AUTOMATED CREATION AND DELIVERY OF DATABASE CONTENT

• US 20120265611A1
• Filed: 06/28/2012
• Published: 10/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sentius International, LLC (Sentius Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sentius International, LLC (Sentius Corporation)
• Inventors: BOOKMAN, Marc, KURTZ, David, PATWARDHAN, Niket
• Granted Patent: US 9,165,055 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.49
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9024 Graphs; Linked lists G06F16/9027 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/247 Thesauruses; Synonyms
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A method and apparatus are disclosed which automatically build a database by automatically assigning links to an expert, pushing content to an expert, providing expert annotation, and linking the content to an annotation database. A term is selected by applying rules. An advertiser can sponsor the term. Content windows can be attached to the term, the content window containing information such as definitions, related products or services, sponsorship information, information from content syndicators, translations and reference works. A utility is available to the expert that allows the expert to analyze the term in context by extending or reducing the sentence or paragraph the word is contained in. Data objects that represent the contents of the database and templates are syndicated to remote servers running a processing engine. The processing engine uses these data objects to execute linking rules without requiring a connection to the database.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for processing data, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving one or more data objects associated with a database at one or more remote computers;

parsing one or more documents to identify at least one term based on at least one rule;

identifying content for the at least one term; and

associating the at least one term with the identified content;

wherein the one or more data objects associated with the database provide a representation of at least a portion of the database at the one or more remote computers and are used to link the identified content with the at least one term.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

providing a sponsorship opportunity to at least one entity to sponsor the at least one term, wherein a content window is associated with the at least one term.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the content comprises one or more of definitions, related products, related services, sponsorship information, translation, and reference works.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more data objects comprise a template object for identifying at least one rule for processing a source page.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more data objects comprise a lexicon object for identifying at least one term for tagging in a source page.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified content is displayed on a user interface in response to a selection of the at least one term by a user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified content is stored in the database.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the content comprises one or more of text, image, sound, video and mixed media.

9. A computer implemented system for processing data, the system comprising:

a processor for parsing one or more documents to identify at least one term based on at least one rule;

a module for identifying content for the at least one term; and

an interface for displaying the identified content based upon a user interaction with at least a portion of the one or more documents;

wherein one or more data objects associated with a database are received by one or more remote computers for providing a representation of at least a portion of the database at the one or more remote computers and for linking the identified content with the at least one term.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein a sponsorship opportunity is provided to at least one entity to sponsor the at least one term.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the content comprises one or more of definitions, related products, related services, sponsorship information, translation, and reference works.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more data objects comprise a template object for identifying at least one rule for processing a source page.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more data objects comprise a lexicon object for identifying at least one term for tagging in a source page.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the identified content is displayed on the interface in response to a selection of the at least one term by a user.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the identified content is stored in the database.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the content comprises one or more of text, image, sound, video and mixed media.

17. A computer implemented method for processing database content, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving one or more data objects associated with a database at one or more remote computers;

parsing one or more source documents to identify at least one term based on one or more predetermined rules;

identifying content for the at least one term;

linking the content with the at least one term; and

wherein the one or more data objects associated with the database provide a representation of at least a portion of the database at the one or more remote computers; and

wherein the linked content is displayed on a user interface based upon a user interaction with at least a portion of the one or more source documents.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the one or more source documents are parsed at the one or more remote computers.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the user interaction comprises a user selecting the at least one term with a mouse cursor.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the at least one term is visibly enhanced to notify the user of available content.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the content comprises at least one advertisement.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein one or more of the predetermined rules are based on frequency of a term within a source document.

23. The method of claim 17, wherein one or more of the predetermined rules are based on manner of linguistic usage of a term.

24. The method of claim 17, wherein one or more of the predetermined rules are based on presence or lack thereof of an entry in the database.

25. The method of claim 17, wherein one or more of the predetermined rules are based on availability of content for a term.

26. The method of claim 17, wherein one or more of the predetermined rules are based on quality or amount of available content for a term.

27. The method of claim 17, wherein one or more of the predetermined rules are based on one or more financial incentives.