Periodic personalized media system, and associated method

• US 20070005580A1
• Filed: 09/05/2006
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dale Askew, Erik Speckman, Giselle Smith, Jason Malcolm, Peter Rinearson, Robert Gale, Steven Wainwright
• Original Assignee: Dale Askew, Erik Speckman, Giselle Smith, Jason Malcolm, Peter Rinearson, Robert Gale, Steven Wainwright
• Inventors: Speckman, Erik, Rinearson, Peter, Malcolm, Jason, Wainwright, Steven, Gale, Robert, Askew, Dale, Smith, Giselle
• Application Number:
  US11/516,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20070005580A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for generating and displaying personalized information are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving age data related to the age of a first person, receiving a request for information from a user, and automatically identifying relevant event data in a database based on the age data. The relevant data includes information about a second, famous person different from the first person and wherein the second, famous person was involved with an associated event. The relevant data is associated with an age of the second, famous person when the second, famous person was involved with the associated event. The age of the second, famous person is with respect to a granularity of less than a year. The method further includes automatically providing the relevant data to the user.

Claims

1. In a system having at least one user computer coupled to a server computer over a public computer network, a method of providing information to a user of the user computer comprising:

at the server computer, obtaining a database including multiple records, wherein each record includes an event associated with a notable person and an event age of the notable person associated with the event, wherein the event age indicates an age of the notable person in total number of days when associated with the event;

at the user computer, providing age information of the user;

determining an exact user age in days of the user based on the age information;

at the server computer, querying the database for one of the multiple records having the event age approximately equal to the exact user age;

at the server computer, providing the results of the query to the user computer; and

at the user computer, displaying the results of the query to the user.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the public computer network includes the World Wide Web, and wherein the server computer performs the determining an exact user age in days.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein each record includes a headline of the event, a digital image of the associated notable person, and an article of less than 600 words describing the event, wherein each record further includes area of endeavor and type of achievement fields.

4. A computer implemented method of generating personalized information, comprising:

receiving age data related to the age of a first person;

receiving a request for information from a user;

automatically identifying relevant event data in a database based on the age data, wherein the relevant data includes information about a second, famous person different from the first person and having been involved with an associated event, wherein the relevant data is associated with an age of the second, famous person when the second, famous person was involved with the associated event, and wherein the age of the second, famous person is with respect to a granularity of less than a year; and

automatically providing the relevant data to the user.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein receiving age data includes receiving the first person'"'"'s date of birth and determining an age in days based on the date of birth.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the age data includes information about the first person'"'"'s exact age to the day.

7. The method of claim 4 wherein the age data includes the first person'"'"'s age specified more precisely than the number of years old.

8. The method of claim 4 wherein the age data is based on a time interval of less than a year.

9. The method of claim 4 wherein the relevant data includes information about the associated event in the life of the second, famous person when the second, famous person was the same age as the first person.

10. The method of claim 4 wherein the relevant data includes information about the associated event in the life of the second, famous person when the second, famous person was at least approximately the same age as the first person.

11. The method of claim 4 wherein the relevant data includes information about the associated event in the life of the second, famous person, and wherein the first person is the user.

12. The method of claim 4 wherein the first person is the user, and wherein the relevant data includes information about the associated event in the life of the second, famous person when the second, famous person was at least approximately the same age as the user.

13. The method of claim 4 wherein the database includes events in famous individuals'"'"' lives organized by the exact age in days of the famous individuals at the time of the events.

14. The method of claim 4 wherein the request for information includes a request to automatically receive periodic information.

15. The method of claim 4 wherein receiving age data includes reading data from a cookie stored on a computer associated with the user.

16. The method of claim 4, further comprising calculating the exact age of the first person from the age data.

17. The method of claim 4 wherein providing the relevant data includes emailing the relevant data to the user.

18. The method of claim 4 wherein providing the relevant data includes faxing the relevant data to the user.

19. The method of claim 4 wherein providing the relevant data includes sending the relevant data to a wireless device.

20. The method of claim 4 wherein providing the relevant data includes sending the relevant data to a voice mailbox associated with the user.

21-61. -61. (canceled)