Offline behavior analysis for online personalization of value added services
First Claim
1. Method for adapting Internet contents and/or services offered by providers to an end user, wherein the user uses a terminal to connect temporarily or permanently to the Internet, wherein a process running on the terminal tracks the end user'"'"'s behavior and/or scans stored data on the terminal while the terminal is idle and/or offline and/or at low load, wherein said process searches for and collects end user specific information, wherein said process transfers said collected information or information about the collected information to said Internet service provider and/or content provider, while the terminal is online and/or idle and/or at low load, to control and/or amend said Internet contents and/or services.
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Abstract
The invention comprises a method for adapting Internet contents and/or services offered by providers to an end user, wherein the user uses a terminal to connect temporarily to the Internet, wherein a process running on the terminal tracks the end user'"'"'s behavior and/or scans stored data on the terminal while the terminal is idle and/or offline, wherein said process searches for and collects end user specific information, wherein said process transfers said collected information or information about the collected information to said Internet service provider and/or content provider, while the terminal is online and/or idle, to control and/or amend said Internet contents and/or services.
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1. Method for adapting Internet contents and/or services offered by providers to an end user, wherein the user uses a terminal to connect temporarily or permanently to the Internet,
wherein a process running on the terminal tracks the end user'"'"'s behavior and/or scans stored data on the terminal while the terminal is idle and/or offline and/or at low load, wherein said process searches for and collects end user specific information, wherein said process transfers said collected information or information about the collected information to said Internet service provider and/or content provider, while the terminal is online and/or idle and/or at low load, to control and/or amend said Internet contents and/or services.
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6. A Device providing collected information to adapt Internet contents and/or services offered by providers to an end user, comprising
a data storage storing also user specific information, a network adapter allowing at least temporarily the access to a network, in particular the Internet or Intranet, a processing unit operating a process that becomes active, when the device is offline and/or idle and/or at low load, tracking the end user'"'"'s behavior and/or scanning the information on the data storage wherein said process collects user specific information, transferring said collected information or information about the collected information to said Internet service provider and/or content provider, while the terminal is online and/or idle and/or at low load.
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