US 2004/0098467 A1 · Methods and systems for implementing a customized life portal

Abstract

Methods and systems for implementing a user-created life portal for viewing and accessing content on the Internet are described. The platform, referred to as a life portal, is configured by the user to display only content that is of interest to the user, thereby reflecting the personality and life of the user. The content is displayed as a view or a magazine. A life portal is implemented by a life portal service provider such that a client computer executing a life portal is not required to download or install any applications either during creation of the life portal or while utilizing the life portal. Referred to as a client-side implementation, a client executing a life portal retrieves content for its own views and a user can access her life portal from any client computer with a browser and connected to the Internet.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A method of implementing a life portal on the Internet comprising:

(a) creating a life portal on a client computer, whereby a life portal applet is embedded in a browser on the client computer;
(b) executing a life portal on the client computer, whereby a request is transmitted from the client computer to a third-party server and view data is transmitted from the third-party server to the client computer;
(c) using the view data to scrape content from third-party web sites;
and
(d) displaying the content in the life portal on the client computer.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/298,181Filed 15 Nov 2002

Published

20 May 2004

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04L 69/329
Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions: in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
G06F 16/954
Retrieval from the web: navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
H04L 67/02
Protocols: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
H04L 67/34
Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications: involving the movement of software or configuration parameters

Methods and systems for implementing a customized life portal

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