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System for propagating enrichment between documents
Assignee: III Holdings 6 LLC
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Filing: 2001-12-05
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Granted: 2005-08-09
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Expires: 2021-12-05
Abstract
Abstract A system provides a plurality of controls for enriching the content of a meta-document. A meta-document includes document content and personalities that describe enrichment themes. The system is adapted to automatically, with user settable constrains, determine whether to propagate enrichment between documents using an interaction history. In addition, the system is adapted to automatically determine, with user settable constraints, the form that markup is to take in the document content.
Inventors
- 👤 Gregory T. Grefenstette
- 👤 James G. Shanahan
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 20:00
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F16/00; G06F16/30; G06F16/38; G06F16/90; G06F16/93; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S707/00; Y10S707/953; Y10S707/956; Y10S707/99931; Y10S707/99932; Y10S707/99933; Y10S707/99937; Y10S707/99938; Y10S707/99939
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 27
Claim 1
Independent Claim
194 words
A method for propagating enriched document content, comprising: (a) defining a set of entities; (b) accessing a document with content; (c) identifying entitles from the set of entities that exist in the content of the accessed document; (d) recording history data of the identified entitles that exist in the content of the accessed document in an interaction history; said recording of history data including recording in the interaction history: a location of the document accessed; a time when the document was accessed; a purpose for which the document was socessed; and a location where the entity exists in the document accessed; and (e) enriching the identified entitles that exist in the content of the accessed document with corresponding entries in the interaction history; and (f) repeating (b)-(e) for propagating the history data recorded in the interaction history to each subsequent document accessed; wherein said identifying determines when multiple entries are recorded in the interaction history for a single entity that exists in the content of each document accessed by a user; and wherein said enriching displays a summary of an identified entity when selected in the content of each document accessed by the user.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
194 words
A method for propagating enriched document content, comprising: (a) defining a set of entities; (b) accessing a document with content; (c) identifying entitles from the set of entities that exist in the content of the accessed document; (d) recording history data of the identified entitles that exist in the content of the accessed document in an interaction history; said recording of history data including recording in the interaction history: a location of the document accessed; a time when the document was accessed; a purpose for which the document was socessed; and a location where the entity exists in the document accessed; and (e) enriching the identified entitles that exist in the content of the accessed document with corresponding entries in the interaction history; and (f) repeating (b)-(e) for propagating the history data recorded in the interaction history to each subsequent document accessed; wherein said identifying determines when multiple entries are recorded in the interaction history for a single entity that exists in the content of each document accessed by a user; and wherein said enriching displays a summary of an identified entity when selected in the content of each document accessed by the user.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
68 words
The method of claim 1 , wherein said recording further records as part of the history data in the interaction history one of: (a) size of the accessed document; (b) a document accessed that is an authority; (c) a document accessed that cites a plurality of authorities; (d) a symmetry metric with identical entities recorded in the history data; and (e) number of times a document is accessed.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method of claim 1 , further comprising defining a filtering function to enrich only selected ones of the identified entities that exist in the content of each accessed document.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 1 , wherein each entity identifies one of a lexicon and a part of speech.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 1 , wherein each document is accessed by performing one of printing, scanning, emailing, browsing, and filing.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
15 words
The method of claim 1 , wherein the interaction history is recorded for a user.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method of claim 1 , wherein the interaction history is defined using an information space that surrounds a document.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
15 words
The method of claim 7 , further comprising defining the information space with a personality.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
15 words
The method of claim 1 , further comprising creating a service using the interaction history.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method of claim 1 , wherein the method for propagating enriched document content is a service of a personality.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
39 words
The method according to claim 1 , further comprising: specifying entity pairs with the identified entities; performing services using the specified entity pairs to provide service results; and enriching the content of each accessed document with the service results.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
53 words
The method according to claim 1 , further comprising: specifying entity pairs with the identified entities; identifying third party entities; performing services using the specified entity pairs to provide service results; associating the service results with the third party entities; and enriching the content of each accessed document using the associated service results.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
90 words
The method according to claim 1 , further comprising: organizing a plurality of service request in a hierarchy with a plurality of nodes; specifying a selected service request to be performed on the content of each accessed document; associating service requests identified in the node of the selected service request in the hierarchy and its parent nodes in the hierarchy up to a predefined depth in the hierarchy with the selected service request; enriching the content of each accessed document using the selected service request and its associated service requests.
