SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUGGESTING A PHRASE BASED ON A CONTEXT

• US 20140337438A1
• Filed: 05/09/2013
• Published: 11/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Govande, Shailesh Dinkar, Tipnis, Madhura P.
• Granted Patent: US 9,923,849 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content

Abstract

A method and a system to suggest a content item to be included in a message based on a determined context are provided. A context of a message that user is composing via a composition interface is determined based on one or more properties of the message. One or more inputs to the user composition interface are identified, the one or more inputs indicating at least a portion of intended content of the message. One or more suggested content items are provided for inclusion in the message based on the context of the message and the one or more inputs. A suggested content item of the suggested content items are added in the message based at least in part on the one or more properties of the message.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a context determination module configured to determine a context of a message that a user is composing via a composition interface based on one or more properties of the message;

a text detection module configured to identify one or more inputs to the user composition interface, the one or more inputs indicating at least a portion of intended content of the message;

a suggestion module configured to, using one or more processors, provide one or more suggested content items for inclusion in the message based on the context of the message and the one or more inputs; and

a confirmation module configured to add a suggested content item of the suggested content items in the message based at least in part on the one or more properties of the message.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a rule module configured to apply user-defined rules to identify the one or more suggested content items; and

wherein the suggestion module is further configured to cause the one or more suggested content items to be displayed in the composition interface.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the rule module is further configured to apply the user-defined rules to exclude an available content item from the one or more suggested content items.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more properties of the message include:

a parent message, at least one keyword from the message being composed, at least one recipient of the message, an account being used to generate the message, a human-readable language in which the message is composed, a geographical location of the user, a change of the geographical location of the user, and calendar data of the user.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the confirmation module is further configured to refrain adding a suggestion content item of the one or more suggested content items to the message.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the suggestion module is further configured to retrieve the one or more suggested content items from a dictionary.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the dictionary is a database indexed according to context.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein respective entries of the dictionary are a suggested content item of the one or more available content items and wherein the respective entries include one or more metadata tags, the one or more metadata tags each indicating a context of the suggested content item.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the context determination module is further configured to determine the context based in part on the one or more inputs.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more suggested content items includes the one or more inputs indicating at least a portion of the intended content of the message.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more suggested content items is a modification of the one or more inputs indicating at least a portion of the intended content of the message.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the confirmation module is further configured to receive a confirmation from the user to add the suggested content item in the message.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the confirmation module is further configured to automatically add the suggested content item in the message.

14. A method comprising:

determining a context of a message that a user is composing via a composition interface based on one or more properties of the message;

identifying one or more inputs to the user composition interface, the one or more inputs indicating at least a portion of intended content of the message;

providing one or more suggested content items for inclusion in the message based on the context of the message, and the one or more inputs; and

adding a suggested content item of the suggested content items in the message based at least in part on the one or more properties of the message.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

applying user-defined rules to identify the one or more suggested content items; and

causing the one or more suggested content items to be displayed in the composition interface.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the one or more properties of the message include:

a parent message, at least one keyword from the message being composed, at least one recipient of the message, an account being used to generate the message, a human-readable language in which the message is composed, a geographical location of the user, a change of the geographical location of the user, and calendar data of the user.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising retrieving the one or more suggested content items from a dictionary.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the one or more suggested content items is a modification of the one or more inputs indicating at least a portion of the intended content of the message.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein adding the suggested content item in the message is conducted automatically.

20. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

determining a context of a message that a user is composing via a composition interface based on one or more properties of the message;

identifying one or more inputs to the user composition interface, the one or more inputs indicating at least a portion of intended content of the message;

providing one or more suggested content items for inclusion in the message based on the context of the message, and the one or more inputs; and

adding a suggested content item of the suggested content items in the message based at least in part on the one or more properties of the message.