Distribution of computation linguistics

• US 7,925,974 B1
• Filed: 02/22/2006
• Issued: 04/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: McConnell, Von, Cope, Warren
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong; Stephen S
• Assistant Examiner(s): HASTY, NICHOLAS
• Application Number:
  US11/359,280
• Time in Patent Office: 1,875 Days
• Field of Search: 715/256, 715/259, 715/260, 706/12
• US Class Current: 715/256
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/345 Summarisation for human users

Abstract

A system and methods for distributing media data regarding a specific topic to a user. The system comprises a media-host device, server, and distribution module. The media-host device submits a request for the media data, receives a textual structure summarizing the specific topic, and presents the textual structure to the user. The server stores the textual structure. The distribution module communicates the textual structure to the media-host device. One method comprises receiving a request to present the textual structure, retrieving the textual structure, formatting the textual structure to be readable by a media-host device, and transmitting the textual structure to the media-host device. Another method comprises determining the format of the media-host device, formatting the textual structure to be presentable on the media-host device, and transmitting the formatted textual structure to the media-host device.

Claims

1. A method for distributing a textual structure, comprising:

receiving a request from a media-host device to receive summary data about web content on a plurality of web pages;

parsing the web content from the plurality of web pages;

revealing underlying lexical semantics about the web content from the plurality of web pages, wherein the underlying lexical semantics comprise parts of speech and definitions of text in the web content;

using the underlying lexical semantics to classify the web content into information sets by counting the number of times the text is determined to have a part of speech and a definition;

applying one or more grammatical templates to organize the information sets into a sentence that summarizes the web content on the plurality of web pages;

formatting the sentence to be readable by the media-host device; and

transmitting the sentence to the media-host device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the retrieving of the textual structure comprises:

receiving a request for summarized web information from the media-host device;

accumulating text from a plurality of data feeds;

parsing the accumulated text;

indexing the text into a plurality of information sets;

storing the plurality of information sets into a memory structure;

aggregating information contained in the plurality of information sets to create a structure interpretation to satisfy the request; and

creating at least one new textual structure from the structure interpretation.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a media server comprises the memory structure.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the formatting of the textual structure to be readable by a media-host device comprises:

determining a data format relevant to the media-host device; and

converting the format of the sentence into the data format of the media-host device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adjusting the sentence to account for parameters in a personal profile manager.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

converting the sentence into an audio file using a speech synthesizer; and

presenting the audio file to the user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the sentence is transmitted to the media-host device via a wireless network.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the sentence is communicated to the media-host device via a computer network.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the sentence is communicated to the media-host device via a cable network.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the sentence is communicated to the media-host device via a proprietary network.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a location of the media-host device within a network of media-host devices based on a unique identifier for the media-host device.

12. One or more computer-storage media, having computer-readable instructions embodied thereon for performing the method of claim 1.

13. A system for distributing a textual structure, comprising:

a media-host device to request the textual structure that summarizes media data to a user, and to present the textual structure to the user;

a server to;

(1) analyze text on a plurality of web pages,

(2) summarize the text on the plurality of web pages based on the underlying grammatical intent of the text on the plurality of web pages,

(3) automatically create a sentence that summarizes the text on the plurality of web pages, and

(4) store the sentence; and

a distribution module to communicate the sentence to the media-host device and to register the user to automatically receive additional sentences summarizing the media data.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the distribution module communicates data over a computer network.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the distribution module communicates data over a cable network.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the distribution module communicates data over a wireless network.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the distribution module communicates data over a proprietary network.

18. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

a speech synthesizer to convert the sentence into an audio file, wherein the media-host device comprises a presentation module to present the audio file to the user.

19. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

a personal profile manger to adjust the sentence according to at least one parameter specified by the user.

20. A method for distributing a textual structure comprising:

receiving a request from the media-host device to receive summary data about web content;

summarizing the text on a plurality of web pages by;

(1) accumulating text from the plurality of web pages,

(2) analyzing grammatical intent associated with the text from the plurality of web pages,

(3) applying a statistical analysis to a portion of the text that is associated with multiple grammatical meanings to determine a probabilistic meaning for the portion of the text, and

(4) creating the textual structure to summarize the text based on the grammatical intent associated with the text and the probabilistic meaning for the portion of the text;

manipulating the textual structure based on a user-bias preference specified by the user, wherein the user-bias preference gives more deference to portions of the text from web pages determined to have a certain source bias and gives less deference to portions of the text from web pages determined to have a different source bias;

determining a format of the media-host device;

formatting the textual structure to be presentable on the media-host device; and

transmitting the formatted textual structure to the media-host device.