Linking information

• US 20080115069A1
• Filed: 11/13/2006
• Published: 05/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Veselova, Olga
• Granted Patent: US 7,707,518 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Embodiments are provided to create and maintain one or more links or associations to different types of data and other information. In an embodiment, one or more links can be created and maintained, wherein the one or more links provide one or more pathways between structured information. A user can use a link to locate desired information, such as a notebook, section group, section, page, and/or page object for example for example. In one embodiment, a user can create a link to locate desired information, such as a notebook, section group, section, page, and/or page object, wherein user actions can be used to automatically determine a potential link target.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium including executable instructions which, when executed, relate information by:

tracking interaction by a user with one or more potential link targets, wherein the one or more potential link targets are associated with a hierarchal information structure;

populating a display with a number of parameters associated with the one or more potential link targets, wherein the display is repopulated as the user interacts with different link targets; and

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generating one or more paths to the one or more potential link targets, wherein the one or more paths are based in part on the one or more potential link targets.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by generating a link to a link target after the user has interacted with the one or more potential link targets, wherein the link target is based on at least one of the one or more potential link targets.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by generating a link to a link target based in part on user input, wherein the link target is based on at least one of the one or more potential link targets.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by generating the one or more paths to the one or more potential link targets, wherein the one or more potential link targets are selected from at least one of a notebook, section group, section, page, and page object.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by generating the one or more paths to the one or more potential link targets, wherein the one or more paths are selected from at least one of an absolute and a relative path.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by navigating to the link target using the link.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by populating the display with the number of parameters associated with the one or more potential link targets, wherein the number of parameters comprise parameters associated with a note-taking application.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by populating the display with the number of parameters associated with the one or more potential link targets including at least one of a link address and a selected target.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by populating the display with the number of parameters associated with the one or more potential link targets, wherein the number of parameters are associated with one or more potential link targets selected from at least one of a notebook, section, page, and page object.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by populating the display with one or more friendly names associated with the one or more potential link targets.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by generating the link to the link target, wherein the link relates items of the hierarchal information structure.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by generating the link to the link target, wherein the link relates items of the hierarchal information structure and the hierarchal information structure includes at least one of a notebook, section, page, and page object.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, associate information by tracking the one or more potential link targets based in part on a navigation event.

14. A system to associate information comprising:

an organizer component to organize the information according to a hierarchal information structure;

a link component to predict one or more potential link targets based on user input, wherein the link component is to create a link to at least one of the one or more potential link targets after a navigation event and the link includes a number of parameters associated with a path to the link target; and

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a display component to display at least one parameter associated with the one or more potential link targets based in part on the tracked input, wherein the display component can be refreshed with updated parameters associated with the one or more potential link targets.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the link component is further configured to create a link to at least one of a notebook, section group, section, page, and page object.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the display component is further configured to display at least one of a link address and a selected target associated with the one or more potential link targets.

17. A method of associating information comprising:

interacting with one or more potential link targets, wherein the one or more potential link targets are associated with a hierarchal information structure;

monitoring the interaction by storing a number of parameters associated with the one or more potential link targets;

displaying the number of parameters associated with the one or more potential link targets, wherein the display is updated after interaction with a different link target; and

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determining a link to a link target, wherein the link includes a path to the link target and the link target is based on at least one of the one or more potential link targets.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising creating the link to the link target after a navigation event.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising creating the link to at least one of a notebook, section, page, and page object.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising populating one or more display fields with information associated with the one or more potential targets.