KR101242380B1 - Associating information with an electronic document - Google Patents

Abstract

A system for associating information includes an associating module that uses anchoring information to associate a first portion of information with a second portion of information, wherein the second portion of the information is not part of the first portion of the information. The system further includes a rendering module for presenting the second portion of information for use. Methods for using such a system are also described.

Rendering module, association module, information data store

Description

Systems and methods for associating information with electronic documents {ASSOCIATING INFORMATION WITH AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT}

The Internet has evolved into a communication platform that can provide various information-based services. One of the most popular of these services is the provision of electronic documents written using Hypertext markup language (HTML). These documents are often referred to as web pages and are available from sites, or computing locations, on logical segments of the Internet, commonly referred to as the World Wide Web (WWW), or simply the Web. Information available on these web sites and servers is typically accessed using a web browser running on a remote computer. For example, a user launches a web browser, enters a website's Uniform Resource Locator (URL) into the web browser's address bar, presses the Enter key on the keyboard, or presses the button with the mouse. You can access the website by clicking on it. URLs typically contain three pieces of information that facilitate access (protocol indicators that specify a standard or set of rules for exchanging information in computer communications; often a domain name based on the name of the organization that maintains the website) and the desired within the domain. Path to the document). A standard web browser can use the information contained in the URL to establish a connection with a web server and obtain information from the web server.

In addition to websites and web pages, other types of services are also available. Among these services are electronic mail, instant messaging, chat services, audio or video services, and other information services. Typically, each service available on the Internet is separate from other services. For example, a user can access a web site using a web browser, but to access audio information, the audio application must be opened as a separate service. In addition, the user would have to open a third application to access the chat service, and open a fourth application to access the messaging service.

Typically, information content exists separately from other services by type of service, but such information may be logically related in many different ways. For example, information may be logically related in the sense that information available from each service may refer to information available on other services. In addition, information from two or more available services may be related according to a topic, may come from the same source, or may be related in some other way. Current systems have failed to provide the ability to integrate information from various services in a logical and meaningful way.

The following is a simplified summary to provide a basic understanding and a high level overview. This summary is not an extensive overview. It is not intended to identify key or critical components nor is it intended to limit its scope. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later. In addition, the section headings used herein are provided for convenience only and should not be regarded as limiting in any way.

The rendering module may obtain information such as a web page from an information source through a network. An associative module may analyze the acquired information and use the results of the analysis to identify and locate key or critical parts of the information. Among these types, such information may be used as anchors associated with information other than the original information. Additional information may be presented to the user.

Various types of additional information or information services may be provided to the user based on analysis of the content of the information obtained by the user, such as the content of the web page. Content from a web log associated with or referring to the web page currently being viewed by the user may be presented along with the currently viewed web page. Among the possible types of content that can be presented are ad-based content and content written by other visitors to the website (notes, comments, ratings, and reviews). . In addition, one or more hyperlinks referring to the presented web page may be presented from one web page. In addition, services and page-biased searches may be provided, such as automatic linking to relevant chat room discussions.

The components and methods disclosed and described include one or more of the features described below, in particular in the claims recited. The following description and the annexed drawings set forth in detail certain illustrative illustrative components and methods. However, these components and methods represent only some of the various ways in which the disclosed components and methods may be implemented. Particular implementations of the disclosed components and methods may include some, most, or all of the components and methods, or equivalents thereof. Certain embodiments and variations of the examples presented herein will become more apparent from the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the drawings.

1 is a system block diagram of an association information system.

2 is a block diagram of a note.

3 is a system block diagram of an association information system.

4 is a system block diagram of an association information system.

5 is a system block diagram of an association information system.

6 is a system block diagram of an association information system.

7 is a system block diagram of a supplemental content providing system.

8 is a diagram of an example user interface.

9 is a flow diagram illustrating an overall processing flow of a method that may be implemented in accordance with the components disclosed and described herein.

