A process in a computer managed communication network such as the World Wide
Web
with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive display
stations and with a system for displaying documents, e.g. Web pages, transmitted
to said display stations from locations remote from said stations which provides
the user with a system for the prioritizing of documents presented on constrained
receiving stations to users of the Internet in an order personalized to each user's
needs and interests which have been heuristically determined based upon the user's
past access to such documents through standard desktop interfaces. The user is
enabled to interface with the received documents at receiving stations through
devices which have greater interface functional constraints than a standard desktop
display interface through a process comprising first presenting a plurality of
types of received documents to a selected user through a device having a standard
desktop display interface, then tracking the interactive activity of said selected
user to said plurality of types of received documents and determining the priority
of said types of received documents based upon said tracking, and presenting received
documents of said plurality of types to said selected user through said devices
having greater interface functional constraints in an order based upon said priority.
The receiving devices with interfaces having functional constraints may be audible
only interface devices, and displays of lesser dimensions or lower resolution than
standard desktop displays. The network may be the Internet or World Wide Web. The
documents involved may be electronic mail.