AUTO-SUMMARY GENERATOR AND FILTER

• US 20090006369A1
• Filed: 06/29/2007
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Guday, Shai, Wilson, Andrew David, O'Rourke, Bret P., Miller, John Mark, Alkove, James Morris
• Granted Patent: US 8,108,398 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/345 Summarisation for human users

Abstract

A system that facilitates data presentation and management is provided. The system includes at least one database to store a corpus of data relating to one or more topics and a summarizer component to automatically determine a subset of the data over the corpus of data relating to at least one of the topic(s), wherein the subset forms a summary of at least one topic.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates data presentation and management, comprising:

at least one database to store a corpus of data relating to one or more topics; and

a summarizer component to automatically determine a subset of the data over the corpus of data relating to at least one of the topic(s), wherein the subset forms a summary of the at least one topic.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a profile component to control data generated by the summarizer component.

3. The system of claim 2, the profile component includes a user type component, a recreational component, an artistic component, a media component, a time component, a calendar component, a geographical component, or a general settings component.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a filter component to control data generated by the summarizer component.

5. The system of claim 4, the filter component includes a language component, a selection component, a policy component, or a rules component.

6. The system of claim 1, the summarizer component further comprises a word clues component, a word snippets component, a key word component, a learning component, a profile component, a filter component, or a statistical component.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising one or more controls to operate with the summarizer component.

8. The system of claim 7, the controls include a length component, a preferences component, a processing time component, a thumbnail component, a machine translation component, and a learning constraint component.

9. The system of claim 1, the summarizer component operates on mixed media data to generate one or more summaries.

10. The system of claim 9, the mixed media data is associated with text data, numeric data, audio data, image data, or video data.

11. The system of claim 9, the summarizer component generates summarized data having at least two forms of mixed media.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising an input component to capture data from a location.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising a component to automatically summarize the data from the location.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising a component to store summarized data as an annotation from the location.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising a component to filter or summarize photographic libraries which are tailored to a user'"'"'s current interests.

16. The system of claim 15, the user'"'"'s current interests are determined from a user profile or by a component that monitors user activities over time.

17. The system of claim 1, further comprising a component concatenate summarized data from at least two topics.

18. A method to generate summary data for a user, comprising:

reading data from a database that is associated with a large corpus of data; and

automatically summarizing the large corpus of data into at least one subset of data processed from the corpus.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising employing a filter or a user profile to summarize the large corpus of data.

20. A data summarizer system, comprising:

means for storing a set of data relating to one or more topics;

means for analyzing the data to determine a summarized subset of the data pertaining to at least one topic; and

means for controlling generation of the summarized subset of the data.