Method and system for matching appropriate content with users by matching content tags and profiles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016357803-A1
Application number	US-201615237998-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 16, 2016
Priority date	Apr 27, 2004
Publication date	Dec 8, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method and system is provided for classifying and labeling information content and also for profiling a user for accessing the information content, both using a coordinated labeling technique so that content from multiple sources may be searched, identified and/or presented to the user according to the user's profile. This technique provides an ongoing update of information content and sources while filtering out unnecessary information that is irrelevant to the user's profile, resulting in focused availability of information to the user. The user profile is matched with content of interest and matching content information may automatically be updated and made available to a user, in conformity with the user's profile. Content providers may now jointly use a common labeling scheme to improve the experience of their users and to provide content providers a technique to associate users with common facets of classification.

First claim

What is claimed:

1 . A computer program product comprising a computer readable hardware storage device and program instructions stored on the computer readable hardware storage device, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to receive content in the form of one or more content objects and storing the one or more content objects in a content database; program instructions to receive content information regarding the one or more content objects, the content information including interest categories of the one or more content objects and timestamps indicating when the one or more content object were created; program instructions to store the content information in a content information database; program instructions to receive new content information regarding the one or more content objects, the new content information including updated interest categories of the one or more content objects; program instructions to compare the new content information to the content information stored in the content information database; program instructions to determine that one or more of the one more content objects should be re-categorized in response to the comparing; program instructions to physically replace the one or more of the one or more content objects in the content database in response to determining that the one or more of the one or more content objects should be re-categorized; program instructions to update the stored content information in the content information database with the new content information; program instructions to compare one or more stored user profile vectors of a user profile of a user and one or more stored content tagging vectors representing the one or more content objects to generate matching content identifiers which are associated with relevant content information, wherein the one or more stored user profile vectors are based on user profile information including time stamped interest categories, and the one or more stored content tagging vectors are based on time stamps of the updated content information; program instructions to detect a change in the user profile and the relevant content information based on timestamps of the time stamped interest categories and the time stamps of the updated content information; and program instructions to provide the detected change to the user.

2 . The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the updating the stored content information in the content information database includes deleting unused references to the one or more content objects in the content information database.

3 . The computer program product of claim 2 , further comprising program instructions to add new references to the one or more content objects in the content database.

4 . The computer program product of claim 2 , wherein the updating the stored content information in the content information database includes updating timestamps of the one or more content objects in the content database, wherein the updated timestamp indicates when the one or more content objects was last altered.

5 . The computer program product of claim 1 , further comprising program instructions to determine that new content information does not represent a deletion of content.

6 . A system, comprising:
a processor; a computer readable hardware storage device; program instructions recorded on the computer readable hardware storage device for execution by the processor, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to determine that the user has updated a content object stored in a content database in association with an updated timestamp;
program instructions to determine one or more interest categories associated with the content object;
program instructions to determine that the one or more interest categories of the content are different than stored categories of the content object and the content object should be re-categorized;
program instructions to physically replace the content object and update the timestamp;
program instructions to compare the updated timestamp with a timestamp of an interest category in a user profile, wherein the interest category in the user profile matches the one or more interest categories associated with the content object; and
program instructions to trigger an update of the content object to the user associated with the user profile based on the comparing the updated timestamp with the timestamp of the interest category to provide the user with a re-categorized content object.

7 . The system of claim 6 , further comprising:
maintaining a table based on the user profile, wherein each row of the table includes: a user ID; a classification identifier that denotes classified or unclassified; an audience identifier; a geographic identifier; a row status identifier indicating whether the row is new; and a last change time identifier including one of the timestamps of the interest category.

8 . The system of claim 7 , further comprising program instructions to determine that the updated content object stored in the content database does not represent a deletion of content.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Jones Gregory L
• Phoenix Brian N
• Tamlyn Ralph

Classifications

• G06F17/30598

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/306

  User profiles · CPC title

• G06F17/30365 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30339

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30324

  Physics · mapped topic