10 is a flow diagram illustrating the overall processing flow of a method that may be implemented in accordance with the components disclosed and described herein.

11 is a flow diagram for the overall processing flow of a method that may be implemented in accordance with the components disclosed and described herein.

12 is a flow diagram illustrating an overall processing flow of a method that may be implemented in accordance with the components disclosed and described herein.

13 illustrates an example networking environment.

14 illustrates an example computing environment.

As used in this application, the terms “component”, “system”, “module”, etc., are intended to refer to computer-related entities such as hardware, software (eg, running), and / or firmware. For example, a component can be a process running on a processor, processor, object, executable, program, and / or computer. In addition, both an application running on a server and the server can be a component. One or more components may exist in one process, one component may be localized on one computer, and / or one component may be distributed between two or more computers.

The disclosed components and methods are described with reference to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals are used to refer to like components throughout the drawings. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the disclosed subject matter. It will be evident, however, that some of these specific details may be omitted in certain embodiments or combined with others. In other instances, specific structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to facilitate a description. In addition, although the specific examples described may use terms consistent with the client / server architecture, or may even be examples of client / server implementations, those of ordinary skill in the art may reverse the roles of the client and server, and the disclosed components and methods It is not limited to this client / server architecture, and specifically within the spirit or scope of the components and methods disclosed and described for use in other architectures, including peer-to-peer architectures. It will be recognized that it can be easily adapted. In addition, while the specific examples presented herein include or refer to specific components, implementations of the components and methods disclosed and described herein are not necessarily limited to these specific components, and may likewise be implemented in other respects.

While the particular examples presented may describe or describe a system or method based on the components of a personal computer, the use of the components and methods disclosed and described herein is not limited in its scope. For example, the components and methods disclosed and described can be used in a distributed or network computing environment. In addition, as an alternative, the components and methods disclosed and described may be utilized on a single server accessed by multiple clients. Those skilled in the art will readily recognize that the disclosed components and methods may be used to create other components and other methods on various computing devices.

1 is a system block diagram of an interactive information system 100. The interactive information system 100 includes a rendering component 110 that can obtain information from the primary information data store 120. The rendering component 110 may be a web browser or other component that has the capability to obtain and present information. Specifically, the rendering component 110 may be a standalone application that the user may launch and operate, or may be a module designed to be used in connection with other components, such as an HTML rendering engine for an email application, or other such component. . The rendering component 110 can present the obtained information to the user, on a visibility display, or on some other human-computer interface, such as a voice-based interface or a Braille interface. .

Primary information data store 120 may be a source of some other information, including a database, an intranet, the World Wide Web, the Internet, a file share, or specifically a source of information that can be accessed remotely. The information included in the primary information data store 120 may be in accordance with a particular implementation of the primary information data store 120, but generally may include any information in electronic or device readable form. Specifically, the information stored in the primary information data store 120 may include web pages from the Internet or an intranet, text documents in various formats, graphic image information, audio information, video information, multimedia information, and other suitable forms of information. Can be.

The association plug-in 130 may communicate with the rendering component 110 and the primary information data store 120 to obtain information that the rendering component 110 can present to the user. Also, as an alternative, the associated plug-in 130 may obtain additional information from another information source, such as the auxiliary information data store 140. Secondary information data store 140 may be implemented in substantially the same manner as primary information data store 120 and may, among other things, contain the same type of information. In particular, the secondary information data store 140 provides information to search engines and search-related information including notes, documents such as web pages, intranet pages, text documents in various formats, graphical or audio information, search terms, or search results. Access, wikis, blogs, RSS or other new feeds, chat content including notification-based chat content, instant message information including messages or usernames, tags, inlinks (inlink), outlink, and any other information that may be stored or provided in an electronic or device readable format.

