Internet contextual communication system
First Claim
1. A method for presenting to a user at a station connected to a distributed computer network, relevant areas of distributed computer network sites, comprising, the steps of:
- receiving across the distributed computer network an indication of a mind set of the user in navigating the network, wherein the mind set indicates a navigational goal of the user over the distributed computer network;
cross-referencing the indicated user mind set with a mind set data store of potential user goals to find at least one indicated goal;
cross-referencing the indicated user goal with a service data store of a set of services, the set of services potentially reflecting the navigational goal of the user mind set;
matching the set of services in the cross-referencing step with a list of service providers that provide the set of services that potentially reflect the navigational goal of the user; and
, displaying the list of services and service providers to the user at the station.
8 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
This invention relates to a system and method for presenting to a user relevant areas of distributed computer network sites. In particular, the invention disclosed infers and cross references user mind sets with data stores of potential user goals. The user mind sets indicate a navigational goal of a user over the distributed computer network. In addition, the invention cross-references indicated user goals with data stores of service and service providers providing those services. The invention presents targeted service and service providers to the user across the distributed computer network thereby enabling the user to navigate towards the user goal.
-
Citations
26 Claims
-
1. A method for presenting to a user at a station connected to a distributed computer network, relevant areas of distributed computer network sites, comprising, the steps of:
-
receiving across the distributed computer network an indication of a mind set of the user in navigating the network, wherein the mind set indicates a navigational goal of the user over the distributed computer network;
cross-referencing the indicated user mind set with a mind set data store of potential user goals to find at least one indicated goal;
cross-referencing the indicated user goal with a service data store of a set of services, the set of services potentially reflecting the navigational goal of the user mind set;
matching the set of services in the cross-referencing step with a list of service providers that provide the set of services that potentially reflect the navigational goal of the user; and
,displaying the list of services and service providers to the user at the station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
-
-
5. A method for presenting to a user at a station connected to a distributed computer network, relevant areas of distributed computer network sites, comprising, the steps of:
-
displaying to the user across the distributed computer network a set of potential user mind sets and a set of potential contextual inferences;
receiving from the user at least one of a user mind set or a contextual inference, wherein the user mind set or contextual inference indicates a navigational goal of the user over the distributed computer network;
sending the user to a new location on the distributed computer network in response to the received user response; and
,presenting to the user at the station a list of service providers in response to the received user response, the list of service providers providing services in accordance with the received user response. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20)
-
-
15. A system for delivering targeted ads to a user operating a station connected to a distributed computer network, comprises:
-
an ad server which maintains the targeted ads for the user at the station across the distributed computer network;
a data store that identifies a set of rules associated with an ad, the rules indicate a level of relevancy of an ad to a particular content; and
a match maker that parses the particular content by objects and corresponding attributes, that maps a targeted ad to the particular content by applying the rules in the data store, and that sends an identification of the targeted ad to the ad server.
-
-
17. A system for sending targeted services to a user at a station connected to a distributed computer network, comprises:
-
an object registry that identifies a first set of objects relevant to services provided by a service provider and that maps the first set of objects to the services provided by the service provider; and
,a match maker that parses content in a document, that identifies a second set of objects relevant to the content, that groups the second set of objects relevant to the content, that cross-references the first set of objects with the second set of objects to determine targeted services relevant to both the first and the second set of objects, and that sends the targeted services to the user across the distributed computer network.
-
-
19. A system for presenting to a user at a station connected to a distributed computer network, relevant computer network sites, comprising:
-
a mind set data store that stores a set of potential user goals;
a service data store that stores a set of services; and
,a processor that receives from the user an indication of a user mind set in navigating the network, wherein the mind set indicates a navigational goal of the user over the distributed computer network, the processor cross-references the indicated mind set with the potential user goals in the mind set data store, cross-references the indicated user goal with the set of services potentially reflecting the navigational goal of the user, matches the set of cross-referenced services with a list of service providers that provide that set of services, and displays the list of services and service providers to the user at the station.
-
-
21. A method for presenting to a user at a station connected to a distributed computer network, relevant areas of distributed computer network sites, comprising the steps of:
-
maintaining targeted ads for the user at the station across the distributed computer network;
identifying a set of rules indicating a level of relevancy of an ad to a particular content;
parsing a particular content by objects and corresponding attributes; and
mapping a targeted ad to the particular content applying the identified rules. - View Dependent Claims (22, 24, 25, 26)
-
-
23. A method for presenting to a user at a station connected to a distributed computer network, relevant areas of distributed computer network sites, comprising, the steps of:
-
identifying a first set of objects relevant to services provided by a service provider;
mapping the first set of objects to the service provided by the service provider;
parsing a second set of objects relevant to content in a document;
grouping the second set of objects relevant to content in a document;
cross-referencing the first set of objects with the second set of objects to determine targeted services; and
sending targeted services to the user across the distributed computer network.
-
Specification