Contextual social language
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsKamal Jain, Christopher A. Meek
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Abstract
Systems and methods that enrich interaction of users in a written communication environment by providing a contextual language component that points to a designated data source (e.g., an object) and pulls data from such designated source, to perform predetermined function(s) thereupon. Users who communicate in the written environment can type an intuitive or customized operator, to engage in a predetermined functionality (e.g., playing a video). Accordingly, the operator can readily be interpreted by applications associated with the written communication environment.
Claims20
A computer implemented system comprising the following computer executable components:
- a contextual language component that points to a designated data source during written communication between users;
- and
- a pulling component that pulls data from the designated data source into an environment of the written communication.
A computer implemented method comprising the following computer executable acts:
- supplying a contextual language that is defined by a user in a written communication environment, to point to a designated data source;
- and
- pulling data from the designated data source into the written communication environment.
A computer implemented system comprising the following computer executable components:
- means for defining an operator with constructs intuitive to a user, the operator points to a designated data source during written communication between users;
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- means for pulling data from the designated data source into an environment of the written communication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.