Patent Document ID: 20070078730
Application ID: 11583497
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A device for reproducing information provided in information objects, comprising: a selector for randomly selecting an information object on the basis of an adaptive probability distribution to obtain a selected information object; a reproducer for reproducing a piece of information provided in the information object selected; a capturer for capturing a user's behavior upon the reproduction of the information provided in the information object selected; and an adaptor for adapting the adaptive probability distribution on the basis of the behavior captured, wherein each information object has category association data associated with it which associates it with one or several categories from a set of categories, the probability distribution being at least partly defined by a weighting association specification which associates at least one weighting value with each category, and the selector for randomly selecting being configured to perform the selection in dependence on the weighting association specification and the category association data associated with the information object selected, wherein the device further comprises a capturer for capturing a situation-related parameter which describes a situation in which the user's captured behavior occurs to obtain a captured value for the situation-related parameter, the weighting association specification associating, with each category, one weighting value, respectively, for different possible values of the situation-related parameter, and the selector for randomly selecting being configured to perform the selection in dependence on the weighting association specification, the captured value of the situation-related parameter, and the category association data associated with the object selected.