Content management system and method

• US 8,661,035 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2006
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Jariwala, Adnan Shabbir
• Primary Examiner(s): Hasan, Syed
• Assistant Examiner(s): MUELLER, KURT A
• Application Number:
  US11/618,331
• Publication Number:
  US 20080162528A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,615 Days
• Field of Search: 707/737
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

A system and method for content management is disclosed. Textual content is parsed into forming identified content by excluding common words. The identified content is linked to relevant images. Relevant images are searched and from a number of candidate images suitable to be inserted proximate to the identified content. A relevant image based on a ranking of the images is selected and inserted proximate to the identified content with or without human intervention.

Claims

1. A computer method for associating textual content with a relevant image comprising:

receiving textual content as composed by an author user, the textual content having one meaning by the author user;

based on historical usage by other users, determining additional meaning for the textual content, the additional meaning being beyond the one meaning of the author user and including synonyms;

adaptively linking the textual content to at least one image clarifying subject matter of the textual content, said clarifying of the subject matter being by treating textual content beyond terms of the one meaning of the author user and including the synonyms of the determined additional meaning;

forming a visualization of content, by inserting a relevant image from the at least one image proximate to the textual content in a manner resulting in clarification of the subject matter of the textual content, wherein the adaptively linking and inserting is free of human intervention, and the formed visualization effectively enables a reader user to not only receive but interpret and understand the subject matter based on the relevant image presented adjoining the textual content; and

displaying the formed visualization of content to one or more reader users in a manner establishing effective communication of the subject matter, each reader user being a different person than the author user.

2. The computer method of claim 1, further comprising:

parsing the received textual content into words;

excluding a set of common words from the parsed textual content, wherein the set of common words being predefined in an exclusion list.

3. The computer method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a location proximate to the textual content for inserting the relevant image based on the textual content, said identifying location being free of human intervention.

4. The computer method of claim 3, further comprising:

searching a repository for the at least one image;

fetching the at least one image from the repository; and

presenting the at least one image to the author user.

5. The computer method of claim 4, further comprising:

computing a score for each of the images fetched from the repository, and ranking the fetched images according to the computed score prior to presenting the at least one image to the author user.

6. The computer method of claim 4, wherein the images are fetched only from a trusted source.

7. The computer method of claim 4, further comprising:

forming a list of images fetched from the repository; and

identifying and selecting the relevant image to be inserted proximate to the textual content from the list of images.

8. The computer method of claim 2, further comprising:

grouping a set of words forming a context based phrases prior to identifying a location for inserting the relevant image proximate to the contextual phrase from the at least one image after excluding the set of common words.

9. A content management system comprising:

(a) a computer having a content processing system which comprises;

a content controller receiving content composed by an author user and creating identified content, the content composed by the author user having one meaning by the author user; and

an image controller inserting images by associating the identified content with at least one image clarifying subject matter of the identified content, and forming a visualization of content, the image controller associating the identified content with the at least one image in a manner free of human intervention; and

wherein the clarifying of subject matter includes;

(i) based on historical usage by other users, determining additional meaning for the identified content, the additional meaning being beyond the one meaning of the author user and including synonyms of the identified content and

(ii) treating textual content beyond terms of the one meaning to the author user including the synonyms of the determined additional meaning, and

wherein the formed visualization effectively enables a reader user to not only receive but interpret and understand the subject matter based on the relevant image presented adjoining the textual content; and

(b) output display means for displaying the formed visualization of content to one or more reader users, the displayed visualization of content bridging any language barrier between any reader user of the identified content and the author user of the received content, each reader user being a different person than the author user.

10. The content management system of claim 9, further configured to fetch the at least one image from a trusted source.

11. The content management system of claim 9, wherein the content processing system is configured to authenticate the at least one image.

12. The content management system of claim 9, wherein the content processing system further comprising a computing controller for computing a score for each of the images.

13. The content management system of claim 12, wherein the computing controller is configured to rank the images based on the computed score.

