Systems and methods for constructing and using models of memorability in computing and communications applications
First Claim
1. A system employing memorability models, comprising:
- one or more memorability models that automatically capture an ability of people to recognize events as landmarks in time; and
an application that employs the memorability models to facilitate processing of information in accordance with the events.
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Abstract
One or more models of memorability are provided that facilitate various computer-based applications including those centering on the storage, retrieval, and processing of information, applications that remind people about items they risk not recalling or overlooking, and facilitating communications of reminders. In one application, the models are used to help compose and navigate large personal stores of information about a user'"'"'s activities, communications, images, and other content. In another application, views of files in directories are extended with the addition of memory landmarks, and a means for controlling the number of landmarks provided via changing a threshold on inferred memorability. Another application centers on the use of models of memorability to select subsets of images from larger sets representing events, for display in a slide show or ambient photo display. In another application, a system is provided that facilitates computer-based searching for information by providing for the design and analysis of timeline visualizations in connection with displaying results to queries based at least in part on an index of content. A query is received by a query component (which can be part of search engine that provides a unified index of information a user has been exposed to). The query component parses the query into portions relevant to effecting a meaningful search in accordance with the subject invention. The query component can access and populate a data store which may include information searched for. A landmark component receives and/or accesses information from the query component as well as the data store, and anchors public and/or personal landmark events to search results-related information.
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20 Claims
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1. A system employing memorability models, comprising:
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one or more memorability models that automatically capture an ability of people to recognize events as landmarks in time; and
an application that employs the memorability models to facilitate processing of information in accordance with the events. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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- 2. The system of claim 2, the memorability models include procedures and policies for assigning a measure of memorability to events that can be employed by various computer-based applications to aid users in processing, receiving, and/or communicating information.
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12. A method for applying memorability information, comprising:
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automatically labeling events or items with numerical or categorical labels according to a measure of the likelihood that an item will be recalled, recognized as a landmark, or be most representative of an event or time; and
applying the labeling to information-management applications. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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