Information included in the auxiliary information data store 140 is generated by the auxiliary content generation module 150. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that by reading this disclosure, implementation details of supplemental content generation module 150 may vary depending on the particular type of information generated for use with supplemental information data store 140. Specifically, in accordance with such content, auxiliary content generation module 150 may be a text editor, word processor, spreadsheet program, slideshow or presentation program, web page editor, graphics program, audio program, web logging (blogging) tool, Chat program, instant messaging program, or specifically some other suitable component including a combination of all or some of the above examples.

Association plug-in 130 may associate or associate information from auxiliary information data store 140 with information originally obtained from primary information data store 120 for display by rendering component 110. Specifically, additional information from auxiliary information data store 140 may be anchored to information from primary information data store 120. Such anchoring or association can be accomplished in a variety of ways. For example, a domain name such as example-domain-name.tld associated with the web page may be used as an anchor to some of the information from the secondary information data store 140. Similarly, a fully or partially qualified URL may be used as an anchor, including relative URLs of web pages or other resources that are currently or previously accessed. Other possible anchors include, but are not limited to, the location of a file on a file share, or other remote location, keywords included in content from key information data store 120, or form data, among others. It is not.

In one example, the information from the secondary information data store 140 can be a note containing some text. By associating a note with the URL of a web page, the note can be anchored to the web page. The note can also be anchored with some of the form data. For example, if the form data is a postal zip code, the note may be revealed whenever the user enters a postal code into the form. As another example, the note may be anchored with a particular keyword. When the user observes information including specific keywords from the primary information data store 120, the note may be rendered by the rendering component 110 and displayed to the user. The note may be replaced with any content from the secondary information data store 140. In general, any content from secondary information data store 140 may be anchored in any suitable combination using any suitable anchor to any content from primary information data store 120.

It should be noted that although the additional information may be associated with or anchored with the originally obtained information, the content of the additional information need not be related to the content included in the originally obtained information. For example, the originally obtained information may be a web page for a computer programming language, and the additional information may be a link to a search engine. In one example, the link to the search engine is independent of the content of the web page. Various other types of additional content or additional functionality may be used or provided by the associated plug-in 130.

An example based on a web page is described below. The rendering component 110 may retrieve the web page from the primary information data store 120. The web page may be presented to the user by the rendering component 110. The association plug-in 130 may analyze the web page to determine which content of the web page is important. Various approaches can be used to analyze web pages. Among these approaches is a technique for generating a list of terms contained in a web page using a term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) algorithm to generate a probabilistic summary of the content of the web page. The association plug-in 130 may use the content of the web page to identify other content to be presented to the user. Such other content may, inter alia, refer to content from an interactive chat room organized according to a topic relating to a web page, content from a web log (blog) entry or RSS, or related to a web page, ie specifically referring to a web page. Other new supplies, specifically hyperlinks from other pages that point to the web page, access to search engines, advertisements related to the content of the web page, or content in the form of comments written by other visitors to the web page.

Associative plug-in 130 may be implemented in a variety of ways, among other factors, based in large part on the specific implementation of rendering component 110, as those skilled in the art will readily appreciate through the present disclosure. In one implementation, the associating plug-in 130 may be executable code executing in the sidebar or the same area of a web browser or window. In addition, the associated plug-in 130 may be a standalone application or other suitable executable code. Association plug-in 130 may be a notification component that provides a user with the ability to deliver a notification that may be associated with a particular URL.

The notification may be essentially informational, including a hyperlink to the subject matter, information about a product or service similar to the product or service mentioned on the web page, or other information. The notification may also be organized in the sense that the notification can be used to construct a personal note by URL, such as a note about the research papers on a particular home page. In addition, the social application of a notification is made possible by using the notification to deliver a message to other users who have visited the URL associated with the notification. The message may be intended for other people who will attend the event, that is, interests similar to the interests of the creator of the message, part of a discussion about a topic on a web page, or any other type of message. The notification may also have the purpose of entertainment, such as being part of an online game or providing humor.

