Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-05-08
1998-06-02
Black, Thomas G.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 9, 707100, 707104, 707 3, 707 4, 707513, 39520036, G06F 1730
Patent
active
057616620
ABSTRACT:
An automatic method and system for retrieving information based on a user-defined profile (e.g. a personalized newspaper). A user-controlled client establishes communication with a stateless server, the server presenting a list of options to the client between the server and the client. The client provides an identification of the user-defined profile. The server engages a first application program, the first application program retrieving the user-defined profile wherein the user-defined profile identifies information which is of interest to the user. The first application program examines a database of information and automatically retrieves a subset of the information from the database based upon which information is of interest to the user as identified in the user-defined profile. The server presents the subset of the information from the database as generated by the first application program to the client. The first application program can store a file containing the user-defined profile in order to retain a state of the user-profile, and cause the stateless server to emulate a server which retains its state from session to session.
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Black Thomas G.
Lewis C.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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