Claim 15
Independent Claim
186 words
A method for propagating enriched document content, comprising: defining a set of entities; defining an interaction history for recording history data of entities in the set of entities; for each of a plurality of documents accessed: identifying entities from the set of entities that exist in each accessed document; enriching the identified entities that exist in each accessed document with their corresponding entries in the interaction history to define an enriched document; recording history data in the interaction history of the identified entitles in each accessed document; wherein said enriching propagates the history data recorded in the interaction history to each of the plurality of documents as each is accessed; wherein said identifying records in the interaction history an entity identified in a document accessed, which is not already associated with a link to markup, with a link to the document accessed; and wherein said recording of history data records in the interaction history: a location of the document accessed; a time when the document was accessed; a purpose for which the document was accessed; and a location where the entity exists in the document accessed.
Claim 16
Independent Claim
186 words
A method for propagating enriched document content, comprising: defining a set of entities; defining an interaction history for recording history data of entities in the set of entities; for each of a plurality of documents accessed: identifying entities from the set of entities that exist in each accessed document; enriching the identified entities that exist in each accessed document with their corresponding entries in the interaction history to define an enriched document; recording history data in the interaction history of the identified entitles in each accessed document; wherein said enriching propagates the history data recorded in the interaction history to each of the plurality of documents as each is accessed; wherein said identifying records in the interaction history an entity identified in a document accessed, which is not already associated with a link to markup, with a link to the document accessed; and wherein said recording of history data records in the interaction history: a location of the document accessed; a time when the document was accessed; a purpose for which the document was accessed; and a location where the entity exists in the document accessed.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method of claim 14 , further comprising defining a filtering function to enrich only selected ones of the identified entities that exist in the content of each accessed document.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 14 , wherein each entity identifies one of a lexicon and a part of speech.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 14 , wherein each document is accessed by performing one of printing, scanning, emailing, browsing, and filing.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
168 words
In a system for enriching content of a document with markup, a method, comprising: defining a set of entities; defining an interaction history for recording history data of entities in the set of entities; for each of a plurality of documents accessed: identifying entities from the set of entities that exist in each accessed document; recording markup in the interaction history of the identified entitles in each accessed document; automatically filtering what is markup using one of an expert mode and a novice mode; and enriching the identified entities in each accessed document with markup by automatically determining whether to link to the markup or to insert the markup in the content of each accessed document using the recorded user interaction history; wherein said enriching propagates the history data recorded in the interaction history to each of the plurality of documents as each is accessed; wherein the expert mode annotates only those entitles that occur in an identified corpus with a frequency less than a predetermined threshold value.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
168 words
In a system for enriching content of a document with markup, a method, comprising: defining a set of entities; defining an interaction history for recording history data of entities in the set of entities; for each of a plurality of documents accessed: identifying entities from the set of entities that exist in each accessed document; recording markup in the interaction history of the identified entitles in each accessed document; automatically filtering what is markup using one of an expert mode and a novice mode; and enriching the identified entities in each accessed document with markup by automatically determining whether to link to the markup or to insert the markup in the content of each accessed document using the recorded user interaction history; wherein said enriching propagates the history data recorded in the interaction history to each of the plurality of documents as each is accessed; wherein the expert mode annotates only those entitles that occur in an identified corpus with a frequency less than a predetermined threshold value.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 18 , wherein each entity identifies one of a lexicon and a part of speech.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 18 , wherein each document is accessed by performing one of printing, scanning, emailing, browsing, and filing.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
168 words
In a system for enriching content of a document with markup, a method, comprising: defining a set of entities; defining an interaction history for recording history data of entities in the set of entities; for each of a plurality of documents accessed; identifying entities from the set of entities that exist in each accessed document; recording markup in the interaction history of the identified entitles in each accessed document; automatically filtering what is markup using one of an expert mode and a novice mode; and enriching the identified entities in each accessed document with markup by automatically determining whether to link to the markup or to insert the markup in the content of each accessed document using the recorded user interaction history; wherein said enriching propagates the history data recorded in the interaction history to each of the plurality of documents as each is accessed; wherein the novice mode annotates only those entitles that occur in an identified corpus with a frequency greater than a predetermined threshold value.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
168 words
In a system for enriching content of a document with markup, a method, comprising: defining a set of entities; defining an interaction history for recording history data of entities in the set of entities; for each of a plurality of documents accessed; identifying entities from the set of entities that exist in each accessed document; recording markup in the interaction history of the identified entitles in each accessed document; automatically filtering what is markup using one of an expert mode and a novice mode; and enriching the identified entities in each accessed document with markup by automatically determining whether to link to the markup or to insert the markup in the content of each accessed document using the recorded user interaction history; wherein said enriching propagates the history data recorded in the interaction history to each of the plurality of documents as each is accessed; wherein the novice mode annotates only those entitles that occur in an identified corpus with a frequency greater than a predetermined threshold value.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 21 , wherein each entity identifies one of a lexicon and a part of speech.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 21 , wherein each document is accessed by performing one of printing, scanning, emailing, browsing, and filing.
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