US 7,233,978 C1 (12,366th)
Method and apparatus for managing location information in a network separate from the data to which the location information pertains
John K. Overton, Chicago, IL (US); and Stephen W. Bailey, Andover, MA (US)
Filed by John K. Overton, Chicago, IL (US); and Stephen W. Bailey, Andover, MA (US)
Assigned to KOVE IO, INC., Chicago, IL (US)
Reexamination Request No. 90/019,034, Nov. 19, 2021.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 7,233,978, issued Jun. 19, 2007, Appl. No. 09/872,736, Jun. 1, 2001.
Application 90/019,034 is a continuation in part of application No. 09/661,222, filed on Sep. 13, 2000, granted, now 7,103,640.
Application 09/661,222 is a continuation in part of application No. 09/503,441, filed on Feb. 14, 2000, abandoned.
Application 09/503,441 is a continuation in part of application No. 09/367,461, filed on Aug. 13, 1999, abandoned.
Application 09/367,461 is a continuation in part of application No. 09/111,896, filed on Jul. 8, 1998, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/277,408, filed on Mar. 19, 2001.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/209,070, filed on Jun. 2, 2000.
Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate issued on Aug. 17, 2023.
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 61/4552 (2022.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06F 16/58 (2019.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01); H04L 67/1001 (2022.01); H04L 67/1008 (2022.01); H04L 69/00 (2022.01); H04L 69/329 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 61/4552 (2022.05) [G06F 16/58 (2019.01); G06F 16/9566 (2019.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.05); H04L 67/535 (2022.05); H04L 67/1001 (2022.05); H04L 67/1008 (2013.01); H04L 67/10015 (2022.05); H04L 69/26 (2013.01); H04L 69/329 (2013.01)]
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AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
The patentability of claims 3, 6, 10, 14, 17, 23, 24 and 30 is confirmed.
Claims 1 and 31 are cancelled.
Claims 2, 4, 5, 7-9, 11-13, 15, 16, 18-22 and 25-29 were not reexamined.
At the time of issuance and publication of this certificate, the patent remains subject to pending reexamination control numbers 90/019,109 and 90/019,162 filed Aug. 31, 2022 and Feb. 27, 2023 respectively. The claim content of the patent may be subsequently revised if a reexamination certificate issues from the reexamination proceedings.
10. A system having a plurality of location servers for managing location information and providing location information to location queries, the system comprising:
a plurality of location servers containing location information corresponding to a plurality of entities, the location information formatted according to a transfer protocol configured for manipulating location information, and comprising at least one application server address, wherein the plurality of location servers are arranged in a cluster topology such that each location server contains a unique set of location information of an aggregate set of the location information; and
programming logic stored on each of the plurality of location servers responsive to a location query for a desired identifier to return one of a location message, wherein a queried location server returns a location message if the queried location server contains location information for the desired identifier, and a redirect message if the queried location server does not contain location information relevant to the desired identifier, wherein the redirect message comprises information for finding a location server having location information related to the desired identifier.