Map Service

• US 20120254712A1
• Filed: 06/15/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Georgiev, Dimiter, Ye, Shenghua, Guzman, Gerardo Vilarreal, Snyder, Kieran, Cavalcante, Ryan M., Sayed, Tarek M., Feinberg, Yaniv, Lin, Yung-Shin
• Granted Patent: US 9,384,292 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification

Abstract

Map service techniques are described. In an implementation, text is received from an application for processing by one or more linguistic services. Based on service properties of respective linguistic services that are relevant to the application, particular linguistic services are designated to be available for use by the application and one or more other linguistic services are obscured from the application. A communication is formed to communication the text to a designated linguistic service.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media implemented at least in part on hardware and including executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to implement a platform configured to:

receive text from an application for processing by one or more linguistic services;

based on one or more service properties of respective said linguistic services that are relevant to the application, designate which of a plurality of linguistic services is to be available for use by the application and obscure one or more others of said linguistic services from the application; and

form a communication to communicate the text to a designated said linguistic service.

2. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 1, wherein configured to designate particular linguistic services based on at least one service property that is specified by the application.

3. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 2, wherein the designating is performed such that at least one said linguistic service having a service property that is not specified by the application in an API call received by the platform from the application is not designated by the platform.

4. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 1, wherein the one or more said linguistic services are configured to recognize linguistic property information associated with the text.

5. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 4, wherein the platform is further configured to receive the linguistic property information from the one or more said linguistic services and form a communication that includes the linguistic property information for communication to the application.

6. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 1, wherein the application is not tied to a particular linguistic service.

7. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 1, wherein the platform is further configured to receive data from the application via an API call, the data specifying the one or more service properties that are relevant to the application.

8. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 1, wherein the platform is further configured to allow said linguistic services to interact with other linguistic services through the platform.

9. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 1, wherein the platform is further configured to designate available linguistic services without the application issuing an API call specifying any particular linguistic service.

10. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 1, wherein the platform is further configured to receive from the application a designation of one or more criteria to be used to customize content or results of an action performed by the application.

11. A method comprising:

identifying an action from content that is usable to perform the action;

responsive to identifying the action, accessing a customization webpage;

customizing the content according to one or more criteria specified for the action;

accessing another webpage that is to perform the action; and

communicating customized content to the other webpage that is to perform the action.

12. The method as described in claim 11, further comprising receiving the content from an application that specifies the one or more criteria used to customize the content.

13. The method as described in claim 11, further comprising forming a communication that is usable to insert a customized identifier of the action into the content.

14. The method as described in claim 11, further comprising populating a file format with the customized content.

15. The method as described in claim 11, further comprising providing a notification to the other webpage that is to perform the action to inform said other webpage of the one or more criteria.

16. The method as described in claim 11, further comprising:

accessing the customization webpage as part of providing results of the action;

customizing the results of the action based on the one or more criteria specified for the action; and

providing customized results via the customization webpage.

17. One or more computer storage media implemented at least in part on hardware and including executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving text from an application for processing by one or more of a plurality of linguistic services that are available for use by the application based on a service property of respective linguistic services; and

forming a communication to communicate the text to a particular said linguistic service, the particular said linguistic service configured to form a callback to the application upon recognition of linguistic property information associated with the text.

18. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 17, wherein said instructions, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method further comprising using one or more service properties specified by the application to designate the particular said linguistic service as being available for use by the application.

19. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 17, wherein the callback is configured to cause the application to request the linguistic property information from a platform configured to perform said acts of receiving and forming.

20. One or more computer storage media as described in claim 17, wherein said instructions, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method further comprising obscuring from the application at least one said linguistic service having a service property that is not specified by the application in an API call received from the application.