Patents by Inventor Terry Ray Weissman

Terry Ray Weissman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Maintaining information variety in an information receiving system
    Patent number: 6560678
    Abstract: A mechanism for maintaining information variety in an information receiving system which receives a stream of incoming objects each corresponding to one or more content categories. The information receiving system includes an object store for holding a set of cached objects for access by a consumer of information. The information receiving system includes an object store manager that determines which of the incoming objects are to be added to the object store and which of the cached objects are to be evicted from the object store such that a variety of information according to a set of consumer interests in the content categories is maintained in the object store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Digeo, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry Ray Weissman, Jonathan King Tash