Synthesizing the content of disparate data types

• US 20070192683A1
• Filed: 02/13/2006
• Published: 08/16/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bodin, William K., Thorson, Derral C., Jaramillo, David, Redman, Jerry W.
• Application Number:
  US11/352,680
• Publication Number:
  US 20070192683A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for synthesizing the content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a particular data type for single point access by a user. Embodiments include identifying aggregated content of disparate data types; and translating the aggregated content into text content in accordance with device profiles for an identified rendering device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for synthesizing the content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a particular data type for single point access by a user, the method comprising:

identifying aggregated content of disparate data types; and

translating the aggregated content into text content in accordance with device profiles for an identified rendering device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein translating the aggregated content into text content in accordance with device profiles for an identified rendering device further comprises:

identifying a markup language supported by the rendering device; and

creating text and markup for the aggregated content in accordance with the identified markup language.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein creating text and markup for the aggregated content in accordance with the identified markup language further comprises creating a wrapper for invoking the aggregated content on the rendering device.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

dynamically creating grammar sets for the text content;

associating the grammar sets with the text content; and

associating one or more actions with the grammar sets.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein dynamically creating grammar sets for the text content further comprises:

identifying keywords for the text content; and

creating grammars in dependence upon the keywords and grammar creation rules.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein translating the aggregated content into text content in accordance with device profiles for an identified rendering device further comprises:

creating text in dependence upon the aggregated content;

creating a media file for the text content; and

inserting the text in the media file.

7. A system for synthesizing the content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a particular data type for single point access by a user, the system comprising:

a computer processor;

a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor;

the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of;

identifying aggregated content of disparate data types; and

translating the aggregated content into text content in accordance with device profiles for an identified rendering device.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein computer program instructions capable of translating the aggregated content into text content in accordance with device profiles for an identified rendering device further comprise computer program instructions capable of:

identifying a markup language supported by the rendering device; and

creating text and markup for the aggregated content in accordance with the identified markup language.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein computer program instructions capable of creating text and markup for the aggregated content in accordance with the identified markup language further comprise computer program instructions capable of creating a wrapper for invoking the aggregated content on the rendering device.

10. The system of claim 7 wherein the computer memory also has disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:

dynamically creating grammar sets for the text content;

associating the grammar sets with the text content; and

associating one or more actions with the grammar sets.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein computer program instructions capable of dynamically creating grammar sets for the text content further comprise computer program instructions capable of:

identifying keywords for the text content; and

creating grammars in dependence upon the keywords and grammar creation rules.

12. The system of claim 7 wherein computer program instructions capable of translating the aggregated content into text content in accordance with device profiles for an identified rendering device further comprise computer program instructions capable of:

creating text in dependence upon the aggregated content;

creating a media file for the text content; and

inserting the text in the media file.

13. A computer program product for synthesizing the content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a particular data type for single point access by a user, the computer program product embodied on a computer-readable medium, the computer program product comprising:

computer program instructions for identifying aggregated content of disparate data types; and

computer program instructions for translating the aggregated content into text content in accordance with device profiles for an identified rendering device.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein computer program instructions for translating the aggregated content into text content in accordance with device profiles for an identified rendering device further comprise:

computer program instructions for identifying a markup language supported by the rendering device; and

computer program instructions for creating text and markup for the aggregated content in accordance with the identified markup language.

15. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein computer program instructions for creating text and markup for the aggregated content in accordance with the identified markup language further comprise computer program instructions for creating a wrapper for invoking the aggregated content on the rendering device.

16. The computer program product of claim 13 further comprising:

computer program instructions for dynamically creating grammar sets for the text content;

computer program instructions for associating the grammar sets with the text content; and

computer program instructions for associating one or more actions with the grammar sets.

17. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein computer program instructions for dynamically creating grammar sets for the text content further comprise:

computer program instructions for identifying keywords for the text content; and

computer program instructions for creating grammars in dependence upon the keywords and grammar creation rules.

18. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein computer program instructions for translating the aggregated content into text content in accordance with device profiles for an identified rendering device further comprise:

computer program instructions for creating text in dependence upon the aggregated content;

computer program instructions for creating a media file for the text content; and

computer program instructions for inserting the text in the media file.

19. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises a recording medium.

20. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises a transmission medium.