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Productivity tools for content authoring

  • US 10,402,061 B2
  • Filed: 06/12/2015
  • Issued: 09/03/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. One or more computer readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that when executed by a processing system direct the processing system to:

  • display an application graphical user interface;

    display a document in an authoring surface of the application graphical user interface;

    display a set of one or more content related to at least one topic determined from a user'"'"'s expression of intent input as text in a research region of the application graphical user interface, wherein at least one content of the set of content includes a title and corresponding text related to the at least one topic determined from the user'"'"'s expression of intent;

    in response to receiving a user'"'"'s selection of the one or more content, subsequently inserting, in a topic insertion region of the authoring surface, a topic anchor of an identified topic corresponding to the at least one selected content of the set of content by;

    detecting a location of an insertion point in the authoring surface of the document;

    creating a topic header, the topic header comprising the title;

    inserting the topic header at the location of the insertion point in the topic insertion region to display the title;

    creating a topic exploration object, wherein the topic exploration object comprises an annotation field or an object and is displayed with the title of the selected content and at least a portion of the corresponding text of the selected content; and

    dynamically positioning a display of a graphical user interface comprising the topic exploration object in a topic exploration object region in a position corresponding to but separate from the insertion point in the topic insertion region, wherein the graphical user interface comprising the topic exploration object is marked with a connecting line attached to the topic header displaying the title;

    wherein the research region is separate from the topic exploration object region and the topic insertion region; and

    in response to receiving an annotation in the graphical user interface in the topic exploration object region, store the annotation in the annotation field or the object of the topic exploration object.

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