Patents Assigned to Changing World Limited
  • Patent number: 7028261
    Abstract: An internet website which presents a hierarchical menu structure to users includes a personalization engine 14 to automatically modify the menu structure for each user at least according to that user's previous browsing history at the site. In one embodiment the engine 14 provides, as menu options for a selected menu page of the hierarchical menu, a plurality of the most probable links which the user may wish to reach from the selected menu page. In another embodiment there are provided, as additional menu options for a particular menu page, a plurality of links which are similar, as determined by meeting a predetermined similarity metric, to menu options present on the particular menu page other than through meeting the similarity metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Changing World Limited
    Inventors: Barry Joseph Smyth, Paul Cotter, Elizabeth Ann McKenna, Nigel David Hanby