Patents by Inventor Hans J. Wolters

Hans J. Wolters 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).

  • System for and method for dispatching service messages over a multicast network
    Patent number: 7133502
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of targeting a multi-cast message, comprising the steps of gathering user information related to one or more users, categorizing the user information into one or more interest categories, associating respective ones of the users with ones of the interest categories, receiving service information from a service provider, determining an association between the received service information and ones of the interest categories to determine at least one associated interest category, selecting users using the at least one associated interest category to determine selected users and communicating the received service information to the selected users using the multi-cast message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP.
    Inventors: Hans J. Wolters, Marc McEachern
  • System for and method for dispatching service messages over a multicast network
    Publication number: 20030143982
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of targeting a multi-cast message, comprising the steps of gathering user information related to one or more users, categorizing the user information into one or more interest categories, associating respective ones of the users with ones of the interest categories, receiving service information from a service provider, determining an association between the received service information and ones of the interest categories to determine at least one associated interest category, selecting users using the at least one associated interest category to determine selected users and communicating the received service information to the selected users using the multi-cast message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Hans J. Wolters, Marc McEachern