SYSTEM WITH USER DIRECTED ENRICHMENT

• US 20100153440A1
• Filed: 12/18/2009
• Published: 06/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 6, LLC
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Hubert, Laurence
• Granted Patent: US 7,941,446 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/38 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A system for enriching document content using enrichment themes includes a directed search service and an import-export service. The directed search service allows users to author documents while querying information providers using the directed searches that are inserted as part of the authored documents. The import-export service enables meta-document exchanges between systems that provide document enrichment by binding imported meta-documents to identical or similar information providers.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving user input invoking a user interface for specifying a query while authoring a document;

receiving input through the user interface specifying (i) search criteria for performing the query to obtain search results and (ii) result parameters that indicate how to enrich the document using the search results obtained using the query;

translating the input received through the user interface into a tagged machine readable form for insertion into the document;

performing the query for producing the search results in accordance with the search criteria inserted in the document in the machine readable form; and

providing the search results to enrich the document in accordance with the result parameters inserted in the document in the machine readable form.