System and method for providing customized electronic newspapers and target advertisements
December 5, 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 ReferencesInterconnection of broadcast networks Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving television program information System and method for automatically correlating user preferences with a T.V. program information database Security method for private information delivery and filtering in public networks Computerized cross-language document retrieval using latent semantic indexing Adaptive ranking system for information retrieval Television receiver that automatically keeps track of favorite channels to facilitate tuning Method and apparatus for semantic pattern matching for text retrieval Method for natural language data processing using morphological and part-of-speech information Apparatus and method of selecting video programs based on viewers' preferences InventorAssigneeApplicationNo. 985732 filed on 12/05/1997US Classes:707/10, Distributed or remote access705/14, Distribution or redemption of coupon, or incentive or promotion program707/2, Access augmentation or optimizing709/217, REMOTE DATA ACCESSING725/14By passively monitoring receiver operationExaminersPrimary: Metjahic, SafetAssistant: Le, Uyen Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesG06F 017/30G06F 017/60 G06F 015/16 H04H 009/00 AbstractThis invention relates to customized electronic identification of desirable objects, such as news articles, in an electronic media environment, and in particular to a system that automatically constructs both a "target profile" for each target object in the electronic media based, for example, on the frequency with which each word appears in an article relative to its overall frequency of use in all articles, as well as a "target profile interest summary" for each user, which target profile interest summary describes the user's interest level in various types of target objects. The system then evaluates the target profiles against the users' target profile interest summaries to generate a user-customized rank ordered listing of target objects most likely to be of interest to each user so that the user can select from among these potentially relevant target objects, which were automatically selected by this system from the plethora of target objects that are profiled on the electronic media. Users' target profile interest summaries can be used to efficiently organize the distribution of information in a large scale system consisting of many users interconnected by means of a communication network. Additionally, a cryptographically-based pseudonym proxy server is provided to ensure the privacy of a user's target profile interest summary, by giving the user control over the ability of third parties to access this summary and to identify or contact the user.Other References
Field of SearchDistributed or remote accessObject-oriented database structure Access augmentation or optimizing Privileged access Distribution or redemption of coupon, or incentive or promotion program VIDEO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WITH UPSTREAM COMMUNICATION By passively monitoring receiver operation REMOTE DATA ACCESSING | |
