Interactive personal directory

• US 7,020,646 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2003
• Issued: 03/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Catherine Brexel, Nathalie Vivensang
• Original Assignee: Catherine Brexel, Nathalie Vivensang
• Inventors: Brexel, Catherine, Vivensang, Nathalie
• Primary Examiner(s): Rones, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): ABEL JALIL, NEVEEN
• Application Number:
  US10/422,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20030187880A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,069 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 10, 707100-1041, 707/515, 707/522, 715/501.1, 709/202, 345/853
• US Class Current: 707/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99938 Concurrency, e.g. lock management in shared database

Abstract

A process for generating personalized digital directory pages for display with a navigator program including a personalization step including recording in a temporary memory of a client station a digital file corresponding to an HTML page comprising hypertext links for access to other pages and descriptors associated with pictograms and proceeding to a display of the page on the client station, recording in a temporary memory of the client station at least one personalization file comprising a link identifier and at least one personalization descriptor selected by the user, transmitting the content of the temporary memory to the server, and recording in a server memory the personalization file data linked with the user identifier and the link identifier in question.

Claims

1. A process for generating personalized digital directory pages for display with a navigator program including a personalization step comprising:

recording in a temporary memory of a client station a digital file corresponding to an HTML page comprising hypertext links for access to other pages and descriptors,

proceeding to a display of the page on the client station,

recording in a temporary memory of the client station at least one personalization file comprising a link identifier and at least one personalization descriptor selected by the user of the client station,

transmiffing the content of the temporary memory to the server, and

recording in a server memory the personalization file data linked with the user identifier and the link identifier, a first database of users comprising for each user a unique identifier and at least one associated user descriptor, a second database of sites comprising for each site a unique identifier and an address, a third database of site categories comprising for each category a unique identifier and a multiplicity of site identifiers, and a fourth database of descriptors comprising a unique identifier for each descriptor and a multiplicity of site identifiers and user identifiers, with a request from the client station comprising a category identifier and the user identifier, and causing the generation of a file comprising the site identifiers associated with the category identifier transmitted by the client station, and for each of said site identifiers the category identifier corresponding to the site identifier and the user identifier.

2. The process according to claim 1, wherein selection of the descriptor by the user is performed by designating one of the descriptors displayed on the directory page, recording the identity of the displayed descriptor, by designating the site and the transmission by the client station to the server of a digital file comprising pairs formed by at least one category descriptor and a site identifier.

3. The process according to claim 1, wherein the display comprises a filter enabling selection of the identifiers of the sites to be displayed as a function of associated personal descriptor value.

4. The process according to claim 1, further comprising selecting sites to be deleted comprising selecting a deletion descriptor, selecting one or more site identifiers, assigning a predefined value to a descriptor corresponding to each of the selected sites, and transmitting information to the server for recording in the descriptor database of the value in relation with the sites to be deleted.

5. The process according to claim 1, further comprising adding sites to a category including selecting a site identifier and assigning a value corresponding to an existing category, and transmitting the information to the server and recording in the category database the identifier of the selected site.

6. The process according to claim 1, further comprising adding an additional category.

7. The process according to claim 1, further comprising recording personal comments and displaying an icon linked to sites bearing a personal comment, the icon being associated with a link for switching between the display of the personal conmient or the public summary.

8. The process according to claim 1, further comprising recording a preloading indicator enabling command of the preloading of the associated site, and displaying commanding the appearance of a clickable icon for opening a window with the HTML page loaded in cache memory and causing modification of the appearance of the descriptor as a function of the preloading status in the process of loading in the cache memory, preloaded and immediately displayable, or already displayed during the session.