Method for generating a portal page

• US 7,475,354 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2004
• Issued: 01/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Activision Publishing Incorporated (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Guido, Patrick R., McMahan, Paul F., Leah, Robert C., Riley, Wayne B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lo, Weilun
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Tuyetlien T
• Application Number:
  US10/888,149
• Publication Number:
  US 20060010390A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,642 Days
• Field of Search: 715/742, 715/745, 709/224
• US Class Current: 715/742
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

A solution for generating a portal page based on a data item. In particular, one or more portlets are selected from a set of available portlets based on the data item. The selected portlet(s) are then included on the portal page, which can be provided to a user device for display. The data item can be provided to a content provider for the portlet in order to generate the display area for the portlet. Information on the user and/or user device can be used when selecting the one or more portlets for inclusion on the portal page.

Claims

1. A computerized method of generating a portal page, the method comprising:

providing a display interface to a user device, wherein the display interface displays a set of data items;

obtaining a data item selected by a user, the data item corresponding to at least one of;

an event on a network or a network component, and the data item including a plurality of attributes, each attribute defining a property of the data item;

automatically selecting at least one portlet based on at least one of the plurality of attributes of the data item in response to the obtaining without any interaction from the user, the selected at least one portlet having at least one attribute that matches the at least one of the plurality of attributes of the data item;

automatically generating the portal page in response to the selecting the at least one portlet without any interaction from the user, wherein the automatically generated portal page includes the selected at least one portlet; and

providing the portal page for display to the user without any interaction from the user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining user information for the user, wherein the selecting is further based on the user information.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining device information for a user device, wherein the selecting is further based on the device information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining comprises:

receiving the data item from the user device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing at least one of the plurality of attributes of the data item to a content provider for the at least one portlet.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatically generating includes automatically allocating a size for each of the at least one portlet based on a display area for the portal page and a quantity of the at least one portlet.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting includes assigning a priority to each of the at least one portlet, and wherein the generating includes limiting a total number of portlets included on the portal page.