Patent ID: 7073135

Claim:
A method of information personalisation, said information having an associated status indication, said method comprising the steps of: displaying said information; determining the presence of one or more attributes associated with said status indication, wherein at least one of said attributes is associated with the number of times said information has been viewed; in response to a successful determining step, comparing each of said attributes against a separate respective threshold, in which each of said separate respective thresholds determines rendering of said associated status indication, by comparing a first value to a second value, wherein comparing said first value to said second value further comprises utilising said first value representing a number of times said information has been viewed, wherein utilizing a first value further comprises secondly determining if a data block comprising said first value is present, whereby in response to a successful secondly determining step, said first value is utilised and in response to an unsuccessful secondly determining step, said first value is assigned, wherein comparing said further value to said second value further comprises utilizing said second value representing one of said separate respective thresholds and specifying a threshold number of viewing times, wherein in response to a successful determining step, utilizing said second value associated with each of the attributes or assigning, in response to an unsuccessful determining step, said second value; in response to said comparing step, if one or more of said separate respective thresholds are met, rendering for display, said associated status indication as an updated status indication, and if one or more of said separate respective thresholds are not met, rendering for display, said associated status indication.