Method and apparatus for performing semantically informed text operations

• US 20080295013A1
• Filed: 05/21/2007
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Justsystems Evans Research Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Justsystems Evans Research Incorporated
• Inventors: Evans, David A., Cheng, Hua, Bennett, Jeffrey K., Montgomery, Jesse A., Hull, David A., Tenny, Carol L., Qu, Yan, Goldin, Ilya M.
• Application Number:
  US11/802,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20080295013A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis

Abstract

One example of a semantically informed text operation comprises selecting a source region of a document and determining if the source region has a surface region bi-directionally coupled to a semantic object. The coupled semantic object is identified as are the presentation(s) associated with the semantic object. A target region of the same or anther document is selected. Any of the presentations that cannot be expressed in the target region are eliminated to identify a set of remaining presentations. A set of semantic choices based on the remaining presentations is determined. One of the semantic choices is selected and executed in the target region.

Claims

1. A semantically informed text operation, comprising:

selecting a source region of a document;

determining if said source region has surface regions bi-directionally coupled to semantic objects;

identifying the coupled semantic objects and the presentations associated with the semantic objects;

selecting a target region of a document;

eliminating any of the presentations that cannot be expressed in said target region to identify a set of remaining presentations;

determining a set of semantic choices based on said remaining presentations;

selecting one of said semantic choices; and

executing the selected semantic choice in said target region.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said selecting a source region is performed one of manually or automatically.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said eliminating comprises determining a set of presentations that are referentially compatible with the identified semantic objects.

4. The method of claim 1 additionally comprising displaying said set of semantic choices, including displaying defaults.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein one of said semantic choices is to semantically paste said selected source region into the target region.

6. The method of claim 5 additionally comprising updating the information that bi-directionally couples said surface region to said semantic object to reflect said surface region'"'"'s new position.

7. The method of claim 5 additionally comprising cutting said source region from said document.

8. A semantically informed text operation, comprising:

selecting a source region of a document;

identifying a surface region in said source region that is linked to a remotely stored semantic object and wherein the remotely stored semantic object is associated with the surface region which links to said semantic object; and

performing an operation on the text in the source region of the document consistent with the semantic object and presentation constraints associated with said source region.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein said performing an operation includes selecting a subset of the semantic objects identified in the source region.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein said selecting a subset is based on one of the attributes of the semantic objects or the types of semantic objects.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein said performing an operation includes one of removing the surface text in the selected source region or removing any links between semantic objects and the surface text in the selected source region.

13. The method of claim 8 wherein said performing an operation includes temporarily storing one of the identified semantic objects or links to said objects.

14. The method of claim 8 wherein said performing an operation includes selecting a presentation format consistent with a semantic object identified in the source region.

9. A semantically informed text operation, comprising:

selecting a source region of a document;

identifying a surface region in said source region that is linked to a remotely stored semantic object and wherein the remotely stored semantic object is associated with the surface region which links to said semantic object;

selecting a target region in a document; and

performing an operation on the text in the target region of the document consistent with the semantic object and presentation constraints associated with said target region.

15. The method of claim 9 wherein said identifying is followed by selecting a subset of the semantic objects identified in the source region.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein said selecting is based on one of the attributes of the semantic objects or the types of semantic objects.

17. The method of claim 9 wherein said identifying is followed by one of removing the surface text in the selected source region or removing any links between semantic objects and the surface text in the selected source region.

18. The method of claim 9 wherein said identifying is followed by temporarily storing one of the identified semantic objects or links to said objects.

19. The method of claim 9 wherein said identifying is followed by selecting a presentation format consistent with a semantic object identified in the source region.

20. The method of claim 9 wherein said performing an operation includes performing a paste operation consisting of inserting a copy of the source region into the target region.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein said paste operation includes updating local and remote resources to maintain the links between surface regions and their remotely stored semantic objects in the pasted surface text.

22. The method of claim 20 wherein said paste operation includes selecting a presentation format for the linked surface regions being inserted in the target region.

23. The method of claim 9 where said performing an operation includes one of removing the surface text in the selected target region or removing any links between semantic objects and the surface text in the selected target region.

24. A computer readable medium storing a set of instructions for performing a semantically informed text operation, comprising:

determining if a selected source region of a document has surface regions bi-directionally coupled to semantic objects;

identifying the coupled semantic objects and the presentations associated with the semantic objects;

for a selected target region of a document, eliminating any of the presentations that cannot be expressed in said target region to identify a set of remaining presentations;

determining a set of semantic choices based on said remaining presentations; and

executing a selected one of said semantic choices in said target region.

25. A computer readable medium storing a set of instructions for performing a semantically informed text operation, comprising:

identifying a surface region in a selected source region of a document that is linked to a remotely stored semantic object and wherein the remotely stored semantic object is associated with the surface region which links to said semantic object; and

performing an operation on the text in the source region of the document consistent with the semantic object and presentation constraints associated with said source region.

26. A computer readable medium storing a set of instructions for performing a semantically informed text operation, comprising:

identifying a surface region in a selected source region of a document that is linked to a remotely stored semantic object and wherein the remotely stored semantic object is associated with the surface region which links to said semantic object; and

performing an operation on the text in a selected target region of the document consistent with the semantic object and presentation constraints associated with said target region.