Aggregating content from one or more documents

• US 10,552,517 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2017
• Issued: 02/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
• Inventors: Tene, Ran, Johnston, Zach
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mrabi, Hassan
• Application Number:
  US15/720,765
• Publication Number:
  US 20180189246A1
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 715208
• 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 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/295 Named entity recognition

Abstract

A computer implemented methods to allow a user to copy content from a rendered document into a target document using a linking command. The target document can be a new document or an existing document, that is not rendered. The copied content can include a link to the document from which the content was copied from. The linking command can be a refer command or a send to file command. A refer command allows a user to copy and paste the content from a rendered document into a target document with text associated with the refer command remaining in the rendered document. A send to file command allows a user to copy and paste the content from a rendered document into a target document with no trace left in the rendered document.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing, by a content management system, a document for rendering on a client device;

receiving, by the content management system from the client device, an indication of user input identifying a linking command and a tagname, wherein the linking command relates to content from the rendered document and the tagname identifies a target document;

accessing the target document based on the tagname; and

inserting, by the content management system, the content from the rendered document into the target document with a link to the rendered document.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the content from the rendered document comprises a paragraph or a sentence in which the linking command was entered or a selected portion of the rendered document.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein inserting the content from the rendered document into the target document comprises inserting the content from the rendered document into the target document without providing the target document for display within the client device.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the linking command comprises a starting indicator and an ending indicator and the content from the rendered document is located between the starting indicator and the ending indicator.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the user input further identifies a subject.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the inserting the content from the rendered document into the target document comprises:

determining the target document does not comprise the subject;

and

based on determining the target document does not comprise the subject;

inserting the subject into the target document; and

inserting the content from the rendered document under the subject in the target document.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein inserting the content from the rendered document into the target document comprises inserting the content from the rendered document into the target document without further indication of user input by a user.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein receiving the indication of the user input identifying the linking command comprises receiving, from the client device, an indication of a textual input comprising the linking command.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein:

accessing the target document comprises accessing an existing document using the tagname; and

inserting the content from the rendered document into the target document comprises inserting the content from the rendered document into the existing document.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein:

accessing the target document comprises creating a new document using the tagname; and

inserting the content from the rendered document into the target document comprises inserting the content from the rendered document into the new document.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing, by the content management system, a second document for rendering on a client device;

receiving an indication of a second linking command and the tagname within the second rendered document, wherein the second linking command identifies content from the second rendered document and the tagname identifies the target document;

accessing the target document based on the tagname; and

inserting, by the content management system, the content from the second rendered document into the target document with a second link to the second rendered document.

12. A content management system comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the content management system to;

provide a document for rendering on a client device;

receive, from the client device, an indication of user input identifying a linking command and a tagname, wherein the linking command relates to content from the rendered document and the tagname identifies a target document;

access the target document based on the tagname; and

insert the content from the rendered document into the target document with a link to the rendered document.

13. The content management system of claim 12, wherein the content from the rendered document comprises a paragraph or a sentence in which the linking command was entered or a selected portion of the rendered document.

14. The content management system of claim 13, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the content management system to:

receive an indication of a user selection of the selected portion of the rendered document; and

render a menu comprising a selectable option for the linking command.

15. The content management system of claim 12, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the content management system to:

access the target document by accessing an existing document using the tagname; and

insert the content from the rendered document into the target document by inserting the content from the rendered document into the existing document.

16. The content management system of claim 12, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the content management system to:

access the target document by creating a new document using the tagname; and

insert the content from the rendered document into the target document by inserting the content from the rendered document into the new document.

17. The content management system of claim 16, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the content management system to:

receive the indication of the user input identifying the linking command by receiving the indication of the user input further identifying a subject;

determine the target document comprises the subject;

based on determining the target document comprises the subject, insert the content from the rendered document under the subject in the target document.

18. The content management system of claim 12, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the content management system to insert the content from the rendered document into the target document by inserting the content from the rendered document into the target document without providing the target document for display within the client device.

19. The content management system of claim 12, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the content management system to:

provide, for display within the rendered document, a first selectable option for a first linking command to insert content from the rendered document into an existing document and a second selectable option for a second linking command to insert content from the rendered document into a new document;

receive the indication of the user input identifying the linking command by receiving, from the client device, an indication of a user selection of the first selectable option for the first linking command to insert content from the rendered document into the existing document; and

based on receiving the indication of the user selection of the first selectable option for the first linking command, insert the content from the rendered document into the existing document as the target document.

20. The content management system of claim 12, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the content management system to:

provide, for display within the rendered document, a first selectable option for a first linking command to insert content from the rendered document into an existing document and a second selectable option for a second linking command to insert content from the rendered document into a new document;

receive the indication of the user input identifying the linking command by receiving, from the client device, an indication of a user selection of the second selectable option for the second linking command to insert content from the rendered document into the new document; and

based on receiving the indication of the user selection of the second selectable option for the second linking command;

access the target document by creating the new document using the tagname; and

insert the content from the rendered document into the new document.

21. The content management system of claim 12, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the content management system to:

provide a second document for rendering on a client device;

receive an indication of a second linking command and the tagname within the second rendered document, wherein the second linking command identifies content from the second rendered document and the tagname identifies the target document;

access the target document based on the tagname; and

insert the content from the second rendered document into the target document with a second link to the second rendered document.

22. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a content management system to:

provide a document for rendering on a client device;

receive, from the client device, an indication of user input identifying a linking command and a tagname, wherein the linking command relates to content from the rendered document and the tagname identifies a target document;

access the target document based on the tagname; and

insert the content from the rendered document into the target document with a link to the rendered document.

23. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 22, further storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the content management system to:

provide a second document for rendering on a client device;

receive an indication of a second linking command and the tagname within the second rendered document, wherein the second linking command identifies content from the second rendered document and the tagname identifies the target document;

access the target document based on the tagname; and

insert the content from the second rendered document into the target document with a second link to the second rendered document.