METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A VIRTUAL PROFILE OF AN ENTITY

• US 20110173236A1
• Filed: 01/13/2010
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: 9213-1333 Quebec Inc.
• Original Assignee: 9213-1333 Quebec Inc., E-Profile
• Inventors: BAIL, Jérôme, OUELLET, Gervais
• Application Number:
  US12/686,477
• Publication Number:
  US 20110173236A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/803
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

The present relates to a method and a system for generating a virtual profile of an entity. The method and system build requests based on available information about the entity. The requests are sent to a plurality of information resources. Responses from the information resources are received and analyzed to identify new information related to the available information. The building of requests, sending of requests, receiving responses and analyzing of responses is repeated for the new information to obtain additional new information. The available information, new information and additional new information is stored in a memory. The virtual profile is prepared based on the stored available information, the stored new information and the stored additional new information.

Claims

1. A method for generating a virtual profile of an entity, the method comprising:

building by means of a building module adapted to be executed by a microprocessor requests based on available information about the entity;

sending by the microprocessor the requests to a plurality of information resources;

receiving by a receiving module adapted to be executed by the microprocessor responses from the information resources;

analyzing by an analysis module adapted to be executed by the microprocessor the responses to identify new information related to the available information;

repeating the building of requests, sending of requests, receiving of responses and analyzing of the responses to the requests by the microprocessor for the new information to obtain additional new information;

storing the available information, the new information and the additional new information and the information resource from which it has been received in a memory; and

preparing by a reporting module adapted to be executed by the microprocessor the virtual profile based on the stored available information, the stored new information and the stored additional new information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the available information is entered by a user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the requests are built for the available information by:

manipulating a format of the available information so as to correspond to a format of at least one of the plurality of information resources.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the repeating is performed iteratively.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the preparing the virtual profile further comprises:

weighting by the microprocessor the new information and the additional new information; and

correlating by the microprocessor the new information and the additional new information to identify trends in the received new information and additional new information.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the weighting is based on the information resource from which the new information and the additional new information is received.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the weighting is further based on a number of occurrences of the new information and the additional new information.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the virtual profile comprises multiple courses each corresponding to one of the trends.

4. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the information resources are categorized by type of information used;

the available information is linked to the type of information; and

the format of the available information is manipulated to correspond to a format corresponding to the information resource.

10. A system for generating a virtual profile of an entity, the system comprising:

a building module for building requests based on available information;

a sending module for sending the requests to a plurality of information resources;

a receiving module for receiving responses from the plurality of information resources;

an analysis module for analyzing received responses to identify new information related to the available information, the analysis module providing the new information to the building module for initiating repeating the building of requests, sending of requests, receiving of responses and analyzing of the responses to the requests for the new information to obtain additional new information;

a memory for storing entered available information and the new information and corresponding information resource; and

a reporting module for preparing the virtual profile based on the stored available information and the stored new information.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the available information is entered by a user by means of an entry module.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the building module builds the requests by:

manipulating a format of the available information, the new information and the additional new information so as to correspond to at least one of the plurality of information resources.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein:

the plurality of information resources are categorized by type of information used;

the available information, the new information and the additional new information are linked to the type of information; and

the format of the available information, the new information and the additional new information is manipulated to correspond to a format corresponding to the information resource.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the repeating is performed iteratively.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the reporting module further:

weights the new information and the additional new information; and

correlates the new information and the additional new information to identify trends in the received new information and additional new information.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the reporting module weights the new information and the additional new information based on the information resource from which the new information and the additional new information are received.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the weighting is further based on a number of occurrences of the new information and the additional new information.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the virtual profile comprises multiple courses each corresponding to one of the trends.