Verbal classification system for the efficient sending and receiving of information

• US 7,478,035 B1
• Filed: 10/31/2000
• Issued: 01/13/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Eclarity Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Eclarity Incorporated
• Inventors: Wrench, Harry Kirke, Wrench, Lisa Marie
• Primary Examiner(s): Hudspeth; David R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Serrou; Abdelali
• Application Number:
  US10/129,408
• Time in Patent Office: 2,996 Days
• Field of Search: 704 7- 10
• US Class Current: 704/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results

Abstract

A verbal classification system and method for the efficient sending and receiving of desired information is described. Web-site proprietors (314) and Internet marketers provide a host server (320) with descriptive data about their web-sites and messages (336) according to a predefined verbal hierarchy of nouns, verbs and modifiers. An Internet user creates a role or roles (340) that describes desired information according to the same predefined verbal hierarchy of nouns, verbs, and modifiers and transmits that role (340) to the host server (320), provides the Internet user with desired web-site addresses (336) and message by matching the role (338) to web-site and message descriptive data (336). The Internet user may access a web-site using one or more roles (340) and the web-site may provide the user with custom content by matching content (338) to the Internet user'"'"'s role and roles (340). The host server (320) collects role information (340) from Internet users and web-sites to generate marketing and demographics data (346) about Internet users and web-sites (328). Internet user privacy is protected because role data (340) is encrypted and contains no personal identification information (348).

Claims

1. A method of communication comprising the steps of:

creating a multi-part catalogue of words in a human language organized into categories based on;

sorting words into groups based on the parts of speech to which the words belong; and

arranging each group of words in a hierarchical system of class/subclass, set/subset or parent/child object relationship structure, from most general to most specific, wherein members of any subclass/subset in the hierarchy inherently have the same general characteristics as the parent/class word object, but are more specialized versions of the parent class to which they belong;

giving each word meaning a unique reference value which identifies it as a unique object within the catalogue of words and said reference value denoting the unique place the word occupies in an organizational system, which category of words it belongs to, and its position within the group category'"'"'s hierarchy of class/subclass;

offering said word catalogue to a user, who selects one at a time word choices from the catalogue in a fixed choice protocol based upon whether they are nouns, verbs or modifiers; and

allowing the user to link the word choices together to form a meaningful language statement, for the purpose of expressing an intention; and

offering said system of meaningful language statement creation to multiple individuals in order to create a uniform communication tool and communication platform between multiple parties;

transferring said meaningful language statements between two parties for a designed interaction between them;

forming each said meaningful language statement as a preference characteristic of a user who is one of said two parties; and

giving each said preference characteristic a descriptive name relating to an aspect of said preference characteristic.

2. The method of communication recited in claim 1 further comprising the step of assigning to a meaningful language statement creator, an anonymous user identification index which is not associated with any other form of user identifying information.

3. The method of communication recited in claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

each user creating profile preferences formed from said categories of words according to said language based protocol;

each user requesting information from the Internet using their respective user interface according to said language based protocol; and

analyzing said request of information based upon said user profile preferences and arranged data repositories of said content providers.

4. The method of communication recited in claim 1 further comprising the step of:

using said meaningful language statements to form an indexing architecture for labeling, filing, storing, retrieving and sharing items.

5. The method of communication recited in claim 1 further comprising the step of:

using said meaningful language statements to form the instruction set of a computer programming language.

6. The method of communication recited in claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

associating said meaningful language statement to data content;

providing each user with the same user interface for arranging words in categories;

allowing each user to create profile preferences formed from said language statements;

using said language statements to retrieve, transact, or otherwise interact with said data repositories;

analyzing said request of information based upon said user profile preferences and arranged data repositories of said content providers.

7. A method of communication comprising the steps of:

creating a multi-part catalogue of words in a human language so that the catalogue includes categories for various parts of speech, including action words, object words and modifier words which are used to modify actions and modifier words which are used to modify objects;

said catalogue consisting of a variety of word choices in every category of said parts of speech;

organizing said catalogue of words according to the following criteria;

creating separate groups for action words, object words, modifiers of action words and modifiers of object words; and

sorting the words of a language into groups based on the parts of speech to which the words belong;

within each separate group, arranging the words in a hierarchical system of class/subclass, set/subset or parent/child object relationship structure, from most general to most specific, wherein members of any subclass/subset in the hierarchy inherently have the same general characteristics as the parent/class word object, but are more specialized versions of the base class or parent class to which they belong;

where a word can be both an action word and an object word or have other multiple meanings, creating multiple entries in the catalogue for that word, placing that word into each group to which it may belong and treating each occurrence of that word as a unique word item within the catalogue;

giving each word item entered in the catalogue a unique reference value which identifies it as a unique object within the catalogue of words, said reference value denoting the unique place the word occupies in the organizational system, whether it is a member of an action word group, object word group, or other word group and its position within the group category'"'"'s hierarchy of class/subclass;

offering said word catalogue to a user, who selects, one at a time, word choices from the catalogue in a fixed choice protocol based upon whether they are nouns, verbs or modifiers;

allowing the user to link the word choices together in any possible combination to form a meaningful language statement as a preference characteristic of a user, for the purpose of expressing an intention;

giving each said preference characteristic a descriptive name relating to an aspect of said preference characteristic;

offering said system of meaningful language statement creation to multiple individuals in order to create a uniform communication tool and communication platform between multiple parties; and

transferring said meaningful language statements between two parties for a designed interaction between them.

8. The method of communication recited in claim 7 further comprising the steps of:

providing a user interface for enabling said transfer of said meaningful language statements between said parties, said user interface comprising computer software for assisting a party to make said word choice selections and for reading said meaningful language statements.