14. The content management system of claim 13, wherein the image controller associates the identified content with only images above a pre-defined threshold score.

15. The content management system to claim 14, wherein relevant images above a pre-defined threshold score are inserted proximate to the identified content without any human intervention.

16. The content management system of claim 9, wherein the content controller is configured to determine location to insert a relevant image proximate to the identified content without human intervention.

17. The content management system of claim 9, wherein the image controller is configured to authenticate and insert a relevant images without any human intervention.

18. The content management system of claim 9, wherein the content processing system is configured to enable the feature of processing input content without any human intervention.

19. An electronic device having content management, the electronic device comprising:

A. a storage repository configured to store textual content and images, each textual content being authored by a respective author user, the textual content having one meaning by the author user;

B. a memory configured to cache images from the storage repository;

C. a computer having a processor coupled for communication with the memory and storage repository, and the processor being configured to

(i) identify content,

(ii) to retrieve images and

(iii) to form a visualization of content by inserting at least one relevant image proximate to the identified content,

each relevant image clarifying subject matter of the identified content, including;

(i) based on historical usage, determining additional meaning for the textual content, the additional meaning being beyond the one meaning of the author user and including synonyms of the textual content, and

(ii) treating textual content beyond terms of the one meaning to the author user and including the synonyms of the determined additional meaning, and in a manner such that display of the formed visualization of content to one or more reader users bridges any language barrier between any reader user of the identified content and the author user of the stored textual content by effectively enabling a reader user to not only receive but interpret and understand the subject matter based on the relevant images presented adjoining the textual content, each reader user being a different person than the author user,

wherein the processor identifying content, retrieving images and forming the visualization of content is in a manner free of human intervention; and

D. a display device coupled to receive from the computer the formed visualization of content and configured to display the visualization of content to reader users in a manner establishing effective communication of the subject matter.

20. The electronic device of claim 19, wherein the processor is further configured to compute a score for each of the retrieved images and rank the retrieved images in accordance with the computed score.

21. The electronic device of claim 19, wherein the processor is further configured to, free of human intervention:

(a) link the textual content to images;

(b) search a repository for relevant images;

(c) retrieve the relevant images;

(d) link one of the retrieved images to the identified content;

(e) computing compute a score for ranking retrieved images; and

(f) subsequently present one or more of the ranked images to the author user to be inserted proximate to the identified content.

22. The electronic device of claim 19, wherein the processor is further configured to:

(a) link the textual content to images;

(b) search a repository for relevant images;

(c) retrieve the relevant images;

(d) link one of the retrieved images to the identified content;

(e) computing compute a score for ranking retrieved images; and

(f) subsequently present the retrieved images to the reader user inserted proximate to the identified content without human intervention.

23. A computer program product for deploying computing infrastructure, the computer program product comprising:

a computer usable memory medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable program code comprises;

computer readable program code configured to receive textual content by an author user, the textual content having one meaning to the author user;

computer readable program code configured to adaptively link, without human intervention, the textual content to at least one image clarifying subject matter of the textual content, said clarifying of the subject matter including;

(i) based on historical usage by other users, determining additional meaning for the textual content, the additional meaning being beyond the one meaning of the author user and including synonyms of the textual content, and

(ii) treating textual content beyond terms of the one meaning to the author user and including the synonyms of the determined additional meaning; and

computer readable program code configured to form a visualization of content by inserting a relevant image from the at least one image proximate to the textual content in a manner free of human intervention and in a manner resulting in clarification of the subject matter of the textual content, said formed visualization effectively enables a reader user to not only receive but interpret and understand the subject matter based on the relevant image presented adjoining the textual content; and

computer readable program code configured to display the formed visualization of content to one or more reader users, the display of the formed visualization of content being in a manner establishing effective communication of the subject matter and including bridging any language barrier between any reader user of the textual content and the author user of the textual content, each reader user being a different person than the author user.