Patent ID: 6708203
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method to filter messages for rendering on a client information processing system comprising the steps of:creating a list of at least one message; associating one or more criteria for the message; downloading the message from at least one server information processing system to a client information processing system for subsequent rendering of the message; selecting the message to be rendered based on the criteria; rendering the message selected when disconnected from communicating with the server information processing system, whereby the rendering of the message is triggered by a user initiated event selected from the group of user initiated events of dialing up to a network, connecting to a broadband connection, starting-up, shutting-down, printing, starting a removable computer readable medium, and stopping a computer readable medium; and generating a report of the message rendered whereby the report contains the criteria used for selecting the message based upon one or more settable privacy flags, so that what one of the privacy flags is set for reporting, the report generated contains at least a portion of the one or more criteria for selecting the message, and when one of the privacy flags is set for not reporting, then the report generated does not include the portion of the one or more criteria for selecting the message.