PROVIDNG RELEVANT INFORMATION FOR A TERM IN A USER MESSAGE

• US 20120271844A1
• Filed: 04/20/2011
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Kwok, Alton, Mok, Aaron Hoi Lam, Poon, Ho Wai, Singh, Lavinder, Selbie, John Robert
• Application Number:
  US13/090,376
• Publication Number:
  US 20120271844A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/38 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing relevant information for a term identified in a user message. A user can read or write a message and one or more terms can be identified in the message, where an identified term may comprise one or more words or characters. One or more data structures comprising indications of temporally recognized terms can be stored locally, and the identified terms can be compared against the locally stored data, such as for fast retrieval. If the identified term matches one or more of the temporally recognized terms in the locally stored data, the user may select the temporally recognized term to perform an action assigned to the temporally recognized term. The assigned action can comprise retrieving relevant information for the term, such as finding movie times (e.g., where the term comprises a movie title).

Claims

1. A method for providing relevant information for a term identified in a user message, comprising:

identifying the term in the user message,

determining if the identified term comprises a temporally recognized term by comparing the identified term with locally stored data; and

if the identified term comprises a temporally recognized term, and an indication of a user selection of the identified term is received, performing an action assigned to the temporally recognized term, comprising retrieving relevant information.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising locally storing a data structure that is used to determine if the identified term is a member of a set of temporally recognized terms.

3. The method of claim 2, locally storing the data structure comprising locally storing at least one bit array on a client device that is used to access the user message.

4. The method of claim 3, comprising receiving a file at the client device comprising one or more data structures, the one or more data structures respectively:

indicating a set of temporally recognized terms; and

associated with one or more assigned actions.

5. The method of claim 2, comprising receiving a file, comprising one or more updated data structures, upon one or more of:

initiation of an application accessing the user message;

initiation of a client device accessing the user message;

a desired periodic interval passing; and

at an initiation of a user.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising substituting at least some of the locally stored data with updated data comprising an indication of updated temporally recognized terms.

7. The method of claim 6, substituting the locally stored data comprising receiving a file, comprising one or more updated bit arrays, the one or more updated bit arrays comprising an indication of recognized terms mined from updated temporally relevant search data, the indication of updated temporally recognized terms based at least in part on the indication of recognized terms mined from updated temporally relevant search data.

8. The method of claim 1, determining if the identified term comprises a temporally recognized term comprising performing a lookup of the identified term in one or more locally stored data structures comprising the locally stored data.

9. The method of claim 8, performing a lookup comprising:

hashing the identified term, using one or more hash functions used to populate a bit array comprising at least one of the one or more locally stored data structures; and

determining if the identified term is a member of a set of temporally recognized terms identified by the bit array using respective results of one or more hashings of the identified term.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising highlighting the identified term in the user message if the identified term comprises a temporally recognized term.

11. The method of claim 10, receiving an indication of a user selection comprising receiving an indication that the user has selected the highlighted term.

12. The method of claim 1, comprising providing a choice of relevant information to be retrieved if more than one action is assigned to the temporally recognized term.

13. The method of claim 1, comprising providing the relevant information in real-time.

14. A system for providing relevant information for a term identified in a user message, comprising:

a local data storage component configured to store one or more data structures respectively indicating a set of temporally recognized terms;

a term comparison component, operably coupled with the local data storage component, and configured to determine if the term identified in the user message comprises a temporally recognized term by looking up the identified term in the one or more data structures; and

a relevant information retrieval component, operably coupled with the term comparison component, and configured to perform an action assigned to a temporally recognized term, comprising retrieving relevant information, if the identified term is determined to comprise the temporally recognized term and if an indication of a user selection of the temporally recognized term is received.

15. The system of claim 14, the one or more data structures comprising one or more bit arrays populated by using one or more hash functions on respective terms in a set of temporally recognized terms, the set of temporally recognized terms based at least in part upon online search queries from a specified period of time.

16. The system of claim 14, the local data storage component configured to substitute one or more data structures with one or more updated data structures, comprising respective indications of updated temporally recognized terms.

17. The system of claim 14, the action assigned to the temporally recognized term based on a type of relevant information, comprising one or more of:

entertainment related information;

popular person related information;

dining related information;

travel related information;

product related information;

event related information;

sports related information;

financial related information;

reference related information;

weather related information;

news related information; and

location related information.

18. The system of claim 14, comprising a term identification component configured to identify the term in the user message for use by the term comparison component.

19. The system of claim 14, comprising a temporally recognized term highlighting component configured to highlight the identified term in a user interface (UI) comprising the user message, if the identified term comprises a temporally recognized term.

20. A computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that when executed via a processor on a computer perform a method for providing relevant information for a term identified in a user message, comprising:

locally storing one or more data structures, respectively comprising a bit array associated with an assigned action;

identifying the term in the user message;

determining if the identified term comprises a temporally recognized term using the one or more locally stored data structures;

highlighting the identified term in the user message if the identified term comprises a temporally recognized term;

if a comparison to a bit array provides that the identified term comprises a temporally recognized term, performing an action assigned to the bit array, comprising retrieving relevant information in real-time, if an indication of a user selection of the highlighted identified term is received;

providing a choice of relevant information to be retrieved if more than one action is assigned to the bit array; and

substituting at least some of the one or more data structures with one or more updated data structures, respectively comprising an indication of updated temporally recognized terms.