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Natural language processing to merge related alert messages for accessibility

  • US 10,431,200 B2
  • Filed: 02/28/2019
  • Issued: 10/01/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, in a data processing system, comprising a processor and a memory, the memory comprising instructions executed by the processor for merging incoming alerts for accessibility, the method comprising:

  • receiving a first input alert and a second input alert intended for presentation by a screen reader;

    determining, by the processor, whether the first input alert and the second input alert arrived with a specified time interval, wherein the specified time interval is determined so that the first input alert and the second input alert do not collide and have the second input alert interrupt the first input alert;

    determining, by the processor, that the first input alert and the second input alert arrived within the specified time interval, operative to determining whether the first input alert and the second input alert are similar;

    determining, by the processor, that the first input alert and the second input alert are similar, operative to combining the first input alert and the second input alert in a merge operation wherein the output alert is a merged alert, wherein the merge operation merges two similar elements which occur in each of the first input alert and the second input alert into a single element; and

    sending the output alert to the screen reader for presentation.

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