Smart content feeds for document collaboration

• US 9,189,480 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2013
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Thiruvidan, Eniyan, Kuchibhotla, Anjaneyulu, Mysore Devaraj, Dilip
• Primary Examiner(s): THAI, HANH B
• Application Number:
  US13/782,367
• Publication Number:
  US 20140250058A1
• Time in Patent Office: 991 Days
• Field of Search: 707/608, 707/694, 707/706, 707802-803
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Example embodiments relate to smart content feeds for document collaboration. In example embodiments, a user may use a system to perform a search of a document repository in order to identify related content for adding to a target document. In response to a user approving the related content identified in the search, the system may create a reference data entry that includes a timestamp and a storage location of a source document that contains the related content. The system may then use the timestamp to detect that a modification of the source document has occurred and generate a notification for the user that describes the modification.

Claims

1. A system for providing smart content feeds for document collaboration, the system comprising:

a processor to;

search a document repository to identify related content for adding to a target document;

in response to a user approving the related content, create a reference data entry for the related content added to the target document, wherein the reference data entry comprises a timestamp, a section identifier associated with a document section that includes the related content, and a storage location of a source document that includes the related content;

use the timestamp to detect that a modification of the source document has created a modified source document;

in response to determining that the source document is a structured document, use the section identifier to obtain updated related content from the document section of the source document;

generate a notification for the user that describes the modification in the modified source document, wherein the notification comprises the updated related content from the document section; and

in response to the user confirming the updated related content, update the reference data entry in the target document to refer to the updated related content from the source document.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further to:

determine that the related content does not match the updated related content in the document section, wherein the notification is generated in response to determining that the related content does not match.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the source document is one of a plurality of source documents, wherein the reference data entry further comprises keywords used to search the document repository to identify corresponding related content in each of the plurality of source documents, and wherein the processor is further to:

in response to a user approving the corresponding related content, create a corresponding reference data entry for the corresponding related content added to the target document; and

monitor the plurality of source documents for modifications.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further to:

receive a search request comprising keywords specified by the user, wherein the search of the document repository is performed by comparing the keywords to tags associated with the source document in the document repository.

5. A method for providing smart content feeds on a computing device, the method comprising:

displaying, by the computing device, related content for adding to a target document, wherein the related content was identified from a document repository storing a plurality of source documents;

in response to a user approving the related content, sending a confirmation that the related content was added to the target document;

receiving a notification describing a modification to a source document of the plurality of source documents that originally included the related content, wherein the notification comprises updated related content from a document section of the source document, and wherein the updated related content is obtained from the document section using a section identifier in response to determining that the source document is a structured document; and

in response to the user confirming the updated related content, replacing the related content in the target document with the updated related content from the source document.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

displaying the notification in-line in a document editing application accessing the target document on the computing device, wherein the updated related content is displayed for approval by the user.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

sending a search request comprising keywords specified by the user, wherein the search of the document repository is performed by comparing the keywords to tags associated with the source document in the document repository.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the search request further comprises a repository identifier, and wherein the document repository is identified to be searched using the repository identifier.

9. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor, the machine-readable storage medium comprising:

instructions to search a document repository to identify related content for adding to a target document;

instructions to create, in response to a user approving the related content, a reference data entry for the related content added to the target document, wherein the reference data entry comprises a timestamp, a section identifier associated with a document section that includes the related content, and a storage location of a source document that includes the related content;

instructions to use the timestamp to detect that a modification of the source document has created a modified source document;

instructions to user, in response to determining that the source document is a structured document, the section identifier to obtain updated related content from the document section of the source document;

instructions to generate a notification for the user that includes modified related content from the modified source document, wherein the notification comprises updated related content from the document section; and

instructions to update, in response to the user confirming the updated related content, the referenced data entry of the target document to refer to the updated related content from the source document.

10. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the machine-readable storage medium further comprises:

instructions to determine that the related content does not match the updated related content in the document section, wherein the notification is generated in response to determining that the related content does not match.

11. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the source document is one of a plurality of source documents, wherein the reference data entry further comprises keywords used to search the document repository to identify corresponding related content in each of the plurality of source documents, and wherein the machine-readable storage medium further comprises:

instructions to create, in response to a user approving the corresponding related content, a corresponding reference data entry for the corresponding related content added to the target document; and

instructions to monitor the plurality of source documents for modifications.

12. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, further comprising:

instructions to receive a search request comprising keywords specified by the user, wherein the search of the document repository is performed by comparing the keywords to tags associated with the source document in the document repository.