SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ACTIVE TEXT MARKUP

• US 20140281880A1
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Sachs, Marco, Stern, Andre
• Granted Patent: US 9,477,645 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154

Abstract

The present subject matter relates to text viewing and markup, and in particular to systems and methods of active text markup. In particular, various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, and software to define text markup styles including associated actions to be performed against text marked up according to a defined markup style. Some embodiments include receiving marker input mapping a first markup style to an action and receiving text marker input associating the marker to a portion of document text. Such embodiments may further include receiving an action trigger to perform the action mapped to the marker associated to the portion of document text and performing the action based on the associated portion of document text.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving marker input mapping a first markup style to an action;

receiving text marker input associating the marker to a portion of document text;

receiving an action trigger to perform the action mapped to the marker associated to the portion of document text; and

performing the action based on the associated portion of document text.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing a representation of the marker input as a marker profile.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

storing data identifying the document of the document portion, an association to the marker profile, and data identifying the portion of document text of the received text marker input.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the action is a query of stored data based at least in part on the portion of document text, the stored data to be queried identified in the marker input.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving second marker input mapping a second markup style to a second action;

receiving second text marker input associating the second marker to a second portion of document text; and

wherein the action trigger further causes the second action to be performed based on the second portion of document text.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the action trigger is a command to generate an email based on the text marker input and the second text marker input;

the portion of document text identified by the text marker input is at least one email recipient to which the email generated in response to the trigger input is to be sent; and

the portion of document text identified by the second text marker input identifies content to be included in a body of the email generated in response to the trigger input.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the action trigger is a command to generate a calendaring program invite based on the text marker input and the second text marker input;

the portion of document text identified by the text marker input is at least one email recipient to which the calendaring program invite generated in response to the trigger input is to be sent; and

the portion of document text identified by the second text marker input identifies at least one of a date and time, duration, and content to be included in the calendaring program invite generated in response to the trigger input.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the action trigger is a command to split a document into which the text marker input and the second text marker input has been received into two documents, a first document of the two documents being a document consisting of document text associated with the text marker input, a second document of the two documents consisting of document text associated with the second text marker input.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the action trigger is a command to split a document into which the text marker input and the second text marker input has been received into document sections, a first section of the document sections being a document section consisting of document text associated with the text marker input, a second document section of the document sections consisting of document text associated with the second text marker input.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the action is an association with a product, a representation of which is stored in a repository including metadata descriptive of at least one capability of the product, the method further comprising:

determining a relevance of the product to the portion of document text to which the text marker input is associated; and

presenting a graphical view of the determined relevancy.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the product is a software product.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, with instructions stored thereon, which when executed by at least one processor of a computer, cause the computer to:

receive text marker input associating a marker to a portion of document text;

receive an action trigger to perform the action mapped to the marker associated to the portion of document text; and

perform the action based on the associated portion of document text.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the action is a query of stored data based at least in part on the portion of document text, the stored data to be queried identified in the marker input.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving second marker input mapping a second markup style to a second action;

receiving second text marker input associating the second marker to a second portion of document text; and

wherein the action trigger further causes the second action to be performed based on the second portion of document text.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein:

the action trigger is a command to generate a new document based on the text marker input and the second text marker input;

the portion of document text identified by the text marker input identifies content to be included as a first portion of the document; and

the portion of document text identified by the second text marker input identifies content to be included by the second portion of the document.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the action is an association with a product, a representation of which is stored in a repository including metadata descriptive of at least one capability of the product, the method further comprising:

determining a relevance of the product to the portion of document text to which the text marker input is associated; and

presenting a graphical view of the determined relevancy.

17. A system comprising:

at least one computer processor and at least one memory device;

a document application stored in the at least one memory and executable by the at least one computer processor, the document application including an interface through which at least one of a document application plugin and another application can communicate with the document application to obtain data and manipulate documents;

a document application plugin stored in the at least one memory device and executable by the at least one processor, in cooperation with the document application, to;

receive marker input mapping a first markup style to an action;

receive text marker input associating the marker to a portion of document text;

receive an action trigger to perform the action mapped to the marker associated to the portion of document text; and

perform the action based on the associated portion of document text.

18. The system of claim 17, the document application further executable by the at least one processor, in cooperation with the document application, to:

receive second marker input mapping a second markup style to a second action;

receive second text marker input associating the second marker to a second portion of document text; and

wherein the action trigger further causes the second action to be performed based on the second portion of document text.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein:

the document application includes email-authoring functionality;

the action trigger is a command to generate an email based on the text marker input and the second text marker input;

the portion of document text identified by the text marker input is at least one email recipient to which the email generated in response to the trigger input is to be sent; and

the portion of document text identified by the second text marker input identifies content to be included in a body of the email generated in response to the trigger input.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein:

the document application includes email-authoring functionality;

the action trigger is a command to split a document into which the text marker input and the second text marker input has been received into two documents, a first document of the two documents being a document consisting of document text associated with the text marker input, a second document of the two documents consisting of document text associated with the second text marker input.