Personalized information retrieval using user-defined profile
May 8, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesSoftware program for providing cooperative processing between personal computers and a host computer Public telephone network including a distributed imaging system Communications, information, maintenance diagnostic and training system Reception system for an interactive computer network and method of operation Method of managing requests in a transaction processing system High performance machine for switched communications in a heterogeneous data processing network gateway Liquid crystal display device having an optimized ridged layer to improve luminosity Patent #: 5550657 InventorApplicationNo. 852455 filed on 05/08/1997US Classes:707/10, Distributed or remote access707/3, Query processing (i.e., searching)707/4, Query formulation, input preparation, or translation707/9, Privileged access707/100, DATABASE SCHEMA OR DATA STRUCTURE707/104.1, Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)709/206, Demand based messaging715/513Structured document (e.g., HTML, SGML, ODA, CDA)ExaminersPrimary: Black, Thomas G.Assistant: Lewis, C. Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 017/30AbstractAn automatic method and system for retrieving information based on a user-defined profile (e.g. a personalized newspaper). A user-controlled client establishes communication with a stateless server, the server presenting a list of options to the client between the server and the client. The client provides an identification of the user-defined profile. The server engages a first application program, the first application program retrieving the user-defined profile wherein the user-defined profile identifies information which is of interest to the user. The first application program examines a database of information and automatically retrieves a subset of the information from the database based upon which information is of interest to the user as identified in the user-defined profile. The server presents the subset of the information from the database as generated by the first application program to the client. The first application program can store a file containing the user-defined profile in order to retain a state of the user-profile, and cause the stateless server to emulate a server which retains its state from session to session.Other References
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