Personcast - customized end-user briefing
First Claim
1. A system for preparing and distributing individually customized information to end-user end-users, characterized by:
- central system operational database means for storing operational master lists of advertisers, publishers, distributors and end-users, for storing a super-list of topics, sub-topics and sub-sub-topics, and for storing current and archive selection criteria;
central system master database means for storing an updated superset of documents formatted with keywords, index, topic and content identification arranged so that said keywords, index, content and topic identification is effective in accessing related items from said stored documents;
central system personalization means for distributing an operational master list to a end-user and for receiving the end-user'"'"'s working list as a briefing of selection and sequencing of index, content and topic identifications by the individual end-user;
central system means for storing end-user preference, advertising lockout and working list information and for querying said central system master database means according to said central system operational means and for developing Personcast briefing sets individualized to the end-user; and
transmission means for sending said Personcast briefing sets individualized to the end-user to the appropriate end-user via a Distributor.
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Abstract
Originators of newsletters, market research, scientific facts, discussions, encyclopedias, etc. may elect to avoid the effort of managing and sending this information directly. This invention offers a subscription service for management and delivery of a customized, formatted, document containing information selected to specified user preferences. Delivery is via e-mail through the user'"'"'s internet service provider. The customized document may appear to have come directly from the subscriber originator. The number of articles in the document, along with the frequency by which it is automatically generated, is determined by the service, contract with the subscribing originator. Furthermore, by maintaining a translation/addressing conversion mechanism at the level of the Internet service provider, all user preferences and anonymity are preserved. The invention also may offer a truncated version of its customized document for transmission to a PDA.
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1. A system for preparing and distributing individually customized information to end-user end-users, characterized by:
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central system operational database means for storing operational master lists of advertisers, publishers, distributors and end-users, for storing a super-list of topics, sub-topics and sub-sub-topics, and for storing current and archive selection criteria;
central system master database means for storing an updated superset of documents formatted with keywords, index, topic and content identification arranged so that said keywords, index, content and topic identification is effective in accessing related items from said stored documents;
central system personalization means for distributing an operational master list to a end-user and for receiving the end-user'"'"'s working list as a briefing of selection and sequencing of index, content and topic identifications by the individual end-user;
central system means for storing end-user preference, advertising lockout and working list information and for querying said central system master database means according to said central system operational means and for developing Personcast briefing sets individualized to the end-user; and
transmission means for sending said Personcast briefing sets individualized to the end-user to the appropriate end-user via a Distributor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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