Personalized internet interaction by adapting a page format to a user record

• US 7,631,032 B1
• Filed: 01/28/1999
• Issued: 12/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Spring Ventures Ltd. (f/k/a Buy2 Networks Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Net-Express Ltd.
• Inventors: Refuah, Zeev, Refuah, Aviv, Fenster, Maier, Nhaissi, Eli
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh; Khanh Q
• Application Number:
  US09/601,385
• Time in Patent Office: 3,967 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/217, 709/218, 709/220, 709/224, 709/227, 709/228, 709/203, 709/229, 709/232, 709/201, 709/223, 705/116, 705/34, 705/1, 705/10, 705/14, 370/251, 713/201, 713/202, 707/10
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/14 specially adapted for billing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/28 Pre-payment schemes, e.g. "pay before"

Abstract

A method of a user interacting with an Internet, comprising: tracking interactions of the user with an Internet; analyzing said tracked interactions to determine at least one aspect of a user'"'"'s interaction with the Internet; and modifying future interactions of said user with said Internet, responsive to said determined aspect, wherein said modified interactions comprise site-content related interactions with a plurality of unrelated sites. Preferably, the aspect is adapted in real-time to reflect changes in the tracked interactions.

Claims

1. A method of a user interacting with an Internet site managed by a first entity, comprising:

(a) receiving at the site, from a user of a remote computer connected to the Internet, a request for an Internet page;

(b) receiving at the site, a predefined site-independent user profile record of the user transmitting the request, provided by a second entity not associated with the first entity;

(c) obtaining, responsive to the request, information content of the Internet page;

(d) selecting through an atmosphere server associated with the site a trait defining characteristics for a display format of an Internet page to the user that is a complement to at least one attribute of the user profile record provided to the site and used by said atmosphere server; and

(e) responding of the site to the request, with a page presentation of the provided information content of the requested Internet page in a display format defined in accordance with the trait selected through the atmosphere server responsive to the user profile record.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the display format comprises modifying a display layout.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the display format comprises modifying a level of detail shown.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the display format comprises selecting data to be displayed.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the display format responsive to the user profile comprises modifying a display format of a browser of the client.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the user profile records are managed at least partially by tracking interactions of the user with an Internet and analyzing the tracked interactions to determine at least a part of the user profile.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein said tracking comprises tracking at a computer from which the user accesses the Internet.

8. A method according to claim 6, wherein said tracking comprises tracking at a tracking computer which tracks a plurality of users, accessing the Internet from different client stations.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein said tracking computer is physically remote from a computer hosting the site.

10. A method according to claim 6, wherein said tracking comprises tracking at a tracking computer which tracks access to a plurality of different unrelated web sites.

11. A method according to claim 1, wherein providing the information content of the Internet page comprises providing the information content of the Internet page without relation to the user profile of the user transmitting the request.

12. A method according to claim 1, wherein the selected display format includes at least one non-information-content attribute selected responsive to the user profile.

13. A method according to claim 12, wherein the at least one attribute of the display format determined responsive to the user profile comprises one or more display colors.

14. A method according to claim 12, wherein the at least one attribute of the display format determined responsive to the user profile comprises an image quality.

15. A method according to claim 12, wherein the at least one attribute of the display format determined responsive to the user profile comprises a size, amount or density of displayed text.

16. A method according to claim 1, wherein transmitting the request comprises transmitting along with the user profile record.

17. A method according to claim 1, wherein responding to the request comprises responding by the site, which selects the display format.

18. A method according to claim 1, wherein responding to the request comprises providing the information content by the site, and selecting the display format at least partially by a persona server, separate from the site, which provides the presentations to the users.

19. A method according to claim 1, comprising repeating (a), (b), (c) and (d) for a plurality of unrelated sites using a single user profile.

20. A method according to claim 1, comprising repeating (a), (b), (c) and (d) for a plurality of user profile records and a single site, wherein at least some of the responses to the requests differ at least in their display formats.

21. A method according to claim 20, wherein providing the information content comprises providing the same information content for a plurality of the users.

22. A method according to claim 20, wherein providing the information content comprises providing different information content including different search results, for a plurality of the users.

23. A method according to claim 20, wherein the display formats selected responsive to the user profile records of at least two of the users differ in their level of detail.

24. A method according to claim 20, wherein the display formats selected responsive to the user profile records of at least two of the users differ in a percentage of image data that they include for one or more of their images.

25. A method according to claim 20, wherein the display formats selected responsive to the user profile records of at least two of the users differ in their colors.

26. A method according to claim 20, wherein the display formats selected responsive to the user profile records of at least two of the users differ in their spatial layout.

27. A method according to claim 20, wherein the display formats selected responsive to the user profile records of at least two of the users differ in a size, amount or density of displayed text.

28. A method according to claim 20, wherein the display formats selected responsive to the user profile records of at least two of the users differ in a number or percentage of non-textual objects.

29. A method according to claim 20, wherein the display formats selected responsive to the user profile records of at least two of the users differ in the type of words they use.

30. A method according to claim 20, wherein the display formats selected responsive to the user profile records of at least two of the users differ in a ratio between images and text in the page.

31. A method according to claim 1, wherein providing the user profile record of a user comprises providing a record at least partially determined for one or more other users.

32. A method according to claim 1, wherein providing the user profile record comprises providing by a proxy through which the request for the Internet page is provided to the site.

33. A method according to claim 1, wherein providing the user profile record comprises providing a user profile record generated in a manner transparent to the user.

34. A method according to claim 1, wherein the display format is selected responsive to at least one attribute of the user profile record, which is independent of the information content of the site.