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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9495406-B2
Application number	US-201414527228-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 29, 2014
Priority date	Apr 27, 2004
Publication date	Nov 15, 2016
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016

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 method, comprising:
receiving, by a computer processor, content in the form of one or more content objects and storing the one or more content objects in a content database;
receiving, by the computer processor, 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;
storing, by the computer processor, the content information in a content information database;
receiving, by the computer processor, 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;
comparing, by the computer processor, the new content information to the content information stored in the content information database;
determining, by the computer processor, that one or more of the one more content objects should be re-categorized in response to comparing;
physically replacing, by the computer processor, 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;
updating by the computer processor, the stored content information in the content information database with the new content information;
comparing 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;
detecting 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
providing the detected change to the user.

2. The method 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 method of claim 2 , further comprising adding new references to the one or more content objects in the content database.

4. The method of claim 3 , 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 method of claim 1 , further comprising, determining, by the computer processor, that new content information does not represent a deletion of content.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising;
providing updated content to the user based on the detecting the change in at least one of the user profile and the relevant content information based the timestamps of the time stamped interest categories and time stamped content information.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
maintaining a table based on the user profile information, 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 time stamped interest categories.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Jones Gregory L
• Phoenix Brian N
• Tamlyn Ralph

Classifications

• G06F17/30365 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30324

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30598

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/2237 Primary

  Vectors, bitmaps or matrices · CPC title

• G06F16/2282

  Tablespace storage structures; Management thereof · CPC title