TECHNIQUES FOR ELECTRONIC AGGREGATION OF INFORMATION

• US 20130174001A1
• Filed: 02/22/2013
• Published: 07/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Affronti, Michael A., Wood, Matthew, Roth, Tali, Stiles, Scott
• Application Number:
  US13/775,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20130174001A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Techniques for an electronic montage system are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device arranged to execute a montage application comprising an authoring component operative to provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles, receive control directives to associate content files with presentation tiles, generate tile objects for the content files based on content file types for the content files, and store the presentation surface and tile objects as a montage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles;

presenting a list of search results each associated with a content file;

receiving a control directive to associate a search result and a content file for a search result with a presentation tile;

generating a tile object based on a content file type for the content file and a portion of content from the content file; and

presenting the tile object on the presentation surface.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising identifying the content file as a web page.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising identifying the content file type for the content file as a web page type.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising selecting a type module from among multiple type modules each associated with a different content file type based on the content file type for the content file, the selected type module having a set of type definitions to extract the portion of content from the content file.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising extracting the portion of content from the content file based on a type definition for the content file type, the type definition comprising a set of definitions, rules, properties, methods, events, coordinates or instructions.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising formatting the portion of content from the content file within a defined region of the presentation tile based on a type definition for the content file type.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising presenting the tile object on the presentation surface as a web page for a web browser.

8. At least one computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles;

present a list of search results each associated with a content file;

receive a control directive to associate a search result and a content file for a search result with a presentation tile;

generate a tile object based on a content file type for the content file and a portion of content from the content file; and

present the tile object on the presentation surface.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to identify the content file as a web page.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to identify the content file type as a web page type.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to extract the portion of content from the content file based on a type definition for the content file type, the type definition comprising a set of definitions, rules, properties, methods, events, coordinates or instructions.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to format the portion of content from the content file within a defined region of the presentation tile based on a type definition for the content file type.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to present the tile object on the presentation surface as a web page for a web browser.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to:

receive a control directive to select the tile object;

retrieve the content file for the tile object; and

present a user interface view of the content file.

15. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor circuit arranged to execute an application comprising an authoring component operative to provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles, present a list of search results each associated with a content file, receive a control directive to associate a search result and a content file for a search result with a presentation tile, generate a tile object based on a content file type for the content file and a portion of content from the content file, and store the tile object as part of the presentation surface.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, the authoring component operative to identify the content file as a web page and the content file type as a web page type.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, the authoring component operative to extract the portion of content from the content file based on a type definition for the content file type, the type definition comprising a set of definitions, rules, properties, methods, events, coordinates or instructions.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, the authoring component operative to format the portion of content from the content file within a defined region of the presentation tile based on a type definition for the content file type.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, comprising a presentation component operative to generate a user interface view to present the tile object within the presentation tile of the presentation surface as a web page for a web browser.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, comprising a presentation component operative to receive a control directive to select the tile object, and generate a user interface view to present the content file corresponding to the tile object.