System and method for organizing repositories of information and publishing in a personalized manner

• US 20070027931A1
• Filed: 04/21/2006
• Published: 02/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Indra Heckenbach
• Original Assignee: Indra Heckenbach
• Inventors: Heckenbach, Indra
• Application Number:
  US11/409,316
• Publication Number:
  US 20070027931A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

An information system, used for collecting and organizing content using rich metadata and/or other classes of information, analyzing the content using various algorithms, and publishing the content to users in various formats. The system can have aspects of a database, analysis system, document publishing system, and user interactivity interface.

Claims

1. A method of managing repositories of information, comprising the steps of:

providing content elements;

providing one or more instances of one or more metadata classes;

providing viewer preferences of a viewer;

prioritizing the content elements responsive to analysis of the content elements, the instances of metadata classes, and the viewer preferences.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

selecting content elements responsive to their prioritization.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of:

publishing a first document comprising the selected content elements.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of:

generating one or more travel guides.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of:

generating one or more recipe collections.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of:

generating one or more meal plans

7. The method of claim 1, wherein content elements are provided by a plurality of contributors.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of:

selecting content elements responsive to their prioritization.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising the step of:

publishing a first document comprising the selected content elements.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the steps of:

measuring distinct contributors'"'"' proportional contributions to a published first document;

partitioning a revenue stream resulting from a published first document into a plurality of portions, each portion corresponding to a distinct contributor, and

wherein the size of each portion is responsive to a measured proportional contribution of a corresponding distinct contributor.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of:

generating one or more travel guides.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of:

generating one or more recipe collections.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of:

generating one or more meal plans.