Patents by Inventor Michael Alexander Chowla

Michael Alexander Chowla 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).

  • Approach for managing and providing content to users
    Patent number: 7243136
    Abstract: Content is managed and provided to users over a communications link using a differencing engine. The differencing engine is configured to selectively cause content to be refreshed in a cache. Specifically, the differencing engine is configured to detect whether a more recent version of a data item is available, and if so, delete a current version of the data item from the cache and retrieve and store in the cache the more recent version of the data item. Content is selected for refresh based upon a set of one or more selection criteria. The selection criteria may include, for example, the source of content, the size of content, the age of content, the type of content and users to which the content is being provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Inktomi Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur Charles Thomas Huston, Matthew Dennis Haines, Freeland Knight Abbott, III, Adam Louis Beguelin, Michael Alexander Chowla
  • Approach for managing and providing content to users
    Publication number: 20020007402
    Abstract: Content is managed and provided to users over a communications link using a differencing engine. The differencing engine is configured to selectively cause content to be refreshed in a cache. Specifically, the differencing engine is configured to detect whether a more recent version of a data item is available, and if so, delete a current version of the data item from the cache and retrieve and store in the cache the more recent version of the data item. Content is selected for refresh based upon a set of one or more selection criteria. The selection criteria may include, for example, the source of content, the size of content, the age of content, the type of content and users to which the content is being provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventors: Arthur Charles Thomas Huston, Matthew Dennis Haines, Freeland Knight Abbott, Adam Louis Beguelin, Michael Alexander Chowla