A personalized content delivery system provides personalized content to e-commerce
customers visiting client web pages. A content management server, a data aggregation
server, a personalization/segmentation database and a content management interface
server interconnect via a data network or the Internet/WWW. Client web pages reside
upon client web servers and upon third party web servers and contain personalized
content delivery code (PCDC), which is executed when a customer computer receives
the web page. Upon execution of the PCDC, the customer computer sends a query across
the Internet to the content management server, the query identifying the client
and the customer computer identity and may include a secondary client identifier.
In response to the query, the content management server identifies personalized
content corresponding to the client and to the customer computer identity. The
personalized content is an image, an executable file, video content, audio content,
streamed media, a banner ad or other content. The personalized content address
and additional information is then returned to the customer computer, which then
retrieves the personalized content for presentation to the e-commerce customer.