Patent ID: 6952713

Claim:
An information processing device comprising: a first storage device for storing units of primary information; a user operable interface for making selections from the stored units of primary information to be processed and/or from functions to be invoked; a second storage device; a presentation device for presenting information; and a personalizing processor configured for deriving, from said selections, personalizing information that includes information other than the mere fact that the selected units were selected, in order to store the derived personalizing information in the second storage device said processor being further configured to, in response to a unit of said stored units of primary information being processed: a) retrieve, from the second storage device, a respective portion of the stored, derived, personalizing information; and b) operate the presentation device to present the retrieved portion, the device including communication means for exchanging units of primary information with a similar information processing device, wherein the personalizing means is arranged to attach a personal tag to a unit of primary information to be sent to the similar information processing device, the personalizing means also being arranged to detach a personal tag from a received unit of primary information and store it as personalizing information in the second storage device.