Service for Aggregating Event Information

• US 20110302153A1
• Filed: 06/03/2011
• Published: 12/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Meretakis, Dimitris, Hotchkiss, David A.
• Application Number:
  US13/153,338
• Publication Number:
  US 20110302153A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for aggregating event information. In one aspect, a method includes selecting an event from plurality of events based on a query, in which the event is associated with a time frame and one or more event attributes. A document is generated for the event by including a plurality of web resources based on the time frame and one or more of the event attributes, and including a plurality of social network resources that have a semantic similarity to the event.

Claims

1. A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving a query;

selecting an event from plurality of events based on the query, in which the event is associated with a time frame during which the event takes place and one or more event attributes;

generating a document for the event by;

identifying a plurality of web resources based on the time frame and one or more of the event attributes;

identifying a plurality of social network resources that have a semantic similarity to the event that satisfies a threshold;

including one or more of the web resources and one or more of the social network resources in the document; and

organizing the presentation of the document based on a display area for a client device.

2. The method of claim 1 in which the query is a request for the document.

3. The method of claim 1 in which the query comprises one or more terms and in which selecting the event further comprises selecting an event from plurality of events based on one or more terms in the query.

4. The method of claim 3 in which a term in the one or more terms identifies:

the event, a participant for the event, a location for the event, a time frame for the event, a type of the event, or a topic of the event.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending the generated document to the client device.

6. The method of claim 1 in which identifying social network resources that have a semantic similarity to the event that satisfies the threshold further comprises using latent semantic analysis to determine a respective similarity between the event and each of the social network resources.

7. The method of claim 1 in which identifying social network resources that have a semantic similarity to the event that satisfies the threshold further comprises ignoring social network resources that are associated with respective locations that are not a location for the event.

8. The method of claim 1 in which the document is generated before the query is received.

9. The method of claim 1 in which the web resources include news articles and in which the social network resources include users posts.

10. A computer program product encoded on a machine-readable medium, the program product including instructions operable to cause a data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving a query;

selecting an event from plurality of events based on the query, in which the event is associated with a time frame during which the event takes place and one or more event attributes;

generating a document for the event by;

identifying a plurality of web resources based on the time frame and one or more of the event attributes;

identifying a plurality of social network resources that have a semantic similarity to the event that satisfies a threshold;

including one or more of the web resources and one or more of the social network resources in the document; and

organizing the presentation of the document based on a display area for a client device.

11. The program product of claim 10 in which the query is a request for the document.

12. The program product of claim 10 in which the query comprises one or more terms and in which selecting the event further comprises selecting an event from plurality of events based on one or more terms in the query.

13. The program product of claim 12 in which a term in the one or more terms identifies:

the event, a participant for the event, a location for the event, a time frame for the event, a type of the event, or a topic of the event.

14. The program product of claim 10 including further instructions operable to cause the data processing apparatus to perform further operations comprising sending the generated document to the client device.

15. The program product of claim 10 in which identifying social network resources that have a semantic similarity to the event that satisfies the threshold further comprises using latent semantic analysis to determine a respective similarity between the event and each of the social network resources.

16. The program product of claim 10 in which identifying social network resources that have a semantic similarity to the event that satisfies the threshold further comprises omitting social network resources that are associated with respective locations that are not a location for the event.

17. The program product of claim 10 in which the document is generated before the query is received.

18. The program product of claim 10 in which the web resources include news articles and in which the social network resources include users posts.

19. A system comprising:

one or more data processing apparatus configured to perform operations comprising;

receiving a query;

selecting an event from plurality of events based on the query, in which the event is associated with a time frame during which the event takes place and one or more event attributes;

generating a document for the event by;

identifying a plurality of web resources based on the time frame and one or more of the event attributes;

identifying a plurality of social network resources that have a semantic similarity to the event that satisfies a threshold;

including one or more of the web resources and one or more of the social network resources in the document; and

organizing the presentation of the document based on a display area for a client device.

20. The system of claim 19 in which the query is a request for the document.

21. The system of claim 19 in which the query comprises one or more terms and in which selecting the event further comprises selecting an event from plurality of events based on one or more terms in the query.

22. The system of claim 21 in which a term in the one or more terms identifies:

the event, a participant for the event, a location for the event, a time frame for the event, a type of the event, or a topic of the event.

23. The system of claim 19 including further instructions operable to cause the data processing apparatus to perform further operations comprising sending the generated document to the client device.

24. The system of claim 19 in which identifying social network resources that have a semantic similarity to the event that satisfies the threshold further comprises using latent semantic analysis to determine a respective similarity between the event and each of the social network resources.

25. The system of claim 19 in which identifying social network resources that have a semantic similarity to the event that satisfies the threshold further comprises omitting social network resources that are associated with respective locations that are not a location for the event.

26. The system of claim 19 in which the document is generated before the query is received.

27. The system of claim 19 in which the web resources include news articles and in which the social network resources include users posts.