US 2015/0106349 A1 · Personal Agent Homepage Integration

Abstract

A user profile is constructed from implicit user signals, such as prior searches, as well as from explicit user signals. The user profile informs which types of information is proactively obtained for the user. The proactively obtained information is ranked so that only the highest ranked information is proactively presented to the user. The proactive presentation of information to the user can take the form of tiles, or other like graphical elements, that can comprise images with text indicative of information that is being proactively presented to the user. User action directed to a tile can result in the presentation of further information.

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Dependent claims

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

receiving, from the user, a request for a document representing a portal through which the user accesses information;
obtaining, from a user profile associated with the user, identifications of information to collect and proactively present to the user, the information to collect being identified based on explicit user indications and inferences from implicit user indicators;
collecting the identified information and associated metadata;
ranking the collected information to identify defined subsets of information most likely to be desired by the user at the time the defined subsets are proactively presented to the user;
and
generating the requested document to comprise two or more defined subsets of information that are most highly ranked by the ranking.

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One or more computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions for proactively providing information to a user, the computer-executable instructions directed to steps comprising:

obtaining, from a user profile associated with the user, identifications of information to collect and proactively present to the user, the information to collect being identified based on explicit user indications and inferences from implicit user indicators;
collecting the identified information and associated metadata;
ranking the collected information to identify defined subsets of information most likely to be desired by the user at the time the defined subsets are proactively presented to the user;
and
generating a search engine homepage comprising a user query entry area through which the user can enter queries to search for information and at least two indicators of specific ones of the defined subsets of the proactively provided information, selected from among a most highly ranked defined subsets of the proactively provided information, the ranking reflecting information deemed most likely to be desired by the user at the time of the generating the search engine homepage.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Personal Agent Homepage Integration

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