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Associating information with an electronic document

  • US 7,734,631 B2
  • Filed: 09/15/2005
  • Issued: 06/08/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-readable storage medium having computer executable instructions encoded thereon, the computer executable instructions programmed to, upon execution by at least one processor, configure a computer implemented system for associating information, the computer-readable storage medium comprising:

  • an association module executing on the at least one processor that analyzes, using a term frequency-inverse document frequency technique, content of a first piece of information associated with a first network service, comprising a web page service that provides at least one web page, to create a summary of the content of the first piece of information, the summary comprising anchoring information, and uses the anchoring information to associate the first piece of information with a second piece of information associated with a second network service, comprising one of a note service, a news feed service, a chat session service, a notification-based chat session service, an instant message service, or an advertisement service, the anchoring information includes one or more of a domain name, a fully qualified uniform resource locator, a partially-qualified uniform resource locator, a relative uniform resource locator of a Web resource, or at least one keyword in the content associated with the first piece of information;

    wherein the first niece of information comprises at least one of the at least one web page or one of a text document, a blog entry, a wiki, an image file, an audio file, or a multimedia file, associated with the at least one web page;

    wherein the second niece of information comprises at least one of a note, an intranet page, a text document, an image file, an audio file, a search term, a search result, information related to an interface for a search engine, an RSS feed, a news feed, information related to a chat session, information related to notification-based chat session, an instant message, a tag, a rating, an in-link, an out-link, or an advertisement;

    a privacy module that protects personal information of a user of the association module, by at least obscuring a request of the user;

    a ranking and filtering module that employs one or more classifiers to assign one or more ranks to a plurality of nieces of information, wherein the second niece of information is associated with the first niece of information based on an assigned rank; and

    a rendering module that presents the second piece of information for use.

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