 * 5, 1996 patent is extended or adjusted under 35 Continued U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. (Continued) (21) Appl. No.: 10/444,856 OTHER PUBLICATIONS 1-1. About Netscape, Netscape, Firefly, and VeriSign Propose Open (22) Filed: May 22, 2003 Prefiling Standard (OPS) to Enable Broad Personalization of Internet Services, (printed May 28, 1997), 3 pages. (65) Prior Publication Data US 2003/0195797 A1 Oct. 16, 2003 (Continued) Primary Examiner Mary Cheung Related U.S. Application Data (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP (63) ContinuationSep 28, 1999, of now application Pat No. No. 6591.245, 09/407,000, which filed is on a (7) ABSTRACT ity of E.d R The notification system identifies media content based on 89.5s 998, now abandone f Sa1 E. personal preferences of individual users and provides notifi S. s fil d a y of application No. cation of identified media content to the users. In one embodi 995.837. ed on Feb. 2, 1996, now Pat. No. 5,790, ment, the system (100) includes a number of user nodes (102.
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