Dynamic Presentation of Suggested Content

• US 20160092428A1
• Filed: 09/30/2014
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Ilic, Andreja, Vujic, Ivan, Farouki, Karim T., Halberstam, Jennifer Michelstein, Jovanovic, Milos, Obuljen, Aljosa, Morris, Katrika
• Granted Patent: US 10,282,069 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/295 Named entity recognition

Abstract

A dynamic presentation of contextually relevant content during an authoring experience. As a user writes about a topic, the authored content is analyzed to identify one or more keywords that may be used to identify, retrieve and present suggested content to the user. The suggested content may be received from one or more resources, such as a search engine, a data store associated with the user, social media resources or other local or remote files. Techniques described herein might also select the keywords from authored content based on a cursor position. As a result, the suggested content may change as the cursor moves to a new position in the authored content. In addition, techniques described herein provide a user interface control that allows for the selection and de-selection of one or more keywords, which allows a user to tailor the suggested content by toggling one or more controls.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for suggesting content data to a user, the method comprising:

obtaining content data provided by a user;

analyzing the content data to identify one or more keywords associated with the content data, wherein a selection of the one or more keywords is based on a position of a cursor;

retrieving additional content data from one or more content resources based on the one or more keywords; and

causing the retrieved additional content data to be displayed in conjunction with the one or more keywords in a user interface, wherein the user interface comprises a user interface control corresponding to at least one of the one or more keywords, the user interface control configured to cause the retrieved additional content data displayed in the user interface to be adjusted based on a selection or a de-selection of the user interface control.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface control, when selected, will cause content data elements of the additional content data corresponding to the at least one keyword to be displayed in the user interface, and when deselected, will cause the content data elements corresponding to the at least one keyword not to be displayed in the user interface.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the content data, retrieving the additional content data, and causing the retrieved additional content data to be displayed are performed based on an analysis of the content data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the content data, retrieving the additional content data, and causing the retrieved additional content data to be displayed are performed in response to a request from the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more content resources comprise a content archive accessible to the user based on a credential of the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more content resources comprise a content archive stored in a computing device local to the user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the selection of the one or more keywords is based on a window identifying text within a pre-determined area defined around the cursor.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtained content data comprises one or more of an image, a video clip or text data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional content data comprises one or more of an image, a video clip or text data.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of one or more content data elements of the additional content data;

combining the one or more content data elements with the content data obtained from the user;

generating a layout based on the combined content; and

causing the combined content to be presented in the generated layout.

11. A computer-implemented method for suggesting content data to a user, the method comprising:

obtaining content data provided by a user;

analyzing the content data to identify one or more keywords associated with the content data, wherein a selection of the one or more keywords is based on a position of a cursor;

retrieving additional content data from one or more content resources based on the one or more keywords; and

causing the retrieved additional content data to be displayed in conjunction with the one or more keywords in a user interface, wherein the user interface comprises a user interface control corresponding to at least one of the one or more keywords, the user interface control configured to cause the retrieved additional content data displayed in the user interface to be adjusted based on a selection or a de-selection of the user interface control.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the user interface control, when selected, will cause content data elements of the additional content data corresponding to the at least one keyword to be displayed in the user interface, and when deselected, will cause the content data elements corresponding to the at least one keyword not to be displayed in the user interface.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein analyzing the content data, retrieving the additional content data, and causing the retrieved additional content data to be displayed are performed based on an analysis of the content data.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein analyzing the content data, retrieving the additional content data, and causing the retrieved additional content data to be displayed are performed in response to a request from the user.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more content resources comprise a content archive accessible to the user based on a credential of the user.

16. A computer-implemented method for suggesting content data to a user, the method comprising:

obtaining content data provided by a user;

analyzing the content data to identify one or more keywords associated with the content data, wherein a selection of the one or more keywords is based on a position of a cursor;

retrieving additional content data from one or more content resources based on the one or more keywords; and

causing the retrieved additional content data to be displayed in conjunction with the one or more keywords in a user interface.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the selection of the one or more keywords is based on a structure of the content data.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the selection of the one or more keywords is based on a contextual interpretation of the content data, and wherein retrieving additional content data from one or more content resources is based on the contextual interpretation of the content data.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the selection of the one or more keywords comprises:

determining a subject of the input,

determining at least one additional subject related to the subject, and

generating additional keywords based on the at least one additional subject, wherein retrieving additional content data from one or more content resources based on the additional keywords.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the selection of the one or more keywords is based on a window identifying text within a pre-determined area defined around the cursor.