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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2014
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Timothy J. Hahn, Cary, NC (US);
Brian J. Lang, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Joshua M. Small, Cary, NC (US);
Viswanath Srikanth, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 67/26 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques are described herein that facilitate monitoring one or more activities performed by a user on one or more devices, determining one or more topics of interest based on the monitored activities, preference information, and information within a user network, retrieving information from one or more network sites relating to the one or more topics of interest, and providing the retrieved information to the user.