Patent ID: 6681369
Filing Date: 2004-01-20
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for providing document change information to a community of users, comprising:a document recommendation element for providing document recommendations to each user in the community of users based on a user profile; document representation storage, for storing representations of said recommended documents; a document registration element coupled to said document recommendation element, said document registration element for enabling users to identify a recommended document for which they would like to be notified of changes; a document change monitoring element coupled to said document registration element, said document change monitoring element for detecting a change to said recommended document and reporting said change, having a type, to said document recommendation element; and a user notification element coupled to said document recommendation element, said user notification element for notifying users in the community of users of said change when they registered with said document registration element to be notified of changes to said recommended document; wherein said document recommendation element further comprises one or more action elements for responding to said change reported by said document change monitoring element; each of said one or more action elements performing a different action related to said recommended document according to the type of said change; and wherein one of said one or more action elements takes action responsive to a change in content of said recommended document, and wherein said action taken is to notify users of said recommended document of said change, to solicit feedback of said change, and to provide said feedback to other users of said recommended document in the community of users.