Appeal 2007-0962
Application 09/928,347
Appellants appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the Examiner’s
rejection of claims 1-23. We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b). We
affirm.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Appellants invented a method of enabling a content provider to
maximize bandwidth allocation while also enabling the audience to gain
more control over the content they receive. Specifically, the invention
involves collaborative content programming in which users express their
preferences by voting on the content they receive. These votes are then used
to determine what content to deliver at any point in time. Bandwidth is
dynamically allocated to multiple channels and users are assigned to the
channel(s) that best match their preferences.1 Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. A method of optimizing bandwidth allocation based on selective
filtering, distribution of content and allocation of users to said distributed
content, one or more steps of said method performed over a network, said
method comprising:
dynamically allocating said bandwidth to a plurality of
communication channels, each of said channels retaining one or more
instances of content;
recursively receiving user preferences of content information from
multiple users, said preferences comprising one or more of: selection
requests for specific content, evaluations of existing content, and evaluations
of potential content;
dynamically retaining within a selected channel a collection of
specific instances of content based on a collation of said preferences, said
collection placed on an allocated communication channel over a period of
time; and
1 See generally Specification page 6, line 16 through page 8, line 4.
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