Patent ID: 7698407
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for providing targeted content to a personal portal of a particular user in a distributed environment, said distributed environment being managed by a plurality of administrators, said personal portal including personalized content, said method comprising: defining a user profile of the particular user, said user profile comprising user profile data and the personalized content, said user profile data being specified by at least one of the administrators and said personalized content being specified by the user, said defining comprising associating one or more page lists with the user profile; defining at least one personal page of the user, said at least one personal page comprising the personalized content of the user; associating the at least one personal page with the user profile data of the user; registering, by the administrator, the at least one personal page, said registering comprising: defining one or more personalized workspace pages to be displayed to the particular user via the personal portal, said workspace pages including workspace content managed by each of the administrators; adding the defined one or more personalized workspace pages to the one or more page lists associated with the user profile; determining, by the administrator, workspace content to be provided to the user on the personalized workspace pages via the personal portal, said workspace content including a set of predetermined content parameters; selecting, by the administrator, targeted content from the workspace content as a function of the set of predetermined content parameters; filtering, by the administrator, the selected targeted content as a function of the user profile data; and rendering the filtered targeted content on the personalized workspace pages via the personal portal and rendering the personalized content on the at least one personal page via the personal portal for the particular user whereby the personal portal provides a single user experience.