PERSONALIZED NAVIGATION SHORTCUTS

• US 20130238783A1
• Filed: 03/09/2012
• Published: 09/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Alexander, Jeffrey H., Haberl, Karl R., Green, Stephen J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,311,417 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with generating suggested shortcuts are described. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a user that accesses an intranet portal and tracking navigation paths taken by the user within the intranet portal. The navigation paths are stored in a user profile associated with the user, where the navigation paths indicate a sequence of visited locations and a destination location for the sequence. When the user visits a location within the intranet portal, a list of suggested destination locations are generated as navigation shortcuts to allow the user to directly access a desired destination.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

providing access to an intranet portal;

identifying a user that accesses the intranet portal;

for the user accessing the intranet portal, tracking navigation paths taken by the user within the intranet portal;

storing the navigation paths in a user profile associated with the user, wherein the navigation paths are stored to indicate a sequence of visited locations and a destination location for the sequence; and

when the user visits a location within the intranet portal, generating a list of suggested destination locations by comparing a current sequence of visited locations with the stored sequences of visited locations to identify matching sequences and returning the destination locations stored in the user profile associated with the matching sequences.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions for determining the navigation path as a path from a root location in the intranet portal to the visited location including a sequence of visited locations in between.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions for determining a navigation path as a path from a first visited location to a second visited location that has been navigated by the user;

and

wherein the navigation profile is searched to find a corresponding path including the first visited location and the second visited location.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising assigning a weight to the navigation paths in the user profile based on a frequency that the user follows a selected path;

and ranking the list of suggested destination locations based at least in part on the weight.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising changing the list of suggested destination locations upon the user visiting a new location.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising storing the navigation paths in the user profile as a tree of paths wherein leaf nodes in the tree represent destination locations from an associated path;

and

wherein when the user visits a location within the intranet portal, pruning the generated list of suggested destination locations by removing leaf nodes that are not part of the tree under the visited location.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising displaying the list of suggested destination locations as navigation shortcuts to the suggested destination locations on a display screen.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the intranet portal contains content for a corporate enterprise with access restricted to authorized users.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising storing the navigation paths in a user profile associated with the user in a non-transitory storage device.

10. A computing system, comprising:

a processor;

tracking logic configured to track navigations paths of a user in an intranet portal and store the navigation paths in a navigation profile for the user, wherein the navigation paths indicate a sequence of visited locations and a destination location for each sequence;

shortcut suggestion logic configured to determine suggested destination locations to the user based on the navigation profile of the user and a current visited path taken by the user in the intranet portal, wherein the suggested destinations are likely destinations based on a current location of the user in the intranet portal; and

wherein the tracking logic and the shortcut suggestion logic are implemented having at least stored instructions for execution by the processor and wherein shortcut suggestion logic is configured to the suggested destination locations to be displayed on a display screen of a user device as navigation shortcuts.

11. The computing system of claim 10, wherein the navigation path is determined as a path from a first visited location to a second visited location that has been navigated by the user;

and

wherein the shortcut suggestion logic is configured to search the navigation profile of the user to find a corresponding path including the first visited location and the second visited location.

12. The computing system of claim 10, wherein the shortcut suggestion logic is configured to generate the navigation shortcut as a direct link to the associated destination location.

13. The computing system of claim 10, wherein the tracking logic is configured to store the navigation paths in the navigation profile for a user as a tree of paths wherein leaf nodes in the tree represent destination locations from an associated path;

and

wherein when the user visits a location within the intranet portal, pruning the generated list of suggested destination locations by removing leaf nodes that are not part of the tree under the visited location.

14. The computing system of claim 10, wherein shortcut suggestion logic configured to recalculate the suggested destination locations to the user when the user moves to a new location in the intranet portal based on matching navigation paths from the navigation profile.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

for individual users, maintaining a stored navigation profile corresponding to a user wherein the navigation profile includes a history of navigation paths taken by the user within an intranet portal, wherein the navigation paths indicate a sequence of visited locations and a destination location for each sequence;

identifying a user that accesses the intranet portal and identifying the navigation profile corresponding to the identified user;

tracking a visited link path followed by the user in the intranet portal and, for a visited location, comparing the visited link path to the navigation paths stored in the navigation profile to identify a matching path;

based on the matching path in the navigation profile, determining destination locations that belong to the matching path and displaying the destination locations to the user as a suggested list of likely destinations from the visited location, and

wherein the destination locations are displayed as navigation shortcuts.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising instructions for determining the visited link path as a path from a root location in the intranet portal to the visited location including a sequence of visited locations in between.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising instructions for determining the visited link path as a path from a first visited location to a second visited location that has been navigated by the user;

and

wherein the navigation profile is searched to find a corresponding path including the first visited location and the second visited location.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising assigning a weight to the navigation paths stored in the navigation profile based on a frequency that the user follows each navigation path;

and

displaying the suggested list of likely destinations as a ranked list according to the assigned weight.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising providing access to the intranet portal.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising storing the navigation profiles for each user in a non-transitory computer-readable medium.