Management of content tailoring by services

• US 10,346,533 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2015
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Link, Claudius, Seul, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): Peng, Huawen A
• Application Number:
  US14/726,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20160063111A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,499 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer program products for processing responses from services (e.g., content providers) and managing content tailoring by services and/or recommender systems used by those services. Embodiments of the present invention can afford users with the ability to control the diversity of content in responses provided by services based one or more detected themes of the responses. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may be used to provide users with enriched responses from services, without needing cooperation of those services.

Claims

1. A method for processing a response from a service, the method comprising:

receiving, by one or more computer processors, a first response from a service, wherein the first response is generated as a response to a query sent to the service from a computer system;

extracting, by one or more computer processors, text content from the first response;

determining, by one or more computer processors, whether the extracted text content from the first response is diverse in accordance with a user specification, wherein the user specification comprises a user-specified representation of diversity, and wherein diverse text content comprises text content associated with a requisite number of themes based on the user specification, wherein one or more themes classify text content into a category; and

responsive to determining that the extracted text content from the first response is not diverse in accordance with the user specification, modifying, by one or more computer processors, the first response to create a second response that is diverse in accordance with the user specification, wherein modifying, by one or more computer processors, the first response to create a second response that is diverse in accordance with the user specification comprises;

querying, by one or more computer processors, one or more enrichment services using terms of the query;

receiving, by one or more computer processors, a plurality of responses from the one or more enrichment services;

detecting, by one or more computer processors, one or more themes of text content extracted from the plurality of responses;

selecting, by one or more computer processors, one or more responses of the plurality of responses based, at least in part, on the detected one or more themes; and

modifying, by one or more computer processors, the first response to create a second response comprising text content extracted from the selected one or more responses.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to determining that the extracted text content from first response is not diverse in accordance with the user specification, initiating transmission, by one or more computer processors, of the second response to the computer system.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

responsive to determining that the extracted text content from the first response is diverse in accordance with the user specification, initiating transmission, by one or more computer processors, of the first response to the computer system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein extracting, by one or more computer processors, text content from the first response comprises:

obtaining, by one or more computer processors, one or more schemas for the service;

extracting, by one or more computer processors, text content from the first response using the one or more schemas obtained for the service; and

parsing, by one or more computer processors, the extracted text content from the first response into a plurality of text elements.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining, by one or more computer processors, whether the extracted content from the first response is diverse in accordance with a user specification comprises:

detecting, by one or more computer processors, one or more themes of the extracted text content from the first response; and

determining, by one or more computer processors, whether the detected themes are diverse in accordance with a user specification.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying, by one or more computer processors, the first response to create a second response that is diverse in accordance with the user specification comprises:

obtaining, by one or more computer processors, additional content from an enrichment service;

obtaining, by one or more computer processors, one or more schemas for the enrichment service; and

modifying, by one or more computer processors, the first response to create a second response that includes the additional content using the one or more schemas obtained for the enrichment service.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the additional content is pre-fetched from the enrichment service.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

creating, by one or more computer processors, a service entry for the service comprising identification information, accessibility information, and capability information for the service;

creating, by one or more computer processors, a service entry for the enrichment service comprising identification information, accessibility information, and capability information for the enrichment service; and

storing the service entries for the service and the enrichment service in a database.