Patent ID: 7792986
Filing Date: 2010-09-07
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A process implemented across a network, comprising the steps of: providing advisories at an advice provider, each of the advisories comprising placing the advisories at an advice site connected to the network; synchronizing the advisories between the advice site and a consumer computer, wherein the synchronization is performed any of continuously, automatically and manually, and wherein the synchronization comprises maintaining a one-to-one correspondence between advisories stored on the consumer computer with advisories located at the advice site; locally determining relevance of the advisories stored on the consumer computer through an advice reader at the consumer computer, wherein the local determination of relevance comprises an interpretation by the advice reader of the relevance clauses to determine which advisories are relevant to inspected properties of any of the state of the consumer computer, contents of the consumer computer, and the environment of the consumer computer; and presenting the user with information associated with advisories that are locally determined to be relevant by the advice reader.