Contextual search history in collaborative archives

• US 8,903,809 B2
• Filed: 11/15/2013
• Issued: 12/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Scherpa, Josef A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mahmoudi, Tony
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pham, Tuan A
• Application Number:
  US14/081,093
• Publication Number:
  US 20140143234A1
• Time in Patent Office: 382 Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3334 Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]

Abstract

A computing system executes an instant message session between one or more users of the one or more collaborative tools. The computer system further examines information from instant messages in a message window of the instant message session. In addition, the computer system identifies at least one keyword data of the examined information of the instant messages. The computer system queries a first repository for related content data that matches the at least one keyword data. The computer system also generates one or more contextual search results based on the match. Furthermore, the computer system transmits the generated one or more contextual search results for display on the one or more collaboration tools.

Claims

1. A method for generating related content during an instant message communication between collaborative tools within a computer system, the method comprising:

executing an instant message session in a requestor message program of a first collaborative tool of one or more collaborative tools between one or more users of the one or more collaborative tools;

executing the instant message session in a responder message program of a second collaborative tool of one or more collaborative tools;

examining information from instant messages in a message window during the instant message session;

automatically identifying at least one keyword data of the examined information, wherein the examined information is dynamically analyzed prior to submission of the instant messages in the message window of one or more collaborative tools, and wherein the examined information is dynamically analyzed as it is entered in the message window, and wherein the at least one keyword data is automatically identified with distinctive text formats, and displayed in the message window based on the dynamically analyzed examined information;

highlighting the at least one keyword data based on a desire to designated the highlight at least one keyword data as a keyword data of the examined information, wherein the highlighted at least one keyword data is manually identified as the keyword data of the examined information;

submitting the automatically identified at least one keyword data and the highlighted at least one keyword data as a collaborative instant message session history in a first query repository of the instant message session;

querying a first repository for the first related content data that matches the at least one keyword data;

generating one or more contextual search results based on the match;

transmitting the generated one or more contextual search results for display on the one or more collaboration tools;

annotating the generated one or more contextual search results of the display on the one or more collaboration tools, wherein the annotated one or more contextual search results are displayed with distinctive text formats in the message window of the one or more collaborative tools;

storing the generated one or more contextual search results in a storage of the instant message session;

querying a second repository for a second related content data that matches the at least one keyword data, wherein the query for the second related content data is automatically performed during automatic identification of the at least one keyword data and the highlighted at least one keyword data of the instant messages in the message window;

updating the generated one or more contextual search results with the queried second related content data that matches the at least one keyword data, wherein the updated generated one or more contextual search results of the queried second related content data is annotated and displayed in a related content window of the one or more collaborative tool; and

displaying an alert in the related content window of the one or more collaboration tools, wherein the alert indicates the availability of the update to the generated one or more contextual search results.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the manually selected at least one keyword data as the keyword data on the one or more collaborative devices.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the message window is a message input window or a message conversation window of the requestor program or the responder program, and wherein the at least one keyword data is displayed in either of the message input window or the conversation window of the message window.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first repository is an internal database and wherein the second repository is an external database.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of generating one or more contextual search results based on the match further comprises:

updating the contextual search results stored in one or more repositories, and wherein the contextual search results are asynchronously updated.