9. The method recited in claim 8 further comprising the step of storing and organizing said meaningful language statements.

10. The method recited in claim 8 further comprising the steps of providing a computer database for storing and organizing said meaningful language statements.

11. The method recited in claim 7 wherein said meaningful language statements are stored and organized in a computer database according to said fixed choice protocol and wherein said user interface is used for associating said meaningful language statements with data for the purpose of indexing, storing, retrieving, labeling and filing said data.

12. The method of communication recited in claim 7 further comprising the step of representing at least one of said meaningful language statements in at least one of pictorial, graphical and auditory form.

13. A method of communication comprising the steps of:

creating a multi-part catalogue of words in a human language so that the catalogue includes categories for various parts of speech, including verbs, nouns and modifier words which are used to modify actions and modifier words which are used to modify objects;

said catalogue consisting of a variety of word choices in every category of said parts of speech;

organizing said catalogue of words according to the following criteria;

creating separate groups for verbs, nouns, modifiers of action words and modifiers of object words; and

sorting the words of a language into groups based on the parts of speech to which the words belong,

within each separate group, arranging the words in a hierarchical system of class/subclass, set/subset or parent/child object relationship structure, from most general to most specific, wherein members of any subclass/subset in the hierarchy inherently have the same general characteristics as the parent/class word object, but are more specialized versions of the base class or parent class to which they belong;

where a word can be both an action word and an object word or have some other multiple meanings, creating multiple entries in the catalogue for that word, placing that word into each group to which it may belong and treating each occurrence of that word as a unique word item within the catalogue;

giving each word item entered in the catalogue a unique reference value which identifies it as a unique object within the catalogue of words and said reference value denoting the unique place the word occupies in the organizational system, whether it is a member of an action word group, object word group, or other word group and its position within the group category'"'"'s hierarchy of class/subclass;

offering said word catalogue to a user, who selects one at a time word choices from the catalogue in a fixed choice protocol based upon whether they are nouns, verbs or modifiers;

allowing the user to link the word choices together in any possible combination to form a meaningful language statement as a preference characteristic of a user, for the purpose of expressing an intention;

giving each said preference characteristic a descriptive name relating to an aspect of said preference characteristic;

offering said system of meaningful language statement creation to multiple individuals in order to create a uniform communication tool and communication platform between multiple parties;

transferring said meaningful language statements between two parties for a designed interaction between them;

utilizing said unique word and word linkage combinations for one or more of indexing, storing retrieving, analyzing, comparing and transacting said unique combinations.

14. The method of communication recited in claim 13 further comprising the steps of choosing said contextual meaning as a preference characteristic of a particular user and forming a user profile data file having at least one of said preference characteristics of said user, said preference characteristics being activated or deactivated to express a particular aspect of said user profile.

15. The method of communication recited in claim 14 further comprising the step of assigning to said data file an anonymous user identification index which is not associated with any other form of user identifying information.

16. A method of creating a user-identity organization system for collecting multiple preference characteristics of a user in a data file segmented into meaningful subsets of user preference information called roles;

the method comprising the steps of;

a) allowing the user to define a plurality of different subsets of preferences in the form of multiple roles associated with the user;

b) saving such definitions for ongoing use;

c) allowing the user to determine how the role segmenting is organized so that roles may be subsets of other roles in a combination the user chooses;

d) giving each meaningful subset of preference characteristics a descriptive name;

e) identifying which of said role segments are active at a given time by allowing user to choose between said role segments, said choice activating said role statement, thereby indicating that the chosen role segment is the current active subset of their profile;

f) allowing the user to switch between said role segments to indicate changes in their preference characteristics;

g) selecting at least one role statement as the active current choice for identifying the user'"'"'s preference for a particular purpose at any given time.

17. The method of creating a user-identity organizational system recited in claim 16 wherein the step of preparing a plurality of role statements comprises the steps of:

selecting word choices from a multi-part catalogue of words in a human language which has been organized into categories by taking the following actions;

sorting words into groups based on the parts of speech to which the words belong;

arranging each group of words in a hierarchical system of class/subclass, set/subset or parent/child object relationship structure, from most general to most specific, wherein members of any subclass/subset in the hierarchy inherently have the same general characteristics as the parent/class word object, but are more specialized versions of the parent class to which they belong;

giving each word meaning a unique reference value which identifies it as a unique object within the catalogue of words and said reference value denoting the unique place the word occupies in the organizational system, which category of words it belongs to, and its position within the group category'"'"'s hierarchy of class/subclass;

offering said word catalogue to a user, who selects one at a time word choices from the catalogue in a fixed choice protocol based upon whether they are nouns, verbs or modifiers; and

allowing the user to link the word choices together for form a meaningful language statement, for the purpose of expressing an intention; and

storing said meaningful language statement as a statement.

18. The method of creating a user-identity organizational system recited in claim 17 further comprising the step of assigning to said data file an anonymous user identification index which is not associated with any other form of user identifying information.

19. The method of creating a user-identity organizational system recited in claim 17 further comprising the steps of encrypting said data file.

20. The method recited in claim 17 further comprising the step of storing and organizing said role statements.

21. The method recited in claim 17 further comprising the step of providing a computer database for storing and organizing said role statements.

22. The method recited in claim 17 wherein said role statements are stored and organized in said computer database according to said fixed protocol and wherein said user interface is used for indexing, labeling and filing data.

23. The method of creating a user-identity organization system as recited in claim 16 further comprising the step of associating at least one of said role statements with at least one of a visual, auditory and other non-verbal form.