System and methods for constructing personalized context-sensitive portal pages or views by analyzing patterns of users' information access activities
First Claim
1. A display building system embodied on a computer-readable storage medium, comprising:
- a predictive component to determine potential topics of interest from interaction with one or more data locations; and
a formatting component to aggregate and display at least one of the potential topics of interest and information pertinent to the at least one potential topic of interest retrieved from at least one of the data locations based at least in part on an expected utility and a current context comprising a recent or current application usage, the expected utility is evaluated as a function, f(I(p), S(p)), where I(p) is defined as a computed interest of a page p, and S(p) is defined as a computed navigation savings derived from the aggregation and display, the formatting component approximating a value of the page p to a user as a function of I(p), and S(p), the expected utility of the page being formulated as at least one of;
f(I(p),S(p))=I(p)k1*S(p)k2;
f(I(p),S(p))=I(p)k1+S(p)k2;
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f(I(p),S(p))=k1*I(p)+k2*S(p),wherein k1 and k2 are constants.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and methodology to assist users with data access activities and that includes such activities as routine web browsing and/or data access applications. A coalesced display or montage of aggregated information is provided that is focused from a plurality of sources to achieve substantially one-button access to user'"'"'s desired web or data source information/destinations in order to mitigate efforts in retrieving and viewing such information. Past web or other type data access patterns can be mined to predict future browsing sites or desired access locations. A system is provided that builds personalized web portals for associated users based on models mined from past data access patterns. The portals can provide links to web resources as well as embed content from distal (remote) pages or sites producing a montage of web or other type data content. Automated topic classification is employed to create multiple topic-centric views that can be invoked by a user.
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18 Claims
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1. A display building system embodied on a computer-readable storage medium, comprising:
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a predictive component to determine potential topics of interest from interaction with one or more data locations; and a formatting component to aggregate and display at least one of the potential topics of interest and information pertinent to the at least one potential topic of interest retrieved from at least one of the data locations based at least in part on an expected utility and a current context comprising a recent or current application usage, the expected utility is evaluated as a function, f(I(p), S(p)), where I(p) is defined as a computed interest of a page p, and S(p) is defined as a computed navigation savings derived from the aggregation and display, the formatting component approximating a value of the page p to a user as a function of I(p), and S(p), the expected utility of the page being formulated as at least one of;
f(I(p),S(p))=I(p)k1*S(p)k2;
f(I(p),S(p))=I(p)k1+S(p)k2;
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f(I(p),S(p))=k1*I(p)+k2*S(p),wherein k1 and k2 are constants. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A display-building system embodied on computer-readable storage media, the display-building system comprising:
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a predictive component that determines a plurality of potential topics of interest based on a log of interactions with a plurality of web sites and a probabilistic model providing degree of interest in information on the plurality of web sites, the predictive component employing a collaborative model constructed from logs of web site access patterns of a plurality of users to determine the plurality of potential topics of interest to a particular user, the plurality of users belonging to a group or association to which the particular user also belongs; an information retrieval component that dynamically selects and retrieves at least a portion of content relevant to the topics of interest from two or more of the web sites, selection is based at least in part on an expected utility determined in part from the degree of interest, and a current context; and a formatting component that aggregates and displays the retrieved portion as a singular collection of information based on a utility model, the display comprises topic-centric segmentation of information of the retrieved portion as provided by the utility model based on a navigation savings of segmented information in conjunction with the current context, the formatting component approximating a value of a web page to the particular user according to a function f, f being a function of I and S such that the value of the web page is equal to; f(I(p), S(p)), where I(p) is defined as a computed interest I of a page p, and S(p) is defined as a computed savings S in navigation derived from the aggregation and display, the function f being one of; a multiplicative model; a weighted multiplicative model;
ora weighted additive multiplicative model. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A display-building system embodied on computer-readable storage media, the display-building system comprising:
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a predictive component that determines a plurality of potential topics of interest based on a log of interactions with a plurality of web sites and a probabilistic model providing degree of interest in information on the plurality of web sites, the predictive component employing a collaborative model constructed from logs of web site access patterns of a plurality of users to determine the plurality of potential topics of interest to a particular user, the plurality of users belonging to a group or association to which the particular user also belongs; an information retrieval component that dynamically selects and retrieves at least a portion of content relevant to the topics of interest from two or more of the web sites, selection is based at least in part on an expected utility determined in part from the degree of interest, and a current context; a formatting component that aggregates and displays the retrieved portion as a singular collection of information based on a utility model, the display comprises topic-centric segmentation of information of the retrieved portion as provided by the utility model based on a navigation savings of segmented information in conjunction with the current context, the formatting component approximating a value of a web page to the particular user according to a function f, f being a function of I and S such that f(I(p), S(p)), where I(p) is defined as a computed interest I of a page p, and S(p) is defined as a computed savings S in navigation derived from the aggregation and display; and the information retrieval component configured to calculate the expected utility of a page p as a product of a probability that the user will visit a page p given a current context C of the page p, and the value of the web page determined as a function of a computed interest I of a page p, and also as a function of a computed savings S of the page p. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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