SOCIAL HOME PAGE

• US 20110258556A1
• Filed: 04/16/2010
• Published: 10/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Kamireddy, Sreeharsha, Cucerzan, Silviu-Petru, Wang, Chun-Kai, Kiciman, Emre Mehmet
• Granted Patent: US 10,692,093 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/751
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Technologies pertaining to the creation of personalized data for an individual, including personalized data based on a social networking participant'"'"'s social networking data, entity extraction, and automatic collage generation are described herein.

In one implementation, the personalized data is used to provide a personalized, social-based replacement for a default UI element.

In one implementation, a disambiguated named entity is extracted from user generated content in a social networking application, a socially interesting photomontage is automatically generated based on photographs from a social networking application, and the photomontage is rendered with hotspots containing socially relevant annotations.

Claims

1. Computer readable media with device-executable instructions which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform acts without user supervision, the acts comprising:

receiving social networking data from a social networking application based on a social networking identity of a social networking participant, the social networking data comprising a first multimedia file, a second multimedia file, a first plurality of user generated content, and a second plurality of user generated content,

the first multimedia file being user generated content of a first social networking identity in a first social network of the social networking participant,

the second multimedia file being user generated content of a second networking identity in a second social network of the social networking participant,

the first plurality of user generated content uploaded by the first social networking identity'"'"'s social networks, responsive to the first multimedia file,

the second plurality of user generated content uploaded by the second social networking identity'"'"'s social networks, responsive to the second multimedia file;

extracting a first disambiguated named entity based on the first plurality of user generated content;

extracting a second disambiguated named entity based on the second plurality of user generated content, the second disambiguated named entity different from the first disambiguated named entity;

extracting a first annotation phrase based on the first plurality of user generated content, the first disambiguated named entity, and a first annotation phrase parameter;

extracting a second annotation phrase based on the second plurality of user generated content, the second disambiguated named entity, and a second annotation phrase parameter;

selecting the first multimedia file from the social networking data based on a first social interestingness metric;

selecting the second multimedia file from the social networking data based on a second social interestingness metric;

generating a first hotspot based on the first annotation phrase and the first disambiguated named entity;

generating a second hotspot based on the second annotation phrase and the second disambiguated named entity; and

generating a collage definition based on the first multimedia file, and the second multimedia file,

the first hotspot configured to be activated when a user interacts with a first area of the rendered collage, the activation of the first hotspot configured to present the first annotation phrase to the user,

the second hotspot configured to be activated when the user interacts with a second area of the rendered collage, the activation of the second hotspot configured to present the second annotation phrase to the user,

both the first hotspot and the second hotspot configured to be responsive to user interaction at a same time.

2. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the extracting the first entity is based on a first type of metadata, the first type of metadata selected from the group consisting of a result of video analysis of video data portions of the first multimedia file, a result of image analysis of image data portions of the first multimedia file, textual data extracted from audio data portions of the first plurality of user generated content, a comment in the first plurality of user generated content, a capitalization hint, and a caption in the first plurality of user generated content.

3. The computer-readable media of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, responsive to a request from the social networking identity for a user interface, an image data locator for the collage, the collage definition being a photomontage;

personalizing the user interface to displace a default image image data locator with the image data locator for the photomontage;

providing, responsive to the request, the personalized user interface.

4. The computer-readable storage media of claim 3, wherein:

the acts of determining an image data locator for the photomontage, personalizing the user interface, and providing the personalized user interface each occur prior to the act of generating the photomontage,

the act of generating the photomontage comprising;

storing the photomontage such that the photomontage is accessible based on the image data locator,

the act of personalizing the home page comprising;

configuring the user interface to detect when the photomontage becomes available based on the image data locator; and

configuring the user interface to display the photomontage when it detects it is available based on the image data locator.

5. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein:

the first annotation includes the first annotation phrase,

the first annotation includes a uniform resource identifier configured to direct the social networking identity to additional information pertaining to the first disambiguated named entity.

6. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the automatically generating the first hotspot is based on a predetermined location of the first disambiguated named entity in the rendered collage.

