Consumer self-profiling gui, analysis and rapid information presentation tools

Abstract

An input and processing system allows user input information such as user affinity to efficiently determine user characteristics from content as well as novel input of commands such as copy/paste on a small mobile device screen among other computing devices. A client/server is also made more efficient due to the enhanced gathering of information. Also disclosed is a system for rapid presentation of information such as barcodes at barcode scanners. A system can request multiple barcodes, coupons or the like by detecting a signal from a scanner that information presented has been read.

I/We claim: 
     
         1 . A non-transitory computer readable media having instructions stored thereon that are executable by processor electronics to:
 display one or more items of content to a user;   detect a selection by the user of at least one item of content displayed;   in response to the selected content, determining if the selected content includes any related information; and   transmitting a reference to an identity of the selected content and any related information to a remote computer system to use the selected content and related information to update a profile of likely characteristics of the user based on the selected content and the information related to the selected content.   
     
     
         2 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 1 , further comprising instructions that determine a link associated with the selected content. 
     
     
         3 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 1 , further comprising instructions that assign a tag to the selected content wherein the tag is a record of the gesture. 
     
     
         4 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 1 , further comprising instructions to indicate that one or more items of content on the display are selectable with a user gesture as selected content. 
     
     
         5 . A non-transitory computer readable media having instructions stored thereon that are executable by processor electronics to:
 tag an item of content with one or more likely characteristics that can be attributed to persons that react to the item either favorably or unfavorably;   display the content for a user;   detect a gesture performed by the user directed towards the content; and   update a profile that indicates one or more likely characteristics of the user based on the detected gesture directed towards the content.   
     
     
         6 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 5 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor electronics to detect the gesture directed towards the content by:
 detecting when the user touches the content on a display screen; and   detecting when the user moves a touch point on the display screen in a predefined direction over the content.   
     
     
         7 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 6 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor electronics to re-display the selected content at a location that is under the touch point of the user as the user is moving the touch point on the display screen while performing the gesture. 
     
     
         8 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 7 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor electronics to display indicia of whether the user is indicating a favorable or unfavorable impression of the content in a space where the content was first displayed prior to the content being re-displayed as the user is performing the gesture. 
     
     
         9 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 7 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor electronics to:
 determine an angular direction at which the user performs the gesture as measured from a point where the user first touches the content; and   perform a command on the content if the angular direction is not within a range defined as providing a favorable impression of the content or a range defined as providing an unfavorable impression of the content.   
     
     
         10 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 5 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor electronics to display a representation of whether the processor electronics recorded a favorable or unfavorable impression of the content after the user has finished the gesture. 
     
     
         11 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 5 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor electronics to display a menu over the content that indicates what command will be interpreted by the processor electronics depending on an angular direction in which the gesture is performed. 
     
     
         12 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 5 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor electronics to assign the tag to the content based at least upon a URL or URI of a website from where the content was obtained. 
     
     
         13 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 6 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor electronics to assign the tag to the content based at least upon other content presented with the content. 
     
     
         14 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 12 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor electronics to transmit a record of the gesture detected on the content to another computing device. 
     
     
         15 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 11 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor electronics to recommend content to a user based at least on the updated characteristics associated with the user performing the gesture on the content. 
     
     
         16 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 5 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor electronics to update the profile by receiving one or more of: GPS coordinates indicative of a location of the user, a time, a date, a user ID, a user browsing history, or user inputs. 
     
     
         17 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 5 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor to add the characteristics represented by the tag to a user's interest graph. 
     
     
         18 . The non-transitory computer readable media of  claim 17 , further comprising instructions that cause the processor to gather a plurality of user interest graphs having substantially similar demographic characteristics represented by similar tags. 
     
     
         19 . A non-transitory computer readable media containing instructions that are executable by processor electronics to display content on a display screen by:
 displaying items of content on a display screen; and   presenting an indication associated with one or more of the items of content that indicates that a user may perform a gesture on the item of content by moving the item of content in a predefined direction on the display screen in order to indicate that the user likes or dislikes the item of content.   
     
     
         20 . The computer readable media of  claim 19 , further comprising instructions that are executable by the processor electronics to detect the gesture by:
 determining if the user has moved a point of contact over the item of content in a predetermined direction.