SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE ENHANCED INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A SELECTED WEB TABLE

• US 20100198823A1
• Filed: 02/05/2009
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Davor Cubranic, Jian Pei, Kathleen J. Tsoukalas
• Original Assignee: Davor Cubranic, Jian Pei, Kathleen J. Tsoukalas
• Inventors: Pei, Jian, Tsoukalas, Kathleen J., Cubranic, Davor
• Application Number:
  US12/366,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20100198823A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines

Abstract

According to some embodiments, a system, method, means, and/or computer program code are provided to facilitate use of a data sharing web server remote from a user device. According to some embodiments, information from a remote web resource server may be received at the user device (and the received information may include tabular data comprising cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns). A user selection of a portion of the received information may also be received at the user device, and the selected portion may include the tabular data. Enhanced information associated with the selected portion may be automatically generated and transmitted to the remote data sharing web server.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon processor-executable instructions, to facilitate use of a data sharing web server remote from a user device, that when executed by a processor result in the following:

receiving, at the user device, information from a remote web resource server, the received information including tabular data comprising cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns;

receiving, at the user device, a user selection of a portion of the received information, the selected portion including the tabular data;

automatically generating enhanced information associated with the selected portion; and

transmitting the enhanced information to the remote data sharing web server.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein said automatic generation of the enhanced information includes:

replicating data from a first cell of the tabular data into a second cell.

3. The medium of claim 1, wherein said automatic generation of the enhanced information includes:

formatting the enhanced information to ensure that a first cell is blank.

4. The medium of claim 1, wherein said automatic generation of the enhanced information includes:

determining metadata associated with the tabular data.

5. The medium of claim 4, wherein the metadata includes at least one description of the tabular data.

6. The medium of claim 4, wherein the metadata includes at least one tag for the tabular data.

7. The medium of claim 4, wherein at least one tag is automatically determined based on at least one of:

(i) preset general tags, (ii) keywords, (iii) a pseudo-relevance process, (iv) a clustering process, (v) search results associated with the tabular data, (vi) a relevance score, or (vii) a confidence score.

8. The medium of claim 1, wherein said automatic generation of the enhanced information includes:

automatically generating suggested enhanced information associated with the selected portion; and

receiving from the user an indication associated with the suggested enhanced information, wherein the transmitted enhanced information is based at least in part on the received indication.

9. The medium of claim 1, wherein the automatic generation of the enhanced information includes:

receiving a set of entities associated with the selection portion;

determining an initial tag set for the selected portion;

transmitting queries to a remote search engine;

receiving results from the remote search engine;

clustering the initial tag set based on the received results;

determining a similarity score for each entity in the set of entities; and

outputting a final list of suggested tags.

10. The medium of claim 1, wherein the remote data sharing web server is associated with a web-based collaboration service for sharing data analytics.

11. A system, comprising:

a communication device to receive information from a remote web resource server, the received information including tabular data comprising cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; and

an enhancement engine to (i) receiving a user selection of a portion of the received information, the selected portion including the tabular data, and (ii) automatically generate enhanced information associated with the selected portion.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the automatic generation of the enhanced information includes replicating data from a first cell of the tabular data into a second cell.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the automatic generation of the enhanced information includes formatting the enhanced information to ensure that a first cell is blank.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the automatic generation of the enhanced information includes determining metadata associated with the tabular data.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the metadata includes at least one of (i) a description of the tabular data or (ii) a tag for the tabular data.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the automatic generation of the enhanced information includes:

(i) automatically generating suggested enhanced information associated with the selected portion, and (ii) receiving from the user an indication associated with the suggested enhanced information, wherein enhanced information transmitted to a remote data sharing web server is based at least in part on the received indication.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the remote data sharing web server is associated with a web-based collaboration service for sharing data analytics.

18. A method, comprising:

receiving, at the user device, information from a remote web resource server, the received information including tabular data comprising cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns;

receiving, at the user device, a user selection of a portion of the received information, the selected portion including the tabular data;

automatically generating enhanced information associated with the selected portion; and

transmitting the enhanced information to the remote data sharing web server.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said automatic generation of the enhanced information includes:

replicating data from a first cell of the tabular data into a second cell.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said automatic generation of the enhanced information includes:

automatically generating suggested enhanced information associated with the selected portion; and

receiving from the user an indication associated with the suggested enhanced information, wherein the transmitting enhanced information is based at least in part on the received indication.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the remote data sharing web server is associated with a web-based collaboration service for sharing data analytics.

22. A method to facilitate use of a data sharing web server remote from a user device, comprising:

receiving, at the user device, information from a remote web resource server, the received information including tabular data comprising cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns;

receiving, at the user device, a user selection of a portion of the received information, the selected portion including the tabular data;

receiving a set of entities associated with the selection portion;

determining an initial tag set for the selected portion;

transmitting queries to a remote search engine based at least in part on the initial tag set;

receiving results from the remote search engine;

clustering the initial tag set based on the received results;

determining a similarity score for each entity in the set of entities; and

transmitting a list of automatically suggested tags to a remote data sharing web server.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein said clustering is associated with at least one of:

(i) an adapted quality threshold clustering method, or (ii) an agglomerative hierarchical clustering method.