Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
715254000 | Text summarization or condensation | 41 |
20080313534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEXT TRANSLATIONS AND ANNOTATION IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SESSION - A system and method for translating received input from a sender to recipient in an instant messaging dialog is disclosed. The method comprises receiving instant messaging input from a sender for recipient, wherein the instant messaging input comprises at least one subculture specific term. A category is identified the defines a difference between the sender and the recipient and the received instant messaging input is modified from the sender by generating an output associated with the least one subculture specific term and based on the identified category. Multiple recipients in a chat session may also each receive a translated or annotated message according to characteristics of each individual recipient. | 12-18-2008 |
20090044104 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING HELP DOCUMENT FOR WORKFLOW, HELP DOCUMENT GENERATING METHOD AND HELP DOCUMENT GENERATING FORM - To provide a user with an easily understandable help document, the MFP capable of executing a plurality of processes includes a process designation accepting portion to accept designation of at least one of the plurality of processes, a workflow generating portion to generate workflow definition data defining the one or more processes accepted, and a help document generating portion to generate a help document corresponding to the generated workflow. The help document generating portion includes a summary page generating portion to generate a summary page having listed thereon process names for identification of the one or more processes defined by the corresponding workflow definition data. | 02-12-2009 |
20090177963 | Method and Apparatus for Determining a Purpose Feature of a Document - A method of summarizing a document includes a step of extracting one or more sections of the document. The method also includes a step of separating at least one of the one or more extracted sections into one or more subsections based at least in part on a conjunctive structure of the section, wherein each subsection comprises one or more terms. The method also includes steps of determining whether one or more terms within a designated set of terms are present within at least one of the one or more subsections and, responsive to a determination that one or more terms within the designated set of terms are present within at least one of the one or more subsections, removing the one or more terms from the one or more subsections. The method also includes a step of aggregating at least a portion of the one or more sections into a summary of the document. | 07-09-2009 |
20090300486 | MULTIPLE-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION USING DOCUMENT CLUSTERING - Systems and methods are disclosed for summarizing multiple documents by generating a model of the documents as a mixture of document clusters, each document in turn having a mixture of sentences, wherein the model simultaneously representing summarization information and document cluster structure; and determining a loss function for evaluating the model and optimizing the model. | 12-03-2009 |
20100031142 | CONTENT SUMMARIZING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is a summarizing system including a speech input unit, an important portion indication unit, an important section estimation unit, a speech recognition unit, and txt summarization unit. The summarizing system captures a speech section, which is included in a speech received by the speech input unit and includes a portion specified by the important portion indication unit, as a section necessary for a summary. After estimating an appropriate section by the important section estimation unit, the summarizing system recognizes a speech considering the estimated section and performs text summarization. | 02-04-2010 |
20100185943 | COMPARATIVE DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION WITH DISCRIMINATIVE SENTENCE SELECTION - Systems and methods are disclosed for summarizing a plurality of documents, by extracting sentence candidates from the documents; dividing the documents into one or more groups; selecting one or more discriminant sentences for each group using a discriminant criterion; and generating one or more summaries for the one or more groups based on the selected sentences. | 07-22-2010 |
20100313118 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SUMMARIZING DOCUMENTS FOR ARCHIVAL, RETRIVAL AND ANALYSIS - Systems and methods of summarizing documents for archival, retrieval, and analysis can be used to provide a convenient summary of the content of scanned document(s). After scanning a document or set of documents, character recognition software identifies the text on the pages. Software can produce a summary of the subjects/themes/keywords in the document(s). This summary can take several forms; e.g. an index of subjects/themes/keywords which can then be printed out as a cover sheet for that stack of documents. Alternately, the summary can be in the form of a topic cloud or histogram. The topic cloud can be made dynamic to allow a user to progressively scroll through pages of documents and watch the topic cloud evolve. The histogram can be made searchable to allow the user to view content of selected pages easily and conveniently. | 12-09-2010 |
20110060983 | PRODUCING A VISUAL SUMMARIZATION OF TEXT DOCUMENTS - A method and system of producing a visual text summarization. According to the method, a plurality of topics may be extracted from a collection of text documents, where each of the topics comprises a distribution of topic keywords. An importance ranking for each of the topics may be determined, and an importance ranking for each of the topic keywords of a topic may also be determined. A graph may be displayed having a plurality of stacked layers representing a group of topics selected from the plurality of topics based on the importance ranking of the topics. A keyword cloud within each layer of the graph may also be displayed, where the one keyword cloud is a group of topic keywords selected from the extracted topic keywords based on the importance ranking of the extracted topic keywords. | 03-10-2011 |
