Refining based on log content

• US 20070156672A1
• Filed: 12/29/2005
• Published: 07/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Piersol, Kurt, Wolff, Gregory
• Granted Patent: US 8,015,194 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for performing a refining operation based on content of a log are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises analyzing one or more metadata entries in a set corresponding to a digital object that is stored separately from the set of one or more metadata entries and selecting one or more digital objects for display based on analysis of content in the metadata entries.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

analyzing one or more metadata entries in a set corresponding to a digital object that is stored separately from the set of one or more metadata entries; and

selecting one or more digital objects for display based on analysis of content in the metadata entries.

2. The method defined in claim 1 wherein analyzing metadata entries comprises performing text analysis on the one or more metadata entries.

3. The method defined in claim 2 wherein the text analysis is performed based on one or more of a group consisting of a word type, an author, a time, and entry type in the set of metadata entries.

4. The method defined in claim 2 wherein the text analysis is performed based on one or more of entry contents, entry author, entry type, and entry sharing of the one or more metadata entries.

5. The method defined in claim 1 wherein analyzing the one or more metadata entries comprises applying different weights to different text features.

6. The method defined in claim 5 wherein applying different weights to different text features includes weighting known authors of a comments in the one or more metadata entries as more or less relevant than unknown authors of comments in the one or more metadata entries.

7. The method defined in claim 5 wherein applying different weights to different text features includes weighting authors commenting on the same digital object as more relevant.

8. The method defined in claim 1 further comprising performing an operation based on analyzing the one or more metadata entries.

9. The method defined in claim 8 wherein performing an operation based on analyzing the one or more metadata entries comprises determining relevance of the digital object based on refined knowledge of the digital object.

10. The method defined in claim 9 further comprising providing an indication that the digital object is relevant to a search query based on the determined relevance.

11. The method defined in claim 10 further comprising displaying the digital object as part of displaying search results to the search query.

12. The method defined in claim 9 further comprising providing an indication that the digital object is relevant due to the one or more metadata entries being above a threshold.

13. The method defined in claim 1 further comprising displaying the digital object having a size based on a number of comments in the one or more metadata entries being at a level with respect to a threshold.

14. The method defined in claim 13 wherein displaying the digital object comprises displaying the digital object as a first sized image if the number of comments in the one or more metadata entries is below the threshold and as a second size image larger than the first sized image if the number of comments in the one or more metadata entries is above the threshold.

15. The method defined in claim 1 further comprising selecting information to display based on content in the metadata entries.

16. The method defined in claim 15 wherein selecting information to display comprises changing a display of one or more thumbnail images based on one or more criterion.

17. The method defined in claim 16 wherein changing the display comprises changing the clustering of one or more of the thumbnail images.

18. The method defined in claim 16 wherein changing the display comprises changing thumbnail size of one or more thumbnail images.

19. The method defined in claim 16 wherein the criterion is based on the number of comments in the one or more metadata entries.

20. The method defined in claim 16 wherein the criterion is based on the number of cross references in the one or more metadata entries.

21. The method defined in claim 1 further comprising determining subject matter of the digital object based on content of the one or more metadata entries.

22. The method defined in claim 1 further comprising determining subject matter of the digital object based on content of the one or more metadata entries and content of the digital object.

23. The method defined in claim 1 wherein selecting the one or more digital object comprises selecting one or more advertisements based on content of the one or more metadata entries.

24. The method defined in claim 23 further comprising:

determining an identifier based on a view of the digital object, the identifier being based on content of the digital object; and

obtaining the one or more metadata entries based on the identifier.

25. The method defined in claim 23 wherein selecting the one or more advertisements is based on content of the digital object.

26. The method defined in claim 23 wherein selecting the one or more advertisements is based on one or more identifiers associated with one or more authors of comments in the one or more metadata entries.

27. The method defined in claim 23 wherein selecting the one or more advertisements is based on an identifier associated with a viewer of comments in the one or more metadata entries.

28. The method defined in claim 23 further comprising sending the one or more advertisements for display.

29. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the at least one metadata entry comprises a document log entry.

30. The method defined in claim 1 wherein each identifier is based on content of said each metadata entry.

31. The method defined in claim 30 wherein the identifier is a hash value.

32. The method defined in claim 30 wherein the identifier is a result of applying a hashing function to an electronic form of the content.

33. The method defined in claim 32 wherein the hashing function is the MD5 hashing algorithm.

34. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the set is stored separately from the digital object.

35. The method defined in claim 34 wherein the set of metadata entries is separate from content of the digital object and attached to the digital object electronically.

36. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the set is in XML format.

37. The method defined in claim 36 wherein each entry in the set is an XML segment.

38. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the set comprises a document log.

39. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the digital object comprises a plurality of bytes.

40. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the digital object comprises a document.

41. An article of manufacture having one ore more recordable media having instructions thereon which, when executed by a system, cause the system to perform a method comprising:

analyzing one or more metadata entries in a set corresponding to a digital object that is stored separately from the set of one or more metadata entries; and

refining knowledge of the digital object based on content in the metadata entries.

42. The article of manufacture defined in claim 41 wherein the method further comprises displaying the digital object as part of displaying search results to the search query.

43. The article of manufacture defined in claim 41 wherein the method further comprises

determining an identifier based on a view of the digital object, the identifier being based on content of the digital object;

and

obtaining the one or more metadata entries based on the identifier.

44. The article of manufacture defined in claim 41 wherein the method further comprises selecting one or more advertisements based on content of one or more metadata entries.