Method, product, and apparatus for processing reusable information
US6442549B1 · kind B1 · utility
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 15, 1999 |
| Grant date | Aug 27, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 15, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/24
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a communication network having at least one communication link connecting a provider and a client, wherein the provider is in communication with a registrar storing one or more identifiers such as potentially available or soon to be available telephone numbers or domain names, a method includes communicating from the provider to the client the one or more identifiers wherein each identifier is not available for registration at the time of the communication (e.g., client renders a web page of identifiers communicated from provider, which could be pushed to client or provided in response to a search, navigation, or query), selecting at least one identifier from the one or more identifiers, and at least one of a reserving, subscribing, reserving in a pre-ordering queue, pre-ordering, pre-registering, ordering, and monitoring the at least one selected identifier with the provider, wherein the at least one selected identifier is communicated to the provider before the at least one selected identifier is available for registration.
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