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Soliciting information based on a computer user's context

  • US 6,968,333 B2
  • Filed: 04/02/2001
  • Issued: 11/22/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system comprising:

  • a characterization module configured to obtain information about a current physical environment of a user that is external to a computing system of the user and to automatically characterize a current context of the user based at least in part on changes in the physical environment; and

    a search criteria generator configured to receive a user search request via one or more input devices and to automatically generate search criteria corresponding to the user search request based at least in part on the characterized current context of the user, so that results obtained using the automatically generated search criteria automatically reflect the current context of the user.

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