US 11,886,791 B2 · Annotation creation, storage, and visualization methods for knowledge management in external contexts

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to methods for creating, transmitting, and retrieving annotations within web documents in web browsers and annotation servers. This patent discusses the rationale for employing these methods with use case and sequence diagrams as well as verbal explanations. This rationale includes sophisticated crowd reputation management, discussion, and concept linking. Methods and rationale for a web browser to transmit annotation highlighted text selections, annotation comments, uniform resource locators (URLs), document object model (DOM) contexts, screenshots with marked annotation highlighted text, and annotation symbols to an annotation server are presented. In addition, methods for the annotation server to retrieve, compile, and transmit annotation objects with various elements to web browsers are also presented.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving from a web browser a screenshot bundle representing an annotation symbol and an associated marked screenshot, the screenshot bundle comprising:
a uniform resource locator(URL) for a document;
a data element for representing a selected piece of text from the document, wherein the selected piece of text is representative of the annotation;
a piece of data for representing the annotation symbol and a set of information extracted from the documents DOM for finding the selected piece of text in the document, wherein the set of information includes information in addition to the selected text for uniquely locating the first and last characters in the selected text;
and
the associated marked screenshot of a portion of the document showing the selected piece of text, being visually marked;
wherein the selected piece of text is visually marked;
and
storing the screenshot bundle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/541,146Filed 2 Dec 2021 · continuation

Priority

10 Nov 2019

Published

US 2022/0129615 A128 Apr 2022

Granted

30 Jan 2024

Term ends

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Classification24 codes

G06F 40/106
Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents: display of layout of documents; Previewing
G06F 3/0483
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 3/04847
For the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a…:…
G06F 16/483
Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually: using metadata automatically…

Family

Application16/679,278Parent of this continuation · filed 10 Nov 2019

US 2022/0129615 A1Pre-grant publication · published 28 Apr 2022

US 11,321,515 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2021/0141997 A1Published application

US 11,886,791 B2This patent

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Annotation creation, storage, and visualization methods for knowledge management in external contexts

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Annotation creation, storage, and visualization methods for knowledge management in external contexts

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