Method and system for providing personalized news

• US 20050273810A1
• Filed: 04/01/2003
• Published: 12/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Zimmerman, John, Dimitrova, Nevenka, Agnihotri, Lalitha, Bont, Johanna Maria, Janevski, Angel, Nikolovska, Lira, Lamers, Andreas Henricus Elisabeth
• Application Number:
  US10/509,725
• Publication Number:
  US 20050273810A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A method for providing personalized news to a consumer is provided that includes receiving news from a plurality of external sources. A subset of the received news is identified based on a consumer profile for the consumer. The identified news is stored. The stored news is prioritized. At least a portion of the prioritized news is provided to the consumer.

Claims

1. A method for providing personalized news to a consumer, comprising:

receiving news from a plurality of external sources;

identifying a subset of the received news based on a consumer profile for the consumer;

storing the identified news;

prioritizing the stored news;

providing at least a portion of the prioritized news to the consumer.

2. The method of claim 1, receiving news from a plurality of external sources comprising receiving news from the external sources in a plurality of formats.

3. The method of claim 1, providing at least a portion of the prioritized news to the consumer comprising providing at least a portion of the prioritized news in a format specified by the consumer.

4. The method of claim 1, prioritizing the stored news is performed based on data stored in an information content matching table.

5. The method of claim 4, the data stored in the information content matching table comprising broadcaster importance data, story depth data, and novelty data.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an activation request from the consumer;

providing a summary screen to the consumer based on the activation request;

receiving a request for a specified content zone from the consumer; and

providing a content zone screen to the consumer based on the specified content zone.

7. The method of claim 6, the content zone screen comprising one of a weather content zone screen, a traffic content zone screen, a financial content zone screen, a sports content zone screen, a local events content zone screen and a headlines content zone screen.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising providing a visual indicator to notify the consumer of which content zone is currently active.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the visual indicator comprises one of a specific background pattern, a specific texture, and animation.

10. The method of claim 6, visual elements of the content zone screen configurable by the consumer.

11. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a request for a zone summary screen from the consumer; and

providing the zone summary screen to the consumer.

12. The method of claim 6, the content zone screen comprising an expanded zone and a collapsed content zone section.

13. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a previous selection on the content zone screen; and

automatically playing a previous story based on the previous selection.

14. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a next selection on the content zone screen; and

automatically playing a next story based on the next selection.

15. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a play all selection on the summary screen or the content zone screen; and

playing all news stories for the summary screen or the content zone based on the play all selection.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising playing all news stories for the summary screen based on absolute priority.

17. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

providing a clustered story button on the content zone screen, the clustered story button operable to identify a story augmented with additional information;

receiving a selection of the clustered story button from the consumer; and

providing the additional information to the consumer based on the selection of the clustered story button.

18. A system for providing personalized news to a consumer, comprising:

a memory operable to store user profile tables, profile data matching tables, an information content matching table, and personalized news; and

a processor operable to receive news from a plurality of external sources, to identify a subset of the received news based on a consumer profile for the consumer as stored in the user profile tables and the profile data matching tables, to store the identified news in the personalized news of the memory, to prioritize the stored news, and to provide at least a portion of the prioritized news to the consumer.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the processor is operable to prioritize the stored news based on data stored in the information content matching table.

20. The system of claim 18, the processor further operable to receive an activation request from the consumer, to provide a summary screen to the consumer based on the activation request, to receive a request for a specified content zone from the consumer, and to provide a content zone screen to the consumer based on the specified content zone.

21. A system for providing personalized news to a consumer, comprising:

a computer-processable medium; and

logic stored on the computer-processable medium, the logic operable to receive news from a plurality of external sources, to identify a subset of the received news based on a consumer profile for the consumer, to store the identified news, to prioritize the stored news, and to provide at least a portion of the prioritized news to the .consumer.