CONTENT ENGINE
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1. A computer system for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users, the computer system comprising:
- a content engine comprising user profile information representative of interests and/or attributes of individual users; and
a processor for determining relevance of content to a particular user based on said user profile information.
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There is described a computer system for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users. The computer system comprises a content engine comprising user profile information, representative of interests and/or attributes of individual users, and a processor for determining a correlation between content and said user profile information to determine content most relevant to a particular user.
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81 Claims
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1. A computer system for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users, the computer system comprising:
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a content engine comprising user profile information representative of interests and/or attributes of individual users; and a processor for determining relevance of content to a particular user based on said user profile information. - 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, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52)
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53. A web portal supporting development of individual users over time, the web portal comprising:
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a content engine for determining the relevance of content, said content engine comprising user profile information representative of individual interests and/or attributes, wherein said user profile information comprises one or more of; (a) information declared by users about themselves; (b) information about users derived from observations of their usage behaviour;
(c) information about users determined based on statistical analyses of (a) or (b) or both (a) and (b); andmeans for comparing said user profile information with the content to determine relevance of a particular piece of content to a particular user. - View Dependent Claims (54, 55)
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56. A method of operating a computer system to determine relevance of content, the method comprising:
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accessing recorded information about one or more of;
users;
categories; and
content, which information is declared by users and/or derived from observations of user'"'"'s behaviour, wherein said information comprises a plurality of populations;establishing an intersection between selected ones of said plurality of populations;
comparing said intersection with a reference population to determine an extent of relationship between said selected pluralities of populations; andusing said extent of relationship to determine a predicted relationship. - View Dependent Claims (57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67)
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- 68. A server application comprising a content table comprising a list of content items each having a unique content ID, wherein the list of content items comprises content items sourced from within a network administered by the operator of the server application as well as content items sourced from the Internet.
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70. A method of building a content table in a server, the content table comprising content items sourced from within an environment administered by the operator of the server as well as content items sourced from the Internet;
- the method comprising providing the server with software causing an entry to be made in said content table responsive to users registered with said server accessing items of content, irrespective of whether the item of content accessed is from within the environment administered by the operator of the server or from Internet.
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71. A content engine for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users, comprising user profile information comprising information based on information about users declared by the relevant users and information about users derived from observations of usage behaviour.
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72. A content engine for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users, comprising user profile information based on one or more of information about a users declared by the relevant users and information about users derived from observations of usage behaviour, wherein said user profile information further comprises information predicted about users based on statistical analysis of said declared and/or said derived information.
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73. A content engine for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users, comprising user profile information representative of interests and/or attributes of individual users, wherein said user profile information comprises information predicted by said content engine, and said content engine further comprises means for receiving from the user an indication of accuracy of said predicted information.
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74. A content engine for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users, comprising a table recording relationships between individual users and individual items of content.
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75. A content engine for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users, comprising a table recording relationships between individual users and individual categories.
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76. A content engine for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users, comprising a table recording relationships between individual items of content and individual categories.
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77. A content engine for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users, comprising a first table recording relationships between individual items of content and individual categories and a second table recording relationships between individual users and individual categories.
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78. A content engine for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users, comprising a first table recording relationships between individual items of content and individual users and a second table recording relationships between individual users and individual categories.
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79. A content engine for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users, comprising a first table recording relationships between individual items of content and individual users and a second table recording relationships between individual items of content and individual categories.
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80. A content engine comprising means for predicting aspects of relationships between one or more of users, content and categories, and further comprising means for determining a difference between predicted relationship information and corresponding information declared from the user or derived based on usage behaviour.
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81. A content engine comprising relationship tables recording relationship information concerning two or more of users, content and categories, and further comprising index representations of at least some of said relationship information, wherein said index representations are accessible to a statistical engine for determining the extent of relationships for use in determinations of relevance.
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