Methods and systems of providing supplemental informaton

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10134009-B2
Application number	US-201313802113-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 13, 2013
Priority date	Mar 13, 2013
Publication date	Nov 20, 2018
Grant date	Nov 20, 2018

Abstract

At least one analytical operation from a set of different analytical operations may be determined based on at least one input. The input(s) may comprise contextual information of working content being displayed to a user on a device and comprising numerical data. Supplemental information for the working content may be generated using the determined analytical operation(s), may comprise a numerical-based analysis of the numerical data, and may be caused to be displayed to the user concurrently with the working content. The contextual information may comprise structured data. The input(s) may further comprise at least one of a history of the user's interactions with the working content, a history of the user's interactions with recommendations of supplemental information for the working content, a history of other users' interactions with the working content, and a history of other users' interactions with recommendations of supplemental information for the working content.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
causing working content to be displayed to a user on a device, the working content comprising a table that comprises numerical data;
receiving, via the device, a first user selection of a portion of the working content;
determining, by a processor of a machine, at least one analytical operation from a set of different analytical operations based on at least one input, the at least one input comprising contextual information of the working content being displayed on the device, the at least one analytical operation being automatically determined independent of any current user action on the device corresponding to a current use of the at least one analytical operation for the working content, the determining the at least one analytical operation comprising ranking the different analytical operations based on the at least one input, the at least one analytical operation being determined based on the ranking of the different analytical operations;
generating, based on the first user selection of the portion of the working content, supplemental information for the selected portion of the working content using the determined at least one analytical operation, the at least one analytical operation comprising computing at least one numerical statistic using numerical data in the selected portion of the working content, the supplemental information comprising a numerical-based analysis of the numerical data in the selected portion of the working content, the numerical-based analysis comprising the at least one numerical statistic;
causing the supplemental information to be displayed within a panel positioned adjacent to the working content on the device concurrently with the working content;
receiving, via the device, a second user selection of a user interface element;
in response to the second user selection of the user interface element, generating a message comprising at least a portion of the working content, the at least a portion of the working content comprising at least a portion of the numerical data, the generating the message comprising determining at least one recipient of the message based on the at least a portion of the working content and automatically addressing the message to the at least one recipient;
transmitting the generated message to the at least one recipient;
receiving, via the device, a third user selection of a second user interface element;
in response to the third user selection of the second user interface element, causing a history of discussions associated with a particular dataset or a particular user to be displayed within the panel on the device, the history of discussions comprising a corresponding selectable representation for each one of the discussions in the history of the discussions;
receiving, via the device, a fourth user selection of one of the selectable representations; and
in response to the fourth user selection of the one of the selectable representations, causing details of a discussion thread of the discussion corresponding to the one of the selectable representations to be displayed on the device, the details of the discussion thread comprising all back-and-forth messages for the discussion corresponding to the one of the selectable representations.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the contextual information of the working content comprises structured data of the working content.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one input further comprises a history of other users' rejection and acceptance of recommendations of supplemental information for at least one of the same working content and other working content that is determined to be similar to the working content.

4. A system comprising:
a machine having at least one processor; and
a supplemental information module on the machine, the supplemental information module being configured to perform operations comprising:
causing working content to be displayed to a user on a device, the working content comprising a table that comprises numerical data;
receiving, via the device, a first user selection of a portion of the working content;
determining at least one analytical operation from a set of different analytical operations based on at least one input, the at least one input comprising contextual information of the working content being displayed on the device, the at least one analytical operation being automatically determined independent of any current user action on the device corresponding to a current use of the at least one analytical operation for the working content, the determining the at least one analytical operation comprising ranking the different analytical operations based on the at least one input, the at least one analytical operation being determined based on the ranking of the different analytical operations;
generating, based on the first user selection of the portion of the working content, supplemental information for the selected portion of the working content using the determined at least one analytical operation, the at least one analytical operation comprising computing at least one numerical statistic using numerical data in the selected portion of the working content, the supplemental information comprising a numerical-based analysis of the numerical data in the selected portion of the working content, the numerical-based analysis comprising the at least one numerical statistic;
causing the supplemental information to be displayed within a panel positioned adjacent to the working content on the device concurrently with the working content;
receiving, via the device, a second user selection of a user interface element;
in response to the second user selection of the user interface element, generating a message comprising at least a portion of the working content, the at least a portion of the working content comprising at least a portion of the numerical data, the generating the message comprising determining at least one recipient of the message based on the at least a portion of the working content and automatically addressing the message to the at least one recipient;
transmitting the generated message to the at least one recipient;

receiving, via the device, a third user selection of a second user interface element;
in response to the third user selection of the second user interface element, causing a history of discussions associated with a particular dataset or a particular user to be displayed within the panel on the device, the history of discussions comprising a corresponding selectable representation for each one of the discussions in the history of the discussions;
receiving, via the device, a fourth user selection of one of the selectable representations; and
in response to the fourth user selection of the one of the selectable representations, causing details of a discussion thread of the discussion corresponding to the one of the selectable representations to be displayed on the device, the details of the discussion thread comprising all back-and-forth messages for the discussion corresponding to the one of the selectable representations.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the contextual information of the working content comprises structured data of the working content.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the at least one input further comprises a history of other users' rejection and acceptance of recommendations of supplemental information for at least one of the same working content and other working content that is determined to be similar to the working content.

7. A non-transitory machine-readable storage device, tangibly embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to p

Assignees

• Sorin Alexander
• Siegel David
• Thompson Michael
• Gosper Julian
• Sap Se

Inventors

• Sorin Alexander
• Siegel David
• Thompson Michael
• Gosper Julian

Classifications

• G06Q10/105 Primary

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