Automatically generating documents

• US 10,534,847 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2017
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Krishna, Om
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Broderick C
• Application Number:
  US15/470,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20180276184A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,023 Days
• Field of Search: 715202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30

Abstract

Devices, systems, and methods for automatically creating a document. In one example, the system and method perform or include capturing, with a web-extension associated with a word-processing application, implicitly-tagged-content and an explicitly-tagged-content displayed on a web browser along with tags associated with the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content; receiving, with a speech-to-text interface, natural-language audio instruction associated with generating a document; generating, with a natural-language processor, a plain-text command associated with the natural-language audio instruction; retrieving personalized-content based on the plain-text command; and organizing, with a content-organizer, the personalized-content based on one or more criteria selected from a group consisting of page rank of a content displayed on the web browser, a source of the content, an authoring-style, and a document template. The document is generated using information received from the content-organizer.

Claims

1. A computing device for automatically creating documents, the computing device comprising:

a display device to display content within a web page on a web browser; and

an electronic processor configured to

capture, with a web-extension associated with a word-processing application, content that is associated with a tag and that includes implicitly-tagged-content selected automatically from the displayed content and explicitly-tagged-content selected by a user from the displayed content;

retrieve tags associated with each of the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content;

receive, command associated with generating a document;

retrieve personalized content using the retrieved tags based on the command;

organize, with a content-organizer, the personalized content based on one or more criteria selected from the group consisting of page rank of the implicitly-tagged content and the explicitly-tagged-content displayed on the web browser, a source of the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content, an authoring-style, and a document template;

generate the document using information received from the content-organizer, and

display the document with the display device.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the implicitly-tagged-content is sent to a summarizer, wherein the summarizer generates summarized-content associated with the implicitly-tagged-content.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the electronic processor is further configured to

send the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content and tags associated with each of the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content to a personalization server.

4. The computing device of claim 3, wherein the personalization server includes a personalized content database to store the personalized content and an organizational-content database to store organizational-content.

5. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the content-organizer receives a document template from the word-processing application.

6. The computing device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic processor is further configured to

receive, with a speech-to-text interface, a natural-language audio instruction associated with generating a document, and

generate, with a natural-language processor, a plain-text command associated with the natural-language audio instruction to create the command.

7. A method of automatically creating documents, the method comprising:

capturing, content that is associated with a tag and that includes implicitly-tagged-content selected automatically from content displayed within a web page on a web browser and an explicitly-tagged-content selected by a user from the displayed content along with tags associated with the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content,

retrieving tags associated with each of the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content,

receiving, a command associated with generating a document,

retrieving personalized content using the retrieved tags based on the command,

organizing, with a content-organizer, the personalized content based on one or more criteria selected from the group consisting of page rank of the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content displayed on the web browser, a source of the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content, an authoring-style, and a document template,

generating the document using information received from the content-organizer, and

displaying the document using a display device.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

sending the implicitly-tagged-content to a summarizer.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

generating summarized-content associated with the implicitly-tagged-content.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

sending the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content and tags associated with each of the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content to a personalization server.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving, with the content-organizer, a document template from the word-processing application.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

sending, with the content-organizer, an organized document including the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content to the word-processing application.

13. The method of claim 7, further comprising

receiving, with a speech-to-text interface, a natural-language audio instruction associated with generating a document, and

generating, with a natural-language processor, a plain-text command associated with the natural-language audio instruction to create the command.

14. A system for automatically creating documents, the system comprising:

a computing device including

a display device to display content within a web page on a web browser; and

an electronic processor configured to

capture, via a word-processing application, content that is associated with a tag and that includes implicitly-tagged-content selected automatically from the displayed content and an explicitly-tagged-content selected by a user from the displayed content;

retrieve tags associated with each of the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content;

receive, via an interface, a command associated with generating a document;

retrieve personalized content using the retrieved tags based on the command;

organize, with a content-organizer, the personalized content based on one or more criteria selected from the group consisting of page rank of the implicitly-tagged content and the explicitly-tagged-content displayed on the web browser, a source of the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content, an authoring-style, and a document template;

generate the document using information received from the content-organizer, and

display the document using the display device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the implicitly-tagged-content is sent to a summarizer.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the summarizer generates summarized-content associated with the implicitly-tagged-content.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the computing device is further configured to send the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content and tags associated with each of the implicitly-tagged-content and the explicitly-tagged-content to a personalization server.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the personalization server includes a personalized content database to store the personalized content and an organizational-content database to store organizational-content.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein the content-organizer receives a document template from the word-processing application.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein the electronic processor is further configured to

receive, with a speech-to-text interface, a natural-language audio instruction associated with generating a document;

and

generate, with a natural-language processor, a plain-text command associated with the natural-language audio instruction to create the command.