Contextual identification of information feeds associated with content entry

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10824796-B2
Application number	US-201916387367-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 17, 2019
Priority date	Jul 23, 2014
Publication date	Nov 3, 2020
Grant date	Nov 3, 2020

Abstract

While receiving a user input of content of a first document, a computer system, dynamically and in real time, identifies relevant information items from a plurality of information feeds. Specifically, one or more other documents is obtained in a collection of documents that are relevant to the first document being entered by a user. When it is determined that changes in member documents of the set of one or other documents satisfies a stabilization criterion while receiving the user input, related terms are extracted from the content of the first document and the one or more other documents and used to identify the relevant information items including the related terms from the plurality of information feeds that is distinct from the collection of documents. The relevant information items are then presented on a display for the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of presenting relevant information, comprising:
receiving user input of content of a first document being entered by a user in an application;
while receiving the user input of the content of the first document, dynamically and in real time, identifying a set of relevant information items from a plurality of information feeds, including:
obtaining a set of one or more other documents in a collection of documents that are relevant to the first document being entered by the user;
determining, while receiving the user input, whether changes in member documents of the set of one or more other documents satisfies a stabilization criterion;
in accordance with the determination that the stabilization criterion is satisfied, extracting a set of related terms from the content of the first document and the one or more other documents; and
identifying the set of relevant information items including the related terms from the plurality of information feeds that is distinct from the collection of documents; and

enabling presenting on a display the set of relevant information items.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
constructing a filter based on the set of related terms extracted from the content of the first document and the one or more other documents, wherein the set of relevant information items is identified using the filter.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a user selection of at least one information item of the set of relevant information items; and
identifying at least part of the at least one information item configured to be inserted into the first document.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the one or more other documents that are relevant to the first document being entered by the user includes determining relevance values based on term frequency values and inverse document frequency values for characteristics of the one or more other documents and the first document being entered.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the characteristics include at least one of: a title, a body portion, and a tag.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein relevance of each of the one or more other documents to the first document being entered by the user is a weighted sum of the relevance values for the characteristics of the respective other document.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein determining whether changes in member documents of the set of one or more other documents satisfies a stabilization criterion further comprises:
determining stabilization of the relevance values of the one or more other documents in accordance with a determination that changes in the relevance values become insignificant as the user enters additional text in the first document being entered by the user.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the collection of documents is compiled by the user or shared among one or more groups to which the user belongs, and each document in the collection of documents was previously compiled by the user or the one or more groups.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein enabling presenting on the display the set of relevant information items further includes:
enabling display of a first pane showing content of the first document being entered by the user, a second pane showing the one or more other documents that are relevant to the first document being entered by the user, and a third pane showing the relevant information items identified from the plurality of information feeds.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the one or more other documents are shown in the second pane after stabilization of relevance values of the one or more other documents, and determining whether changes in member documents of the set of one or more other documents satisfies a stabilization criterion further comprises:
determining stabilization of the relevance values of the one or more other documents based on changes in the relevance values as the user enters additional text in the first document being entered by the user.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the one or more other documents are shown in the second pane after stabilization of relevance values of the one or more other documents, and determining whether changes in member documents of the set of one or more other documents satisfies a stabilization criterion further comprises:
determining stabilization of the relevance values of the one or more other documents in accordance with a determination that changes in the relevance values become insignificant as the user enters additional text in the first document being entered by the user.

12. A computer system comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing one or more programs, the one or more programs including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement operations for:
receiving user input of content of a first document being entered by a user in an application;
while receiving the user input of the content of the first document, dynamically and in real time, identifying a set of relevant information items from a plurality of information feeds, including:
obtaining a set of one or more other documents in a collection of documents that are relevant to the first document being entered by the user;
determining, while receiving the user input, whether changes in member documents of the set of one or more other documents satisfies a stabilization criterion;
in accordance with the determination that the stabilization criterion is satisfied, extracting a set of related terms from the content of the first document and the one or more other documents; and
identifying the set of relevant information items including the related terms from the plurality of information feeds that is distinct from the collection of documents; and
enabling presenting on a display the set of relevant information items.

13. The computer system of claim 12 , wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions for:
inserting data from the at least one of the relevant information items into the first document, including selecting text from a portion of the at least one of the relevant information items.

14. The computer system of claim 13 , wherein, in response to a user action on a button, the text that is selected from the portion of the at least one of the relevant information items is copied into the first document as quoted text.

15. The computer system of claim 13 , wherein, after a predetermined amount of time, the text that is selected from the portion of the at least one of the relevant information items is copied into the first document as quoted text without further user input.

16. The computer system of claim 12 , wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions for:
receiving a user selection of at least one of the relevant information items for insertion into the collection of documents as a new document.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing one or more programs for providing relevant information, the one or more programs including instructions that when executed by a computer system cause the computer system to implement operations comprising:
receiving user input of content of a first document being entered by a user in an application;
while receiving the user input of the content of the first document, dynamically and in real time, identifying a set of relevant information items from a plurality of information feeds, including:
obtaining a set of one or more other documents in a collection of document

Assignees

• Evernote Corp

Inventors

• Pachikov Alex
• Libin Phil
• Currimbhoy Zeesha

Classifications

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06F16/93 Primary

  Document management systems · CPC title

• G06F40/166 Primary

  Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting · CPC title

• G06F16/24578

  using ranking · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title