AUTOMATIC AUGMENTATION OF CONTENT THROUGH AUGMENTATION SERVICES

• US 20150046827A1
• 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, Desai, Shikha Devesh, Mikutel, Ian William, Chilakamarri, Pradeep, Kohlmeier, Bernhard S.J.
• Granted Patent: US 10,776,501 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• 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

A method of automatically augmenting content through augmentation services can include invoking a service to receive an entity determination based on the content and an entity container comprising an object of the content and one or more attributes of the object. The entity determination and corresponding entity container can be assigned as a marker to content being clipped. The marker can be used to enable access and actions that can be taken with respect to the clipping or the structured information augmenting the clipping.

Claims

1. A method of automatically augmenting content through augmentation services, comprising:

invoking a service to get an entity determination based on content; and

receiving a determined entity and an entity container comprising an object of the content and one or more attributes of the object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein invoking the service comprises sending a uniform resource locator (URL), the content being at least a portion of a web page at the URL.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the determined entity is at least one dominant entity of the web page.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein invoking the service comprises sending content of a webpage to the service.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more attributes of the object is obtained from a source separate from the content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the content is audio.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein invoking the service comprises sending a document to the service, the content being at least a portion of the document.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising assigning the determined entity to the content as a marker and storing the entity container as metadata of the content.

9. A system for automatically augmenting content comprising:

a clipper user interface embodied on a computer readable storage medium for execution on a computing device and configured to;

receive an indication of content for collection;

invoke a capture service to request augmentation based on an entity assigned to the content; and

receive the augmentation.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the augmentation is text of the content in a reading format.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the augmentation is an entity container comprising an object described by the content and at least one attribute.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the entity container further comprises at least one service element associated with a service that invokes the service in response to being selected.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one service element comprises a link for purchasing the object.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one service element comprises a link to set a reminder.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the clipper user interface is further configured to display a preview of the augmentation.

16. A method of facilitating automatic augmentation of content, comprising:

determining an entity of an object in a document;

generating an entity container for the object; and

assigning the entity as a marker for the object in the document.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the document comprises a web page.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein determining the entity comprises invoking a search engine service to request a topic card.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

identifying service elements available for the entity, wherein generating the entity container for the object comprises assigning at least one service element to the entity container.

20. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

performing entity-related processing on the document in response to determining the entity of the object in the document.