ACCESS AND MANAGEMENT OF ENTITY-AUGMENTED CONTENT

• US 20150046493A1
• Filed: 06/30/2014
• Published: 02/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Akselrod, Gregory, Hardy, Donald Gordon, Chilakamarri, Pradeep, Desai, Shikha Devesh, Kohlmeier, Bernhard S.J.
• Granted Patent: US 10,817,613 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/908 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/21 Indexing scheme relating to G06F21/00 and subgroups addressing additional information or applications relating to security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/295 Named entity recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Access and management of a user'"'"'s content may be facilitated by, in response to receiving a request for content related to a specified entity from the repository associated with at least the user'"'"'s account, identifying, in a content of a file in the repository, an entity container of at least one entity container associated with the specified entity; and communicating the entity container that is associated with the specific entity to a source of the request.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating content access and management, comprising:

receiving a request for content related to a specified entity from a repository associated with a user account, the repository comprising captured content and one or more entity containers for entities recognized from the captured content;

identifying, in the repository, at least one entity container associated with the specified entity; and

providing or more attributes of the at least one entity container associated with the specified entity to a source of the request.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein access to the repository is based on entity type, the request being served when the specified entity corresponds to an entity type with access permission.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing of the one or more attributes of the at least one entity container associated with the specified entity does not include providing private content contained with the captured content in the repository.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the at least one entity container associated with the specified entity comprises:

querying the repository for content having markers containing an indication of the specified entity, the markers comprising a schema for the specified entity, the schema indicating attributes for the at least one entity container.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the entity container comprises a service element, the source of the request being a service associated with the service element.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the service is a reader application indicated by the service element.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein an entire note, in which one of the at least one entity container associated with the specified entity is identified, is also provided to the source of the request.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein content in a note that is marked as being associated with the specified entity is also provided to the source of the request.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein only the one or more attributes of the entity container associated with content of a note, in which one of the at least one entity container associated with the specified entity is identified, is provided to the source, the remaining content of the note not being provided to the source of the request.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the source of the request is a notebook application.

11. One or more computer readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, direct the one or more processors to:

identify, in a repository associated with a user account, at least one entity container associated with a specified entity indicated in a request for content; and

provide one or more attributes of the at least one entity container associated with the specified entity to the source of the request.

12. The media of claim 11, wherein the instructions to identify the at least one entity container associated with the specified entity direct the one or more processors to:

query the repository for content having markers containing an indication of the specified entity, the markers comprising a schema for the specified entity, the schema indicating attributes for the at least one entity container.

13. The media of claim 11, wherein the entity container comprises a service element, the source of the request being a service associated with the service element.

14. The media of claim 13, wherein the service is a reader application indicated by the service element.

15. The media of claim 11, wherein the source of the request is a notebook application.

16. A system for access and management of entity-augmented content, comprising:

a repository associated with a user account, the repository comprising captured content and one or more entity containers for entities recognized from the captured content;

one or more processors;

one or more computer readable storage media; and

instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer readable storage media that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, direct the at least one of the one or more processors to;

in response to receiving a request for content related to a specified entity from the repository, identify at least one entity container associated with the specified entity; and

provide one or more attributes of the at least one entity container associated with the specified entity to the source of the request.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein access to the repository is based on entity type, the request being served when the specified entity corresponds to an entity type with access permission.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the entity container comprises a service element, the source of the request being a service associated with the service element.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the service is a reader application indicated by the service element.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the source of the request is a notebook application.