Fidelity management and transformation of notecard items

• US 10,606,467 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2018
• Issued: 03/31/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Zhu, Yibing, Estrada, Theresa, Stenerson, Derik B., Fournier, II, Keith, Poznanski, Victor, Lindley, Sian
• Primary Examiner(s): Mills, Frank D
• Application Number:
  US15/934,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20190250788A1
• Time in Patent Office: 739 Days
• Field of Search: 715230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs query results presentation G06F16/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services

Abstract

Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure relate to fidelity management of an exemplary notecard item based on action(s) for movement that may re-locate notecard item(s) across any of: different content portions of a digital document, different digital documents of an application/service and digital documents of different applications/services. Specific data (and metadata) is collected and analyzed to enable determination of a level of fidelity for rendering of a notecard item, where a representation of a notecard item is generated to fit a context of a digital document in which the notecard item is being placed. A representation of a notecard item may be rendered at a first level of fidelity in one context but a different level of fidelity when the notecard item is moved to a different context. In other instances, evaluation of a notecard item yields a determination to maintain fidelity after an action that re-locates a notecard item.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting, through a user interface, a notecard item;

receiving one or more actions associated with movement of the notecard item, wherein the one or more actions combine the notecard item with a portion of content of a digital document;

determining a context for placement of the notecard item within the digital document of a productivity service, wherein a determination of the context for placement of the notecard item comprises analysis of;

data within a notecard file for the notecard item, the digital document in which the notecard is being inserted and application-specific data associated with the productivity service;

selecting a level of fidelity for display of a representation of the notecard item based on the determined context, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity comprises a determination as to a number of notecard items to generate in the representation of the notecard item based on a combination of the notecard item with the portion of content; and

presenting, within the digital document of the productivity service, the representation of the notecard item based on the selected level of fidelity.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity further comprises a determination to maintain a level of fidelity of the notecard item when inserted into the digital document of the productivity service, and wherein presenting further comprises inserting the representation of the notecard item at a same level of fidelity as the first representation of the notecard item.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity for display of the notecard item comprises modifying the notecard item to fit a context of the digital document, and wherein the presenting presents, as the representation, the modified notecard item.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the one or more actions comprise a drag and drop action that drags the notecard item from a first productivity service and drops the notecard item in the productivity service, being a second productivity service that is different from the first productivity service.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving a second drag and drop action that drags the notecard item from the second productivity service and drops the notecard item in the first productivity service, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity comprises returning the notecard item to an original representation as previously presented in the first productivity service.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the context comprises a determination that the notecard item is being placed on top of another notecard item, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity further comprises generating, from analysis of the data of the notecard file, the representation of the notecard item that is tailored for stacking the notecard item with the other notecard item, and wherein the representation of the notecard item comprises a modification selected from one or more of:

a size of content associated with the notecard item, a formatting of content associated with the notecard item, removal of content from the notecard item and addition of content to the notecard item.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity comprises a determination to generate two or more notecard items based on a combination of the notecard item with the portion of content, and wherein the representation, presented within the digital document, comprises surfacing of the two or more notecard items.

8. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory, operatively connected with the at least one processor, storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to execute a method that comprises;

presenting, through a user interface, a notecard item;

receiving one or more actions associated with movement of the notecard item, wherein the one or more actions combine the notecard item with a portion of content of a digital document;

determining a context for placement of the notecard item within the digital document of a productivity service, wherein a determination of the context for placement of the notecard item comprises analysis of;

data within a notecard file for the notecard item, the digital document in which the notecard is being inserted and application-specific data associated with the productivity service;

selecting a level of fidelity for display of a representation of the notecard item based on the determined context, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity comprises a determination as to a number of notecard items to generate in the representation of the notecard item based on a combination of the notecard item with the portion of content; and

presenting, within the digital document of the productivity service, the representation of the notecard item based on the selected level of fidelity.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity further comprises a determination to maintain a level of fidelity of the notecard item when inserted into the digital document of the productivity service, and wherein presenting further comprises inserting the representation of the notecard item at a same level of fidelity as the first representation of the notecard item.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity for display of the notecard item comprises modifying the notecard item to fit a context of the digital document, and wherein the presenting presents, as the representation, the modified notecard item.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more actions comprise a drag and drop action that drags the notecard item from a first productivity service and drops the notecard item in the productivity service, being a second productivity service that is different from the first productivity service.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the method, executed by the at least one processor, further comprises:

receiving a second drag and drop action that drags the notecard item from the second productivity service and drops the notecard item in the first productivity service, and wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity comprises returning the notecard item to an original representation as previously presented in the first productivity service.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the determining of the context comprises a determination that the notecard item is being placed on top of another notecard item, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity further comprises generating, from analysis of the data of the notecard file, the representation of the notecard item that is tailored for stacking the notecard item with the other notecard item, and wherein the representation of the notecard item comprises a modification selected from one or more of:

a size of content associated with the notecard item, a formatting of content associated with the notecard item, removal of content from the notecard item and addition of content to the notecard item.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity comprises a determination to generate two or more notecard items based on a combination of the notecard item with the portion of content, and wherein the representation, presented within the digital document, comprises surfacing of the two or more notecard items.

15. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to execute a method comprising:

presenting, through a user interface, a notecard item;

receiving one or more actions associated with movement of the notecard item, wherein the one or more actions combine the notecard item with a portion of content of a digital document;

determining a context for placement of the notecard item within the digital document of a productivity service, wherein a determination of the context for placement of the notecard item comprises analysis of;

data within a notecard file for the notecard item, the digital document in which the notecard is being inserted and application-specific data associated with the productivity service;

selecting a level of fidelity for display of a representation of the notecard item based on the determined context, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity comprises a determination as to a number of notecard items to generate in the representation of the notecard item based on a combination of the notecard item with the portion of content; and

presenting, within the digital document of the productivity service, the representation of the notecard item based on the selected level of fidelity.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity further comprises a determination to maintain a level of fidelity of the notecard item when inserted into the digital document of the productivity service, and wherein presenting further comprises inserting the representation of the notecard item at a same level of fidelity as the first representation of the notecard item.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity for display of the notecard item comprises modifying the notecard item to fit a context of the digital document, and wherein the presenting presents, as the representation, the modified notecard item.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the one or more actions comprise a drag and drop action that drags the notecard item from a first productivity service and drops the notecard item in the productivity service, being a second productivity service that is different from the first productivity service.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the executed method further comprising:

receiving a second drag and drop action that drags the notecard item from the second productivity service and drops the notecard item in the first productivity service, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity comprises returning the notecard item to an original representation as previously presented in the first productivity service.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the selecting of the level of fidelity comprises a determination to generate two or more notecard items based on a combination of the notecard item with the portion of content, and wherein the representation, presented within the digital document, comprises surfacing of the two or more notecard items.