Social Media Guided Authoring

• US 20100042910A1
• Filed: 08/18/2008
• Published: 02/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hurst, Matthew F., Manolescu, Dragos
• Granted Patent: US 9,892,103 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Techniques and systems for assisting an author in creating content for social media (e.g., blog posts, microblogs, tweets, etc.) are disclosed, wherein hints are provided to the author as a function of social media stored in a social media knowledge store. Social media is collected and stored in a social media knowledge store according to some criteria. Upon the happening of some predetermined event, for example, relevant information is retrieved from the social media knowledge store. The relevancy of information may be a function of editing context (provided by the author) and/or social media behavior, for example. The relevant information may be translated into hints that provide an author with suggestions and/or corrections, for example. This information is provided to the author through a social media environment (e.g., an authoring tool) that may be also be capable of receiving input from the author and outputting editing context.

Claims

1. A method for assisting an author in creating content for social media, comprising:

extracting a first set of relevant information from a social media knowledge store;

translating the first set of extracted information into a first set of hints; and

providing the first set of hints to the author to assist the author in creating social media content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of relevant knowledge is extracted from the social media knowledge store when some event occurs.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the relevancy of information is a function of some editing context.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the editing context is a function of at least one of the following:

content the author has previously created in social media;

similar content created by other authors in social media;

content by readers responding to content the author or other authors previously created in social media;

terms contained in the content the author is creating for social media;

links contained in the content the author is creating for social media; and

terms searched for by the author.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the editing context is filtered into terms that may be used to conduct a query.

6. The method of claim 5, comprising determining relevant information to be extracted by conducting a query of the social media knowledge store using the filtered editing context.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the hints are provided to the author in a social media environment.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the hints provide corrections and suggestions based on the knowledge extracted from the social media knowledge store.

9. The method of claim 1, comprising:

extracting a second set of relevant information from a social media knowledge store as a function of author input;

translating the second set of extracted information into a second set of hints; and

providing the second set of hints to the author to assist the author in creating social media.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising acquiring raw data from previously created social media;

adding knowledge to raw data that is used to populate the social media knowledge store.

11. A system for assisting an author in creating content for social media, the system comprising:

a retrieving component configured to retrieve relevant information from a social media knowledge store;

a translating component configured to translate the relevant information retrieved by the retrieving component into hints; and

a social media environment configured to provide the hints to the author to assist the author in creating social media content.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the social media environment is configured to receive input from the author and output editing context.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the editing context is a function of at least one of the following:

content the author has previously created in social media;

content by readers responding to content the author has previously created in social media;

terms contained in the content the author is creating for social media;

links contained in the content the author is creating for social media;

terms searched for by the author; and

topics that are more popular in social media relative to other topics.

14. The system of claim 12, comprising a filtering component configured to receive the editing context output by the social media environment and filter it into terms that may be used to conduct a query of the social media knowledge store.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the filtering component outputs the filtered terms to the retrieving component.

16. The system of claim 11, the social media knowledge store configured to store social media, wherein social media is retrieved and knowledge is added to the retrieved social media.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the translating component is configured to group relevant information into topics according to some criteria.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the social media environment is a pre-existing authoring tool configured to publish social media content.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the system is an add-in configured to operate in the pre-existing social media environment.

20. A method for assisting an author in creating content for social media, comprising

retrieving relevant information using some editing context, wherein the editing context used is provided by a social media environment capable of receiving input from the author, wherein

the relevant information is a function of at least one of the following:

content the author or other authors have previously created in social media;

content by readers responding to content the author or other authors have previously created in social media;

terms contained in the content the author is creating for social media;

links contained in the content the author is creating for social media; and

terms searched for by the author;

translating the relevant information into informational hints;

providing the hints to the author to assist the author in creating content for social media, wherein the hints include comments and suggestions that assist the author in creating content more suitable for the author'"'"'s readers.