Content following content for providing updates to content leveraged in a deck

• US 10,990,578 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2016
• Issued: 04/27/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Banatwala, Mustansir, Brooks, David A., Russo, Joseph A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Aspinwall, Evan
• Application Number:
  US15/068,070
• Publication Number:
  US 20160299931A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,873 Days
• Field of Search: 707700
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2358 Change logging, detection, and notification replication G06F16/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24568 Data stream processing; Continuous queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A method for providing updates for pieces of content in a deck may include creating, by a processor, a deck. The deck may include a plurality of pieces of content. The method may also include leveraging, by the processor, a part of existing content, existing before creation of the deck, for at least one of the plurality of pieces of content in the deck. The at least one of the plurality of pieces of content in the deck, that leverages the part of existing content, is leveraged content and the part of the existing content is referenced content. The method may additionally include configuring, by the processor, the leveraged content for following the referenced content or ancillary content of the referenced content to obtain updates or notifications of updates to the referenced content or ancillary content.

Claims

1. A method for providing updates for pieces of content in a deck comprising:

creating, by a processor, a deck, the deck comprising a plurality of pieces of content, wherein the deck is a word processing document or a presentation document;

using existing content, that existed on a network before creation of the deck, for at least one of the pieces of content in the deck, the existing content in the deck being leveraged content and the existing content on the network being referenced content;

configuring, by the processor, the leveraged content in the deck for following the referenced content on the network or ancillary content of the referenced content on the network to obtain updates to the referenced content or the ancillary content on the network, wherein configuring the leveraged content to follow the referenced content or the ancillary content comprises automatically subscribing a particular leveraged content of the plurality of pieces of content in the deck to receive updates to the referenced content or the ancillary content on the network that corresponds to the particular leveraged content;

creating an integrated contextual activity stream, the integrated contextual activity stream comprising a list of the updates or notifications of updates to the referenced content or the ancillary content, the updates or notifications of updates are listed in an order of importance based on a subject matter of the updates;

receiving, by the processor, an update to the referenced content or the ancillary content on the network, wherein the update is a change to the referenced content or the ancillary content on the network;

prior to modifying the leveraged content to incorporate the update, concurrently presenting, by the processor, (i) the update to the referenced content or the ancillary content on the network and (ii) the leveraged content; and

after concurrently displaying (i) the update and (ii) the leveraged content, modifying, by the processor, the leveraged content to incorporate the update.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a feature associated with the integrated contextual activity stream for incorporating the updates to the referenced content or the ancillary content in the deck.

3. The method of claim 1, identifying the leveraged content in the deck, that is subscribed to corresponding referenced content or the ancillary content, by a special marking in the deck so that the leveraged content is apparent to a user when the deck is viewed by the user.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

storing in a memory the update in association with the leveraged content.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the update to the referenced content or the ancillary content is presented in response to a predetermined action.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the predetermined action comprises presenting the leveraged content, or activating a feature in a graphical user interface associated with the leveraged content.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein configuring the leveraged content to follow the referenced content comprises associating a link to the referenced content or the ancillary content with the leveraged content.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising storing in a memory the link to the referenced content or the ancillary content with the associated leveraged content.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

converting each piece of content in the deck to plain text;

extracting the link to the referenced content or the ancillary content from the leveraged content; and

subscribing the leveraged content to receive the updates to the referenced content or the ancillary content.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving the updates to the referenced content or the ancillary content; and

storing in a memory the updates in association with the leveraged content.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising presenting the updates to the referenced content or the ancillary content in response to a predetermined action.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

creating an integrated contextual activity stream, the integrated contextual activity stream comprising a list of the updates to the referenced content in a particular order or ranking; and

providing the integrated contextual activity stream in association with the leveraged content in response to a predetermined action, wherein the predetermined action comprises one of automatically presenting the integrated contextual activity stream when presenting the associated leveraged content or presenting the integrated contextual activity stream in response to activating a feature on a graphical user interface associated with the associated leveraged content.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising modifying the leveraged content to comprise a code segment that generates and transmits a query at preset time intervals to referenced content on the network or the ancillary content to determine if the referenced content or ancillary content has been updated.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein configuring the leveraged content to follow the referenced content comprises associating a link to the referenced content or the ancillary content with the leveraged content, wherein the leveraged content is configured to be selectively updated with the referenced content or the ancillary content by a user or author using the link in response to a change in the referenced content or the ancillary content.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the leveraged content being configured to follow the referenced content or the ancillary content saves a user from a burden of having to personally follow multiple different parts of content at various locations on the network.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the deck is an electronic document.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein concurrently presenting (i) the update to the referenced content or the ancillary content on the network and (ii) the leveraged content comprises concurrently displaying the update to the referenced content or the ancillary content on the network on a first area of a graphical user interface and the leveraged content on a second area of the graphical user interface.