Network system for profiling and actively facilitating user activities
First Claim
1. A communication system for facilitating communication between a user and a network of information resources at respective remote network nodes, the system comprising:
- a local node having a user interface program thereon, for allowing a user to interface with the network and request a download of information items from the information resources;
a network interface coupled between the local node and the network;
a user interface including (i) means for receiving user commends representative of user actions and (ii) means for displaying received network responses of network information for viewing by a user;
means for recording a sequence of successive user actions and network responses;
means for developing a profile of user activities based on the user actions and network responses monitored in the step of monitoring; and
means for actively facilitating user activities based on the developed profile.
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Abstract
A system and method are provided for use with an communication and information network, such at the Internet World Wide Web, for assisting a user in accessing information stored at remote network sites based on the user'"'"'s past history of network usage. An archive is maintained of remote sites accessed and instances in which the same remote sites are accessed in sequence. Statistics regarding information such as the number of time a site has been accessed, and the times a given set of sites have been accessed in sequence, are maintained. This information may be displayed upon command. Based on this information, information items are identified which the user is predicted to be likely to want to access. This information is pre-downloaded, without express user command, so that if the user does enter a command, the response time is advantageously fast.
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22 Claims
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1. A communication system for facilitating communication between a user and a network of information resources at respective remote network nodes, the system comprising:
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a local node having a user interface program thereon, for allowing a user to interface with the network and request a download of information items from the information resources; a network interface coupled between the local node and the network; a user interface including (i) means for receiving user commends representative of user actions and (ii) means for displaying received network responses of network information for viewing by a user; means for recording a sequence of successive user actions and network responses; means for developing a profile of user activities based on the user actions and network responses monitored in the step of monitoring; and means for actively facilitating user activities based on the developed profile. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for facilitating communication between a user and a network of information resources at respective remote network nodes, the user having:
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a local node having a user interface program thereon, for allowing a user to interface with the network and request a download of information items from the information resources, a network interface coupled between the local node and the network, a user interface including (i) means for receiving user commends representative of user actions and (ii) means for displaying received network responses of network information for viewing by a user, the method comprising the steps of; recording a sequence of successive user actions and network responses; developing a profile of user activities based on the user actions and network responses monitored in the step of monitoring; and actively facilitating user activities based on the developed profile.
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22. A computer program product, for facilitating communication between a user and a network of information resources at respective remote network nodes, for use with a user communication system including:
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a local node having a user interface program thereon, for allowing a user to interface with the network and request a download of information items from the information resources, a network interface coupled between the local node and the network, and a user interface including (i) means for receiving user commends representative of user actions and (ii) means for displaying received network responses of network information for viewing by a user, the computer program product comprising; a computer-usable medium; means, recorded on the medium, for directing the user communication system to record a sequence of successive user actions and network responses; means, recorded on the medium, for directing the user communication system to develop a profile of user activities based on the user actions and network responses monitored in the step of monitoring; and means, recorded on the medium, for directing the user communication system to actively facilitate user activities based on the developed profile.
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