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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 15, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Melanie R. Diggs, Mableton, GA (US);

Terrence E. White, Cottage Grove, MN (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Approaches are provided for collecting and distributing topical data. An approach includes collecting topical data from one or more mobile applications on a mobile device. The topical data describes areas of interest of a user based on a way in which the one or more mobile applications are used by the user. The approach further includes normalizing the collected topical data into a list of topics of interest for the user. The approach further includes tagging each topic of interest with a non-hierarchical keyword or term. The approach further includes sending the list of tagged topics of interest to one or more remote servers.


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