Dynamic document display personalization implemented in a digital rights management system

摘要

A method for displaying a digital document to a user where the display sequence of the pages of the document is personalized based on the user's past interactions with the document, such as viewing, annotating, editing, sharing, etc. on each pages. As user interacts with the document, the viewer application on the client computer reports the user interactions to a server. Through analytics, the server can decide the importance of individual pages and rank the pages accordingly, and sends page ranking information back to the client. The viewer application on the client can then render the document where pages are ordered based on the ranking, which reflects the user's interest in these pages. Different modes of reorganizing a document based on user interaction history are provided, so that the pages can be displayed in sequences based on the frequency of certain types of user interactions.

主权项

1. A method implemented in a system comprising a server computer connected with a client computer for personalized display of a digital document by the client to a user, the digital document being an individually accessible file and having multiple pages arranged in a native page order, the method comprising:
by the server computer: receiving, from the client computer, user interaction information regarding interactions of the user with the document, the interactions including one or more types of interactions selected from a group consisting of: viewing a page of the document, making a note on a page, printing a page, modifying a page, sharing a page with others, copying or cutting content from a page and pasting it in another document, navigating to a page while viewing another document, and navigating from a page to another document; storing the user interaction information in association with a user ID of the user and a document ID of the document; generating page ranking information based on the stored user interaction information, the page ranking information being either one or more scores for each page of the document, or one or more page sequences of the document different from the native page order; and transmitting the page ranking information to the client computer in response to a request from the client computer.