SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFLUENCING DISPLAY OF WEB SITE CONTENT

Patent №

US 7,849,082

Granted

2010-12-07

Filed 2006

Owner

W.W. GRAINGER, INC.

Lab

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11601537

A system uses geo-location information associated with a user's interaction with a web site portal to deduce a context for the user's interaction and then uses the deduced context to influence the display of web site content that is provided in response to the user's interaction. The context is deduced by considering one or more of an industrial density for a locale indicated by the geo-location information associated with the user's interaction, a current time for a locale indicated by the geo-location information associated with the user's interaction, a weather condition for a locale the geo-location information associated with the user's interaction, and a regulation for a locale indicated by the geo-location information associated with the user's interaction.

Natural languageKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareH04L 67/52G06F 16/9537G06Q 30/02H04L 67/02H04L 67/53H04W 4/02H04W 4/029

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.97
Planning0.95
AI hardware0.77
Natural language0.67
Speech0.31
Vision0.03
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

W.W. GRAINGER, INC.

assignment · 185930405

Assignors

WESTPHAL, GEOFFRY A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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