20110113324 | PASTING CONTENT INTO A DOCUMENT USING TWISTIES - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for pasting text into a document as twisties. In one embodiment, a request may be received to paste text into a document. A plurality of twisties may be generated from the text. The plurality of twisties may be inserted into the document, responsive to the request to paste text into the document. | 05-12-2011 |
20120089905 | TRANSLATABLE ANNOTATED PRESENTATION OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM OPERATION - Embodiments of the disclosure relate to generating a translatable and annotated multimedia or video presentation of a software program operation. An aspect of the disclosure comprises recording user interaction data that includes user interface gestures and text entries from a keyboard and other user devices while the program is operating. Embodiments of the disclosure transform recorded text and visual contents of the program to a selected format or language, annotate contents of interest, and merge recorded user interface gestures, transformed text and visual contents, and transformed annotations into the output presentation. The embodiments of the disclosure optionally generate an accessibility script in a selected format. | 04-12-2012 |
20120096346 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RETRIEVING AND PRESENTING PARTIAL (SKIPPED) DOCUMENT CONTENT - A method and mobile communications device for retrieving and presenting partial skipped content are provided A display of a mobile communication device provides content of a first segment and a further segment of an electronic document received at the mobile communication device. Content between the first segment and the further segment is skipped content which has not been received. On the display, an indication of the skipped content is provided, the indication including a selectable client control for retrieving at least a portion of the skipped content. | 04-19-2012 |
20120226973 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENTLY TRUNCATING CHARACTER STRINGS IN A SERVICE REGISTRY COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for truncating character strings in a computing environment. One implementation involves receiving a list including plural character strings, truncating one or more of the character strings to generate a display list of unique character strings based on determining a truncation location within each string by: for each character string, comparing the string and corresponding Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), if the string is different from the URI, then truncating the beginning of the string, otherwise if the string matches the URI, then truncating the end of the string. | 09-06-2012 |
20120254738 | TIME-SERIES INFORMATION GENERATING APPARATUS AND TIME-SERIES INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a time-series information generating apparatus includes a dividing module, a determining module, a generating module, and a display module. The dividing module divides an electronic document to be displayed into one or more sets of sentences. The determining module determines a summary of each of the sets of sentences. The generating module generates time-series information that represents relative temporal information between anyone of the sets of sentences and another set of sentences. The display module collectively displays the summary of each of the sets of sentences according to the time-series information. | 10-04-2012 |
20120278705 | System and Method for Automatically Extracting Metadata from Unstructured Electronic Documents - A system and method for automatically extracting meta data from unstructured electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, the unstructured electronic document is converted into a plain text document. Further, a document header of the unstructured electronic document is extracted from the plain text document using a rule-based document header extractor, where the rule-based document header extractor may be based on a rule that includes determining a ratio of a number of words with their initial letters capitalized in a text line over a total number of words in the text line in the plain text document. Moreover, meta data is extracted from the extracted document header using a heuristic approach. | 11-01-2012 |
20130024768 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SUMMARY INFORMATION IN ELECTRONIC BOOK SERVICE SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for generating and providing summary information for an Electronic (E)-book depending on a user characteristic are provided. The method includes determining a number of levels of the summary information and a user characteristic for each level of the summary information; generating at least one summary information dataset corresponding to each level of the summary information; and combining the at least one summary information dataset with corresponding E-book data. | 01-24-2013 |
20130031473 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SUMMARY DATA OF E-BOOK OR E-NOTE - An apparatus and method for generating summary data of an e-book or e-note, the method including if input data is received, recognizing a type of the input data, extracting a character region in the e-book or e-note corresponding to the recognized input data type, storing page information corresponding to the extracted character region, and generating summary data by using the page information corresponding to the character region when the generation of the summary data is requested, thereby allowing a user to preview summary content handwritten by the user on the e-book or e-note at a glance. | 01-31-2013 |
20130151954 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE ELECTRONIC BOOK SUMMARIES AND RELATED INFORMATION - Example methods and apparatus to display summary information for an electronic book are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves, during an electronic book reader session, receiving a request for a summary associated with an electronic book. The example method also involves obtaining a marker indicative of a location in the electronic book and obtaining the summary for a portion of the electronic book demarcated by the marker. The summary is displayed via the electronic book reader. | 06-13-2013 |
