Patent ID: 8402490

Claim:
A system, comprising: a memory storing at least a portion of a user profile comprising user-specific information desirability characteristics and user-specific information undesirability characteristics, which are each at least partially automatically derived from observing the user interact with information without receiving user feedback, and a history of user executed functions; an input port configured to receive descriptions of a plurality of available information items; and a processor, configured to access the memory, and to: receive the descriptions of the plurality of available information items, retrieve the at least a portion of the user profile from the memory, process the descriptions of the plurality of available information items, in conjunction with the at least a portion of the user profile retrieved from the memory, generate a set of available choices and present the available choices for selection by a user, the set of available choices comprising a subset of the plurality of information items comprising information items predicted to be desirable to the user, with a bias against repetition, and automatically update the user profile comprising user-specific information desirability characteristics and user-specific information undesirability characteristics based on user selection of an information item by the user.