2 is a block diagram of the note 200. The note 200 may be used by an associated plug-in, such as the associated plug-in 130 of FIG. 1, to convey information that may be associated with some online content. In particular, the information conveyed may include any type of information previously disclosed and described with respect to FIG. 1.

Note 200 may include multiple fields. The anchor field 210 may include information that may be used to anchor the content of the note 200 to an information location. The information in anchor field 210 may include a URL, a domain name, or a root domain, among its location identifiers. Anchor field 210 may be used to describe any suitable anchor specifically including the type of anchor previously disclosed and described with respect to FIG. 1. The anchor field 210 may be used to associate some information location with content that may be used by an association plug-in.

Based on the type of anchor and other factors, note 200 may include various fields. The keyword field 220 may include keywords that are related to the content and that may be used for indexing or search purposes. The content key field 230 may include some keywords or phrases that may be used to locate content, such as a web page, that includes or matches information in the content key field 230. Form data field 240 may include information that may be used to retrieve similar information within a form. Form data fields may also contain form information, such as one or more form field names, to match the value of the form field.

The range field 250 may include information regarding the level at which the note, such as note 200, may be distributed. For example, the range field 250 may indicate that the note 200 is private and can only be observed by its creator. The scope field 250 may also indicate that group access is allowed to a particular group or member of groups. These groups may be defined based on some criteria among several ways of defining membership, or may include pre-selected members. In addition, public access may be indicated in the information in range field 250 that allows note 200 to be observed by anyone.

Note 200 may also include a type field 260. The information in the type field 260 can be used to define different types of notes. For example, different types may include, among other things, simple text boxes, pictures, discussion threads, or user defined types. Other types of notes may be displayed to the user in other ways to present a visual cue about a particular type that is not provided. It should be noted that the presence of these fields allows the user to provide the ability to filter notes based on personal preferences. In addition, a note, such as note 200, may be static or dynamic in the sense that its content can be fixed. For example, the dynamic note may request updated information from the server each time the dynamic note is activated.

In other implementations, a user can designate a provider of content, such as note 200, from which he wishes to obtain content. The user can also specify the area where such content can be displayed. One possible way of specifying this area is to provide a graphical tool that allows the user to place it in the sidebar of a web browser window. The user can also choose from other options, such as closing notes, allowing the note to automatically refresh the content, allowing the note to provide a labeled sub-bar to categorize the information, You can associate it with an anchor, set an expiration date, limit the dissemination of notes, and, among other things, create notes anonymously.

If the value of the note system increases with multiple users, the perceived utility of the note may be affected by network effects. To provide some initial values, various techniques may be used when initializing the note system. For example, notes can be shared across URLs. Notes may also provide automatic notation of websites, blogs, newsgroups, and discussion forums, among others. Dynamic notes and other content boxes can easily present content. In addition, scenario sites may be created that demonstrate the use of notes. In addition, an application programming interface (API) for notes can be provided to facilitate developers to create their own notes. In addition, a search function for finding notes can be added to their usefulness. Merchandise may also be awarded to the user of the note to encourage further use. Popular websites can also be used to facilitate the installation and subsequent use of notes by users. At least some of these popular websites may be officially associated with the note's promoter. In addition, certain content may be provided only through the use of the note, so that installation of the note component may be required to access that content.

Notes can also be affected by filtering and ranking features. Ordering of notes can be accomplished according to various social networking or web of trust networking concepts. A note anchored to a specific URL can be much higher than a note simply anchored to a domain name. In addition, the ranking function may include feedback on notes such as a note range, a note anchor, a note creation date, a user's preference profile, a filter function, a link analysis, a score, or a note closed by the user. And one or more factors such as thresholds for note ranking.

