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US 2014/0195385 A1Published application
Apparatus and a method for simplying and displaying information
OwnerEr-Yi Toh, Hsuan Lei Fooinventors
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A method of generating a presentation comprising providing a collection of content where each unit of content has an identifier, providing a seed unit of content that contains references to the said identifiers, searching the existing collection of content for units of content with identifiers that are referenced by the seed unit of content, generating a presentation by gathering all units of content that were found in the said searching, whereby the presentation generated can contain more content than the seed content. Also a method of placing an order comprising providing an item with a plurality of pricing tiers, providing pricing rules for enforcing the said pricing tiers, providing a criterion, providing a method to identify inputs required from the user such that an order can be created that meets the requirements of the user while optimizing said criterion while conforming to the said pricing rules, requesting the said identified inputs from the user of the client system, whereby the user of the client system is not exposed to the pricing tiers and is not able to submit an order that violates the pricing rules. Also an apparatus.
A method of generating a presentation comprising:
The method of statement 1 wherein said input content is a product description
The method of statement 2 wherein said product description is a travel itinerary
The method of statement 1 wherein said database is a collection of annotations comprising text, pictures, videos and other multimedia content
The method of statement 1 wherein said criterion is to find keywords in said input content that are relevant to units of content in said database.
The method of statement 5 wherein said criterion involves exact matching with plain text and wildcard matching for expressions.
The method of statement 1 wherein references can be added manually in addition to the references automatically identified by said searching
An apparatus for generating a presentation comprising:
The apparatus of statement 8 wherein said multimedia producer can filter out duplicate annotations
A method of placing an order comprising:
The method of statement 10 wherein the criterion is to minimize the total price of the order
The method of statement 10 wherein said items available for ordering are travel products
The method of statement 10 wherein said user inputs comprise of information necessary to determine travel arrangements
The method of statement 10 wherein said user inputs comprise of information necessary to determine airline ticketing arrangements
The method of statement 10 wherein said user inputs comprise of information necessary to determine hotel booking arrangements
The method of statement 10 wherein said user inputs comprise of the number of adults, the number of children who require a bed, and the number of children who do not require a bed
The method of statement 10 wherein said pricing options include original pricings and discounted pricings which are only available subject to said user inputs
The method of statement 10 wherein said pricing options include pricing tiers for single rooms and twin rooms in a hotel
An apparatus for placing an order comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.