20130174026 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING A NATURAL LANGUAGE NARRATIVE - Various embodiments for providing a natural language narrative are described. Embodiments may include a summary engine that collects data about an event, and selects a template to narrate a story about the event. A template may include static text, slots for data from the event, and slots for dynamic word choice. Templates may be selected according to a story type and story “flavor.” Templates may also include conditions that determine a choice of the use of template sub-sections. Various aspects of the templates may be selected randomly, to create the impression that the story is human-generated. The stories may be published to a variety of locations and formats. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-04-2013 |
20130191735 | ADVANCED SUMMARIZATION ON A PLURALITY OF SENTIMENTS BASED ON INTENTS - A method of summarizing content around a sentiment using weighted Formal Concept Analysis (wFCA) is provided. The method includes identifying one or more sentences associated with the content based on parts of speech, identifying, at least one sentiment associated with the one or more sentences based on the parts of speech, identifying one or more keywords in the one or more sentences, disambiguating at least one ambiguous keyword from the one or more keywords using the wFCA, computing a weight for each sentence of the one or more sentences based on a number of keywords of the one or more keywords associated with each sentence, processing, an input including an indication of the sentiment, and generating a summary on the content around the sentiment based on (i) the weight, and b) at least one of i) the at least one sentiment, and ii) the indication. | 07-25-2013 |
20130227401 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING A CONTENT SUMMARY OF A MEDIA ITEM TO A UESR BASED ON A POSITION WITHIN THE MEDIA ITEM - Systems and methods for presenting a content summary of a media item to a user based on a position within the media item are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method may include receiving identification of a position within a media item residing on an electronic device. For example, the identified position may be a bookmarked position within an e-book residing on an e-book reader. The method may also include generating a content summary for a portion of the media item based on the identified position. For example, an electronic device may dynamically generate a content summary based on content of the e-book that precedes a bookmarked position. The method may also include presenting the content summary to a user of the electronic device. For example, a display of an electronic device may be controlled to present a content summary to a reader of an e-book. | 08-29-2013 |
20130339846 | MULTIPARTY DOCUMENT GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT - An embodiment of a multiparty document generation and management system includes a document server having a user interface module, a model module, a governance module, a query module, and a suggestion module. The system allows a plurality of users to generate a document model comprising a plurality of document elements and provides suggestions to the plurality of users regarding the document model structure. The system obtains standard language for each document element in the document model and generates a complete multiparty document. Upon validation of the complete multiparty document, the multiparty document and the document model and are stored in a data storage area. Once a document model has been created, the document model can be analyzed and traversed in response to a query to provide a forecast that includes an expected result of an application of the multiparty document to the subject matter of the query. | 12-19-2013 |
20140136963 | INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SUMMARIZATION AND DISPLAY - Information summarization and display systems and methods are provided herein. A method includes receiving informational content from an informational content provider, the informational content comprising textual content, extracting the textual content from the informational content; analyzing words in the textual content as well as their relative positions in the textual content to determine one or more key topics for the textual content, extracting one or more sentences from the textual content that are most indicative of the one or more key topics, and generating a graphical user interface that includes a summary display. | 05-15-2014 |
20140149856 | UNIFIED SOCIAL CONTENT PLATFORM - A system can optionally include a social network database configured to store social network information records, each information record including at least two of: an actor, a verb, an object, and an attributed entity. The system can further include a processor configured to generate a summary of one of the information records based the on at least two of the actor, the verb, the object, and the attributed entity of the information record, display on a developer user interface a rendering screen configured to format a display model based on a developer input, the display model including a summary field configured to display the summary, and transmit to a user device an interface screen based on the summary and the model. | 05-29-2014 |
20140195897 | Text Summarization - Methods, systems, and computer readable media with executable instructions, and/or logic are provided for text summarization. An example method of text summarization can include determining, via a computing system ( | 07-10-2014 |
20140250375 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUMMARIZING DOCUMENTS - A method and system for creating a summary report for an electronic document is disclosed. An input for specifying one or more sections of an electronic document is received through a graphical user interface (GUI). Further, an input for specifying a type of the summary report for the specified one or more sections is received from the GUI. Thereafter, the summary report is created based on the specified one or more sections and the specified type of the summary report. | 09-04-2014 |
