Method and apparatus for publishing information to a communications network and enabling subscriptions to such information

US6044372A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Dazel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Eric J. Rothfus · Austin, US
• Patrick Hill · Austin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 18, 1997
• Grant date: Mar 28, 2000
• Expiry date: Jul 18, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99945
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An information element to be published is first associated with a first network addressable location of a communications network. A repository arrangement programmed in a computer receives the information element to be published and stores the information element at a second network addressable location. The computer implementing the repository arrangement is connected to the communications network. When the information element is stored by the repository arrangement, a handle production arrangement programmed in the computer produces a repository handle for the information element. The repository handle includes identifying information relating to the information element to be published and information from which a network address for the second network addressable location may be produced. An information organizing arrangement programmed in the computer retrieves the repository handle for the information element to be published and stores the repository handle under a first network addressable location.