System and method for an adaptive user communications device
First Claim
1. A targeting system for adapting a device to a user, comprising:
- at least one communications device in communication with at least one network;
a virtual database accessible to at least one of said at least one communications device over the at least one network, wherein said virtual database comprises;
at least one actual user characteristic accepted over the at least one network; and
a heuristic modeler that generates at least one heuristic user characteristic in accordance with the at least one actual user characteristic; and
a searcher that provides content to said at least one of said at least one communications device over the at least one network, in accordance with said virtual database.
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Abstract
A system and method for providing a personalized advertisement for a good or service for display to a user is described. The system includes a communications device operated by the user; a virtual person database comprising information about the user; and a search engine useful for finding advertisements of interest to the user and generating personalized advertisements for display on the communications device. The method includes the steps of storing data concerning the user in a virtual person database wherein the database, searching the virtual person database and accessing at least one vendor'"'"'s advertisement, selecting at least one vendor'"'"'s advertisement based on time and location of the communications device and content of the virtual database, personalizing the advertisement to target the user, transmitting the personalized advertisement to the user'"'"'s communications device, and updating the virtual person database upon the response of the advertisement by the user.
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105 Claims
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1. A targeting system for adapting a device to a user, comprising:
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at least one communications device in communication with at least one network;
a virtual database accessible to at least one of said at least one communications device over the at least one network, wherein said virtual database comprises;
at least one actual user characteristic accepted over the at least one network; and
a heuristic modeler that generates at least one heuristic user characteristic in accordance with the at least one actual user characteristic; and
a searcher that provides content to said at least one of said at least one communications device over the at least one network, in accordance with said virtual database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52)
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53. A system for providing a personalized targeted message to a user, comprising:
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a communications device operated by the user;
a virtual database comprising at least one characteristic about said user;
a searcher having access to a plurality of targeted messages and to said virtual database, wherein said searcher filters at least one of the targeted messages that is of interest to the user according to at least one of the at least one characteristics; and
wherein said searcher communicates the at least one targeted message of interest to said communications device for provision to the user. - View Dependent Claims (54, 55, 56, 57)
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58. An adaptive wireless communication device network, comprising:
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a wireless communication device;
at least one first database comprising actual information entered by a user of the wireless device;
at least one second database comprising monitored information of behavior by the user of the wireless device;
at least one heuristic database comprising heuristically estimated information on user behavior, wherein the heuristically estimated information is estimated in accordance with said at least one first database and said at least one second database;
a searcher that performs a search in accordance with at least one of said at least one first database, said at least one second database, and said at least one heuristic database, and that returns a result of the search to said wireless device.
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59. A method of targeting content to a user of a communications device, comprising:
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building a virtual database of information regarding the user;
modeling at least one probabilistic behavior of the user, in accordance with the virtual database;
searching for content targeted to the at least one modeled probabilistic behavior; and
providing the content to the communications device. - View Dependent Claims (60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80)
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81. An adaptive message targeting system, comprising:
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means for accepting a virtual database of information regarding the user;
means for modeling at least one probabilistic behavior of the user, in accordance with the virtual database;
means for searching for content targeted to the at least one modeled probabilistic behavior; and
means for providing the content to the communications device. - View Dependent Claims (82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90)
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91. A virtual database for use in targeting messages to at least one user of a communications device, comprising:
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at least one network interface to at least one network;
a plurality of device interfaces to at least one of the communications devices;
a searching interface;
a storage database comprising at least one actual user characteristic of the at least one user and the at least one heuristic user characteristic of the at least one user; and
a controller communicatively connected to the at least one network interface, the plurality of device interfaces, the searching interface, and the storage database;
wherein said controller generates the at least one heuristic user characteristic in accordance with the at least one actual user characteristic, and wherein said controller generates a search for the searching interface in accordance with at least one of the at least one heuristic user characteristic, the at least one actual user characteristic, a monitoring of the at least one network interface, and a monitoring of at least one of the plurality of device interfaces. - View Dependent Claims (92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102)
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103. A searcher for use in targeting messages to at least one user of a wireless communications device, comprising:
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a first data bank of user characteristics, wherein said first data bank includes at least one user characteristic entered by the user, and at least one user characteristic monitored by a device monitor monitoring the wireless communications device;
a comparator communicatively connected to said first data bank;
a second data bank of objective characteristics communicatively connected to said comparator, wherein the objective characteristics are compared to the user characteristics by said comparator for a probabilistic message target;
an available content data bank including available content;
a content filter communicatively connected to said comparator and to said available content data bank, wherein the content filter accesses the available content, and filters the available content in accordance with the probabilistic message target output from said comparator;
wherein the filtered available content is displayed to the user on the wireless communications device. - View Dependent Claims (104, 105)
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