Document Editor with Research Citation Insertion Tool

• US 20150193408A1
• Filed: 02/25/2013
• Published: 07/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Ho, Ronald
• Granted Patent: US 9,934,224 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities

Abstract

A method performed at a server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors is described. The method includes receiving from a respective client system a subset of a document displayed at the respective client system. The method also includes identifying one or more words in the received subset of the document, and sending to the respective client system one or more information items corresponding to the one or more words. The method includes receiving a selection of an information item in the one or more information items. The selection is made by a user associated with the respective client system. The method furthermore includes modifying the document by inserting a citation to the selected information item.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method, comprising:

at a server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors,

receiving from a respective client system a subset of a document displayed at the respective client system;

identifying one or more words in the received subset of the document;

sending to the respective client system one or more information items corresponding to the one or more words;

receiving a selection of an information item in the one or more information items, the selection by a user associated with the respective client system; and

modifying the document by inserting a citation to the selected information item.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein sending to the respective client system one or more information items corresponding to the one or more words includes sending to the respective client system respective citations to the one or more information items.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more words in the received subset of the document correspond to high ranking words among words in the document ranked in accordance with inverse document frequency values.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more words in the received subset of the document correspond to high ranking words among words in a most recently edited paragraph ranked in accordance with inverse document frequency values.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a most recently edited portion of the document, and a remainder portion of the document that excludes the most recently edited portion;

wherein the one or more words in the received subset of the document correspond to a difference set of words,

the difference set of words comprises words included in a first set of words other than words included in a second set of words,

the first set of words includes high ranking words among words in the most recently edited paragraph ranked in accordance with inverse document frequency values, and

the second set of words includes high ranking words among words in the remainder portion of the document ranked in accordance with inverse document frequency values.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more information items are selected from a set of search results comprising web search results, news search results, book search results, and academic publication search results.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing a search to obtain a set of search results, wherein the search is defined in accordance with the one or more words, and the one or more information items are selected from the set of search results.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the set of search results comprises web search results, news search results, book search results, and academic publication search results.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more information items include respective links to corresponding information on the server system.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving a user profile of the user associated with the respective client system; and

sending to the respective client system one or more information items corresponding to the user profile and the one or more words.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the subset of the document corresponds to a cursor location on the document.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the document includes a plurality of sections, a first section corresponds to the cursor location, and receiving the subset of the document includes receiving one or more section titles corresponding to the first section.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving from the respective client system the cursor location on the document; and

identifying the one or more words in the received subset of the document in accordance with the cursor location on the document.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the subset of the document includes a plurality of consecutive words at locations corresponding to the cursor location.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the subset of the document corresponding to the cursor location on the document includes a first predefined number of words before the cursor position and a second predefined number of words after the cursor position.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the subset of the document is received automatically, when any of a set of predefined client system conditions is satisfied.

2. A computer implemented method, comprising:

at a server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors,

receiving from a respective client system a subset of a document displayed at the respective client system;

identifying one or more words in the received subset of the document;

sending to the respective client system one or more information items corresponding to the one or more words; and

sending to the respective client system instructions for;

receiving a selection of an information item in the one or more information items, the selection by a user associated with the respective client system; and

modifying the displayed document by inserting a citation to the selected information item.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising sending to the respective client system one or more instructions for formatting the citation to the selected information item in accordance with a predefined formatting rule.

19. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including;

instructions for receiving from a respective client system a subset of a document displayed at the respective client system;

instructions for identifying one or more words in the received subset of the document;

instructions for sending to the respective client system one or more information items corresponding to the one or more words; and

instructions for sending to the respective client system instructions for;

receiving a selection of an information item in the one or more information items, the selection by a user associated with the respective client system; and

modifying the displayed document by inserting a citation to the selected information item.

20. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs for execution by one or more processors in a computer system, the one or more programs including:

instructions for receiving from a respective client system a subset of a document displayed at the respective client system;

instructions for identifying one or more words in the received subset of the document;

instructions for sending to the respective client system one or more information items corresponding to the one or more words; and

instructions for sending to the respective client system instructions for;

receiving a selection of an information item in the one or more information items, the selection by a user associated with the respective client system; and

modifying the displayed document by inserting a citation to the selected information item.