Patent ID: 8225353

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for delivering objects to one or more receiver units, comprising: receiving a number of incoming objects at a computing device, each object corresponding to one or more classes; maintaining objects from a variety of classes in an object schedule at the computing device, wherein each object has a utility factor comprising one or more of the importance of the object, and the number of objects previously transmitted in a same or related class as the current object; delivering selected objects from the object schedule to the one or more receiver units associated with one or more display devices, wherein each object in the object schedule has an estimated time for delivery based on the position of the object in the schedule wherein each object in the schedule has an importance factor; wherein the utility factor for each object is dependent on the estimated time for delivery and the importance factor; and wherein the value of the utility factor Utility obj for each object is related to the importance factor of the object times a function f(AGE), where f(AGE) is a predetermined function that decreases with an AGE of the object, the AGE of the object being related to the estimated time for delivery.