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Divya Kumar

Rowan Forster

Danielle Lauren Ellbogen

Jennifer L Myers

A cloud-based personalization service utilizes a personalization model providing service users with tools to create, personalize, and manage their own user profiles, which are abstracted in the form of 'personas,' that can learn from, and be shared across, different ecosystems of online services and applications. One or more personas may be locally instantiated on the user's various computing devices by a personalization system. The personalization service and system interoperate to enable users to set operating parameters, preferences, and content-filtering criteria for their personas. Users can strictly control the information and parameters that their personas expose to the services and applications to protect user privacy and enhance the quality of online interactions. The personalization model facilitates personalization of the user's personas to individual online services and applications based on context-awareness to further improve the relevance of delivered content and user experiences.

Sharable privacy-oriented personalization model

In one example, a presentation control device may allow a presenter, such as a teacher, to control interactions between audience members and the presenter. The presentation control device may display a presentation controlled by a presenter to a presentation audience as part of a group presentation session. The presentation control device may receive from the presenter a communication rule controlling an interaction between an audience member device and the presentation control device as part of controlling the presentation. The presentation control device may receive a communication regarding the presentation from an audience member in the presentation audience via the audience member device. The presentation control device direct the communication based on the communication rule.

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