Generation of related content for social media posts

• US 9,633,018 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2013
• Issued: 04/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Baecke, Paul, Atherton, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Stevens, Robert
• Application Number:
  US13/740,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20140201178A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,562 Days
• Field of Search: 707706, 707736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

Architecture presents in a display related content in association with (an annotation) a social media post, as derived from post information of the social media post itself. The related content can be presented in the user interface proximate the social media post or elsewhere in the user interface. The related content can be presented as search engine queries, images, videos, and/or links to related websites. More specifically, the disclosed architecture facilitates the automated annotation of a social media post with related content derived from: post information such as a URL (uniform resource locator) referred to in the social media post, post information such as the text, image(s), and/or video content in a social media post itself, and post information such as content linked-to by a URL referred to in a social media post.

Claims

1. A system comprising a hardware processor and a memory device, the memory device configured to store execute computer-executable instructions that when executed by the hardware processor cause the processor to implement one or more components of the system, the one or more components comprising:

a processing component configured to receive a social media post and process the social media post to identify different information types that include at least one of text, an image, a video, or a uniform resource locator (URL), the processing component configured to process the social media post to determine a topic for each type of the information types, and to derive related content associated with the topic of each of the information types, the URL in the social media post identified as an information type and annotations for the URL chosen as at least one of, related queries that lead to the URL, related queries as canonical queries for the URL, or related entities for a canonical entity in the URL; and

an annotation component configured to annotate the social media post with at least one of a related query or a related entity associated with the related content as one or more annotations for viewing in association with the social media post, wherein selection of the one or more annotations query causes execution by a search engine to return search results.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing component is configured to detect and process the URL as an information type of the social media post to derive the related query.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing component is configured to detect and process the URL as an information type of the social media post, the related query derived from content linked-to by the URL.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing component is configured to detect and process multimedia content as an information type of the social media post, the related query derived from the multimedia content.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing component is part of a service that when called discriminates the information types as a URL, or multimedia associated with a text social media post.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the annotation component is configured to annotate the social media post with related content that is an image or a video.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing component is configured to detect and process the URL as an information type of the social media post to derive the related query, the URL is a news URL or a general URL.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing component is configured to process the social media post as a text post and extract a dominant entity from the text post for suggestions processing to return suggested related content for annotation of the social media post.

9. A computer-implemented method comprising computer executable instructions that when executed by a hardware processor cause the hardware processor to perform acts of:

receiving a social media post from a social media feed into a post tagging service;

processing post information of the social media post to detect a type of content feature of the post information and obtain suggestions for related queries having a topic relevant to the content feature, the content features detected as at least one of a uniform resource locator (URL), text, image, or a video;

identifying a URL in the social media post and choosing as suggestions at least one of, related queries that lead to the URL, related queries as canonical queries for the URL, or related entities for a canonical entity in the URL; and

annotating the social media post with the related queries as suggestions for viewing in the social media feed, a selected suggestion executable by a search engine to return a search result.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising detecting the URL as a content feature included in the post and annotating the social media post with content related to the URL.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising annotating the social media post with content related to at least one of the text, the image, or the video.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising detecting the URL as a content feature included in the post and annotating the social media post with related content linked-to by the URL.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising performing suggestion processing to obtain a suggestion from one or more suggestion sources and sending the suggestion from the service to the social media feed for the annotating of the social media post.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising annotating the social media post with the related queries, which related queries include a search engine query in combination with an image, a video, or a link to a related webpage.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising processing the content feature to discriminate between a URL and media types of text, image, and videos.

16. The method of claim 9, further comprising processing the content feature to discriminate between a general URL and a news URL.

17. The method of claim 9, further comprising determining a re-query based on a dominant topic of a text social media post.

18. A computer-readable hardware storage medium comprising computer-readable instructions that when executed by a hardware processor, cause the hardware processor to perform acts of:

receiving a social media post from a social media feed into a post tagging service;

processing post information of the social media post to detect types of content features in the post information and obtain suggestions for related queries having a topic relevant to the content features, the content features detected as at least one of a uniform resource locator (URL), text, image, or a video;

identifying a URL in the social media post and choosing as suggestions at least one of, related queries that lead to the URL, related queries as canonical queries for the URL, or related entities for a canonical entity in the URL; and

annotating the social media post with the related queries as suggestions for viewing in the social media feed, a selected suggestion executable by a search engine to return a search result.

19. The computer-readable hardware storage medium of claim 18, further comprising, where more than one entity is computed as related entities, displaying as suggestions to the social media post, the related entities.

20. The computer-readable hardware storage medium of claim 18, further comprising, where a single dominant intent is computed, displaying at least one of only the dominant intent as a related query, other URLs that are frequently co-clicked with the URL in the social media post, or queries that commonly lead to the URL in the social media post.