Systems and methods for facilitating spotting of words and phrases

• US 10,013,415 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2014
• Issued: 07/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KeyPoint Technologies India Pvt., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: KeyPoint Technologies India Pvt., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kurian, Prima Dona, Yelubolu, Sandeep, Goswami, Sumit, Motaparti, Sunil
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Bharatkumar S
• Application Number:
  US14/770,139
• Publication Number:
  US 20160004687A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,593 Days
• Field of Search: 704 10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/289 Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

In accordance with an example embodiment, a system and method for facilitating spotting of words and phrases is disclosed. The system includes a scanning module, a storage module, a computation module, a dictionary generation module and a transceiver module. The scanning module periodically scans a plurality of content sources to identify words and phrases being shared as spots in one or more online communities of remote users. The storage module is configured to store the spots along with information related to the spots. The computation module determines at least one popularity-based metric for each spot stored in the storage module. The dictionary generation module is configured to generate and periodically update a spotting dictionary comprising at least a listing of popular spots based on the at least one popularity-based metric associated with each spot. The transceiver module is configured to provision the spotting dictionary to one or more remote users.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a scanning module configured to periodically scan a plurality of content sources to identify words and phrases, which are being shared among one or more online communities of remote users as spots, wherein sharing of a word or a phrase as a spot by a remote user in an online community from among the one or more online communities of remote users is indicative of user interest in the word or the phrase;

a storage module communicably associated with the scanning module and configured to store the spots along with information related to the spots, wherein the information related to the spots comprises at least one of identities of remote users from among the one or more online communities of remote users sharing each spot, a contextual information associated with each spot and online user comments associated with each spot;

a computation module communicably associated with the storage module and configured to determine at least one popularity-based metric for each spot from among the spots stored in the storage module;

a dictionary generation module communicably associated with the computation module and configured to generate and periodically update a spotting dictionary comprising at least a listing of popular spots based on the at least one popularity-based metric associated with each spot;

a transceiver module communicably associated with the dictionary generation module and configured to provision the spotting dictionary to one or more remote users from among the one or more online communities of remote users; and

an application module configured to facilitate creation of an interactive web-based application capable of residing natively in a user device associated with the remote user, the web-based application comprising a plurality of user interfaces (UIs) configured to facilitate the sharing of the word or the phrase as the spot.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the word or the phrase being shared as the spot by the remote user is one of a word or a phrase coined by the remote user, a word or a phrase coined by another remote user in the online community, a word or a phrase encountered for a first time by the remote user on one of an online content source and an offline content source, and a known word or phrase associated with a new usage for the remote user.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the computation module is further configured to compute one or more parameters for each spot, wherein a parameter from among the one or more parameters is one of:

a total number of times the each spot is being shared in the one or more online communities of remote users;

a total number of separate instances of sharing the each spot as a new spot by different remote users within the one or more online communities of remote users;

a total number of times the each spot is being re-spotted within the one or more online communities of remote users subsequent to sharing the each spot by a remote user;

a popularity parameter signifying a measure of popularity of each remote user involved in sharing the each spot within the one or more online communities of remote users;

a total number of comments associated with the each spot;

a total number of recent comments associated with the each spot;

a total number of recent re-spots associated with each spot; and

a profile parameter configured to account for user additions of at least one of textual content and image content to a spot profile associated with each spot.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the spotting dictionary is configured to be integrated with one or more word dictionaries and facilitate provisioning of the popular spots as word completions, phrase completions, word suggestions, phrase suggestions and next word predictions during instances of user text entry.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the scanning module is configured to scan one or more user linked accounts corresponding to a remote user from among the one or more online communities of remote users for detecting a presence of at least one pre-defined character embedded within online textual content, and to extract a word or a phrase disposed substantially adjacent to the at least one pre-defined character as a spot.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein another UI from among the plurality of UIs is configured to display the spot among a listing of words and phrases selected as spots by the remote user.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein one or more spots from among the spots selected by the remote user comprise an associated spot profile in form of user-defined information including at least one of a meaning of the spot, an exemplary spot usage instance and a picture of a location where the spot was first encountered.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the spot profile is configured to display a numeral associated with the spot, wherein the numeral is indicative of atleast one of a combined count of a number of times the spot was shared as a spot, a re-spot in the one or more online communities of remote users, a number of comments associated with the shared spot, a number of comments associated with the re-spot and a number of instances of adding one of an image, textual content and video with the shared spot or re-spot in the combined count.

