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  • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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• the present invention relates to a method and a system for accessing, via a communication network, information relating to a plurality of users and stored in a storage module.
• a telecommunication network such as the Internet provides users with a set of sites from which composite multimedia documents linked together by hypertext links, often called web pages, are accessible.
• the sites and web pages are usually referenced at the site.
• means of URL resource identifiers URL is the abbreviation for the English expression of
• Various hardware means may be implemented by a user to access information present within one or more telecommunication networks such as the Internet or networks of more limited extent such as Intran Enterprise Local Area Networks.
• the user can access by means of a terminal to a server that is able to transmit to him data representative of the information he has requested, the terminal of the user being able, for his part, to receiving and storing said data, and processing said data generally by software means.
• a terminal therefore allows a user to access the information he requires from a server of a telecommunications network.
• Such a method and access system nevertheless have a drawback which is due to the possibility of having a large number of users who has already accessed said server when a user accesses it. As a result, for this user, it is difficult to choose a third-party user who could potentially interest him for subsequent communications purposes. Furthermore, despite the fact that the general theme of the information accessed by all users having accessed the same page of the server is the same, third-party users potentially of interest to the user accessing are not necessarily themselves interested in a contact. with the user accessing, for example because they do not share an interest for the same information or for lack of competence in a field to which belong however the information sought.
• Telephone users are also a population of which many members are also trying to create groups each defined by a community of interests.
• the technical means used to provide this population with these telephone services are not such as to facilitate the provision of information concerning the members of this population.
• PSTN telephone network for Switched Telephone Network
• the invention proposes a method of access, via a communication network, to information relating to a plurality of users and stored in a storage module, said method making it possible to make known to each user who wishes it, to other users whose profile has characteristics that this user is looking for.
• the present invention relates to a method for accessing, via a communication network, information relating to at least one user, in particular an identifier making it possible to come into contact with it later, and stored in a storage module. said method comprising at least:
• a step of creating a list of users comprising, associated with each of said users, at least one identifier for which said at least one profile characteristic stored in the storage step corresponds to at least one profile characteristic defined in a request transmitted by a terminal of a requesting user.
• the access method according to the invention thus makes it possible, by associative storage of user identifiers and related profile characteristics, to constitute a storage module that can contain a profile that is as representative as possible of the centers of interest. 'a given user.
• a profile is objective as developed on the basis of factual elements constituted by a statement of one or more expressions of interest for one or more subjects, manifestations actually materialized by the very content of the information transmitted by the given user.
• Any user can thus implement the method according to the invention to develop his own profile as accurately and objectively as possible, third-party user profiles can also be generated objectively using the method according to the invention so as to obtain, by a true match between profiles, a relevant establishment of a contact link between users presenting a community of topics of interest.
• the information transmitted by the first user is analyzed in order to define elements characterizing a content of said information, such as keywords or resource identifiers associated with this information, which characterizing elements then make it possible to constitute characteristics profile of said first user.
• the creation step makes it possible to provide a user who requests it with a list of user identifiers that is as exhaustive as possible according to characteristics of their profile that the user is looking for.
• the users of the list are selected on the basis of a common feature with the user to whom the list relates.
• the step of creating said list may be followed by a step of transmitting said list.
• the invention may further be implemented to create an objective user profile by minimizing or even eliminating the risk of incorrect declarations.
• the user list creation step such as that provided above is optional, the objective profile obtained here being the essential result of this particular implementation of the invention. Indeed, this profile can then, subject to authorization from the user concerned, be transmitted to interested persons or organizations such as advertising advertisers, who can then select information or generate messages that match the personality and interests of the user.
• the invention thus also relates to a method for processing information relating to at least a first user of a terminal, said method comprising at least:
• a step of storing said at least one profile characteristic determined in a storage module a step of storing said at least one profile characteristic determined in a storage module.
• the method as described above comprises, prior to said steps, a step of writing, in said storage module, information relating to at least said second user.
• This registration step enables said second user, for example, to use a service to contact
• the invention also relates to a system for processing information relating to at least a first user of a terminal, said system comprising at least:
• first transmission means via a communication network, of elements characterizing said first user and determined from communications traces of said terminal with at least one server included in said communication network, means for determining, starting from said transmitted characterizing elements, at least one characteristic profile of said first user, and
• the profile characteristics can be determined without the user concerned being able to influence them. so that the profile characteristics thus determined will in principle be fully in line with the actual characteristics of said user.
