Personalizing the display of changes to records in an on-line repository
US6249795A · kind A · utility
Assignee
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 5, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jun 19, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 5, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/957
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The invention provides for customized "what's new" lists for users of shared lists of tracked resources. Identifying information, such as cookies, and state information are used to personalize a shared "what's new" list, so that changes to a document which a particular user has viewed are indicated automatically based on the last time that user viewed the document. Thus, the user is notified of the set of changes that have taken place since the user last viewed a particular set of documents. For any particular document, only the changes which have occurred since the user last viewed that document are used to form the "what's new" list and to view the changes if the user so chooses. Additionally, a user can select multiple collections of documents into a single notification system and exclude particular documents or augment the collection to personalize the resources tracked for that user.
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