Patent ID: 6473752
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for identifying computer documents of interest to a user of a computer without specification by the user of topics of interest, the computer having access to computer documents, each computer document having contents related to one or more topics, the computer having a computer document search engine for receiving one or more search topics and for identifying accessible computer documents whose contents are related to the search topics, the method comprising:for each of a plurality of computer documents, receiving an indication from the user to display the computer document; monitoring interactions by the user with the displayed computer document; and recording information related to the monitored user interactions; and without user intervention, for each of the displayed computer documents, analyzing the contents of the computer document to identify topics related to the contents; generating topics of interest to the user from the recorded interactions information and the identified topics such that the generated topics of interest to the user are discarded if monitored user interactions with the displayed computer documents whose contents are related to the topic do not reach a threshold level; prioritizing the generated topics based on degree of interest to the user; using the computer document search engine to identify accessible computer documents whose contents are related to the prioritized generated topics; and automatically presenting the identified computer documents to the user for possible display such that identified computer documents with contents related to higher priority generated topics are presented before identified computer documents with contents related to priority generated topics.