Template and content aware document and template editing

• US 9,529,791 B1
• Filed: 12/12/2013
• Issued: 12/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Zheng, Wentao, Lemonik, Micah
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US14/104,401
• Time in Patent Office: 1,111 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

A method and apparatus for performing template and content aware document and template editing is provided. Template and content aware document and template editing may include identifying a current document template, the current document template including a plurality of rules, generating a current document based on the current document template, wherein generating the current document includes, identifying a rule from the plurality of rules, the rule indicating an object and an object definition for the object, the object definition including a dynamic content definition, and including dynamic content in the current document based on the dynamic content definition, and storing or transmitting the current document.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising:

identifying a current document template, the current document template including a plurality of rules describing objects and object definitions, the object definitions describing relationships between objects, object structures, and object presentation, and the object definitions comprising content definitions for dynamic content, direct content, indirect content, and placeholder content;

generating a current document, the current document being a document of objects, based on the current document template, wherein generating the current document includes;

identifying, as an identified content definition, a content definition from a rule from the plurality of rules;

including direct content, indirect content, and placeholder content in the current document based on the identified content definition;

including dynamic content in the current document based on the identified content definition being a dynamic content definition by;

identifying a source document indicated in the dynamic content definition, wherein the source document and the current document differ,

identifying a data source indicated in the dynamic content definition, the data source indicating content included in the source document,

identifying a source criterion indicated in the dynamic content definition, the source criterion indicating content included in the data source,

identifying a target criterion indicated in the dynamic content definition, the target criterion include content included in the current document,

including a portion of the content included in the data source as dynamic content in the current document based on an evaluation of the source criterion and the target criterion;

storing or transmitting at least a portion of the current document as a sequence of tokens that correspond to object instances of the plurality of rules;

monitoring the data source, wherein monitoring the data source includes detecting a change in the content included in the data source; and

updating the dynamic content in the current document in response to the change.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein including dynamic content in the current document includes identifying an instance of an object indicated as the data source.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein including dynamic content in the current document includes:

identifying an instance of a target object in the current document;

identifying a relationship between the target object and the data source;

determining the dynamic content based on the instance of the object indicated as the data source and the relationship; and

including the dynamic content in the instanced of the target object.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein identifying the relationship between the target object and the data source includes identifying a functor in the dynamic content definition.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein determining the dynamic content based on the instance of the object indicated as the data source and the relationship includes identifying, as the dynamic content, a cardinality of a set of instances of the object indicated as the data source.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein including dynamic content in the current document includes identifying a source document indicated in the dynamic content definition, wherein the source document includes the instance of the object indicated as the data source.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the source document is the current document.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the source document and the current document differ.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein including dynamic content in the current document includes:

evaluating the content included in the source document based on the source criterion; and

including the content included in the source document in the current document as the dynamic content based on a result of evaluating the content.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein including the content included in the source document in the current document as the dynamic content based on a result of evaluating the content includes omitting a portion of the content included in the source document from the dynamic content based on the result of evaluating the content.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein evaluating the content based on the source criterion includes:

identifying a source criterion indicated in the dynamic content definition;

identifying a target criterion indicated in the dynamic content definition; and

evaluating the source criterion based on the target criterion.

12. A system for generating a document from a template, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor, the memory includes instructions executable by the processor to;

identify a current document template, the current document template including a plurality of rules describing objects and object definitions, the object definitions comprising content definitions;

generate a current document, the current document being a document of objects, based on the current document template by instructions to;

identity a dynamic content definition for a content definition of a rule from the plurality of rules,

identify a data source indicated in the dynamic content definition,

identify a source criterion indicated in the dynamic content definition, the source criterion indicating content included in the data source

identify a functor indicated in the dynamic content definition,

identify a target criterion indicated in the dynamic content definition, the target criterion include content included in the current document,

include a portion of the content included in the data source as dynamic content in the current document based on an evaluation of the source criterion, the target criterion, and the functor;

store or transmit at least a portion of the current document as a sequence of tokens that correspond to object instances of the plurality of rules;

monitor the data source by instructions to detect a change in the content included in the data source; and

update the dynamic content in the current document in response to the change.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the instructions executable by the processor to include a portion of the content include instructions to identify an instance of an object indicated as the data source.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the instructions executable by the processor to include a portion of the content includes instruction to identify a cardinality of a set of instances of an object indicated as the data source.

15. A method for generating a document from a template, comprising:

identifying a current document template, the current document template including a plurality of rules describing objects and object definitions, the object definitions describing relationships between objects, object structures, and object presentation, and the object definitions comprising content definitions for dynamic content and placeholder content;

generating a current document, the current document being a document of objects, based on the current document template, wherein generating the current document includes;

identifying a rule from the plurality of rules, the rule indicating an object and an object definition for the object, the object definition including a content definition;

including dynamic content in the current document for a dynamic content definition by;

identifying a source document indicated in the dynamic content definition, wherein the source document and the current document differ,

identifying a data source indicated in the dynamic content definition, the data source indicating content included in the source document,

identifying a source criterion indicated in the dynamic content definition, the source criterion indicating content included in the data source,

identifying a target criterion indicated in the dynamic content definition, the target criterion include content included in the current document,

including a portion of the content included in the data source as dynamic content in the current document based on an evaluation of the source criterion and the target criterion;

including placeholder content in the current document for a placeholder content definition; and

storing or transmitting at least a portion of the current document as a sequence of tokens that correspond to object instances of the plurality of rules;

monitoring the data source, wherein monitoring the data source includes detecting a change in the content included in the data source; and

updating the dynamic content in the current document in response to the change.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

omitting a portion of the content included in the data source from the dynamic content based on the evaluation.