• the user concerned may have interests that have not yet been the subject of expressions of interest from him when his profile will be generated. It may therefore be advantageous to give the user the possibility of declaring certain profile characteristics himself, and then of combining such declared characteristics with the characteristics obtained automatically by means of the invention.
• the list creation step comprises a substep of interrogating said storage module with the aid of said at least one profile characteristic defined in said request, then a substep of searching, in the storage module; of the user profiles at least one of which comprises this characteristic, the method comprises, prior to said steps described above, a step of registering, in said storage module, information relating to at least one user likely to communicating with said terminal of said second user when at least one profile characteristic is common to them.
• the transmission step is performed transparently for said second user.
• the invention thus enables a user to build an address book containing user identifiers chosen according to characteristics that he himself has defined.
• This address book can be powered whenever the user requests it.
• This address book can also be constituted without the user intervenes, the identifiers being inserted automatically and regularly.
• the invention also relates to an access system, via a communication network, to information relating to at least one first user, in particular an identifier making it possible to come into contact with it later, and stored in a storage module, said system comprising: - first transmission means, via said communication network, of elements characterizing said first user of at least one terminal probe and determined from communications traces of said at least terminal probing with at least one server of said network ,
• means for creating a list of users comprising, associated with said users, at least one identifier for which said at least one stored profile characteristic corresponds to at least one profile characteristic defined in a request transmitted by a terminal of a user; a second user,
• the list creation means comprise means for interrogating said storage module with the aid of said at least one profile characteristic defined by said second user, as well as means for searching, in said storage module, for profiles; users of whom at least one understands this feature.
• third transmission means for transmitting, at the initiative of said second user, at least one profile characteristic defined by the latter, via the communication network.
• the present invention also relates to an information processing unit comprising a storage module which is intended to store information relating to a plurality of users and transmitted by them via a communication network, said unit comprising:
• certain steps of the access method are determined by computer program instructions. Consequently, the invention also relates to a computer program intended to be installed in a processing unit, said program comprising instructions for implementing steps of the access method mentioned above, during a execution of the program by a calculation module of said unit.
• This program can use any programming language, and be in the form of source code, object code, or intermediate code between source code and object code, such as in a partially compiled form, or in any other form desirable shape.
• FIG. la represents a first embodiment of an access system in which the method according to the invention is implemented
• FIG. Ib represents a second embodiment of an access system in which the method according to the invention is implemented
• FIG. 2 represents a processing server implemented in the embodiments of the access system shown in FIGS. 1a and 1b;
• FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing various steps performed during the access method according to the invention.
• the access system S shown in FIG. la comprises a telecommunications network R which are respectively connected, a terminal Tus called, for reasons which will appear thereafter, terminal probing, a terminal Tur of a user requesting, at least one server SITE, a processing server St whose the function will be explained below and a Friend directory.
• the telecommunications network R is, for example, an intranet network or an intranet-type corporate local area network, or a network formed by a plurality of interconnected networks such as the Internet network with its distributed information system known to the public. of the trade under the name World Wide Web.
• This telecommunications network R allows a user of a terminal, such as the terminal probing Tus, to communicate with either a SITE server or St connected to the network R, or with other users. To do this, the terminal probing Tus is provided with a navigator N able to access, via said telecommunications network R, at least one SITE or St. server.
• the access system S also includes, included, in the embodiment shown in FIG.
• traces in the terminal probing Tus, means, such as a So sensor, acquisition of communication traces between the terminal Tus probe and at least one SITE server to which the user of the terminal Tus accesses.
• These traces contain, inter alia, for example for a communication between the browser N and a SITE server connected to the communication network R (as is the case with FIG. the, see arrow 1), URL resource identifiers specified in one or more access requests to said server, a time spent by the user concerned to consult a Web page of said SITE server identified by a URL resource identifier. given, or keywords representative of the content of a web page viewed on said SITE server.
• This probe So is also associated with a memory Mem intended to store the communication traces that the sensor So captures.
• the system S further comprises an analysis module Ma which is intended to analyze the communication traces which are stored in the memory Me so as to determine the URL resource identifiers that have been requested in previous communications and the associated keywords. to the pages then consulted.
• These URL resource identifiers and these keywords form what will be called later characterizing elements of the user of a probing terminal.
• the probe So, the memory Me and the analysis module Ma are included in an intermediate server such as a server generally called “cache” or “proxy”, placed between the terminal probing Tus and the network R.
