CONTEXTUAL COMMENTING ON THE WEB

• US 20150347619A1
• Filed: 08/13/2015
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Caliman, Razvan, Chirita, Paul-Alexandru
• Granted Patent: US 10,042,951 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

Techniques for contextual commenting on the web are disclosed. In some embodiments, contextual commenting on the web includes receiving a content selection for a comment within a corpus of content; determining a contextual based location within the corpus of content to map the contextual comment to a subset of content with the corpus of content; and storing the comment and the contextual based location within the corpus of content for the comment.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory having instructions stored thereon that, if executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

send a request for a web page to a web server;

receive the web page from the web server;

receive one or more contextual comments associated with the web page from the web server;

receive executable code from the web server for mapping the one or more contextual comments to selected content of the web page, the selected content having been selected based at least in part on its relevance to the one or more contextual comments; and

display the web page visually indicating the one or more contextual comments as being associated with the selected content.

2. The system recited in claim 1, the memory having further instructions stored thereon that, if executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

receive contextual based location information associated with the one or more contextual comments.

3. The system recited in claim 1, the memory having further instructions stored thereon that, if executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

receive a first content selection for a first contextual comment, wherein a contextual comment location for the first contextual comment is determined using one or more Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors to map the first contextual comment to the contextual comment location.

4. The system recited in claim 1, the memory having further instructions stored thereon that, if executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

determine a contextual comment location based at least in part on one or more Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors that map the one or more contextual comments to the contextual comment location within the web page, wherein the web page has been modified; and

update the one or more CSS selectors.

5. The system recited in claim 1, the memory having further instructions stored thereon that, if executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

determine a contextual comment location based at least in part on one or more Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors that map the one or more contextual comments to an associated content selection within the web page, wherein the web page has been modified;

update the one or more CSS selectors; and

send updated versions of the one or more CSS selectors to the web server.

6. The system recited in claim 1, the memory having further instructions stored thereon that, if executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

receive a ranking input for at least one of the one or more contextual comments.

7. A computer implemented method, comprising:

sending a request for a web page to a web server;

receiving the web page from the web server;

receiving one or more contextual comments associated with the web page from the web server;

receiving executable code from the web server for mapping the one or more contextual comments to selected content of the web page, the mapping being based at least in part on relevance of the one or more contextual comments to the selected content; and

displaying the web page, the displaying including visually indicating the one or more contextual comments as being associated with the selected content.

8. The computer implemented method recited in claim 7, further comprising:

receiving contextual based location information associated with the one or more contextual comments.

9. The computer implemented method recited in claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a first content selection and a first contextual comment, wherein a contextual comment location of the first contextual comment is determined using one or more Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors that map the first contextual comment to the first content selection.

10. The computer implemented method recited in claim 7, further comprising:

determining a contextual comment location based at least in part on one or more Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors that map the one or more contextual comments to an associated content selection within the web page, wherein the web page has been modified; and

updating the one or more CSS selectors.

11. The computer implemented method recited in claim 7, further comprising:

determining a contextual comment location based at least in part on one or more Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors that map the one or more contextual comments to an associated content selection within the web page, wherein the web page has been modified;

updating the one or more CSS selectors; and

sending updated versions of the one or more CSS selectors to the web server.

12. The computer implemented method recited in claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a ranking input for at least one of the one or more contextual comments.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

sending a request for a web page to a web server;

receiving the web page from the web server;

receiving one or more contextual comments associated with the web page from the web server;

receiving executable code from the web server for mapping the one or more contextual comments to selected content of the web page, the mapping being based at least in part on relevance of the one or more contextual comments to the selected content; and

displaying the web page, the displaying including visually indicating the one or more contextual comments as being associated with the selected content.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, the instructions further comprising instructions that, if executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving contextual based location information associated with the one or more contextual comments.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, the instructions further comprising instructions that, if executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a first content selection and a first contextual comment, wherein a contextual comment location of the first contextual comment is determined using one or more Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors that map the first contextual comment to the first content selection.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, the instructions further comprising instructions that, if executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

determining a contextual comment location based at least in part on one or more Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors that map the one or more contextual comments to an associated content selection within the web page, wherein the web page has been modified; and

updating the one or more CSS selectors.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, the instructions further comprising instructions that, if executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

determining a contextual comment location based at least in part on one or more Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors that map the one or more contextual comments to an associated content selection within the web page, wherein the web page has been modified;

updating the one or more CSS selectors; and

sending updated versions of the one or more CSS selectors to the web server.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, the instructions further comprising instructions that, if executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a ranking input for at least one of the one or more contextual comments.