Patent ID: 6448980
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
A method for providing personalized media presentations over a network to user's terminal comprising:delivering to the terminal hypermedia presentation streams of rich media material and a hierarchy of the hypermedia descriptions of hypermedia presentation streams for navigation by the user on the descriptions and presentation streams in at least three different modes of operation; exposing a different set of selectable attributes in each the modes of operation; allowing the user to switch between the modes and once in a particular mode select selectable attributes exposed in that mode; gathering data about the user's interests expressed through selection events generated at the terminal by the user's navigation over the descriptions and presentation streams; using the gathered data to generate a user model; and dynamically changing what is delivered and rendered at the terminal in response to a new selection event in the user model based on the gathered selection events and reflected in the user model.