Patent ID: 6654735
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for determining an interest profile of a user based on the user's outbound communication streams, comprising:monitoring in real time a text information stream entered by the user of a computer application program comprising text editing functionality, wherein the text information is based on the user's outbound communication streams and wherein said text information is not a search query; extracting keywords from the text information, wherein the keywords are not defined by the user nor guided by the user; generating database queries from the keywords wherein the generation of database queries is not defined nor guided by the user; retrieving database information relevant to the queries; and presenting the database information to the user, wherein the database information is of interest to the user and based on the user's outbound communication streams; wherein the monitoring, generating, retrieving, and presenting are performed automatically and in the background while the computer application program is being used.