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`c12) United States Patent
`Herz
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`(IO) Patent No.:
`(45) Date of Patent:
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`US 7,483,871 B2
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`(54) CUSTOMIZED ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS
`AND ADVERTISEMENTS
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`FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
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`EP
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`0682452
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`* 11/1995
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`(75)
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`Inventor: Frederick S. M. Herz, Davis, WV (US)
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`(73) Assignee: Pinpoint Incorporated, Fort Worth, TX
`(US)
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`( *) Notice:
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`Subject to any disclaimer, the term ofthis
`patent is extended or adjusted under 35
`U.S.C. 154(b) by O days.
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`(Continued)
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`OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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`(Continued)
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`This patent is subject to a terminal dis(cid:173)
`claimer.
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`Primary Examiner-Dyen T. Le
`(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks,
`P.C.
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`(21) Appl. No.: 10/262,123
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`(22) Filed:
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`Oct.1, 2002
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`Prior Publication Data
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`(60) Division of application No. 08/985,732, filed on Dec.
`5, 1997, now Pat. No. 6,460,036, and a continuation(cid:173)
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`Int. Cl.
`G06F 17130
`(2006.01)
`(52) U.S. Cl. ............................................. 707/2; 707/10
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`ABSTRACT
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`This invention relates to customized electronic identification
`of desirable objects, such as news articles, in an electronic
`media environment, and in particular to a system that auto(cid:173)
`matically constructs both a "target profile" for each target
`object in the electronic media based, for example, on the
`frequency with which each word appears in an article relative
`to its overall frequency of use in all articles, as well as a
`"target profile interest summary" for each user, which target
`profile interest summary describes the user's interest level in
`various types of target objects. The system then evaluates the
`target profiles against the users' target profile interest sum(cid:173)
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`target objects most likely to be of interest to each user so that
`the user can select from among these potentially relevant
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`(Continued)
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`22 Claims, 13 Drawing Sheets
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