In the use of notes, private relationships can be handled in a variety of ways. For example, a component may request multiple notes from different URLs, making it unclear to identify information about the desired note. This technique can be used with a prefetching scheme. A one-way hash of the URL for the note can be generated and sent to the server instead of a cleartext request. Alternatively, the relay server may be used to obscure the identity of the user requesting a particular note.

Along with the notes, the interactive component can be a web chat component that can allow dynamic chat sessions between two users or between multiple users. In addition, such chat sessions may be anchored to URLs or domain names, among others. In addition, the chat session can be anchored to two or more sites that provide more varied description. In addition, such a chat session may be notification-based to notify a user when another user arrives at a designated site and wants to join a chat session with another user. A listing component that provides a list of web pages that link to other web-aware applications, inter alia, the observed web page, and a page summary that summarizes the content on the currently observed web page. summary) components, and search components that provide links to search engines for searching for terms that frequently appear on web pages.

3 is a system block diagram of the association information system 300. The association information system 300 includes a rendering component 310 and an association plug-in component 320. As with the previous embodiment, the associated plug-in component 320 can be a standalone application, a part that can be plugged into another application, or some other suitable executable code. The rendering component 310 can access informative content from the network 330. Network 330 may be the Internet, the World Wide Web, an intranet, or other suitable network or information source.

The association plug-in 320 can access and analyze the informative content that the rendering component 310 retrieved from the network 330. To analyze the informative content, associative plug-in 320 may use any suitable methodology, including one of the approaches described in connection with the other figures. The associated plug-in 320 can then connect to the chat server 340 to establish a session in the chat room organized according to topics related to the informational content.

For example, in operation rendering component 310 may obtain a web page from the world wide web. The association plug-in 320 may analyze the content of the web page to determine the subject of the web page. The associated plug-in 320 can then connect to the chat server 340 to locate the chat room relative to the subject of the web page. The user can then observe the web page and participate in the discussion of the chat room at the same time.

4 is a system block diagram of an association information system 400. Association information system 400 includes a rendering component 410 and an association component 420. The rendering component 410 may be a web browser or another suitable component having the ability to obtain and render information. The rendering component 410 can access the information available on the network 430 and pass that information to the associating component 420.

The association component 420 may analyze the information received from the rendering component 410 and use that information to obtain additional content from the web log (blog) data store 440. The web log (blog) data store 440 may include web log (blog) entries and information about cross-references from the web log (blog) entries to the web site. Cross-references can be generated for web log (blog) entries that cover topics that are similar or identical to the topic of the web site. Cross-references can also be generated for web log (blog) entries that specifically refer to web sites. In addition, other cross references may be generated.

In use, the rendering component 410 accesses some of the information from the network 430 and renders the information for presentation to the user. The associative component 420 may analyze a portion of the rendered information to recognize a general topic or other content-related theme of the information. The associative component 420 uses the information obtained by the rendering component 410 to access the web log (blog) data store 440 to locate the cross referenced web log (blog) entry. The associating component 420 can then cause these web log (blog) entries to be presented to the user while the user observes the information.

Instead of or in addition to a web log (blog) entry, information about a product or service related to the subject of the web page may be presented. Such information may be in the form of user reviews or may be advertised from the provider of the product or service itself. Such advertisement may be triggered from information already retrieved by the rendering component 410 by using keywords. Thus, advertisements can be targeted to users who are most likely to respond to such advertisements. Alternatively, the user may subscribe to content updates with various events, such as the addition of content, and serve as a trigger that causes the content update operation to be performed automatically.

One possible implementation includes a sidebar component that can provide an intelligent search application in context. Such a search application can access the content of the page observed by the user and can calculate the importance of various terms in the web page by using an algorithm such as, for example, the TF-IDF algorithm. When a user submits a query through a search application, the user may obtain query results biased towards results having the same content as the observed content.

