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US 11,030,259 B2Granted
Document searching visualized within a document
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsChristopher Lee Mullins, Robert Earl Standefer, III, Miguel Oom Temudo de Castro
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Abstract
A facility for annotating a visual representation of a document is described. The facility presents on a display device visual representations of two or more portions of a document. The facility further present on the display on the display, in connection with each of one or more of the presented document portion visual representations, an annotation conveying a result of aggregating information describing two or more search transactions in whose results the represented document portion is included.
Claims11
A persistent storage device having contents that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- for a document comprised of document portions:
- generate a visual representation of at least part of the document containing visual representations of two or more document portions;
- for each of at least one of the document portions whose visual representations are contained by the document's visual representation:
- perform an aggregation operation on information describing two or more previous search transactions in whose results the document portion is included to obtain an aggregation result;
- annotate the document portion's visual representation in the document's visual representation in accordance with the obtained aggregation result;
- and
- display the annotated visual representation of the document to be displayed, the annotated visual representation including an indication adjacent to text of the document portion,
- wherein, for each of the two or more document portions whose visual representations are contained by the document's visual representation, the aggregated search transactions include performed search transactions in whose results the document portion was actually included;
- wherein the indication includes at least one of a color or a pattern;
- and
- wherein the indication relates to a relevance of the document portion on a scale;
- and
- wherein, for a selected one of the document portions whose visual representations are contained by the document's visual representation:
- the information describing the two or more previous search transactions in whose results the document portion is included identifies for each search transaction a query that was the basis for the search transaction, and
- the annotation includes the content of the query of at least one of the search transactions in whose results the document portion is included, where the query was the basis for the search transaction.
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A processor-based device, comprising:
- a display;
- a processor;
- and
- a persistent storage device having contents that cause the processor to:
- present on the display visual representations of two or more portions of a document;
- and
- present on the display, in connection with each of one or more of the presented document portion visual representations, an annotation conveying a result of aggregating information describing two or more previous search transactions in whose results the represented document portion is included,
- wherein the annotation includes an indication adjacent to text of the document portion;
- wherein, for each of the two or more portions of the document, the result of aggregating information describing two or more previous search transactions include performed search transactions in whose results the document portion was actually included;
- wherein the indication includes at least one of a color or a pattern;
- and
- wherein the indication relates to a relevance of the document portion, the relevance being on a scale;
- and
- wherein, for a selected one of the document portions whose visual representations are contained by the document's visual representation:
- the annotation includes the content of a query of at least one of the search transactions in whose results the document portion is included, where the query was the basis for the search transaction,
- wherein the annotations of the document portions' visual representations are selected from among two or more colors.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.