• a “cache” server is usually provided to receive the HTTP requests of the terminals associated with it and to retransmit them to the servers referred to in these requests, which in turn transmit the desired information. It is these requests or the information in response to these requests that are picked up by the probe So of the intermediate server P, which are then stored in the memory Mem, then analyzed by the analysis module Ma (see the arrow I),
• the access system S also comprises a processing server St connected to the communication network R.
• This processing server St is intended to receive (arrow 2) characterizing elements ELC of at least one user of a terminal probing , such as the terminal Tus, to define by means of these ECL characterizing elements of the user profiles, to receive (arrow 3) requests from lists of users REQ from a requesting terminal, such as the terminal Tur and to deliver (arrow 4), to this terminal Tur applicant, the required LURQ user list.
• the identifiers of said users appear, thus allowing the requesting user to contact them later, if he wishes.
• the server St comprises a reception module Mr intended, as will be seen later, to be received or ELC characterizing elements delivered by a analysis module Ma linked to a user or communication traces delivered by a probe So related to a user, receiving REQ requests from user lists, a sending module Me for transmitting to a terminal requesting a required user list LURQ, a determination module Mdet for determining profile characteristics from the above-mentioned characterizing elements and a specific storage module, hereinafter referred to as a Bdp profile database, intended for, on the one hand, storing, in user profiles, profile characteristics respectively related to these profiles; user profiles and, on the other hand, issue user profiles based on required profile characteristics.
• a reception module Mr intended intended, as will be seen later, to be received or ELC characterizing elements delivered by a analysis module Ma linked to a user or communication traces delivered by a probe So related to a user, receiving REQ requests from user lists, a sending module Me for transmitting to a terminal requesting a required user list LUR
• the server St furthermore comprises a search and sorting module Mrt which is connected to the reception module Mr to receive REQ requests from user lists and which is provided for searching in the database of Bdp profiles for the profiles. corresponding users, identically or similarly, to the user profile mentioned in said user list REQ request and sorting the profiles obtained in response so as to establish a list of users which is delivered to the transmission module Me .
• the probe So, the analysis module Ma and the determination module Mdet form means for determining characteristics.
• the user profile of each user is materialized in the database Bdp by a memory space specifically allocated to the user concerned.
• the network R is a telephone network such as the PSTN switched telephone network or a telephone network operating with the Internet Protocol (IP).
• IP Internet Protocol
• the So probe then picks up for each call, for example the telephone numbers of the caller and the called party and the start time of the call and its duration.
• the characterizing elements that are determined by the analysis means Ma are, for example, the telephone numbers of the caller and the called party, the type of telephone used (fixed, mobile, Internet, etc.), the time of communication, as well as the call frequency of a user with respect to all communications with that same user.
• a requesting terminal such as the terminal Tur, comprises an application Appl which is intended to transmit to the processing server St a request REQ of a list of users who have a profile specified by at least one profile characteristic contained in said request. (arrow 3), to receive (arrow 4) the list of LURQ users corresponding to said request, and to store (arrow 5) said elements of said list in a Cadr address book that includes said requesting terminal Tur and which n It is then accessible only by the single requesting terminal Tur and / or in an Anu directory which is connected to the network R and which is then accessible by any terminal requiring the network R.
• the application Appl can be installed in a server that comprises the network R and can then be launched by a requesting terminal after access thereof to said server or even that it can be shared between a requesting terminal and such a network server R.
• a user who wishes to be able to contact other users and thus obtain their user identifiers enters or is registered by an approved organization on the server St en providing it by means of, in particular, a user identifier, an electronic address or a telephone number and possibly using other information such as one or more areas of interest, a geographical location, a professional title , an age, etc.
• This information is entered into a profile that is assigned to this user in the server profile database Bdp of St.
• the method of the present invention comprises an ElOl determination step which is implemented by a Tus polling terminal and the processing server St and a user list issuing step E 102 which is implemented by a requesting terminal Tur. and the processing server St. These two steps can be implemented independently of each other.
• a probe terminal and a requesting terminal it will be understood that, in general, a given terminal is both a terminating terminal and a requesting terminal and therefore has both the means of these terminals. two types of terminals.
• the determination step ElO1 comprises an acquisition sub-step ElOIa, during which the communication traces are picked up by the probe So and are stored in the memory Mem provided for this purpose as well as a sub-step ElOIb of analysis, during which the analysis module Ma of the probe So determines characterizing elements from the information contained in said captured communication traces.