7. A method comprising computing device acts, the computing device acts comprising:

extracting an entity from social networking data in response to a social network participant'"'"'s request for information,

the social networking participant correlated to the social networking data, the social networking data comprising a plurality of user generated content and an indicium of a social network of the social networking participant,

the entity extraction algorithm extracting an entity based on the plurality of user generated content and the social network, the plurality of user generated content uploaded by a plurality of members of the social network; and

generating personalized data for the social network participant, based on the plurality of user generated content and the extracted entity.

8. The method of claim 7, the computing device acts further comprising:

identifying a plurality of possible annotation phrases based on the extracted entity;

scoring the plurality of possible annotation phrases based on an annotation phrase parameter;

selecting a first annotation phrase of the plurality of possible annotation phrases based on the scoring,

the generating personalized data based on the first annotation phrase.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the personalized data includes the first annotation phrase.

10. The method of claim 7, the computing device acts further comprising:

scoring a plurality of multimedia files based on a social interestingness metric; and

selecting a first multimedia file of the plurality of multimedia files based on the scoring;

the generating personalized data based on the first multimedia file.

11. The method of claim 7, the computing device acts further comprising:

identifying a first annotation phrase within the social networking data, the first annotation phrase associated with a first multimedia file of the social data and the extracted entity,

generating a hotspot definition, the hotspot definition comprising a social-based annotation, the social-based annotation configured to display the first annotation phrase,

the generating personalized data based on the hotspot definition.

12. The method of claim 11, the identifying a first annotation phrase comprising:

ranking possible annotation phrases from the plurality of user generated content in the social data based on at least one of the following annotation phrase parameters;

an amount of time that has passed since the user generated content was uploaded;

a difference between the first user generated content and one or more of the remaining user generated content in the social networking data;

whether the social network participant has previously read the user generated content;

an amount of time since the social network participant has read the user generated content;

explicit feedback provided on the first user generated content by the social network participant;

relevancy of the user generated content to the extracted entity; and

a social networking identity of the uploader of the user generated content.

13. The method of claim 7, the computing device acts further comprising:

selecting a portion of a multimedia file of the social networking data, the portion of the multimedia file associated with the extracted entity;

generating a collage definition based on the portion of the multimedia file associated with the extracted entity, the collage definition configured to render the portion of the multimedia file.

14. The method of claim 7, the computing device acts further comprising:

identifying a first annotation phrase, the first annotation phrase associated with a first portion of a multimedia file and the extracted entity;

identifying a second annotation phrase from an external data source, the second annotation phrase associated with the extracted entity; and

generating a hotspot, the hotspot comprising a first annotation and a second annotation, the first annotation comprising the first annotation phrase, the second annotation comprising the second annotation phrase.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the second annotation comprises a hyperlink pointing to a manufacturer of a product, the product associated with the entity.

16. The method of claim 7, wherein the entity is based on a status message update made by a first member of the plurality of members of the social network.

17. The method of claim 7, wherein:

the user generated content comprises a plurality of multimedia files uploaded by the plurality of members of the social network, the personalized data comprises a collage definition, and the collage definition is based on the plurality of multimedia files.

18. The method of claim 7, wherein:

the personalized data comprises a collage definition,

the collage definition is configured to render at least a portion of an image to act as a hyperlink,

the image is generated by a member of the social network,

the entity extraction algorithm extracts the entity based on the image,

the request for information includes a request for the image, and

the hyperlink is configured to direct the social network participant to a site pertaining to the entity.

19. A system comprising the following device-executable components:

an extractor component that extracts a named entity from a plurality user generated content, the plurality of user generated content generated by a plurality of social network members in a first social networking identity'"'"'s social network;

an annotation phrase identifier component that identifies an annotation phrase based on an annotation phrase parameter, the annotation phrase parameter based on at least one of the social network, the plurality of user generated content, the named entity, or the relationship between at least two of the plurality of user generated content; and

a hotspot generator component that generates a hotspot definition based on the extracted entity and the annotation phrase, the hotspot definition configured to render the annotation phrase.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising:

an image selector component that selects a multimedia file based on a corresponding social interestingness metric; and

a collage generator component that generates a collage definition for rendering a collage, the collage definition based on the selected multimedia file,

wherein the hotspot definition is configured to render a hotspot in a location associated with the rendering of the selected multimedia file in the rendered collage.