SEMANTIC INFORMATION PROCESSING

• US 20120166583A1
• Filed: 12/20/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Virtuanet, LLC
• Original Assignee: Virtuanet, LLC
• Inventors: Koonce, Michael Sean, Ahmed, Soeb
• Granted Patent: US 9,230,019 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

A system for exchanging various forms of information between computer-executable agents. A computing device is configured to determine semantic data associated with each data object (DO) of a plurality of DOs. Each DO is associated with a location, and the semantic data describes the content of the associated DO. The computing device receives, from a first user computing device, a request for DO information and, in response to the request, provides DO information including the locations and the semantic data associated with the retrieved DOs to the user computing device by (a) transmitting the locations and the semantic data to the first user computing device, and/or (b) instructing the first user computing device to request the DO information from a second user computing device to which the locations and the semantic data were previously transmitted.

Claims

1. A system comprising a computing device configured to:

retrieve a plurality of data objects (DOs) from one or more remote computing devices, wherein each DO is associated with a location;

determine semantic data associated with each DO of the plurality of DOs, wherein the semantic data describes content of the associated DO;

receive, from a first user computing device, a request for DO information; and

in response to the request, provide DO information including the locations and the semantic data associated with the retrieved DOs to the user computing device by one or more of the following;

(a) transmitting the locations and the semantic data to the first user computing device, and (b) instructing the first user computing device to request the DO information from a second user computing device to which the locations and the semantic data were transmitted before receiving the request from the first user computing device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing device is further configured to:

record a transmission of the locations and the semantic data associated with the DOs to the second user computing device; and

select the second user computing device based on the recorded transmission.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the second user computing device is associated with a relay count, and the server computing device is further configured to:

select the second user computing device based further on the relay count of the second user computing device being less than a predetermined relay quota; and

increase the relay count associated with the second user computing device based on receiving a notification from the first user computing device that the second user computing device has transmitted the locations and the semantic information of the plurality of DOs to the first user computing device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the server computing device is further configured to:

maintain a relay count associated with each user computing device of a plurality of user computing devices, wherein the relay count indicates a quantity of times the associated user computing device has transmitted DO information to another user computing device;

identify a set of non-contributing user computing devices associated with a relay count indicating the associated user computing device has not transmitted DO information when requested to transmit DO information; and

disregard requests from the non-contributing user computing devices.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing device is further configured to:

calculate an expected hash value associated with the DO information; and

transmit a warning associated with the second user computing device when the second user computing device transmits DO information that does not validate against the expected hash value.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the server is configured to transmit the DO information by transmitting locations and semantic data associated with a plurality of advertisements.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing device is configured to determine the semantic data associated with each DO of the retrieved DOs by extracting the semantic data from the DO.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing device is configured to determine the semantic data associated with each DO of the retrieved DOs by receiving the semantic data from another computing device.

9. A storage device having embodied thereon computer-executable instructions, wherein when executed by a user computing device, the computer-executable instructions cause the user computing device to:

receive data object (DO) information including locations and semantic data associated with each DO of a plurality of DOs from a remote computing device;

select a DO from the plurality of DOs based on the semantic data associated with the DO and user preference data associated with a user of the user computing device;

retrieve at least a portion of the selected DO from the location associated with the selected DO; and

present the retrieved portion of the selected DO.

10. The storage device of claim 9, wherein the user preference data is not transmitted to the remote computing device.

11. The storage device of claim 9, wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the user computing device to:

transmit a portion of the user preference data to the remote computing device via one or more other user computing devices; and

receive the DO information by receiving, via the one or more other user computing devices, locations and semantic data associated with DOs that are selected by the remote computing device based on the transmitted portion of the user preference data.

12. The storage device of claim 9, wherein the DO information includes locations and semantic data associated with a plurality of advertisements, and the computer-executable instructions further cause the user computing device to present the selected DO by presenting a selected advertisement within another DO that is not an advertisement.

13. The storage device of claim 9, wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the user computing device to:

receive a selection of the presented portion of the selected DO;

retrieve a full copy of the DO from the location associated with the DO in response tot the selection;

present the full copy of the DO; and

update the user preference data based on the semantic data associated with the presented DO.

14. The storage device of claim 13, wherein the computer-executable instructions cause the user computing device to update the user preference by updating preference data representing one or more user interests associated with the user.

15. The storage device of claim 13, wherein the user computing device is a first user computing device associated with a first user, and the computer-executable instructions cause the user computing device to transmit the location and the semantic data associated with the selected DO to a second user computing device based on the selection of the presented portion of the selected DO and based further on an association between the first user and a second user associated with the second user computing device.

16. The storage device of claim 9, wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the user computing device to:

monitor DO access by the user of the user computing device; and

transmit a location of an accessed DO to a server computing device when semantic data associated with the accessed DO has not been received.

17. The storage device of claim 9, wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the user computing device to:

receive a selection of a user account associated with the user of the user computing device; and

update the user preference data based on one or more of the following;

content of messages within the selected user account, preference data within the selected user account, and contacts within the selected user account.

18. The storage device of claim 9, wherein the computer-executable instructions further cause the user computing device to:

receive a DO decision model from the remote computing device; and

select the DO based further on the DO decision model.

19. The storage device of claim 9, wherein the user computing device is a first user computing device, and the computer-executable instructions further cause the first user computing device to request the DO information from a second user computing device.

20. The storage device of claim 9, wherein DO is selected based on a DO decision model including a plurality of dimensions, and the computer-executable instructions further cause the user computing device to

determine a subset of the plurality of dimensions based on one or more attributes of the user computing device;

and

disregard dimensions not included in the determined subset when selecting the DO.