User directed information collections
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsNeal Osotio, Angela Moulden
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Abstract
Systems and methods for creating and/or displaying a user information collection are described herein. The user information collections include relevant information for a user of one or more devices. More specifically, the relevant information in the user information collections can include user directed advertisements. User information collections improve a user's ability to accomplish tasks, save money, and/or get desired products and/or services as opposed to just viewing content. Additionally, the user information collections reduce or prevent unwanted data from being added to the user information collections improving the usability of the data in the user information collections and improving user interactions with the device.
Claims20
A method for creating and providing user information collections, comprising:
- receiving initial user information;
- collecting a plurality of user signals associated with a user of at least one device;
- making a first inference based on the initial user information and the plurality of user signals;
- receiving a plurality of advertisements;
- determining a first connection between a first advertisement from the plurality of advertisements and the first inference;
- comparing the first connection to a confidence threshold;
- updating a user information collection to include the first advertisement when the confidence threshold is met;
- and
- displaying the user information collection on the at least one device when at least one display criterion is met.
A system comprising:
- a computing device including a processing unit and a memory, the processing unit implementing an inference and connection system that is operable to:
- receive initial user information;
- receive a plurality of initial user signals associated with a user of at least one device;
- make inferences based on the initial user information and the plurality of initial user signals;
- determine a connection between the inferences and at least one advertisement;
- compare the connection to a confidence threshold;
- and
- assemble the at least one advertisement into a user information collection.
A computer-readable storage device including computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computing system in a distributed network, cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:
- receiving user information;
- collecting a plurality of user signals associated with a user of at least one device;
- making a first inference based on the user information and the plurality of user signals;
- requesting user feedback about the first inference;
- receiving the user feedback about the first inference;
- making a second inference based on the user information, the plurality of user signals, and the user feedback;
- receiving a plurality of advertisements;
- determining a connection between at least one advertisement from the plurality of advertisements and the second inference, wherein determining the connection includes considering a time of day and a location of the at least one device;
- determining that the connection meets a confidence threshold;
- and
- displaying the at least one advertisement and the second inference based on the determining that the connection meets the confidence threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.