Method of Supplying Information Articles at a Website and a System for Supplying Such Articles
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Abstract
System (1) provides information articles specifically targeted to particular subject matters. A datastream (2) of information, typically discrete articles is output from the internet (3) and processed in a filter operation (4) to select only those items which are relevant to a particular subject area. The resultant articles are published at a website (5) accessible by users (6) who subscribe to the service. When a user (6) enters the website, his activities while on the website are monitored, particularly by noting the articles that he views, and the inspection time taken for an article. The user'"'"'s activities are used for determining the rank of displayed articles.
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59 Claims
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41. A method of providing, at a website, articles about a subject, the method comprising:
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compiling a number of articles about a subject for viewing at a website; using a ranking operation on the articles based on relevancy to a plurality of predetermined keywords/keyphrases; modifying ranking values of the predetermined keywords/keyphrases by website visitor actions; and
thenapplying the modified values of the predetermined keywords/keyphrases to subsequent ranking operations for the website with the predetermined keywords/keyphrases. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. A method of supplying a newsletter comprising:
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compiling a number of articles about a subject at a website; using a ranking operation on the articles based on relevancy to a plurality of predetermined keywords/keyphrases; modifying ranking values of the predetermined keywords/keyphrases by website visitor actions; and
thenapplying the modified values of the predetermined keywords/keyphrases to subsequent ranking operations for the website with the predetermined keywords/keyphrases;
electronically sending out a newsletter, on the Internet or other electronic network or communication system, the newsletter including articles or summaries sorted according to the modified ranking value. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53)
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54. A system for providing, at a website, articles about a subject, the system comprising:
means to compile a number of articles about a subject for viewing at a website; means to use a ranking operation on the articles based on relevancy to a plurality of predetermined keywords/keyphrases; means to modify ranking values of the predetermined keywords/keyphrases by website visitor actions; and means to apply the modified values of the predetermined keywords/keyphrases to subsequent ranking operations for the website with the predetermined keywords/keyphrases. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57, 58, 59)
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