User Editing and Approval of an Intergenerational Historic Snapshot Message
OwnerJohn W. Ogilvie, Kristy Lyn Ogilvieinventors
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Abstract
An intergenerational historic snapshot message may inform a younger person about the world an older person lived in when they were young. The older person's age and the younger person's age may be used to identify a historic time period in which the older person was the same age as the younger person. A circumstance which occurred in the historic time period may be selected from a database or web search result. The message may be automatically tailored to the ages of the people involved, and to recite circumstances specific to a topic area or a geographic location. A draft message may be approved or disapproved by a user, and/or may be edited by the user.
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A method of producing an intergenerational historic snapshot message, the method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining digital values for parameters of a tailored historic snapshot message template data structure stored in a computer-readable memory, the template data structure having predefined text and parameters, the text being interleaved with the parameters to form sentences, the predefined text and parameters of the template data structure including at least one of the following pairs:
- “from where you are” and a distance parameter,
- “was your age” and a familial relationship parameter,
- “when she turned” and a person's age parameter,
- “when he turned” and a person's age parameter,
- “like to know” and a person's name parameter,
- “in the year” and a date parameter based on an elder person's birthdate and a younger person's age,
- “people in it” and a historic date population parameter,
- “population of” and a historic date population parameter,
- “just . . . invented” and a historic event parameter with the ellipsis representing text rather than being literal,
- “first successful” and a historic event parameter,
- “world . . . changed” and a person's age parameter, with the ellipsis representing text rather than being literal;
- generating by execution of code with a computer processor a draft of an intergenerational historic snapshot message from the parameters and the template data structure;
- and
- receiving from a user at least one of the following:
- a message approval indication, a message disapproval indication, input to edit the draft.
A method of producing an intergenerational historic snapshot message, the method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining digital values for parameters of a tailored historic snapshot message template data structure stored in a computer-readable memory, the template data structure having predefined text and parameters, the text being interleaved with the parameters to form sentences, the predefined text and parameters of the template data structure including at least one of the following pairs:
- “from where you are” and a distance parameter,
- “was your age” and a familial relationship parameter,
- “when she turned” and a person's age parameter,
- “when he turned” and a person's age parameter,
- “like to know” and a person's name parameter,
- “in the year” and a date parameter based on an elder person's birthdate and a younger person's age,
- “people in it” and a historic date population parameter,
- “population” of and a historic date population parameter,
- “just . . . invented” and a historic event parameter with the ellipsis representing text rather than being literal,
- “first successful” and a historic event parameter,
- “world . . . changed” and a person's age parameter, with the ellipsis representing text rather than being literal;
- generating by execution of code with a computer processor a draft of an intergenerational historic snapshot message from the parameters and the template data structure;
- and
- presenting the message to a user on a display of a computer system.
A method of producing an intergenerational historic snapshot message, the method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining digital values for parameters of a tailored historic snapshot message template data structure stored in a computer-readable memory, the template data structure having predefined text and parameters, the text being interleaved with the parameters to form sentences, the predefined text and parameters of the template data structure including at least three of the following pairs:
- “from where you are” and a distance parameter,
- “was your age” and a familial relationship parameter,
- “when she turned” and a person's age parameter,
- “when he turned” and a person's age parameter,
- “like to know” and a person's name parameter,
- “in the year” and a date parameter based on an elder person's birthdate and a younger person's age,
- “people in it” and a historic date population parameter,
- “population of” and a historic date population parameter,
- “just . . . invented” and a historic event parameter with the ellipsis representing text rather than being literal,
- “first successful” and a historic event parameter, “world . . . changed” and a person's age parameter, with the ellipsis representing text rather than being literal;
- generating by execution of code with a computer processor a draft of an intergenerational historic snapshot message from the parameters and the template data structure;
- and
- presenting the message to a user on a display of a computer system.
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