9. The system according to claim 7, wherein the associated spot profile is configured to be edited by other remote users from among the one or more online communities of remote users based on permissions afforded to the other remote users through the web-based application.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the web-based application is configured to provision an option within a set of clipboard options associated with a highlighted portion of text corresponding to one of an online textual content source and an offline textual content source, the option configured to enable a selection of the highlighted portion of the text as the spot.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one UI from among the plurality of UIs is configured to provision access to one of:

a listing of currently trending spots among the one or more online communities of remote users; and

a listing of remote users from among the one or more remote users associated with the currently trending spots.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the at least one UI is further configured to enable the remote user to re-spot a word or a phrase from the listing of currently trending spots, wherein re-spotting of the word or the phrase is indicative of selecting a spotted word or phrase for subsequent sharing as the spot.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein the at least one UI is further configured to enable the remote user to annotate the spots selected by other remote users from among the one or more online communities of remote users with one of comments and tags.

14. The system according to claim 1, wherein the web-based application is configured to be linked to one or more user accounts on social networking websites associated with the remote user and to prompt the remote user, during text entry on the one or more user accounts on social networking websites, to append the word or the phase with at least one pre-defined character to indicate a selection of the word or the phrase as the spot.

15. The system according to claim 1, wherein the web-based application is configured to be linked to one or more user accounts on social networking websites associated with the remote user and to extract words or phrases appended with at least one pre-defined character within online textual content corresponding to the one or more user accounts on social networking websites and provision the extracted words and phrases as candidates for subsequent selection of the words or the phrases as spots.

16. The system according to claim 1, wherein the web-based application is further configured at least in part, to provision a voice input based option configured to convert one or more words read from a textual content source by the remote user into a textual format for facilitating the sharing of the word and the phrase as the spot.

17. The system according to claim 1, wherein the scanning module is further configured to periodically scan the plurality of content sources to identify potential spots, wherein a potential spot from among the potential spots corresponds to one of a word and a phrase identified with potential of being shared as a spot.

18. The system according to claim 17, wherein the scanning module is configured to identify the potential spot based on related information comprising at least one of temporal and spatial information of content in vicinity of the potential spot, presence of significant words in the content in vicinity of the potential spot, contextual information and semantic sense associated with the potential spot and the associated content, etymological and ontological inferences corresponding to the potential spot, identified sentiment associated with the potential spot, identified context based on grammar extraction corresponding to the potential spot, location source associated with the potential spot and information to qualify and quantify a relevance of the potential spot.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein the potential spots are stored in the storage module along with the related information, and, wherein the at least one popularity-based metric is computed for each potential spot for determining a subsequent inclusion of the each potential spot in the spotting dictionary as a popular spot.

20. The system according to claim 18, wherein the information related to the spots and the related information corresponding to the potential spots stored in the storage module is configured to facilitate in provisioning the one or more remote users with recommendations comprising related spots and related content during instances of user text entry.

21. The system according to claim 20, wherein the spotting dictionary is configured to include quantitative data and qualitative data corresponding to the popular spots, wherein the quantitative data and qualitative data comprises statistical information relating to a popular spot'"'"'s historical usage or selection, probability information relating to a popular spot'"'"'s historical usage, run-time analytics information and a dictionary priority information.

22. The system as claimed in claim 20, wherein the qualitative data and qualitative data is configured to facilitate in appropriate provisioning of the popular spots as word completions, phrase completions, word suggestions, phrase suggestions and next word predictions during instances of user text entry.

36. The system according to claim 1, wherein the spot is based on one of the user by self-cognizance or a suggestion as a candidate to be the spot.

