Web content correction and web content correction service

• US 9,135,247 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2009
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Li, Juan, Qi, Xin Wen, Shu, Fang Rui, Yang, Mei
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, THU V
• Application Number:
  US12/484,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20090327865A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,283 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234, 715/227, 715/255, 715/200, 715/235, 715/257
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/232 Orthographic correction, e.g. spell checking or vowelisation

Abstract

A method includes determining a location of erroneous content in a web page in response to a user'"'"'s request for correcting the erroneous content in the web page; receiving the user'"'"'s input of correction content for the erroneous content; and submitting correction information to a correction service provider including the location of the erroneous content and the correction content. An alternative method includes receiving correction information submitted by a user for erroneous content in a web page, the correction information including a location of the erroneous content and correction content; storing the received correction information; and retrieving the correction information and sending the correction information to the user in response to the user'"'"'s request for visiting the web page.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining, at a web client device, a location of user-identified erroneous content in a web page that is un-editable by a user in response to a request from the user to correct the user-identified erroneous content in the web page;

generating, from within content of the web page in further response to the user'"'"'s request, a context signature of the user-identified erroneous content that comprises a recorded specified number of characters of text from the web page both before and after the user-identified erroneous content;

receiving, via an input/output (I/O) device, the user'"'"'s input of user-submitted correction content for the user-identified erroneous content; and

submitting, via a network interface, correction information to a correction service provider device that performs web content correction services, where the correction information comprises the location of the user-identified erroneous content, the context signature of the user-identified erroneous content from within the web page content, and the user-submitted correction content.

2. The method of claim 1, where determining, at the web client device, the location of the user-identified erroneous content in the web page that is un-editable by the user further comprises inspecting a Document Object Model associated with the web page.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to a user'"'"'s request for visiting the web page, requesting the correction service provider to retrieve the correction information associated with the web page that comprises the location of the user-identified erroneous content, the context signature of the user-identified erroneous content from within the web page content, and the user-submitted correction content; and

rendering, via a display, the web page to the user, where the user-submitted correction content is displayed along with the user-identified erroneous content.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising submitting, via the network interface, to the correction service provider user feedback information associated with the user-submitted correction content in response to rendering the web page to the user.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to submitting, via the network interface, the correction information to the correction service provider, determining whether the correction information is valid.

6. The method of claim 5, where determining whether the correction information is valid further comprises determining whether the correction information is valid based upon the context signature of the user-identified erroneous content.

7. A device, comprising:

an input/output (I/O) device; and

a processor programmed to;

determine a location of user-identified erroneous content in a web page that is un-editable by a user in response to a request from the user to correct the user-identified erroneous content in the web page;

generate, from within content of the web page in further response to the user'"'"'s request, a context signature of the user-identified erroneous content that comprises a recorded specified number of characters of text from the web page both before and after the user-identified erroneous content;

receive via the I/O device the user'"'"'s input of user-submitted correction content for the user-identified erroneous content; and

submit correction information to a correction service provider device that performs web content correction services, where the correction information comprises the location of the user-identified erroneous content, the context signature of the user-identified erroneous content from within the web page content, and the user-submitted correction content.

8. The device of claim 7, where, in being programmed to determine the location of the user-identified erroneous content in the web page that is un-editable by the user, the processor is programmed to inspect a Document Object Model associated with the web page.

9. The device of claim 7, where the processor is further programmed to:

in response to a user'"'"'s request for visiting the web page, request the correction service provider to retrieve the correction information associated with the web page that comprises the location of the user-identified erroneous content, the context signature of the user-identified erroneous content from within the web page content, and the user-submitted correction content; and

render the web page to the user, where the user-submitted correction content is displayed along with the user-identified erroneous content.

10. The device of claim 9, where the processor is further programmed to:

submit to the correction service provider user feedback information associated with the user-submitted correction content in response to rendering the web page to the user.

11. The device of claim 7, where the processor is further programmed to:

in response to submitting the correction information to the correction service provider, determine whether the correction information is valid.

12. The device of claim 11, where, in being programmed to determine whether the correction information is valid, the processor is programmed to determine whether the correction information is valid based upon the context signature of the user-identified erroneous content.

13. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a web content correction server, correction information submitted by a user for user-identified erroneous content in a web page that is un-editable by the user, the correction information comprising a location of the user-identified erroneous content, a context signature of the user-identified erroneous content from within content of the web page, and user-submitted correction content submitted by the user to correct the user-identified erroneous content, where the context signature comprises a recorded specified number of characters of text from the web page both before and after the user-identified erroneous content;

storing, within a memory, the received correction information; and

retrieving the correction information from the memory and sending the correction information to the user, via a network interface, in response to a user'"'"'s request for visiting the web page.

14. The method of claim 13, where storing, within the memory, the received correction information further comprises merging the user-submitted correction content with existing additional user-submitted correction content previously stored within the memory.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving, via the network interface, user feedback information associated with the user-submitted correction content.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising ranking the user-submitted correction content based upon the user feedback information.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising, in response to retrieving the correction information from the memory, determining whether the correction information is valid.

18. The method of claim 17, where determining whether the correction information is valid further comprises determining whether the correction information is valid based upon the context signature of the user-identified erroneous content.

19. An apparatus, comprising:

an input/output (I/O) device; and

a processor programmed to;

receive via the I/O device correction information submitted by a user for user-identified erroneous content in a web page that is un-editable by the user, the correction information comprising a location of the user-identified erroneous content, a context signature of the user-identified erroneous content from within content of the web page, and user-submitted correction content submitted by the user to correct the user-identified erroneous content, where the context signature comprises a recorded specified number of characters of text from the web page both before and after the user-identified erroneous content;

store the received correction information; and

retrieve the correction information and send the correction information to the user in response to a user'"'"'s request for visiting the web page.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, where, in being programmed to store the received correction information, the processor is programmed to merge the user-submitted correction content with existing additional user-submitted correction content previously stored.

21. The apparatus of claim 19, where the processor is further programmed to receive user feedback information associated with the user-submitted correction content.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, where the processor is further programmed to rank the user-submitted correction content based upon the user feedback information.

23. The apparatus of claim 19, where the processor is further programmed to, in response to retrieving the correction information, determine whether the correction information is valid.

24. The apparatus of claim 23, where, in being programmed to determine whether the correction information is valid, the processor is programmed to determine whether the correction information is valid based upon the context signature of the user-identified erroneous content.