System for personalized information distribution
First Claim
1. A system for personalized information distribution (PID) of information from an information source server to a plurality of user terminals, wherein the system accommodates a plurality of user terminals each of said terminals requiring a differing communication modality from that required by others of said terminals, the system comprising:
- an information distribution network communicatively connecting said information source server and said user terminals and for distributing the information, via a PID tree, from said information source server to said user terminals, wherein the PID tree provides the information to every one of said terminals at the communication modality required by each of said terminals;
the PID tree having respective PID-paths between said information source server and corresponding ones of the user terminals, each of said PID-paths having at least one active node so as to define a plurality of active nodes across all of said PID-paths; and
each of said active nodes having a distribution control means which sets an information distribution process in said each active node in response to local distribution parameters associated with said each active node so as to define the communication modality provided by said each active node over an associated one of said PID-paths in order to satisfy the communication modalities required by all of the terminals, situated downstream of said each active node, communicatively connected to and served through said each active node and said associated PID-path, wherein a distribution control code, originating from either said all user terminals or any other one of the active nodes situated downstream in said PID-tree between said all user terminals and said each active node, is passed upward through the PID-tree to said each active node for use, by said each active node, in managing said local distribution parameters.
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Abstract
System for personalized information distribution (PID) from an information source server (1) to several user terminals (2) via an information distribution network (3) comprising several active nodes (4), forming a PID-tree (5). The active nodes comprise distribution control means (6) setting the information distribution process in the relevant active node in accordance with local distribution parameters (parm). The distribution parameters are manageable via said network by distribution control codes (dcc) originated by said user terminals or by other active nodes in the PID-tree. For setting-up or modifying the respective PID-path for the distribution of information from the information source server to the respective user terminal, the user terminal transmits its distribution control code to the first and—as far as necessary—further active nodes of the PID-path between the user terminal and the information source server and sets the active node'"'"'s distribution control means according the user'"'"'s capabilities and preferences.
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1. A system for personalized information distribution (PID) of information from an information source server to a plurality of user terminals, wherein the system accommodates a plurality of user terminals each of said terminals requiring a differing communication modality from that required by others of said terminals, the system comprising:
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an information distribution network communicatively connecting said information source server and said user terminals and for distributing the information, via a PID tree, from said information source server to said user terminals, wherein the PID tree provides the information to every one of said terminals at the communication modality required by each of said terminals; the PID tree having respective PID-paths between said information source server and corresponding ones of the user terminals, each of said PID-paths having at least one active node so as to define a plurality of active nodes across all of said PID-paths; and each of said active nodes having a distribution control means which sets an information distribution process in said each active node in response to local distribution parameters associated with said each active node so as to define the communication modality provided by said each active node over an associated one of said PID-paths in order to satisfy the communication modalities required by all of the terminals, situated downstream of said each active node, communicatively connected to and served through said each active node and said associated PID-path, wherein a distribution control code, originating from either said all user terminals or any other one of the active nodes situated downstream in said PID-tree between said all user terminals and said each active node, is passed upward through the PID-tree to said each active node for use, by said each active node, in managing said local distribution parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A system for personalized information distribution (PID) of information from an information source server to a plurality of user terminals, wherein the system accommodates a plurality of user terminals each of said terminals requiring a differing communication modality from that required by others of said terminals, the system comprising:
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an information distribution network communicatively connecting said information source server and said user terminals and for distributing the information, via a PID tree, from said information source server, downward through a PID-path in said tree, to said user terminals, wherein the PID tree provides the information to every one of said terminals at the communication modality required by each of said terminals; the PID tree having a respective PID-path between said information source server and each corresponding one of the user terminals, each of said PID-paths having at least one active node so as to define a plurality of active nodes across all of said PID-paths; and each of said active nodes having a distribution control means which sets an information distribution process in said each active node in response to local distribution parameters associated with said each active node so as to define the communication modality provided by said each active node over an associated one of said PID-paths in order to satisfy the communication modalities required by all of the terminals, situated downstream of said each active node, communicatively connected to and served through said each active node and said associated PID-path, said local distribution parameters being managed via said information distribution network and through distribution control codes originated by said user terminals or other ones of the active nodes in the PID-tree, wherein; for a given one of said PID-paths that contains a plurality of said active nodes situated at differing hierarchical levels of said given one PID-path, a first active node located at a first hierarchical level in said given one PID-path communicates its associated one of the distribution control codes upward through said given one PID-path to a second active node situated at a second hierarchical level, higher than the first level, in said given one PID-path such that said second active node sets its own local distribution parameters, in response to the associated one distribution control code it received from the first active node as well as any of the distribution control codes received from other ones of said active nodes in said PID-tree. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9)
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