20140372877 | Previews of Electronic Notes - Embodiments include notes application features including notes page preview and other features, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computer-based method can be configured to generate a notes page preview based on a source notes page, wherein the notes page preview includes one or more of a title, a thumbnail, and/or a snippet generated from the source notes page. A handheld device of an embodiment includes a notes application interface configured in part to display and dynamically update one or more notes page previews, wherein each notes page preview includes a plurality of preview display areas including a title display area, a thumbnail display area, and/or a snippet display area. Other embodiments are included. | 12-18-2014 |
20150026568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TRUNCATING CHARACTER STRING - Methods, apparatus, and terminal devices for truncating a character string are provided. A character string to be truncate is read and a byte length occupied by a current character is obtained. It is determined whether a substring, formed from a starting character of the character string to be truncated to the current character, satisfies a pre-set truncating condition. When the substring, formed from the starting character of the character string to be truncated to the current character, satisfies the pre-set truncating condition, the current character is subtracted from the substring to generate a truncated substring for displaying, according to the byte length occupied by the current character. | 01-22-2015 |
20150058716 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUMMARIZING DOCUMENTS - A computer based system and method for exporting user-selected text by allowing a user to select a plurality of text segments, selecting from a block of text, flagging each of the text segments from a plurality of text segments such that each of text segments may be retrieved later, retrieving the plurality of text segments, and then exporting the plurality of text segments as data that may be read by a software application. The selected text segments may also be assigned one or more indicia for categorizing and sorting according to user-defined criteria. | 02-26-2015 |
20150082155 | DATA SHARING SERVICE SYSTEM, AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DATA SHARING SERVICE - The present invention relates to a data sharing service system, and a method and a device for a data sharing service, and to the data sharing service in a multi-device environment. Particularly, the present invention enables a user to summarize information on content being used or to transmit data on specific content to terminal device of another party by using a messenger, so that the user can gather the contents of interested articles (or books) to manage the contents by compiling statistics and the user can easily notify the other party of the contents of the articles (or books) without requiring the user to write out the interested contents one by one when using the messenger. | 03-19-2015 |
20150095770 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SUMMARIZING THE CONTENTS OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - One embodiment of a method for summarizing an electronic document includes splitting the electronic document into a plurality of terms, wherein each of the plurality of terms is associated with a respective length, a respective informativeness score, and a respective coherence score, automatically selecting a subset of the plurality of terms, such that an aggregate informativeness score of the subset is maximized while an aggregate length of the subset is less than or equal to a maximum length, and arranging the subset as a summary of the electronic document. | 04-02-2015 |
20150135063 | Systems, Computer-Program Products and Methods for Annotating Documents By Expanding Abbreviated Text - Systems, computer-program products and methods for annotating electronic text documents by resolving abbreviated text of concepts defined in a controlled vocabulary. In one embodiment, a method of annotating an electronic text document includes evaluating, by a computer, the electronic text document for one or more multi-word expressions having a first word and a second word. The method further includes, if a multi-word expression is found in the electronic text document, storing an abbreviation of the multi-word expression and evaluating the electronic text document for occurrences of the abbreviation after a location of the multi-word expression. The method further includes, if an occurrence of the abbreviation is found following the multi-word expression, annotating the occurrence of the abbreviation with the multi-word expression. | 05-14-2015 |
20150143232 | Tailoring Specification Information to User Needs - A new system for, first, creating a cross-reference between user characteristics and applicable portions of platform requirement documents; and, second, displaying on a case by case basis, only portions of platform requirement documents applicable to those user characteristics, starts with a Subject Matter Expert (SME) creating, from the platform requirement documents, a list of platform: (a) core requirements; (b) conditional physical requirements; and, (c) conditional procedural requirements; then cross-referencing those core requirements, conditional physical requirements and conditional procedural requirements with applicable portions of the platform requirement document; next creating a cross-reference between user characteristics that interact with the platform and their corresponding platform conditional physical requirements and conditional procedural requirements; and, finally, creating a list of those cross-referenced user characteristics. Then, on a case by case basis, a user indicates or specifies which user characteristics apply on the list of cross-referenced user characteristics. Finally, the system outputs a display or listing of only applicable portions of core requirements, conditional physical requirements and conditional procedural requirements from the platform requirement document. | 05-21-2015 |
