US 2004/0073608 A1 · Supply of personalised information

Abstract

An apparatus is provided for use in supplying personalised information for users of an information or similar system. In particular, an apparatus is provided with capability to access to one or more suppliers of information, the apparatus including a facility for allocating a common reference for a particular user for use in communications between the apparatus and a particular information supplier. The apparatus is also provided with means for inviting a selected information supplier to supply personalised information for presentation to that user, identifying the user with the respectively allocated common reference. The common reference enables a particular user to be consistently identified so that user profile information held independently by two or more entities may contribute to the selection and generation of personalised information for that user or group of users.

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Dependent claims

Apparatus for use in the supply of personalised information to users over a communications network, comprising:

serving means for communicating with a user over said communications network, identifying said user by means of a first user identifier;
an interface for accessing at least one information server;
allocating means for allocating a second user identifier for said user, different to said first user identifier, for use in respect of said at least one information server;
and
information processing means for receiving, by means of said interface, personalised information in respect of said user, output by said at least one information server, wherein said user is identified by means of said second user identifier, and for outputting personalised information so received to said serving means for transmitting to said user.

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An information access system for supplying personalised information to users over a communications network, comprising:

first serving means arranged with access to said communications network for transmitting personalised information to a user, identifying said user by means of a first user identifier;
and
second serving means having a store for storing a user profile of said user and means for identifying said user by means of a second user identifier, different to said first user identifier, and for selecting personalised information, according to said second user identifier and the contents of said user profile, for sending to said user under the control of said first serving means,
wherein at least one of said first and second serving means include means for allocating a further identifier for said user, different to said first and second user identifiers, and wherein each of said first and second serving means are arranged to use said further identifier, in place of said first and second identifiers, to identify said user in transactions there between relating to the supply of personalised information for said user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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