Patent ID: 7359905

Claim:
A method for localizing information resources relevant to a user, the method implemented at least in part by a computing device, comprising: establishing an extensible list of attributes of various information resources in an information system and assigning a user-selectable priority weight to each of the attributes in the list of attributes, wherein each information resource is classified according to one or more attributes; establishing an extensible list of values for the attributes in the extensible list of attributes, wherein each value is associated in the list with its corresponding attribute; selecting a first set of one or more of the values from the extensible list of values to be a first set of target criteria to designate a subset of the information resources relevant to the user based at least in part on priority weights selected by the user, wherein the priority weights of each attribute associated with a value in the first set of target criteria are added to obtain a priority sum for the first set of target criteria; selecting additional sets of target criteria to designate a spectrum of subsets of the information resources relevant to the user, wherein the additional sets of target criteria include priority weights selected by the user, and wherein the priority weights of each attribute associated with a value for each of the additional sets of target criteria are added respectively to obtain different priority sums for each of the additional sets of target criteria; comparing the different priority sums of each additional set of target criteria to the priority sum of the first set of target criteria to determine whether each of the additional sets of target criteria designates a more general or a more specific subset of information resources relevant to the user than designated by the first set of target criteria; and localizing information resources and content elements in the information system for the user of the information system by presenting the user with one or more of the subsets of the information resources relevant to the user which are designated by one or more of the first set of target criteria and the additional sets of target criteria.