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

A method for managing content information, comprising:

• tagging user profile information as categories;
• tagging content information as categories;
• comparing the tagged user profile information and the tagged content information categories to determine a common set of categories;
• retrieving the content information associated with the common set of categories;
• and
• updating a user's workstation with the retrieved content upon a triggering event.

A method for providing categorized information to a user, the method comprising:

• tagging a user profile having descriptors of at least a user's interests and a user's responsibilities with at least one of a time stamp and one or more categories;
• providing information content by labeling one or more content objects and tagging the information content with a time stamp and the one or more categories;
• detecting a change in at least one of the user profile and the one or more content objects based on at least one of the time stamp and the one or more categories;
• and
• updating a workstation based on the detected change.

A method for providing information to a user, the method comprising:

• developing user profile information with category tags;
• developing content profile information with category tags;
• comparing the combined set of tags to determine matching tags;
• retrieving the content associated with the matching tags;
• and
• updating a workstation with the retrieved content based on a triggering event.

A system for providing information to a user comprising:

• a means for defining one or more user profile vectors (UPVs) based on user information;
• a means for defining one or more content tagging vectors (CTVs) based upon content objects;
• a means for comparing the one or more UPVs and the one or more CTVs to generate a list of matching content identifiers (MCIs) which is associated with relevant information content;
• and
• a means for providing the relevant content information based on a triggering event.

A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having readable program code embodied in the medium, the computer program product includes at least one component to:

• tag a user profile having descriptors of at least a user's interests and a user's responsibilities with at least one of a time stamp and one or more categories;
• provide information content by labeling one or more content objects and tagging the information content with a time stamp and the one or more categories;
• detect a change in at least one of the user profile and the one or more content objects based on at least one of the time stamp and the one or more categories;
• and
• update a workstation based on the detected changes.