Method and apparatus for scheduling presentation of digital content on a personal communication device
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    发明申请
    Method and apparatus for scheduling presentation of digital content on a personal communication device 审中-公开
    用于在个人通信设备上调度数字内容呈现的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20050043060A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-02-24

    申请号:US10959833

    申请日:2004-10-06

    摘要: A method and apparatus wherein a software scheduling agent resides on a communication network and/or client device, such as location-aware wireless communication appliances, television set top boxes, or other end user client devices is disclosed. The software scheduling agent is part of a probabilistic modeling system in which the scheduler operates to perform constrained random variation with selection. Digital content is generated, organized, and stored on the communication network and/or the client devices. An electronic digital content wrapper, which holds information in the form of data and metadata related to the digital content is associated with each item of digital content. Contextual profiles for each user and each item of digital content are established by the users and the network and maintained by a service provider on the communication network. The software scheduling agent compares the contextual digital content profile for each item of digital content to the contextual user profile for each user to determine which digital content should be offered for presentation to each user. The comparison and determination of which items of digital content should be offered for presentation to which users is performed by a process of constrained random variation. After the software scheduling agent determines which items of digital content would most likely be relevant or interesting to the user, the digital content is transmitted, either in whole or in part, at predetermined times over the communication network to the appropriate client devices. The digital content is then stored, either in whole or in part, in cache memory on the client device until an appropriate time when the digital content is digitally packaged and presented to particular users over those user's client devices.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种方法和装置,其中软件调度代理驻留在诸如位置感知无线通信设备,电视机顶盒或其他最终用户客户端设备之类的通信网络和/或客户端设备上。 软件调度代理是概率建模系统的一部分,其中调度器通过选择来执行约束随机变量。 数字内容被生成,组织和存储在通信网络和/或客户端设备上。 以与数字内容相关的数据和元数据的形式保存信息的电子数字内容包装器与每个数字内容项相关联。 每个用户和每个数字内容项目的上下文配置文件由用户和网络建立并由通信网络上的服务提供商维护。 软件调度代理将每个数字内容项的上下文数字内容简档与每个用户的上下文用户简档进行比较,以确定应提供哪些数字内容以呈现给每个用户。 应通过约束随机变化的过程,为哪些用户提供数字内容的项目进行比较和确定。 在软件调度代理确定哪个数字内容最可能与用户相关或有趣的情况下,将数字内容全部或部分地以预定的时间通过通信网络发送到适当的客户端设备。 然后,数字内容全部或部分地存储在客户端设备上的高速缓冲存储器中,直到数字内容被数字打包并通过这些用户的客户端设备呈现给特定用户的适当时间。