Systems, methods, and interfaces for providing personalized search and information access
First Claim
1. A system that facilitates generating personalized searches of information, comprising:
- a user model to determine characteristics of a user;
a personalization component to automatically modify at least one query component or at least one search result in view of the user model; and
an interface component to receive the query and display the search result.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to systems and methods that employ user models to personalize generalized queries and/or search results according to information that is relevant to respective user characteristics. A system is provided that facilitates generating personalized searches of information. The system includes a user model to determine characteristics of a user. The user model may be assembled automatically via an analysis of a user'"'"'s content, activities, and overall context. A personalization component automatically modifies queries and/or search results in view of the user model in order to personalize information searches for the user. A user interface receives the queries and displays the search results from one or more local and/or remote search engines, wherein the interface can be adjusted in a range from more personalized searches to more generalized searches.
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51 Claims
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1. A system that facilitates generating personalized searches of information, comprising:
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a user model to determine characteristics of a user;
a personalization component to automatically modify at least one query component or at least one search result in view of the user model; and
an interface component to receive the query and display the search result. - 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, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. An information retrieval system, comprising:
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means for modeling characteristics of a user;
means for querying and displaying results from a search by the user; and
means for modifying the search results based at least in part on the characteristics of the user. - View Dependent Claims (31)
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32. A method that facilitates information searching at a user interface, comprising:
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defining a least one user model that automatically determines parameters of interest for a user;
automatically refining a query or a result from a query based at least in part on the user model; and
automatically formatting the query or the result in view of the user model before displaying modified results to the user. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A graphical user interface to perform information retrieval, comprising:
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an input component to receive queries;
a display component to show results from queries; and
a personalization component to modify the queries or the results in view of a user model that determines preferences of the user. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46)
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47. A system that facilitates generating personalized searches of information, comprising:
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a user model to determine characteristics of a user;
a personalization component associated with the user model; and
a parameter component to control a corpus of data for the user model. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51)
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