Enhanced document services

• US 10,460,012 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Kohlmeier, Bernhard, Chilakamarri, Pradeep, Yang, Chenguang
• Primary Examiner(s): Dyer, Andrew R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Burke, Tionna M
• Application Number:
  US15/009,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20170060814A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,370 Days
• Field of Search: 715273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• 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 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique

Abstract

A document lens service identifies a document profile specific to an end-user that is indicative of a model document for the end-user. When a productivity document is opened to be consumed by the end-user in a user interface to a productivity application, the service modifies the productivity document based at least on the document profile to align the productivity document with the model document. The productivity document is then rendered as-modified in the user interface.

Claims

1. A computing apparatus comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media;

a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media; and

program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for providing a document lens service that, when read and executed by the processing system, direct the processing system to at least;

identify a document profile from a set of document profiles specific to an end-user that is indicative of a model document for the end-user, wherein the set of document profiles comprises a public document profile and a private document profile for the end-user and wherein the identified document profile comprises the public document profile for the end-user;

when a productivity document is opened to be consumed by the end-user in a user interface to a productivity application,

evaluate the productivity document against the document profile to identify deficiencies in the productivity document relative to the model document, wherein the deficiencies relate to actual characteristics of the productivity document that depart from model characteristics of the model document expressed in the document profile,

identify modifications to make to the productivity document to align the productivity document with the model document based at least in part on the deficiencies, and

modify the productivity document based at least on the identified modifications; and

render the productivity document as modified in the user interface.

2. The computing apparatus of claim 1 wherein the program instructions further direct the processing system to at least:

maintain a document graph comprising graph information representative of actions taken by the end-user with respect to a plurality of documents having a plurality of characteristics; and

develop the document profile for the end-user based at least in part on the graph information in the document graph.

3. The computing apparatus of claim 2 wherein to develop the document profile, the program instructions direct the processing system to at least:

identify a subset of the plurality of documents favored by the end-user based on the actions taken by the end-user with respect to the plurality of documents;

identify a subset of the plurality of characteristics that the subset of the plurality of documents each have in common with each other; and

populate the document profile with the subset of the plurality of characteristics.

4. The computing apparatus of claim 1 wherein the end-user is an author of the productivity document.

5. The computing apparatus of claim 1 wherein the deficiencies relate to actual characteristics of the productivity document that depart from model characteristics of the model document expressed in the document profile.

6. The computing apparatus of claim 5 wherein the model characteristics comprise word choice, font selection, paragraph length, line spacing, and content organization.

7. The computing apparatus of claim 6 wherein the modifications comprise a modification to one or more of the word choice, the font selection, the paragraph length, the line spacing, and the content organization.

8. The computing apparatus of claim 1 wherein the productivity document comprises one of an email, a word processing document, a spreadsheet workbook, and a presentation document.

9. The computing apparatus of claim 1 wherein the program instructions further direct the processing system to surface a prompt in the user interface for the end-user to self-identify with any of a plurality of document profiles.

10. One or more computer readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to at least:

identify a document profile from a set of document profiles specific to an end-user that is indicative of a model document for the end-user, wherein the set of document profiles comprises a public document profile and a private document profile for the end-user and wherein the identified document profile comprises the public document profile for the end-user;

when a productivity document is opened to be consumed by the end-user in a user interface to a productivity application,

evaluate the productivity document against the document profile to identify deficiencies in the productivity document relative to the model document, wherein the deficiencies relate to actual characteristics of the productivity document that depart from model characteristics of the model document expressed in the document profile,

identify modifications to make to the productivity document to align the productivity document with the model document based at least in part on the deficiencies, and

modify the productivity document based at least on the identified modifications; and

render the productivity document as modified in the user interface.

11. A method of operating a document lens service comprising:

identifying a document profile from a set of document profiles specific to an end-user that is indicative of a model document for the end-user, wherein the set of document profiles comprises a public document profile and a private document profile for the end-user and wherein the identified document profile comprises the public document profile for the end-user;

when a productivity document is opened to be consumed by the end-user in a user interface to a productivity application,

evaluating the productivity document against the document profile to identify deficiencies in the productivity document relative to the model document, wherein the deficiencies relate to actual characteristics of the productivity document that depart from model characteristics of the model document expressed in the document profile,

identifying modifications to make to the productivity document to align the productivity document with the model document based at least in part on the deficiencies, and

modifying the productivity document based at least on the identified modifications; and

rendering the productivity document as modified in the user interface.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the method further comprises:

maintaining a document graph comprising graph information representative of actions taken by the end-user with respect to a plurality of productivity documents having a plurality of characteristics; and

developing the document profile for the end-user based at least in part on the graph information in the document graph.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein developing the document profile comprises:

identifying a subset of the plurality of productivity documents favored by the end-user based on the actions taken by the end-user with respect to the plurality of productivity documents;

identifying a subset of the plurality of characteristics that the subset of the plurality of productivity documents each have in common with each other; and

populating the document profile with the subset of the plurality of characteristics.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the actions taken by the end user with respect to the plurality of documents comprise opening, editing, forwarding, replying to, and deleting the any of the plurality of productivity documents.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein the end-user is an author of the productivity document.

16. The method of claim 11 wherein the deficiencies relate to actual characteristics of the productivity document that depart from model characteristics of the model document expressed in the document profile.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the model characteristics comprise word choice, font selection, paragraph length, line spacing, and content organization.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the modifications comprise a modification to one or more of the word choice, the font selection, the paragraph length, the line spacing, and the content organization.

19. The method of claim 11 wherein the productivity document comprises one of an email, a word processing document, a spreadsheet workbook, and a presentation document.

20. The method of claim 11 further comprising surfacing a prompt in the user interface for the end-user to self-identify with any of a plurality of document profiles.