PERSISTENT SEARCH NOTIFICATION

• US 20100153448A1
• Filed: 12/12/2008
• Published: 06/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: O'Sullivan, Patrick, Harpur, Liam S., Zimmet, Carol S.
• Application Number:
  US12/333,539
• Publication Number:
  US 20100153448A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/779
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A method for conducting automated persistent searches with notifications includes receiving user inputted topic search criteria; receiving user inputted notification criteria; receiving user inputted search preferences; determining information content sources and collaborative environments to search in response to the user inputted topic search criteria; determining user context information from an event with a defined time of occurrence in response to user input or from a user'"'"'s calendar and scheduling application; wherein user context information defines a period of relevancy for retrieved information content from a persistent search; performing a persistent search until an exit criteria is met by repeatedly interrogating the determined information content sources and the collaborative environments while taking into account the user'"'"'s context information; and sending one or more notifications to one or more users upon meeting the exit criteria.

Claims

1. A method for conducting automated persistent searches with notifications, the method comprising:

receiving user inputted topic search criteria;

receiving user inputted notification criteria;

receiving user inputted search preferences;

determining information content sources and collaborative environments to search in response to the user inputted topic search criteria;

determining user context information from an event with a defined time of occurrence in response to user input or from a user'"'"'s calendar and scheduling application;

wherein user context information defines a period of relevancy for retrieved information content from a persistent search;

performing a persistent search until an exit criteria is met by repeatedly interrogating the determined information content sources and the collaborative environments while taking into account the user'"'"'s context information; and

sending one or more notifications to one or more users upon meeting the exit criteria.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the received user notification criteria further comprise:

specifying how, and with what frequency to receive notifications in the event of a search match, whether to notify the user in the event of a change in searched match content, and which users to notify based on an ordered taxonomy.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the persistent search is performed in response to a triggering event, comprising one or more of:

calendar, planning, and scheduling application events or entries, ‘

To Do’

lists in a calendar, planning, and scheduling applications, application activities, and user activities.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein search criteria are shared between users.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein search criteria are built in a template format.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of information content sources and collaborative environments to search is based on fuzzy logic.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the exit criteria are based on the determined context information, notification criteria, and search preferences.