Personalized broadcast news navigator
First Claim
23. A system for dynamically customizing a display profile and a content profile used to identify and control display of search results to a user, comprising means for authenticating the user;
- means for accessing the display profile corresponding to the user;
means for searching a database of information extracted from broadcast news sources using the content profile to generate the search results;
means for displaying the search results using the display profile;
means for determining relevance of the search results;
means for refining at least one of the display profile and the content profile based on the determined relevance.
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Abstract
A system and method are provided that use explicitly and implicitly derived models of user information needs and content and presentation preferences together with relevancy feedback to expand a user'"'"'s original query to the most related terms in a corpus and/or to allow the user to provide interactive feedback to enhance the relevance of selected news stories and display profile of the selected news stories. By personalizing both the selection of stories and the form in which they are delivered, users are provided with tailored broadcast news.
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60 Claims
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23. A system for dynamically customizing a display profile and a content profile used to identify and control display of search results to a user, comprising means for authenticating the user;
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means for accessing the display profile corresponding to the user;
means for searching a database of information extracted from broadcast news sources using the content profile to generate the search results;
means for displaying the search results using the display profile;
means for determining relevance of the search results;
means for refining at least one of the display profile and the content profile based on the determined relevance. - View Dependent Claims (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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40-1. The system of claim 23, wherein means for refining automatically saves a search string at the end of the search session.
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41. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having a computer program logic recorded thereon for controlling at least one processor, the computer program logic comprising:
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computer program code means for accessing the display profile corresponding to the user;
computer program code means for searching a database of information extracted from broadcast news sources using the content profile to generate the search results;
computer program code means for displaying the search results using the display profile;
computer program code means for determining relevance of the search results;
computer program code means for refining at least one of the display profile and the content profile based on the determined relevance. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59)
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60. A method for dynamically customizing search results, comprising:
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(b) accessing a display profile corresponding to a user;
(c) searching a database of information extracted from broadcast news sources using a content profile to generate the search results;
(d) displaying the search results using the display profile;
(e) determining relevance of the search results;
(g) refining, based on the determined relevance, at least one of the display profile and the content profile; and
(h) repeating steps (c) through (g) to provide refined search results.
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Specification