Patent ID: 6721748
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
An electronic content provider system for use by a community of subscribers, which system operates in part on an online server, said system comprising:a first routine running on the online server for retrieving general interest content accessible by all of the community of subscribers; and a second routine running on the online server for retrieving customized content compiled by the electronic content provider system on behalf of a particular subscriber in the community of subscribers in response to one or more custom content interests identified in requests provided by said particular subscriber over a network to the electronic content provider system, said customized content being made accessible by the electronic provider system over the network only to said particular subscriber and other subscribers requesting said customized content; a third routine running on the server for processing at least said general interest content at predetermined intervals to construct searchable collections of said general interest content, said searchable collections being arranged into a set of predefined query parameters; and a fourth routine running on the server for interacting with a web browser program executing at subscriber computer systems remote from the online server, said fourth routine being adapted for handling subscriber queries to both said general interest content and customized content, such that said subscriber queries for said general interest content are based on said set of predefined query parameters so that said fourth routine uses said searchable collections for responding to subscriber queries made to the general interest content.