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(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. 104, and 106) that communicate with a registration site (110) (60) Provisional application No. 60/102,115, filed on Sep. and a notification site (112) via the internet (108). The noti 28, 1998, provisional application No. 60/008,736, fication site (112) includes a media content database (120) filed on Dec. 11, 1995. and a processor (118) running contents election logic. The processor (118) accesses the media content database (120) in 51) Int. Cl. order to identify content that mayy be of interest to pparticular G06O 30/00 (2006.01) users of the user nodes (102.104 and 106). In this regard, (52) U.S. Cl. ...................................... 705/14.4; 715/745 content for a particular user may be identified by matching (58) Field of Classification Search ..... 705/14.1-14.73, interest information obtained from the registration site (110) 705/26–27, 44, 64-67: 707/17, 100 104, with the content information of the media content database 707/607, 609, 705 706, 781 788; 709/223 232; (120). 726/1-21, 27–31; 715/741-745, 789, 811 See application file for complete search history. 35 Claims, 22 Drawing Sheets WWW BROWSER 2120 REGISTRARREGISTRATION MODULE (OPTIONAL) : WWCIENT NODE 208 REGISTRAR WEBSITE 100 NETWORK NTERFACE REGISTRAR REGISTRATION 236 APPLICATIONS NFORMATION 2144 NETWORK SERVER 2132 REGISTRAR ACCESS LOG 2152 US 7,865,395 B2 Page 2 U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 5,774,869 A 6/1998 Toader 5,781,894 A 7/1998 Petrecca et al. 4,755,940 A 7, 1988 Brachtlet al. 5,787,254 A 7/1998 MaddaloZZO et al. 4,766,293 A 8, 1988 Boston ....................... 235,379 5,790,785 A 8/1998 Kluget al. .................. 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