• the characterizing elements are transmitted from the polling terminal Tus to the processing server St (see arrow 2 of Figs la and Ib).
• the characterizing elements determined by the analysis module Ma of the probe So are regularly transmitted to the processing server St, for example, once a day.
• the method of the present invention also comprises a sub-step ElOIc of determination, during which the determination module Mdet of the processing server St determines at least one profile characteristic from the characterizing elements determined in the preceding substep.
• the profile characteristics, as determined in the sub-step ElOIc, are for example an affinity for DIY, finance or a privileged mode of communication, an interlocutor privileged, etc.
• the profile characteristics determined by the determination module Mdet are included in the profile of the corresponding user, which profile is stored in the database of profiles Bdp.
• the database Bdp is fed by profile characteristics specific to each user and this, on a regular basis.
• Profile characteristics of a user of a terminal probing Tus are determined from communication traces captured during each of his communications, for example with servers, such as the SITE server of Figs. 1a or 1b, connected to the network R.
• the method according to the present invention also comprises a step of creating user lists E 102 which itself comprises a substep E 102a for formulating a request REQ comprising at least a profile and transmission characteristic of said REQ request to the processing server St, and more particularly to the search and sorting module Mrt of the server St.
• This substep 102a is implemented by a requesting terminal Tur.
• the method according to the invention also comprises a search sub-step E 102b of this characteristic in the profile database Bdp which returns a list LURQ of the identifiers of the users whose profile comprises this characteristic or at least one neighboring characteristic.
• the list LURQ established by the processing server St is then transmitted, during the substep E 102c, to the application Appl that includes said terminal Tur of the requesting user.
• This substep E 102c is implemented by the processing server St.
• the step E 102a of formulating the request can be implemented according to the following variants.
• the user of the requesting terminal Tur grasps, with a man-machine interface and the specific application Appl at least one profile characteristic which comprises for example a word, e.g. "Paris”, "bike”, etc. or a phrase in natural language of the type: "I am looking for people with a profile similar to mine.”
• the Appl application then composes the query that includes the characteristics or characteristics entered.
• at least one profile characteristic is defined once and for all by the user of the terminal Tur and stored in a specific memory made available to the application Appl. The latter formulates a REQ request by including this or these profile characteristics.
• the processing server St receives this request REQ by means of its reception module Mr and transmits it in turn to the search and sorting module Mit.
• This search and sorting module Mit then performs a search within the database Bdp profile and creates a list of user identifiers whose profile include the characteristics of the request or at least similar characteristics (step El 02b).
• This list of identifiers can then be ordered so as to highlight the identifiers for which the characteristics sought are the most important and the most relevant.
• the desired characteristic (s) belong to the profile of the user of the requesting terminal.
• the user list thus created contains user identifiers and all or part of the profile of the corresponding user.
• the list may contain for each user selected his user ID or contact information, his favorite sport and his telephone number or his access address (e-mail address, Internet address, etc.).
• This list is then transmitted (step E 102c) by the transmission module Me from the processing server St to the application Appl, which displays it on the screen of the requesting terminal Tuf.
• the user of the requesting terminal Tur can then store all or part of the list displayed in the address book Cadr associated with the application Appl. Note that depending on the capabilities of the address book, all features displayed can not necessarily be stored. Thus, such an address book may for example only memorize the identifiers of the users displayed and their telephone numbers or access addresses.
• the user list can also be transmitted, either directly by the processing server St, or indirectly by the application Appl (as is shown in Figs. la and Ib by the arrow 5), to an Anu directory that includes the network R.
• the processing server St comprises a request establishment module Mreq.
• the request comes from the processing server St itself, transparently for any user of a requesting terminal.
• a certain number of requests are previously stored in the request processing module (Mreq) of the processing server St associated with a requesting terminal. These requests are formulated on the basis of at least one user-defined profile characteristic of said requesting terminal Tur. Each request is associated with information concerning said user, the frequency of launching the request, the application Appl intended to receive the corresponding obtained list, etc.
• the Mreq request establishment module initiates a query by querying the Bdp profile database using at least one predefined profile characteristic.
• the search and sorting module Mrt creates a list of user identifiers corresponding to this request which is transmitted to the application Appl and stored in relation to the request.
• the invention finds application preferably in the particular context of business life, in particular because of the limited number of potential users of the system and the ease of identifying them.

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