{
  "patent_number": "US 7685160",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Software Predicts What You Need Based on Your Coworkers",
  "original_title": "System and methods for constructing personalized context-sensitive portal pages or views by analyzing patterns of users' information access activities",
  "summary": "A system that uses the browsing history and work habits of your colleagues to automatically build a personalized dashboard of links and content you are likely to need next.",
  "what_it_does": "This system tracks how people in an organization access data, such as which websites they visit or what files they open. It uses this information to build a predictive model that anticipates what a new or existing user needs to see based on their current context, like the time of day or their specific project. It then generates a montage, which is a single page displaying relevant clippings or links, effectively acting as a personalized portal. For example, if you join a project team, the system analyzes the habits of your teammates—based on their tenure and expertise—to automatically suggest the documents and tools you will likely need to start your work.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover systems that rely solely on an individual's own history without comparing it to a broader group of users.",
    "Does not cover manual customization where a user must select their own links or dashboard widgets.",
    "Does not cover general search engines that do not use collaborative filtering based on organizational roles or expertise levels.",
    "Does not cover systems that lack a context-aware component, such as time, date, or project-specific triggers."
  ],
  "filed": "2005-07-27",
  "granted": "2010-03-23",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Microsoft Corp",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/microsoft-corp",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Corin Ross Anderson",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/corin-ross-anderson"
    },
    {
      "name": "Eric Horvitz",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/eric-horvitz"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 5,
  "tags": [
    "software",
    "ai_ml",
    "ecommerce"
  ],
  "abstract": "The present invention relates to a system and methodology to assist users with data access activities and that includes such activities as routine web browsing and/or data access applications. A coalesced display or montage of aggregated information is provided that is focused from a plurality of sources to achieve substantially one-button access to user's desired web or data source information/destinations in order to mitigate efforts in retrieving and viewing such information. Past web or other type data access patterns can be mined to predict future browsing sites or desired access locations. A system is provided that builds personalized web portals for associated users based on models mined from past data access patterns. The portals can provide links to web resources as well as embed content from distal (remote) pages or sites producing a montage of web or other type data content. Automated topic classification is employed to create multiple topic-centric views that can be invoked by a user.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/7685160/ntfs-file-system",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/7685160/ntfs-file-system/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US7685160",
  "relatedPatents": []
}