Providing semantic based document editor

• US 10,133,715 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2015
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Kikin-Gil, Ruth, Costenaro, Daniel, Seerveld, Rebecca, Hodgson, Wesley, McKaughan, Robert, Cummins, Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jung, Seung
• Application Number:
  US14/825,069
• Publication Number:
  US 20170046319A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,196 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

A semantic based document editor is provided. An application such as a document processing application displays previews of a document. The previews include semantic styles. In response to a selection of one of the previews, a semantic style associated with the selected preview is applied to a section of the document. The semantic style is rendered in the selected preview. A suggestion is displayed on the section. The suggestion identifies the section. The suggestion is also formatted based on the semantic style.

Claims

1. A computing device to provide a semantic based document editor in conjunction with a document processing application, the computing device comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions associated with the document editor;

one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to;

in response to a request to generate a new document, retrieve a plurality of suggested semantic styles from semantic styles recently used by a user associated with a recent document and a styles library provided by the document processing application or a trusted external resource provider;

sort the plurality of suggested semantic styles retrieved from the semantic styles recently used by the user and the styles library based on a frequency of use by the user;

provide to be displayed, on a display device, a plurality of previews representing the sorted plurality of suggested semantic styles, wherein the plurality of previews are ordered based on a high frequency of use of an associated semantic style to a low frequency of use of another associated semantic style;

generate the document with sections formatted based on a selected style among the plurality of suggested semantic styles;

receive content to be entered into a section of the document, wherein a classification of the section is identified on the section;

provide to be displayed, on the display device, one or more style commands to change a semantic style of the section;

receive a selection of one of the style commands; and

apply the semantic style corresponding to the selected one of the style commands to the content in the section.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the semantic style includes one or more format attributes associated with the section and the one or more format attributes include one or more of:

a font style, a font type, a font color, a font width, an optical style, a line spacing, or a background color.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

detect entry of a new content into a location on the document outside of the section;

identify another semantic style associated with the new content; and

create another section of the document, wherein the other section is formatted based on the other semantic style.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

detect entry of a new content into a location on the document within the section; and

in response to a failure to match another semantic style associated with the new content to the semantic style of the section, provide a prompt for an input to be displayed to select between an automatic reformatting of the other semantic style associated with the new content to match the semantic style of the section and a rejection of the entry of the new content into the section.

5. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

detect a copy action to insert a copied content into a location outside of the section; and

query a resource of the copied content to identify another semantic style of the copied content at the resource.

6. The computing device of claim 5, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

identify the other semantic style of the copied content from the resource;

create another section formatted with the other semantic style; and

insert the copied content into the other section, wherein the copied content is formatted with the other semantic style.

7. A method executed on a computing device to provide a semantic based document editor, the method comprising:

in response to a request to generate a new document, retrieving a plurality of suggested semantic styles from semantic styles recently used by a user associated with a recent document and a styles library provided by the document processing application or a trusted external resource provider;

sorting the plurality of suggested semantic styles retrieved from the semantic styles recently used by the user and the styles library based on a frequency of use by the user;

displaying, on a display device, a plurality of previews representing the sorted plurality of suggested semantic styles, wherein the plurality of previews are ordered based on a high frequency of use of an associated semantic style to a low frequency of use of another associated semantic style;

generating the document with sections formatted based on a selected style among the plurality of suggested semantic styles;

receiving content to be entered into a section of the document, wherein a classification of the section is identified on the section;

displaying, on the display device, one or more style commands to change a semantic style of the section;

receiving a selection of one of the style commands;

applying the semantic style corresponding to the selected one of the style commands to the content in the section.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

generating a navigation control that includes a navigation command linked to the section, wherein the navigation command includes a label associated with the section; and

displaying the navigation control overlaid on the document.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

detecting a selection of the navigation command; and

scrolling through the document to display the section.

10. A computer-readable memory device with instructions stored thereon to provide a semantic based document editor, the instructions comprising:

in response to a request to generate a new document, retrieving a plurality of suggested semantic styles from semantic styles recently used by a user associated with a recent document and a styles library provided by the document processing application or a trusted external resource provider;

sorting the plurality of suggested semantic styles retrieved from the semantic styles recently used by the user and the styles library based on a frequency of use by the user;

displaying, on a display device, a plurality of previews representing the sorted plurality of suggested semantic styles, wherein the plurality of previews are ordered based on a high frequency of use of an associated semantic style to a low frequency of use of another associated semantic style;

generating the document with sections formatted based on a selected style among the plurality of suggested semantic styles;

receiving content to be entered into a section of the document, wherein a classification of the section is identified on the section;

displaying, on the display device, one or more style commands to change a semantic style of the section;

receiving a selection of one of the style commands; and

applying the semantic style corresponding to the selected one of the style commands to the content in the section.

11. The computer-readable memory device of claim 10, wherein the instructions further comprise:

detecting entry of a new content into a location on the document outside of the section through the document editor;

identifying another semantic style associated with the new content;

creating another section of the document, wherein the other section is formatted based on the other semantic style;

formatting the new content based on the other semantic style; and

placing the new content into the other section.

12. The computer-readable memory device of claim 10, wherein the instructions further comprise:

generating a navigation control that includes a navigation command linked to the section, wherein the navigation command includes a label associated with the section;

displaying the navigation control overlaid on the document;

detecting a selection of the navigation command through the document editor; and

scrolling through the document to display the section.