Map service

• US 8,266,514 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2008
• Issued: 09/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Georgiev, Dimiter, Ye, Shenghua, Guzman, Gerardo Vilarreal, Snyder, Kieran, Cavalcante, Ryan M., Sayed, Tarek M., Feinberg, Yaniv, Lin, Yung-Shin
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, CONG LAC T
• Application Number:
  US12/147,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20090327860A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,538 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/205
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification

Abstract

Map service techniques are described. In an implementation, one or more computer-readable media comprise instructions that are executable by a computer to recognize from text an action that is performable by a particular one of a plurality of webpages and parse a set of parameters from the text to be passed to the particular said webpage to cause the webpage to perform the action.

Claims

1. A method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:

enumerating, by a platform, a plurality of linguistic services that are available for use by an application based on a service property of respective said linguistic services;

receiving text by the platform from the application for processing by a particular said linguistic service;

in response to receiving data by the platform from the application via an API call, designating which of the plurality of linguistic services is to be available for use by the application based on the service properties of the respective said linguistic services that are relevant to the application; and

forming a communication by the platform to communicate the text to the particular said linguistic service.

2. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising designating the specified linguistic services by the platform.

3. A method as described in claim 2, wherein the designating is performed such that at least one said linguistic service having a service property that is not specified by the application in the data via the API call is not designated by the platform.

4. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the particular said linguistic service is configured to recognize linguistic property information associated with the text.

5. A method as described in claim 4, wherein the platform receives linguistic property information from the particular said linguistic service and forms a communication that includes the linguistic property information for communication to the application.

6. A method as described in claim 4, wherein the particular said linguistic service is configured to output the linguistic property information in a format as indicated by the application.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the particular said linguistic service is configured to indicate an action that is associated with the text.

8. A method as described in claim 7, wherein the action is performable by the application.

9. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the particular said linguistic service is configured to interact with another said linguistic service without interacting through the platform.

10. A method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:

enumerating, by a platform, a plurality of linguistic services that are available for use by an application based on a service property of respective said linguistic services;

receiving text by the platform from the application for processing by a particular said linguistic service; and

forming a communication by the platform to communicate the text to the particular said linguistic service, the particular said linguistic service configured to form a callback to the application upon recognition of linguistic property information associated with the text.

11. A method as described in claim 10, wherein the callback causes the application to request the linguistic property information from the platform.

12. A system implemented by one or more computing devices, the system including:

an application that is executable on the one or more computing devices; and

a platform that is executable on the one or more computing devices to enumerate a plurality of linguistic services that are available for use by the application based on a service property of respective said linguistic services and act as an intermediary to manage communication between the application and the plurality of linguistic services, the platform configured to designate linguistic services specified by the application such that at least one said linguistic service having a service property that is not specified by the application in an API call received by the platform from the application is not designated by the platform.

13. A system as described in claim 12, wherein the platform is configured to:

receive text from the application for processing by a particular said linguistic service having the service property that is not specified by the application in the API call received by the platform from the application; and

form a communication to communicate the text to the particular said linguistic service.

14. A system as described in claim 13, wherein the particular said linguistic service is configured to recognize linguistic property information associated with the text.

15. A system as described in claim 14, wherein the platform receives linguistic property information from the particular said linguistic service and forms a communication that includes the linguistic property information for communication to the application.

16. A system as described in claim 14, wherein the particular said linguistic service is configured to output the linguistic property information in a format as indicated by the application.

17. A system as described in claim 15, wherein the particular said linguistic service is configured to form a callback to the application upon recognition of the linguistic property information that causes the application to request the linguistic property information from the platform.