Personalized internet content server system

• US 20030005077A1
• Filed: 06/29/2001
• Published: 01/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Krishnan, Venkatesh
• Granted Patent: US 6,961,758 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A personalized content server system is described that includes a profile module that receives a profile file specifying personal preferences of a user for some content. An access module accesses remote content servers external to the personalized content server system for the content specified by the profile file. A content storage stores the content such that the content can be retrieved from the content storage when the user accesses the personalized content server system for the content via an access client.

Claims

1. A personalized content server system, comprising:

a profile module that receives a profile file specifying personal preferences of a user for some content;

an access module that accesses remote content servers for the content specified by the profile file;

a content storage that stores the content such that the content can be retrieved from the content storage when the user accesses the personalized content server system for the content via an access client.

2. The personalized content server system of claim 1, further comprising a control module coupled to the profile module, the access module, and the content storage to control operations of the modules.

3. The personalized content server system of claim 2, wherein the control module filters out unwanted content obtained by the access module based on the profile file.

4. The personalized content server system of claim 1, wherein the profile module receives the profile file from the user via the access client through the Internet.

5. The personalized content server system of claim 1, wherein the profile module further comprises a graphical user interface to allow the user of the personalized content server system to input the profile file into the profile module.

6. The personalized content server system of claim 1, wherein the content is a dynamically changing content, wherein the access module also accesses the remote content servers for any updates of the retrieved content.

7. The personalized content server system of claim 1, wherein the access module accesses the remote content servers for the content by retrieving the addresses of the content only.

8. The personalized content server system of claim 6, wherein the content storage stores the Internet addresses and the access module again accesses the remote content servers for the content using the addresses when the content is requested by the user via the access client.

9. The personalized content server system of claim 1, wherein each of the remote content servers is a news server, an e-mail server, an Internet radio server, an application server, or an e-commerce server.