Techniques for managing writable search results

• US 10,102,288 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2013
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Solheim, Helge Grenager, Olstad, Bjorn
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Uyen
• Application Number:
  US14/083,376
• Publication Number:
  US 20150142776A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,793 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3326 using relevance feedback from the user, e.g. relevance feedback on documents, documents sets, document terms or passages
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

Techniques for shared writable search results using a writable topic board system are described. An apparatus may include a processor circuit; and a server application for execution by the processor circuit. The server application may include a query processing component to receive a first search query include one or more search terms, a search component to provide search results for the first search query in a search result list, the search results include one or more search result items, and a topic board component to manage a writable topic board for the first search query, the writable topic board to include one or more search result items from a second search query. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor circuit; and

a server application for execution by the processor circuit, the server application comprising;

a query processing component to receive a first search query from a first user comprising one or more search terms;

a search component to provide search results for the first search query in a search result list, the search result list comprising one or more search result items; and

a topic board component to manage a writable topic board for the first search query, the writable topic board being part of a user interface view of a client application and comprising one or more search result items as shared documents that can be modified by and shared among multiple users, wherein the one or more search result items are search results from a second search query of a second user, wherein the topic board component receives a control directive from a first client application associated with the first user to share at least one document, from the one or more search results, with a second client application associated with the second user such that the user interface view associated with the writable topic board displays the at least one document.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first search query occurs after the second search query.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first search query and the second search query are each received from different client applications.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the topic board component associates a first and second processed query corresponding to the first and second search queries.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the topic board component maps the first and second search queries to a query board.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the topic board component maps the first and second search queries based on similarity between the first and second processed query.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the server application further comprises a user interface component to present the search result list and the writable topic board.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the control directive to share the document is a control directive to pin a search result item contained in the search results list to the writable topic board for sharing between users.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the topic board component is to provide a shared document to the first client application and the second client application.

10. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a search query from a client application associated with a first user;

generating a processed query based on the search query;

providing search results to a search result list for the search query, the search results comprising a document and a plurality of other documents;

mapping the search query into a query board based on similarity between the processed query and an existing processed query;

receiving a control directive from the client application to share the document, wherein the control directive is received from the first client application associated with the first user, and further wherein the control directive causes the document to be shared with at least a second client application associated with a second user without causing at least one of the plurality of other documents to be shared with the second client application associated with the second user;

adding the document to be shared to the query board as a shared document; and

providing the shared document from the query board to a writable topic board such that a graphical user interface associated with the writable topic board displays shared document, the writable topic board being part of a user interface view of a client application and including one or more search result items as shared documents that can be modified by and shared among multiple users.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, comprising adding the document to the query board in response to a control directive from the client application to pin the document contained in the search results list to the writable topic board for sharing between users.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, comprising:

creating a removal board based on the search query;

mapping the search query to the removal board;

receiving a control directive to remove the shared document from the writable topic board for the search query;

adding the shared document to the removal board as a removed document;

generating removal information based on the removal board; and

filtering the shared documents to be provided to the writable topic board based on the removal information.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, comprising providing the search results containing documents in the search results list that are mutually exclusive with the shared documents in the writable topic board.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, comprising:

receiving control directives to a shared document contained in a private datastore of a remote device;

determining access control information to the private datastore of the remote device; and

filtering the shared document to be provided to the writable topic board based on the access control information.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, comprising:

creating a document event for the shared document;

associating the document event with the shared document;

receiving control directives and feedback information from the client application for the shared document; and

updating the document event based on the control directives and feedback information.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, comprising:

generating usage and feedback analytics based on at least one document event;

providing personalized options information to the client application;

receiving selected options information from the client application; and

filtering the shared documents to be provided to the writable topic board based on the selected options information and usage and the feedback analytics.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, comprising:

receiving a control directive to notify the client application associated with a user for the shared document; and

providing an update notification to the client application based on updates to the shared document.

18. At least one computer-readable storage memory unit comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

receive a first search query from a client application associated with a first user, the search query being associated with a writable topic board and a search result list;

provide search results to the search result list for the first search query, the search results including a first document and a second document;

generate a first processed query based on the first search query;

map the first search query into a query board based on similarities between the first processed query and a second processed query;

receive a control directive from the client application to share the first document, wherein the control directive is received from a first client application associated with the first user, and further wherein the control directive causes the first document, but not the second document, to be shared with at least a second client application associated with a second user;

add the first document to be shared to the query board as a first shared document; and

provide the first shared document from the query board to a writable topic board such that a graphical user interface associated with the writable topic board displays the shared document, the writable topic board being part of a user interface view of a client application and including one or more search result items as shared documents that can be modified by and shared among multiple users.

19. The computer-readable storage memory unit of claim 18, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to:

receive a second search query from the client application;

provide search results to the search result list for the second search query;

generate a second processed query based on the second search query; and

create a query board based on the second search query.