5 is a system block diagram of an association information system 500. The association information system 500 includes a rendering module 510 and an association module 520. The rendering module 510 may retrieve and present information from the world wide web 530. The association module 520 may access and analyze the information retrieved by the rendering module 510 in any of the manners described above. The association module 520 can then use this analysis result to access the search server 540. Search server 540 may provide results from the World Wide Web that are biased towards concepts presented in information in response to a search query.

For example, the rendering component 510 may obtain a web page for the user. The association module 520 can then analyze the content of the web page to determine keywords or important concepts. The user can then perform a search to find additional information. The association module 520 may augment a search query input by a user by using a keyword or concept descriptor obtained from a web page. Search server 540 will use the enhanced search to obtain response information. The search results may be biased towards such web pages that include similar pages, or similar concepts, as the web pages originally obtained by the rendering module 510.

6 is a system block diagram of an association information system 600. The association information system 600 includes a rendering component 610 that can access a web page from the network 630. The association component 620 can access the web page from the rendering component 610 and analyze the content of the web page. This analysis may be in accordance with any one of the procedures described above. The associated component 620 can then contact the context server 640 to obtain additional content using the analysis results.

The context server 640 accesses the visitor content data store 650, which may include content such as user comments, ratings, rankings, and feedback, or other content associated with web pages obtained by the rendering component 610. can do. The context server 640 can then send this content to the associated component 620 for presentation to the user. In this way, a user can access information from other visitors who have visited the web page, and can obtain feedback from those users associated with the web page.

A wide variety of types of information related to web pages generated by other users or viewers of web pages can be generated. Such content may include notes and chat sessions, such as those previously disclosed and described with respect to other figures. Such content may also include, among other things, backlinks, context-specific or context-aware search functions, web log (blog) posting, and ranking functions. It should be noted that one type of content may be anchored to a location, such as a URL or domain name previously disclosed or described. By this anchoring, it may be possible to associate the content with a web site managed by the other party rather than the web site to which the content is associated or anchored.

One type of content that can be generated by a user of a web site is a tag. The tag may be a notation generated by the user, which may be associated with a website or some other information of interest to the generating user. For example, a user may create a tag that includes a short descriptive phrase associated with a web site. Alternatively, a number of star ratings or ratings of the site, such as simple rating-raising, rating-falling ratings, may be provided. Evaluation may apply, inter alia, to the website itself or to a product or service offered on the website. In addition, links to related or similar web sites may be provided, including advertising links. Other types of content can also be added. In addition, tags may be ranked according to various attributes and may be used to rank web pages associated with these tags.

7 is a system block diagram of a supplemental content providing system 700. The supplemental content providing system 700 includes various types of supplemental content components, including, among other things, the types of components previously disclosed and described with respect to other figures, such as notes, chat components, and tags, among others. Can be used to support Specifically, a wide variety of third party content may be provided to supplement the content from the web site. Those skilled in the art will recognize by reading this disclosure that not all of the components disclosed or described in connection with FIG. 7 are necessary for all implementations. For example, private and advertising related components may be optional.

The supplemental content providing system 700 includes a client user interface 710. Client user interface 710 may be a web browser or other type of user interface having the ability to obtain information and present the information to a user. In particular, the client user interface 710 may be a pluggable sidebar that may be displayed to the user in association with key content that may be presented by other components, similar to a web browser in certain implementations. The pluggability of the client user interface 710 allows developers to add support for various types of content that may be associated with the main content in any of the ways disclosed or described in connection with the other figures. To help.

The client user interface 710 can communicate with a third content provider 715. The third-party content provider 715 may provide access to search-related information and search engines, including notes, documents such as web pages, intranet pages, text documents in various formats, graphical or audio information, search terms or results, Kisses, weblogs (blogs), RSS, or other new feeds, chat content including notification-based chat content, instant message information including messages or usernames, tags, inlinks, outlinks, electronic or device reading Any other information that may be stored or presented to the user in a usable format, other types of information that may be stored or presented to the user using suitable means of communication that may be supported by the client user interface 710. Content can be provided. The separate advertisement interface 720 can provide a platform for creating or providing advertisements for which advertisers are presented to the user. The advertising interface 720 can be a web browser window or some other suitable interface. The specifics of the advertising interface depend heavily on the details of the particular implementation as well as the desired level of access provided to the advertiser.

