CONTENT PRESENTATION BASED ON USER PREFERENCES

Patent №

US 7,997,485

Granted

2011-08-16

Filed 2006

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11427748

Architecture is provided that facilitates user-controlled access to user profile information. A user is allowed to selectively expose (or mask) portions of his/her profile to third parties. Additionally, advertisers and/or content providers can offer incentives or enticement in response to the acceptance of which a user exposes larger portions of their profile. The architecture comprises a system that facilitates profile management utilizing a profile component that facilitates creation and storage of an electronic profile of a user, and a control component under control of the user for controlling access to the profile. Machine learning and reasoning is provided to make inferences and automate aspects thereof.

Machine learningKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 21/6245G06Q 30/02G06Q 30/0273H04L 63/0227H04L 63/102H04L 63/1483H04L 67/306H04W 12/02+1 more

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Knowledge representation0.99
Machine learning0.96
Planning0.63
Natural language0.10
Speech0.03
Vision0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 184110584

Assignors

FLAKE, GARY W., HORVITZ, ERIC J., GOODMAN, JOSHUA T., BRILL, ERIC D., BRUNELL, BRADLY A., DUMAIS, SUSAN T., GOUNARES, ALEXANDER G., GRIFFIN, TRENHOLME J., HURST-HILLER, OLIVER, OZZIE, RAYMOND E.

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