Abstract: An automated communications system operates to transfer data, metadata and methods from a provider computer to a consumer computer through a communications network. The transferred information controls the communications relationship, including responses by the consumer computer, updating of information, and processes for future communications. Information which changes in the provider computer is automatically updated in the consumer computer through the communications system in order to maintain continuity of the relationship. Transfer of metadata and methods permits intelligent processing of information by the consumer computer and combined control by the provider and consumer of the types and content of information subsequently transferred. Object oriented processing is used for storage and transfer of information.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 29, 1996
Date of Patent:
March 28, 2000
Assignee:
Intermind Corporation
Inventors:
Drummond Shattuck Reed, Peter Earnshaw Heyman, Steven Mark Mushero, Kevin Benard Jones, Jeffrey Todd Oberlander, Dan Banay
Abstract: An automated communications system operates to transfer data, metadata and methods from a provider computer to a consumer computer through a communications network. The transferred information controls the communications relationship, including responses by the consumer computer, updating of information, and processes for future communications. Information which changes in the provider computer is automatically updated in the consumer computer through the communications system in order to maintain continuity of the relationship. Transfer of metadata and methods permits intelligent processing of information by the consumer computer and combined control by the provider and consumer of the types and content of information subsequently transferred. Object oriented processing is used for storage and transfer of information. The use of metadata and methods further allows for automating may of the actions underlying the communications, including communication acknowledgements and archiving of information.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 27, 1996
Date of Patent:
January 19, 1999
Assignee:
Intermind Corporation
Inventors:
Drummond Shattuck Reed, Peter Earnshaw Heymann, Steven Mark Mushero, Kevin Benard Jones, Jeffrey Todd Oberlander, Dan Banay