SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION STREAMS DELIVERED FOR USE BY A USER

• US 20100299432A1
• Filed: 02/26/2010
• Published: 11/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Genieo Innovation Ltd. (Nostromo Energy Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Genieo Innovation Ltd. (Nostromo Energy Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yoffe, Amos, Tzvi, Sol, Elad, Tal, Emanuel, Dotan
• Granted Patent: US 9,026,641 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A method for management of information streams delivered for use by a user of a user device comprises discovering information streams relevant to the user using a plurality of uniquifiers, wherein each uniquifier of the plurality of uniquifier characterizes the user; adding the discovered information streams to a list of approved information streams; registering to at least one information stream in the list of approved information streams; filtering data provided by the at least one information stream using the plurality of uniquifiers; and providing a feedback based on the user usage of the filter data to enable improved future discovery and filtering.

Claims

1. A method for management of information streams delivered for use by a user of a user device, comprising:

discovering information streams relevant to the user using a plurality of uniquifiers, wherein each uniquifier of the plurality of uniquifier characterizes the user;

adding the discovered information streams to a list of approved information streams;

registering to at least one information stream in the list of approved information streams;

filtering data provided by the at least one information stream using the plurality of uniquifiers; and

providing a feedback based on the user usage of the filter data to enable improved future discovery and filtering.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information stream is at least one of a really simple syndication (RSS) feed and an Atom syndication format.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein discovering the information streams comprises:

accessing a list of potential information streams;

registering to at least one of the potential information streams;

determining the relevance of the at least one potential information stream to the user of the user device based on at least the plurality of uniquifiers; and

responsive of the determined relevance, canceling registration to the at least one potential information stream if the relevance of the at least one information stream is below a predefined threshold value;

or adding the registration information for the at least one potential information stream to the list of approved information streams.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein accessing the list of information streams further comprises:

retrieving a list of information streams from an external source to the user device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein filtering data provided by the at least one information stream further comprises:

registering to at least one information stream in the list of approved information streams;

receiving data from the at least one information stream;

checking the data against uniquifiers of the user of the user device; and

providing the filtered data based on the checked data that has an indication of matching at least a uniquifier of the plurality of uniquifiers.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the uniquifiers are at least one of labeled uniquifiers (LUs), unlabeled uniquifiers (UUs), and global uniquifiers (GUs).

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user device is one of a personal computer (PC), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile phone, a smart phone.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the list of approved information streams is part of a user profile, wherein the user profile is used at a different context of the user usage of the user device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprises:

presenting to the user of the user device the filtered data from the at least one information stream.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the improved future discovery and filtering is achieved by at least updating at least the plurality of uniquifiers.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprises:

canceling registration to an information stream based on at least one of the feedback, wherein the feedback further comprises percentage of items that are of interest to the user.

12. The method of claim 1, is executed by computer executable code stored in computer readable medium.

13. A system for management of information streams delivered for use by a user of a user device comprising:

a uniquifier generator and manager (UGM) for answering queries responsive to data collected by a plurality of sensors, wherein answers are provided based on a plurality of uniquifiers characterizing the user;

a discovery engine (DE) for discovering information streams relevant to the user based on queries presented to the UGM and answers received thereto, wherein the discovered information streams are added to a list of approved information streams;

a filtering engine (FE) for registering to at least one approved information stream in the list of approved information streams and filtering data provided by the at least one approved information stream based on queries presented to the UGM and answers received thereto; and

; and

a feedback engine (FBE) for monitoring usage of the filtered data by the user of the user device and initiating a release of an information stream found not to be applicable to the user of the user device.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the information stream is at least one of a really simple syndication (RSS) feed and an Atom syndication format.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the DE further retrieves a list of information streams from external resources to the user device.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the uniquifiers are at least one of uniquifiers (LUs), unlabeled uniquifiers (UUs), and global uniquifiers (GUs).

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the user device is one of a personal computer (PC), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile phone, and a smart phone.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the list of approved information streams is part of a user profile.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the FE further accesses a plurality of user profiles, each of the plurality of user profile includes a list of approved information streams, wherein each user profile is used at a different context of the user usage of the user device.

20. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

presenting the filtered data to user.