23. A method comprising:

periodically scanning a plurality of content sources to identify words and phrases being shared among one or more online communities of remote users as spots, wherein sharing of a word or a phrase as a spot by a remote user in an online community from among the one or more online communities of remote users is indicative of user interest in the word or the phrase;

storing the spots along with information related to the spots, wherein the information related to the spots comprises at least one of identities of one or more remote users from among the one or more online communities of remote users sharing each spot, a contextual information associated with each one of the spots and online user comments associated with each one of the spots;

determining at least one popularity-based metric for each spot from among the spots stored in the storage module;

generating and periodically updating a spotting dictionary comprising at least a listing of popular spots based on the at least one popularity-based metric associated with each spot;

provisioning the spotting dictionary to one or more remote users from among the one or more online communities of remote users; and

facilitating creation of an interactive web-based application capable of residing natively in a user-device associated with the remote users, the web-based application comprising a plurality of user interfaces (UIs) configured to facilitate the sharing of the word or the phrase as the spot.

24. The method according to claim 23, further comprising computing one or more parameters for each spot, wherein a parameter from among the one or more parameters is one of:

a total number of times the each spot is being shared in the one or more online communities of remote users;

a total number of separate instances of sharing the each spot as a new spot by different remote users within the one or more online communities of remote users;

a total number of times the each spot is being re-spotted within the one or more online communities of remote users subsequent to sharing the each spot by a remote user;

a popularity parameter signifying a measure of popularity of each remote user involved in sharing the each spot within the one or more online communities of remote users;

a total number of comments associated with the each spot;

a total number of recent comments associated with the each spot;

a total number of recent re-spots associated with each spot; and

a profile parameter configured to account for user additions of at least one of textual content and image content to a spot profile associated with each spot.

25. The method according to claim 23, wherein the spotting dictionary is configured to be integrated with one or more word dictionaries and facilitate provisioning of the popular spots as word completions, phrase completions, word suggestions, phrase suggestions and next word predictions during instances of user text entry.

26. The method according to claim 23, further comprising scanning one or more user linked accounts corresponding to a remote user from among the one or more online communities of remote users for detecting a presence of at least one pre-defined character embedded within online textual content, and, to extract a word or a phrase disposed substantially adjacent to at least one pre-defined character as a spot.

27. The method according to claim 23, wherein another UI from among the plurality of UIs is configured to display the spot among a listing of words and phrases selected as spots by the remote user.

28. The method according to claim 27, wherein one or more spots from among the spots selected by the remote user comprise an associated spot profile in form of user-defined information including at least one of a meaning of the spot, an exemplary spot usage instance and a picture of a location where the spot was first encountered.

29. The method according to claim 28, wherein the spot profile is configured to display a numeral associated with the spot, wherein the numeral is indicative of atleast one of a combined count of a number of times the spot was shared as a spot, a re-spot in the one or more online communities of remote user, a number of comments associated with the shared spot, a number of comments associated with the re-spot and a number of instances of adding one of an image, textual content and video with the shared spot or re-spot in the combined count.

30. The method according to claim 28, wherein the associated spot profile is configured to be edited by other remote users from among the one or more online communities of remote users based on permissions afforded to the other remote users through the web-based application.

31. The method according to claim 23, wherein the web-based application is configured to provision an option within a set of clipboard options associated with a highlighted portion of text corresponding to one of an online textual content source and an offline textual content source, the option configured to enable a selection of the highlighted portion of the text as the spot.

32. The method according to claim 23, wherein at least one UI from among the plurality of UIs is configured to provision access to one of:

listing of currently trending spots among the one or more online communities of remote users; and

listing of remote users from among the one or more remote users associated with the currently trending spots.

33. The method according to claim 32, wherein the at least one UI is further configured to enable the remote user to re-spot a word or a phrase from the listing of currently trending spots, wherein re-spotting of the word or the phrase is indicative of selecting a spotted word or phrase for subsequent sharing as the spot.

34. The method according to claim 23, wherein the web-based application is configured to be linked to one or more user accounts on social networking websites associated with the remote user and to prompt the remote user, during text entry on the one or more user accounts on social networking websites, to append the word or the phase with at least one pre-defined character to indicate a selection of the word or the phrase as the spot.

35. The method according to claim 23, wherein the web-based application is configured to be linked to one or more user accounts on social networking websites associated with the remote user and to extract words or phrases appended with at least one pre-defined character within online textual content corresponding to the one or more user accounts on social networking websites and provision the extracted words and phrases as candidates for subsequent selection of the words or the phrases as spots.

37. The method according to claim 23, wherein the spot is based on one of the user self-cognizance or a suggestion as a candidate to be the spot.