20150301998 | DYNAMIC USER INTERFACE - Various implementations address user interfaces, and providing useful information in a user interface. Examples include providing a history of applications used to access an item or communicate with an item, or a list of serially-tasked applications that were accessed after the item was accessed, or even accessed from the item. In one particular implementation, item information is provided identifying an item. The item information allows the provision, on a user-interface, of an indication of the item. An application is determined that can be used to interact with the item. The application is determined based on a dynamic attribute of the item. Application information is provided identifying the application. The application information allows the provision of an indication of the application concurrently with provision of the indication of the item. | 10-22-2015 |
20150309981 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR OUTCOME PREDICTION OF TEXT SUBMISSION TO NETWORK BASED ON CORPORA ANALYSIS - Computationally implemented methods and systems include receiving input of a message that is configured to be submitted to a network for publication, facilitating performance of text-based analysis on the acquired message to determine an objective message prediction, wherein the text-based analysis is at least partially based on a corpus of one or more related texts, and acquiring the determined objective message prediction. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 10-29-2015 |
20150331937 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SUMMARIZING FINE-GRAINED OPINIONS IN DIGITAL TEXT - A method and system for automatically summarizing fine-grained opinions in digital text are disclosed. Accordingly, a digital text is analyzed for the purpose of extracting all opinion expressions found in the text. Next, the extracted opinion expressions (referred to herein as opinion frames) are analyzed to generate opinion summaries. In forming an opinion summary, those opinion frames sharing in common an opinion source and/or opinion topic may be combined, such that an overall opinion summary indicates an aggregate opinion held by the common source toward the common topic. | 11-19-2015 |
20150347403 | GESTURE CONTROLLED CONTENT SUMMARIZATION FOR A COMPUTING DEVICE - A computing device operates to detect a gesture input while displaying text content. The gesture input is interpreted as correlating to a summarization command. A summary of the text content is displayed based on the summarization command. | 12-03-2015 |
20150370768 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR GENERATING A SUMMARY OF A DOCUMENT - In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject of matter, mechanisms for generating a summary of a document are provided. In some embodiments, methods for generating a summary of a document are provided, the methods comprising: receiving a document to be read; generating a summary of the document using a hardware processor; presenting a plurality of sentences of the document at a set reading speed; receiving a user request to pause the presentation; and in response to the user request, highlighting a portion of a sentence within the plurality of sentences and adding the sentence to the summary. | 12-24-2015 |
20160055134 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SUMMARIZED CONTENT TO USERS - A method of displaying summarized content by an electronic device includes: performing a text analysis on first content accessed by a user to acquire a plurality of subject words; displaying the acquired plurality of subject words; and displaying second content corresponding to at least one of the acquired plurality of subject words based on an external input, wherein the second content is summarized content of the first content. | 02-25-2016 |
20160132494 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE DEVICE TRANSITION TO SUMMARY MODE OF OPERATION - A method for providing a summary mode on an electronic personal display is provided. The method includes receiving a request to enter a summary mode from a user, accessing a reading history related to the user and directing the electronic personal display to open a summary of the reading history related to the user when initiating the summary mode. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140221 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUMMARIZING OF DOCUMENT - A display apparatus including a communicator configured to perform data communication with a content server and to receive at least one of a main document and a sub document related to the main document; a document analyzer configured to extract a keyword having a high frequency of occurrence from the main document and to determine a head keyword for generating a summarized document from the extracted keyword with reference to the received sub document; and a processor configured to determine a reliability of each sentence of the main document based on the head keyword, extract a sentence that matches a predetermined condition with reference to the determined reliability, and analyze a structural format of the extracted sentence so as to re-configure a word that forms the sentence and generate a summarized sentence, thereby generating a summarized document where information and logical cohesion have been obtained. | 05-19-2016 |
20160162441 | GENERATING DESCRIPTIONS OF MATCHING RESOURCES BASED ON THE KIND, QUALITY, AND RELEVANCE OF THE AVAILABLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE MATCHING RESOURCES - Techniques are provided for generating descriptions of matching resources in a manner that takes into account the kind, quality, and relevance of the available sources of information about the matching resources. For example, after the search engine identifies matching resources based on the query terms, the search engine determines the kinds of available sources of information about each matching resource. For each matching resource, based on the kinds of available sources of information about the matching resource, one of a plurality of processes is selected to generate a description for the matching resource. Using the content-sensitive description generation techniques described herein, a single result set may include abstracts that were generated using several different processes, where the difference in process corresponds to a difference in the kind, quality, and relevance of the available sources of information about each matching resource. | 06-09-2016 |