Patent ID: 7792986

Claim:
A process implemented across a network, comprising the steps of: providing advisories at an advice provider, each of the advisories comprising a relevance clause comprising an assertion about any of the state of a consumer computer, contents of the consumer computer, and the environment of the consumer computer, and content associated with the relevance clause whose suitability is at least partially determined by an automatic evaluation of the clause at the consumer computer; 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.