The client user interface 710 may send a request for various types of information via the private protection service 725. These requests may be requests for content anchored or associated with content provided by third party content provider 715. The privacy protection service 715 may operate to protect the identity or other privacy related information of the user submitting a request for information. This protection can be achieved by including the request in a group of "dummy" requests to obscure the actual user request. Other techniques (including the use of hashing or other cryptographic functions or various anonymization functions that encode information requests) may additionally or alternatively be used.

The private protection service 725 may send an information request to the information providing system 730 and receive information from the information providing system 730. The information providing system 730 can include various components that can facilitate the generation and access of supplemental information. Such supplemental information may be generated manually by the user, or may be automatically generated by a bot or script, such as a web crawler, or otherwise configured to generate content for the user. .

The information provision system 730 includes a fetcher 735. The fetcher 735 may receive a request from the client user interface 710 for information that may include a URL, domain name, or other appropriate identifier. The fetcher 735 can obtain information from other components using a request from the client user interface 710. Specifically, the fetcher 735 can obtain a preference set for the user of the requesting side from the user preference set. The fetcher 735 can use any user preference for the tailored information obtained and provided to the client user interface 710 according to the individual desires of the requesting user.

The fetcher 735 can obtain content from the content data store 745. The content data store 745 can be a database, web service, or any other suitable data store. Content that may be included in the content data store 745 may include user-created content from the user content creator 750. The user content creator 750 may provide a means by which content generated by the user may be added to the content data store 745. This means may be, inter alia, a web form or other web service. The content data store 745 may also include content from the non-user content module 755. Non-user content module 755 may include, among others, scripts, web crawlers, and tags.

The fetcher 735 may also obtain advertisement information from the advertisement data store 760. Ad data store 760 can include ad content from ad purchase module 765, including graphic, audio, and video content. An advertiser using the advertisement user interface 720 may acquire a function of purchasing an advertisement by using the advertisement purchase module 765 or in other cases, placing the advertisement into the information providing system 730. The ad purchase module 765 can access the user model 770 to allow the advertiser to select one or more user models 770 to be used for the purpose of advertising to the user.

The ranking and filtering module 775 may accept content from the fetcher 735 and modify the content according to user preferences 740 and user feedback 780. User feedback 780 may be generated by a user of client user interface 710 and may be used to customize the content prior to providing content to client user interface 710. The modified content may be provided to the client user interface 710 by the ranking and filtering module 775.

The content data store 745 can also generate a notification that can be sent to the client user interface 710. A user of the client user interface 710 can subscribe to such notifications that can be used to trigger a request for information from the client user interface. The content data store 745 may generate an event when the included content is modified. Such an event can cause a notification. The notification 785 may be sent from the information providing system 730 to a client user interface 710 that may use the notification as a triggering event requesting new or updated content.

Various components of information providing system 730 may use artificial intelligence based components to provide functionality to the system. For example, the ranking and filtering module 775 may use a classifier to rank content to be provided to the client user interface 710. Also, for example, the ad purchase module 765 may use an artificial intelligence based component to match the user model 770 with users of a demographic group of desired targets.

For example, among others, the disclosed and described components related to the matching or inference tasks mentioned previously may perform various tasks using various artificial intelligence based schemes. For example, demographic matching or content ranking according to user feedback or preferences may be performed by neural networks, export systems, rule-based processing components, or support vector machines (SVMs).

