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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsColin I' Anson, Rycharde Jeffery Hawkes, James Thomas Edward McDonnell, John Deryk Waters, Lawrence Wilcock
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A method is provided of adapting a user interface to the user's current situation. The method involves a user specifying a home-area interface (83), for example, a web browser home page, and an “away” interface (84). When the user connects to a network (10) using a device (20) and calls up his/her browser home page, a determination is made of the location of the device in order to decide which version of the home page is to be served back to the user device by the home-page server of the user. In a preferred embodiment, the “away” home page (84) includes specific types of local data of interest to the user (such as best local restaurants). When asked to provide the “away” home page, the homepage server uses this information to find the URLs of local special interest web sites (122) carrying the relevant type of data, the server inserting these URLs in the “away” home page (84) before providing it to the user device (20) concerned.
A method of adapting a user interface to the user's current situation, comprising the steps of:
A method according to claim l, wherein the interface specification data is stored in an Internet-accessible data store to which a user has dial-up access for the purposes of specifying and/or modifying the interface specification data, the interface specification data being accessed over the internet by a user device either via a dial up connection or over the internet to provide the data set appropriate for the current location of the user device effecting access.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.