System with user directed enrichment and import/export control

• US 20060080314A1
• Filed: 11/22/2005
• Published: 04/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 6, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Guerin, Nicolas, Hubert, Laurence
• Granted Patent: US 7,647,349 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/38 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A system for enriching document content using enrichment themes includes a directed search service and an import-export service. The directed search service allows users to author documents while querying information providers using the directed searches that are inserted as part of the authored documents. The import-export service enables meta-document exchanges between systems that provide document enrichment by binding imported meta-documents to identical or similar information providers.

Claims

1. In a document enrichment system, a computer-implemented method for creating at a meta-document server a new meta-document from an exported meta-document, comprising:

(a) adding services in the new meta-document available at an importing meta-document server with services that map exactly to a predefined categorization; and

(b) for those services not added at (a) but specified in the exported meta-document, adding services in the new meta-document available at the importing meta-document server with services that partially map to a predefined categorization, and have at least one dictionary and one key in common.

2. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, wherein dictionaries of two services are equivalent if they map to a predefined categorization.

3. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, wherein two keys of a service are said to map if they reduce to a common generic key.