Differential dynamic content delivery with a presenter-alterable session copy of a user profile

• US 7,571,380 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2004
• Issued: 08/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Watson, Thomas J., Schumacher, Daniel Mark, Burkhart, Michael John, Bodin, William Kress, Eisenhauer, Daniel G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong; Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ludwig; Matthew J
• Application Number:
  US10/756,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20050154990A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,030 Days
• Field of Search: 715/513, 715/203, 715/209, 715/204, 715/728, 704/200
• US Class Current: 715/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/193 Formal grammars, e.g. finite state automata, context free grammars or word networks

Abstract

Differential dynamic content delivery with a presenter alterable session copy of a user profile. Typical embodiments include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; providing a session copy of a user profile including a user classification; receiving, from a presenter, a user classification instruction to change a user classification in the session copy of a user profile; changing the user classification in the session copy of a user profile in dependence upon the presenter'"'"'s instruction; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon a user classification in the session copy of a user profile of a user in the presentation; and presenting the selected structural element to the user.

Claims

1. A method for differential dynamic content delivery, the method comprising:

providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document;

providing a session copy of a user profile including a user classification;

creating a user classification instruction in dependence upon rules governing changes in a user classification in a session copy of a user profile;

creating a presentation control instruction, including;

receiving from a user participating in the presentation a key phrase and optional parameters for invoking a presentation action; and

parsing the key phrase and parameters against a voice response grammar into a presentation control instruction;

receiving, from a presenter, the user classification instruction to change a user classification in the session copy of a user profile;

receiving the presentation control instruction, wherein the presentation control instruction includes a presentation action identifier and optional parameters;

changing the user classification in the session copy of a user profile in dependence upon the presenter'"'"'s instruction;

updating the session document, including identifying a presentation document for the presentation, the presentation document including a presentation grammar and a structured document having structural elements classified with classification identifiers;

identifying a user for the presentation, the user having a session copy of a user profile comprising user classifications; and

filtering the structured document in dependence upon the user classifications of the session copy of a user profile and the classification identifiers, wherein filtering the structured document comprises extracting, from the structured document, structural elements having classification identifiers corresponding to the user classifications of the session copy of a user profile;

writing the extracted structural elements into the session structured document in the session document; and

filtering the presentation grammar, in dependence upon the extracted structural elements, into a session grammar in the session document;

selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon a user classification in the session copy of a user profile of a user in the presentation, the presentation action identifier, and the parameters received as part of the presentation control instruction; and

presenting the selected structural element to the user.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein only the presenter is authorized to change a user classification in the session copy of the user profile.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein providing a session copy of a user profile including a user classification further comprises copying at least a portion of the user profile.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting a classified structural element further comprises selecting a classified structural element having an associated classification identifier that corresponds to the user classification in the session copy of a user profile.