Content presentation based on user preferences

• US 8,317,097 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2011
• Issued: 11/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Flake, Gary W., Horvitz, Eric J., Goodman, Joshua T., Brill, Eric D., Brunell, Bradly A., Dumais, Susan T., Gounares, Alexander G., Griffin, Trenholme J., Hurst-Hiller, Oliver, Ozzie, Raymond E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Ahshik
• Application Number:
  US13/189,849
• Publication Number:
  US 20110282954A1
• Time in Patent Office: 491 Days
• Field of Search: 235/383, 705/10, 705/14, 705/27
• US Class Current: 235/383
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0227 Filtering policies mail message filtering H04L51/212
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1483 service impersonation, e.g. phishing, pharming or web spoofing detection of rogue wireless access points H04W12/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/12 Detection or prevention of fraud

Abstract

Architecture is provided that facilitates user-controlled access to user profile information related to spam filtering. A user is allowed to selectively expose (or mask) portions of his/her profile related to spam filtering to third parties. Additionally, advertisers and/or content providers can offer incentives or enticement in response to the acceptance of which a user exposes larger portions of their profiles related to spam filtering. The architecture comprises a system that facilitates profile management utilizing a profile component that facilitates creation and storage of an electronic profile including spam filtering information of a user, and a control component under control of the user for controlling access to the profile.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions;

receiving a request to access a website from a user;

requesting user profile information specific to spam filtering from the user in exchange for additional access or information of the website;

negotiating between the website and the user for allowing the website to access the user profile information specific to the spam filtering; and

receiving the user profile information specific to the spam filtering from the user.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the user profile information comprises spam filter rules imposed by the user to manage spam.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising customizing content that is able to bypass the spam filtering of the user.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, further comprising sending the customized content to a user client of the user.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising providing the additional access or the information of the website to the user in response to receiving the user profile information specific to the spam filtering from the user.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the negotiating comprises agreeing, by the website, to criteria defined in a user profile of the user in exchange for allowing the website to send content that is able to bypass the spam filtering of the user to a user client of the user.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein prior to the negotiating, the website is allowed to access certain user profile information limited by a predetermined mask associated with the website that is enabled by the user client of the user.

8. One or more computer storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:

receiving a request to access a website from a user;

requesting user profile information specific to spam filtering from the user in exchange for additional access or information of the website;

negotiating between the website and the user for allowing the website to access the user profile information specific to the spam filtering; and

receiving the user profile information specific to the spam filtering from the user.

9. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 8, wherein the user profile information comprises spam filter rules imposed by the user to manage spam.

10. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 8, further comprising customizing content that is able to bypass the spam filtering of the user.

11. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 10, further comprising sending the customized content to a user client of the user.

12. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 8, further comprising providing the additional access or the information of the website to the user in response to receiving the user profile information specific to the spam filtering from the user.

13. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 8, wherein the negotiating comprises agreeing, by the website, to criteria defined in a user profile of the user in exchange for allowing the website to send content that is able to bypass the spam filtering of the user to a user client of the user.

14. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 13, wherein prior to the negotiating, the website is allowed to access certain user profile information limited by a predetermined mask associated with the website that is enabled by the user client of the user.

15. A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions;

negotiating between an entity and a user for permission to send content from the entity to the user based on a user profile of the user;

receiving, by the entity, access to user profile information of the user that is related to a spam rule in response to agreeing to a requirement indicated in the user profile;

customizing, by the entity, the content that is able to bypass the spam rule; and

sending the content from the entity to the user.

16. The method as recited in claim 15, further comprising offering, by the entity, an enticement in exchange for the access to the user profile information of the user that is related to the spam rule.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, further comprising providing the enticement to the user in response to receiving the access to the user profile information of the user that is related to the spam rule.

18. The method as recited in claim 15, wherein the enticement comprises additional access or information related to the entity.