Patent ID: 6366956
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
In an organization having multiple members and an internal data communications network through which the multiple members can access and retrieve objects from the Internet, a method for enhancing efficiencies with which objects retrieved from the Internet are maintained for access by the multiple members, the method comprising:monitoring information flows between the internal data communications network and the Internet, the monitoring identifying information requests for objects from one or more of the multiple members and responses from the Internet that contain requested objects; ascertaining the identities of individual members who request and receive objects from the Internet; determining patterns of information access for one or more of the multiple members; constructing an object profile for individual objects that are retrieved from the Internet; developing a listing of one or more objects that are retrieved from the Internet that are likely to be of interest to individual members who did not request the one or more objects, the list being developed by considering object profiles and member patterns of information access; and presenting the listing to at least one member of the organization.