Dynamic representation process and system for a space of characterized objects enabling recommendation of the objects or their characteristics

• US 20060103668A1
• Filed: 12/28/2005
• Published: 05/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Social Computing
• Original Assignee: Voyez Vous Corp.
• Inventors: Valetas, Franck, Lugue, Franck, Spinat, Emmanuel
• Application Number:
  US11/320,125
• Publication Number:
  US 20060103668A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

A process for generating a dynamic and contextualized cartography of information including a step of collaborative filtration which includes determining at least one affinity group formed from a set of profiles, wherein the distance from the profile to a reference object is less than a threshold value, a step of correlation analysis of characteristics of the reference object and objects of the affinity group projecting the characteristics into a multidimensional space, and a step of construction of an image composed of activatable zones representing the characteristics of the reference object and of all or part of the characteristics of the affinity group, and zones representing links among the characteristics, each zone providing direct or indirect access to one or more digital files.

Claims

1. A process for generating a dynamic and contextualized cartography of information comprising:

a step of collaborative filtration which includes determining at least one affinity group formed from a set of profiles, wherein the distance from the profile to a reference object is less than a threshold value,

a step of correlation analysis of characteristics of the reference object and objects of the affinity group projecting the characteristics into a multidimensional space, and

a step of construction of an image composed of activatable zones representing the characteristics of the reference object and of all or part of the characteristics of the affinity group, and zones representing links among the characteristics, each zone providing direct or indirect access to one or more digital files.

2. The process according to claim 1, wherein the image further comprises activatable zones representing the objects of the affinity group.

3. The process according to claim 1, further comprising describing the zones representing the characteristics in the form of squares, the zones representing the objects by neighborhoods and the zones representing the links between characteristics by streets.

4. The process according to claim 1, further comprising describing the zones representing the characteristics in the form of departments, the zone representing the objects by aisles, the zones representing the links between characteristics by polygons in the aisles.

5. The process according to claim 1, further comprising calculating implicit characteristics of a user by recording in a memory parameters associated with descriptors of historical actions of said user.

6. The process according to claim 5, wherein the descriptors of the historical actions of said user are constituted of identifiers of pages consulted by said user.

7. The process according to claim 1, further comprising calculating explicit characteristics of a user by recording in a memory parameters defined from a preferences table.

8. The process according to claim 1, wherein the profiles are sets of weighted characteristics.

9. The process according to claim 1, wherein each object o_k is described by a vector (p_k,0, Σ

, p_k,i, Σ

, p_k,p-1) in which p_k,i is a weighting describing the value of characteristic c_i for the object o_k.

10. The process according to claim 1, further comprising commanding the display, in a zone representing the characteristics, of a menu comprising characteristics or subcharacteristics recommended as a function of profiles determined by an administrator.

11. The process according to claim 1, further comprising commanding the display, in a zone representing the characteristics, of a menu comprising a set of characteristics or subcharacteristics recommended by an affinity group.

12. The process according to claim 11, wherein the administrator can define the content or method defining the content of the menu displayed in a zone representing characteristics or objects.

13. The process according to claim 10, wherein a recommended characteristic is not taken into account for calculation of positioning of the characteristics.

14. The process according to claim 10, wherein a recommended characteristic is taken into account for calculation of positioning of characteristics.

15. The process according to claim 1, wherein the object is a user of a Web site and the characteristics and subcharacteristics are deduced directly or indirectly from the user'"'"'s actions on the site.