Patent ID: 8386488
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing information to a user, the method comprising: acquiring user profile information using a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays selectable categories to the user; defining one or more user profile vectors (UPVs) based on the user profile information defined by selected ones of the categories; acquiring content categorization information using a content publishing form that displays selectable content category prompts to a provider of content objects; defining one or more content tagging vectors (CTVs) based upon the content categorization information; comparing the one or more UPVs and the one or more CTVs to generate a list of matching content identifiers (MCIs) which is associated with relevant content information; providing the relevant content information based on a triggering event; and comparing the list of MCIs with stored content identifiers (SCI) for determining whether the relevant content information is already present on a user workstation maintaining a table based on the user profile information acquired from the GUI, and wherein each row of the able includes: a user id; a classification identifier that denotes classified or unclassified; an audience identifier; a geographic identifier; a row status identifier indicating whether the row is new; and a last change time identifier including a time stamp defining when a last update to the row occurred; and wherein each row of the able is indicative of one of the UPVs.