Client-side personalisation of websites using a description language infrastructure

摘要

Client-side personalization of websites comprises the steps of providing a client (10) and a web server (30) both with a description language infrastructure , particularly an extended media query infrastructure, providing classifying categories for web content; locally defining user preferences (12) as description language classifying categories for web content using a browser (2C); requesting web content (42) from the web server (30); receiving a response from the web server (30) comprising the requested web content (42) and markup (10) with description language information specifying all alternatives (44) of classifying categories for web content fragments of the web content (42); locally filtering the classifying categories for web content fragments of the web content (42) based on said locally defined user preferences (12); and displaying a personalized subset of the web content (42) based on said locally defined user preferences (12).