Systems and methods of network operation and information processing, including data acquisition, processing and provision and/or interoperability features

Abstract

According to some embodiments of the present invention, a system (100), apparatus and method of network operation and information processing, including data acquisition, data processing, data provision, and / or data interoperability features is presented. In some exemplary embodiments, the method includes registering users logging-on to a computer network (170) and gathering user-related information from users (121). In one or more embodiments, user-profile and location-centric information for each user may be gathered and / or processed in connection with processing targeting and content information.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for network operations and information processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for data acquisition, processing, provisioning and / or interoperability features. Background technique [0002] The emergence of the World Wide Web ("the Web") over the past decade has spawned a rich online community of Internet users attracted by the rich interactive multimedia content available on the Web and the ease of transacting business online. To a large extent, the proliferation of online commerce ("e-commerce") has been driven purely by online or virtual retailers and, more recently, by the online presence of traditional "brick and mortar" stores. [0003] Usually, Internet users obtain information from content-rich websites on the Internet, such as news-related websites, or portal websites that provide links to websites that provide the content that users are looking for, or gather info...

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Problems solved by technology

Second, the user must visit the website that set the cookie before the cookie can be read to deliver any targeted content

However, deploying such access points has so far been difficult and expensive

Furthermore, current implementations do not provide the extensive data collection and information processing capabilities required for targeted content delivery

[0008] In general, traditional methods and systems for delivering content to users perform extensive website-specific static generation of user profiles and behaviors, and therefore cannot intelligently adapt real-time delivery of targeted content

Furthermore, even when data such as location-related data are available, existing methods still require complex correlations between disparate databases

This correlation results in significant delays and performance degradations, preventing end users from getting timely information about their location

Due to these constraints, content and service providers also face obstacles

If performance is limited, and if device and location ranges are also limited, service providers cannot ensure a uniform level of service to users

Therefore, it is not feasible and definitely expensive to do a mass market deployment where the service is known to be unservable to many elements of the market

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