SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING AND PRESENTING NARRATIVE CONTENT

• US 20140114647A1
• Filed: 08/19/2013
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: STATS LLC (Stats Holdings LLC)
• Original Assignee: Automated Insights, Inc. (Stats Holdings LLC)
• Inventors: Allen, Robert C.
• Granted Patent: US 9,146,904 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/289 Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/56 Natural language generation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/033 Voice editing, e.g. manipulating the voice of the synthesiser
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/04 Details of speech synthesis systems, e.g. synthesiser structure or memory management

Abstract

In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions that when executed cause a processor to select a narrative content template based at least in part on a predetermined content type associated with a real-world and/or virtual event. The code further represents instructions that when executed cause the processor to select a narrative tone type. The code further represents instructions that when executed cause the processor to, for each phrase included in an ordered set of phrases associated with the narrative content template, select, based at least in part on the narrative tone type, a phrase variation from a set of phrase variations associated with that phrase, and define, based on the selected phrase variation and at least one datum from a set of data, a narrative content portion associated with the real-world event. The code further represents instructions that when executed cause the processor to output, at a display, the narrative content portion.

Claims

1. A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions that when executed cause a processor to:

select, based on a statistic indicative of a tone associated with a real-world event, a narrative tone type;

select, based on a narrative content type associated with the real-world event, a narrative template that includes a set of phrases;

select, based on the selected narrative tone type, a phrase variation from a set of phrase variations associated with a first phrase from the set of phrases;

select, based on the selected narrative tone type, a phrase variation from a set of phrase variations associated with a second phrase from the set of phrases; and

send a signal indicative of a narrative content portion that includes the phrase variation associated with the first phrase and the phrase variation associated with the second phrase.