Management of content tailoring by services

• US 9,916,298 B2
• Filed: 09/03/2014
• Issued: 03/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Link, Claudius, Seul, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): Peng, Huawen A
• Application Number:
  US14/475,805
• Publication Number:
  US 20160063079A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer program products for processing responses from services (e.g., content providers) and managing content tailoring by services and/or recommender systems used by those services. Embodiments of the present invention can afford users with the ability to control the diversity of content in responses provided by services based one or more detected themes of the responses. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may be used to provide users with enriched responses from services, without needing cooperation of those services.

Claims

1. A computer program product, the computer program comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to define a diverse response as a query response including text content associated with a requisite number of predefined themes, wherein each of the predefined themes classify the text content of the response into a category;

program instructions to receive a first response to a first query from a service;

program instructions to extract the text content from the first response to identify text elements for the first response;

program instructions to determine whether a text element of the first response matches a text element associated with one of the predefined themes, wherein each of the predefined themes is associated with a plurality of text elements;

program instructions to calculate a score based on a number of the text elements identified in the first response with respect to the predefined theme including a number of occurrences divided by a number of the plurality of text elements associated with the predefined theme;

program instructions to determine whether the first response is the diverse response;

program instructions to, responsive to determining that the first response is not the diverse response, modify the first response to create the diverse response, wherein the program instructions to modify the first response comprise;

program instructions to receive a second response from an enrichment service based on the first query; and

program instructions to modify the first response to include text content received from the second response;

program instructions to display the diverse response to a user of a computer system.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the program instructions to extract the text content from the first response to identify the text elements for the first response comprise:

program instructions to obtain one or more schemas for the service;

program instructions to extract text content from the first response using the one or more schemas obtained for the service; and

program instructions to parse the extracted text content from the first response to identify the text elements for the first response.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the program instructions to modify the first response to create the diverse response comprise:

program instructions to query the enrichment services using terms of the first query;

program instructions to receive a plurality of responses from the enrichment services;

program instructions to detect one or more predefined themes based of text content extracted from the plurality of responses;

program instructions to select one or more responses of the plurality of responses based, at least in part, on the one or more predefined themes detected; and

program instructions to modify the first response to create the diverse response comprising text content extracted from the selected one or more responses.

4. A computer system, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors;

one or more computer readable storage media;

program instructions stored on the computer readable media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to define a diverse response as a query response including text content associated with a requisite number of predefined themes, wherein each of the predefined themes classify the text content of the response into a category;

program instructions to receive a first response to a first query from a service;

program instructions to extract the text content from the first response to identify text elements for the first response;

program instructions to determine whether a text element of the first response matches a text element associated with one of the predefined themes, wherein each of the predefined themes is associated with a plurality of text elements;

program instructions to calculate a score based on a number of the text elements identified in the first response with respect the predefined theme including a number of occurrences divided by a number of the plurality of text elements associated with the predefined theme;

program instructions to determine whether the first response is the diverse response;

program instructions to, responsive to determining that the first response is not the diverse response, modify the first response to create the diverse response, wherein the program instructions to modify the first response comprise;

program instructions to receive a second response from an enrichment service based on the first query; and

program instructions to modify the first response to include text content received from the second response;

program instructions to display the diverse response to a user of a computer system.