USER-CREATED TRADE CARDS

• US 20090159656A1
• Filed: 12/21/2007
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Sheppard, Adam, Aguera, Blaise H., Lawler, Stephen L., Estrada, Julio, Szeliski, Richard Stephen, Flake, Gary W., Drucker, Steven, Farouki, Karim, Weare, Christopher B., Lindsay, Donald James, Brewer, Brett D.
• Granted Patent: US 7,909,238 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates identifying relationships between two or more trade cards. A schema component can implement a portion of user-assisted schema to create a trade card that represents a distillation of a document with document-specific data. A relationship component can identify at least one of a hard link or a soft link associated with the trade card in connection with at least one of a network or one or more trade cards, wherein the hard link is a source that derived the trade card and the soft link is directed toward a disparate trade card with a portion of substantially similar document-specific data.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented system that facilitates identifying relationships between two or more trade cards, comprising:

a schema component that implements a portion of user-assisted schema to create a trade card that represents a distillation of a document with document-specific data; and

a relationship component that identifies at least one of a hard link or a soft link associated with the trade card in connection with at least one of a network or one or more trade cards, wherein the hard link is a source that derived the trade card and the soft link is directed toward a disparate trade card with a portion of substantially similar document-specific data.

2. The system of claim 1, the trade card includes at least one of static data or active data.

3. The system of claim 1, the trade card incorporates at least one of a portion of a graphic, a portion of audio, a portion of video, a portion of an image, an applet, a gadget, or a real-time data update.

4. The system of claim 1, the trade card is granular with one or more sections of data, each section includes at least one of a view, a scale, or a resolution.

5. The system of claim 4, the trade card is universally implemented in an environment independent of a format for the environment, the environment is at least one of a desktop computer, a component, a machine, a machine with a windows-based operating system, a media device, a portable media player, a cellular device, a portable digital assistant (PDA), a gaming device, a laptop, a web-browsing device, a gaming console, a portable gaming device, a mobile device, a portion of hardware, a portion of software, a smartphone, a wireless device, or a third-party service.

6. The system of claim 5, at least one section of data related to the trade card is exposed based at least in part upon one of the following:

the environment accessing the trade card;

or

a user accessing the trade card.

7. The system of claim 1, the document is at least one of an item, a website, a good, a service, a user, a network, a company, an enterprise, a home, or a group of users.

8. The system of claim 1, the source that derived the trade card is an entity, the entity is at least one of a corporation, a business, a user, a company, a machine, a website, or a web page.

9. The system of claim 1, the portion of user-assisted schema enables creation of a portion of the trade card including at least one of an aesthetic characteristics, a layout, a font, a size, a format, a portion of populated data, a portion of data related to a source, an editorial experience, a portion of resolution data, a relationship, a security setting, or a display setting.

10. The system of claim 1, the portion of user-assisted schema creates a portion of the trade card with at least one of user assistance or without user assistance.

11. The system of claim 1, further including an edit component that enables a user to implement a user-defined preference for a portion of the trade card.

12. The system of claim 11, the edit component implements at least one feature to a portion of the trade card, the feature is at least one of a portion of data to include with the trade card, a syndication of the portion of the trade card, a portion of editorial experience data, a source, a relationship, a link, a security setting, an exposure for a portion of the trade card, an aesthetic characteristic, a portion of resolution data, or a display setting.

13. The system of claim 11, the edit component automatically identifies a type of trade card that is to be created, the type of trade card dictates at least one of a portion of user-assisted schema or a template to create the trade card.

14. The system of claim 1, the trade card includes an editorial experience that is a collection of data defined by a creator of the trade card, the editorial experience portrays a thought related to the creator.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising a syndication component that employs a portion of the trade card as a web feed to a host, the host is at least one of a website, a disparate trade card, a network, a server, a user, a web address, an email address, or a device.

16. The system of claim 1, further comprising a rank component that collects a ranking associated to a portion of the trade card, the ranking is received from at least one of a network, a community, a user, a group of users, a machine, a forum, a website, a collection of entities, business, a company, a third-party service, or a social network.

17. A computer-implemented method that facilitates creating a portion of a trade card that is a summarization of data, comprising:

utilizing a portion of schema to generate a trade card that is a distillation of content with user-defined important information, the trade card is granular with one or more sections of data with each section including at least one of a view, a scale, or a resolution; and

locating at least one of a hard link or a soft link for the trade card, the hard link is a source that derived a portion of the trade card and the soft link is a disparate trade card with a portion of data that correlates to content on the trade card.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

exposing a portion of the trade card based at least in part upon at least one of an environment that accesses the trade card or a user that accesses the trade card;

expanding the trade card to provide a creator-defined editorial experience based at least in part upon one of an environment that accesses the trade card or a user that accesses the trade card.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

providing a web syndication of a portion of the trade card; and

enabling the trade card to be ranked on a granular level.

20. A computer-implemented system that facilitates identifying relationships between two or more trade cards, comprising:

means for implementing a portion of user-assisted schema to create a trade card that represents a distillation of a document with document-specific data; and

means for identifying at least one of a hard link or a soft link associated with the trade card in connection with at least one of a network or one or more trade cards, wherein the hard link is a source that derived the trade card and the soft link is directed toward a disparate trade card with a portion of substantially similar document-specific data.