Global personalization engine

• US 20020165967A1
• Filed: 05/02/2001
• Published: 11/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lutris Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Lutris Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Morgan, Paul A.
• Application Number:
  US09/846,321
• Publication Number:
  US 20020165967A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A system for providing user information to a server computer, including a personalization engine within a server computer, including an ID generator generating a user ID, in response to a user initiating a session accessing the server computer, a banner processor embedding a banner link within a web page to be transmitted from the server computer to the user, the banner link linking to a central computer and including the user ID, and a request generator issuing a request to the central computer to provide user information corresponding to the user ID, a database of user information indexed by user subscriber numbers, a match processor within the central computer receiving the user ID and a user subscriber number, and associating the user ID with the user subscriber number, and a database manager retrieving user information from the database for transmission to the server computer, in response to the request generator. A method is also described and claimed.

Claims

1. A system for providing user information to a server computer, comprising:

a personalization engine within a server computer, comprising;

an ID generator generating a user ID, in response to a user initiating a session accessing the server computer;

a banner processor embedding a banner link within a web page to be transmitted from the server computer to the user, the banner link linking to a central computer and including the user ID; and

a request generator issuing a request to the central computer to provide user information corresponding to the user ID;

a database of user information indexed by user subscriber numbers;

a match processor within the central computer receiving the user ID and a user subscriber number, and associating the user ID with the user subscriber number; and

a database manager retrieving user information from said database for transmission to the server computer, in response to said request generator.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said ID generator comprises a universal unique identifier (UUID) generator.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the banner link is a link to a CGI program in the central computer.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the user subscriber number is delivered to said match processor from the user'"'"'s computer within an Internet browser cookie.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the user information is formatted as an XML document.

6. The system of claim 1 further comprising a contact mode processor in the central computer for specifying by the user a mode of contact for contacting the user.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein said personalization engine further comprises a user contact processor for sending a message to the user, using the mode of contact specified by the user

8. The system of claim 6 wherein said contact mode processor enables a user to define a set of rules specifying different modes of contact for different types of information.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein said personalization engine further comprises a user contact processor for sending a message to the user, using the set of rules specified by the user.

10. A method for providing user information to a server computer, comprising:

generating a user ID, in response to a user initiating a session accessing a server computer;

embedding a banner link within a web page to be transmitted from the server computer to the user, the banner link linking to a central computer and including the user ID;

issuing a request to the central computer to provide user information corresponding to the user ID;

receiving the user ID and a user subscriber number;

associating the user ID with the user subscriber number;

retrieving user information from a database of user information indexed by user subscriber numbers, based on the user subscriber number associated with the user ID; and

transmitting the user information from the central computer to the server computer, in response to the request.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein said generating a user ID comprises generating a universal unique identifier (UUID).

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the banner link is a link to a CGI program in the central computer.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein said receiving receives the user subscriber number from the user'"'"'s computer within an Internet browser cookie.

14. The method of claim 10 wherein the user information is formatted as an XML document.

15. The method of claim 10 further comprising specifying by the user a mode of contact for contacting the user.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising sending a message to the user from the server computer, using the mode of contact specified by the user

17. The method of claim 15 wherein said specifying comprises defining a set of rules specifying different modes of contact for different types of information.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising sending a message to the user from the server computer, using the set of rules specified by the user.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein the banner link is a link to a CGI program in the central computer.

21. The system of claim 19 further comprising a user contact processor for sending a message to the user via the central computer.

19. A system for providing user information to a server computer, comprising:

an ID generator generating a user ID, in response to a user initiating a session accessing a server computer;

a banner processor embedding a banner link within a web page to be transmitted from the server computer to the user, the banner link linking to a central computer and including the user ID; and

a request generator issuing a request to the central computer to provide user information corresponding to the user ID.

22. A method for providing user information to a server computer, comprising:

generating a user ID, in response to a user initiating a session accessing a server computer;

embedding a banner link within a web page to be transmitted from the server computer to the user, the banner link linking to a central computer and including the user ID; and

issuing a request to the central computer to provide user information corresponding to the user ID.

23. The method of claim 22 wherein the banner link is a link to a CGI program in the central computer.

24. The method of claim 22 further comprising sending a message to the user from the server computer via the central computer.

26. The system of claim 25 wherein the user subscriber number is delivered to said match processor from a user'"'"'s computer within an Internet browser cookie.

27. The system of claim 25 wherein the user information is formatted as an XML document.

28. The system of claim 25 further comprising a message manager for directing messages from the server computer to a user having a user subscriber number.

30. The method of claim 29 wherein said receiving receives the user subscriber number from a user'"'"'s computer within an Internet browser cookie.

31. The method of claim 29 wherein the user information is formatted as an XML document.

32. The method of claim 29 further comprising directing messages from the server computer to a user having a user subscriber number.

25. A system for providing user information to a server computer, comprising:

a database of user information indexed by user subscriber numbers;

a match processor within a central computer receiving a user ID and a user subscriber number from a server computer, and associating the user ID with the user subscriber number; and

a database manager retrieving user information about a user from said database in response to a request including the user ID.

29. A method for providing user information to a server computer, comprising:

receiving a user ID and a user subscriber number from a server computer;

associating the user ID with the user subscriber number; and

transmitting user information about a user from a database of user information indexed by user subscriber numbers, in response to a request including the user ID.