Meta-document management system with transit triggered enrichment

• US 7,117,432 B1
• Filed: 12/05/2001
• Issued: 10/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 6, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Shanahan, James G., Grefenstette, Gregory T
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Campbell, Joshua D.
• Application Number:
  US09/683,240
• Time in Patent Office: 1,763 Days
• Field of Search: 715/500, 715/500.1, 715/505, 715/511, 715/512, 715/513, 715/523, 715/530, 715/531, 715/700, 715/708, 715/744, 715/747
• US Class Current: 715/210
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/353 into predefined classes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/295 Named entity recognition

Abstract

In a document enrichment system, device buttons can be programmed to associate a number of personalities to the buttons on the device. These associations may be stored locally on the device. When the device with the programmed personality is activated on the device, the document produced is sent to a document enrichment system. Once enriched the document enrichment system notifies the user of the availability of the document in its new form.

Claims

1. In a system for enriching content of a document using personalities that identify enrichment themes, a method for enriching documents, comprising:

invoking a print command from a print client interface that allows selection of print property settings and properties of a document service request;

the document service request including at least one document property and one enrichment property;

the at least one document property defining one of document content and a reference to the document content;

the at least one enrichment property defining at least one personality identifier; and

enriching the document content, at an insertion point that identifies a processing stage of the print command invoked from the print client interface, with a personality identified by the personality identifier to define enriched document content;

wherein said enriching recognizes and annotates entities in the document content related to the enrichment theme of the identified personality.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising performing one of carrying out the print command with the enriched document content and carrying out the print command without the enriched document content while providing notification once the document content is enriched.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein one enrichment property at the client interface defines a particular portion of the document content to enrich.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein one enrichment property at the client interface defines the insertion point to be one of at a client workstation and at a print server.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said enriching further comprises:

associating the personality identifier with the document content;

recognizing, with at least a first method, an entity in the document content;

accessing, with at least a second method, a document service using the recognized entity;

annotating the document content with output from the document service to define enriched document content; and

making the enriched document content available to a set of users.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein one enrichment property at the client interface defines a form in which the document content is to be annotated.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein one enrichment property at the client interface defines an option to be notified when document enrichment completes.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising programming a set of enrichment properties in a set of personality buttons.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the set of personality buttons forms part of a user interface to one of a scanner, a Dictaphone, a video camera, and a printer.

10. A system for enriching content of a document using personalities that identify enrichment themes, comprising:

a print client interface for invoking a print command that allows selection of print property settings and properties of a document service request;

the document service request including at least one document property and one enrichment property;

the at least one document property defining one of document content and a reference to the document content;

the at least one enrichment property defining at least one personality identifier; and

a meta-document server for enriching the document content, at an insertion point that identifies a processing stage of the print command invoked from the print client interface, with a personality identified by the personality identifier to define enriched document content;

wherein the meta-document server enriches the document content by recognizing and annotating entities in the document content related to the enrichment theme of the identified personality.

11. The system according to claim 10, further comprising means for performing one of carrying out the print command with the enriched document content and carrying out the print command without the enriched document content while providing notification once the document content is enriched.

12. The system according to claim 10, wherein one enrichment property at the client interface defines a particular portion of the document content to enrich.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein one enrichment property at the client interface defines the insertion point to be one of at a client workstation and at a print server.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the meta-document server further comprises:

means for associating the personality identifier with the document content;

means for recognizing, with at least a first method, an entity in the document content;

means for accessing, with at least a second method, a document service using the recognized entity;

means for annotating the document content with output from the document service to define enriched document content; and

means for making the enriched document content available to a set of users.

15. The system according to claim 10, wherein one enrichment property at the client interface defines a form in which the document content is to be annotated.

16. The system according to claim 10, wherein one enrichment property at the client interface defines an option to be notified when document enrichment completes.

17. The system according to claim 10, further comprising a set of personality buttons for programming a set of enrichment properties.

18. The system according to claim 17, wherein the set of personality buttons forms part of a user interface to one of a scanner, a Dictaphone, a video camera, and a printer.

19. An article of manufacture for use in a computer system for enriching content of a document using personalities that identify enrichment themes, comprising:

a memory;

instructions stored in the memory for operating a method for enriching documents, comprising;

invoking a print command from a print client interface that allows selection of print property settings and properties of a document service request;

the document service request including at least one document property and one enrichment property;

the at least one document property defining one of document content and a reference to the document content;

the at least one enrichment property defining at least one personality identifier; and

enriching the document content, at an insertion point that identifies a processing stage of the print command invoked from the print client interface, with a personality identified by the personality identifier to define enriched document content;

wherein said enriching recognizes and annotates entities in the document content related to the enrichment theme of the identified personality.

20. The article of manufacture according to claim 19, wherein said enriching instructions further comprise instructions for:

associating the personality identifier with the document content;

recognizing, with at least a first method, an entity in the document content;

accessing, with at least a second method, a document service using the recognized entity;

annotating the document content with output from the document service to define enriched document content; and

making the enriched document content available to a set of users.