The classifier is a function that maps the input attribute factor, X = (x1, x2, x3, x4, ..., xn)} to the confidence that the input belongs to a class, f (X) = confidence (class). This classifying may use probabilistic and / or statistical based analysis (eg, factoring analysis utilization and cost) to diagnose or infer an action that a user wishes to perform automatically. In the case of a content providing system, attributes of a reference information set, such as, for example, user preferences used for comparison, can be used to determine if some attributes of the content are considered to match the user's preferences.

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are examples of available classifiers. SVM works by searching for hyperservices in possible input spaces where the hypersurface attempts to divide the triggering criteria from non-triggering events. Intuitively, this allows classifying to correct test data near the training data but not consistent with the training data. Other direct and non-direct model classifying approaches include, for example, naive beige, Bayesian networks, decision trees, and stochastic classing models that provide independence of different patterns. As used herein, classification also includes statistical regression, which is used to develop a model of priorities.

As will be readily appreciated from this specification, components disclosed or described herein are not only implicit (eg, by observing user behavior and receiving extrinsic information) but also explicitly (eg Trained classifiers can be used. For example, an SVM is constructed by a learning or training phase within a classfire constructor and feature selection module. Thus, the classifier (s) can be used to automatically perform several functions, including but not limited to matching and ranking functions.

In operation, the supplemental content providing system 700 may function as follows. The user may operate the client user interface 710 to obtain a web page. Web pages may be provided, inter alia, via a network connection, such as a LAN, WAN, intranet, or the Internet. The client user interface 710 may use the anchoring scheme, such as any one of the anchoring schemes disclosed or described herein, to identify additional content obtained from the third content provider 715. Based on the anchor, the client user interface 710 may request additional content from the information provision system 730. Such additional content may be, among others, notes, chat room connections, tags, advertisements, or any combination thereof.

The client user interface sends the request to private protection service 725. This request can be triggered by notification 785. Private protection service 725 anonymizes the request by removing any personally identifiable information from the request and forwards the request to fetcher 735. Also, as an alternative, private protection service 725 may hide the actual request from anyone who can monitor the request by including the request in a dummy request group.

The fetcher 735 obtains user preferences (which may likewise be anyonemized) from the user preferences 740 and uses these user preferences to generate content from the content data store 745 and the advertisement data store. The advertisement from 760 may be obtained. The fetcher sends content and ads to the ranking and filtering module 775, which ranks the content and ads according to user preferences 740, user model 770, and user feedback 780. And filter. The ranking and filtering module 775 sends the content and the advertisement to the private protection service 725, which relays the content and the advertisement to the client user interface 710.

A user may create user content by accessing the user content creator 750 via the private protection service 725 using the client user interface 710. User content creator 750 may place user-generated content in content data store 745. Also, as an alternative, non-user content 755 may be located in content data store 745 and may ultimately be included in content sent to client user interface 710.

The user can also access the user feedback module 780 to provide explicit feedback on the content provided to the client user interface 710. The feedback may include a quality measure, such as relevance, with a request to request additional information for a given type or to block specific content. User feedback can be used for ranking and filtering tasks and specifically to help train any artificial intelligence based component of ranking and filtering module 775.

The advertiser may access the ad purchase module 765 using the ad user interface 720. These advertisers can purchase advertising spaces and access the user model 770 to define the recipients targeted by the advertisements. The advertiser may also upload, or otherwise provide, a particular advertisement to be provided to the user using the advertiser user interface 720 and the ad purchase module 765. These advertisements are stored in the advertisement data store 760.

8 is a diagram of an example user interface 800. The user interface 800 can provide a logical arrangement of components that includes information that can be presented to the user. Specifically, the user interface 800 is a platform that a user can use to obtain secondary or user-generated content that can be anchored to content from an information provider as well as content from an information provider such as a web site. Can be provided. Such secondary or user-generated content may be presented with the content from the information provider.

The user interface 800 may include a primary information pane 810. In this example, which is based on a web browsing platform and can be modified to accommodate variations previously disclosed or described with respect to other figures, the first information pane 810 is used to render or display a user-searched web page. Can be used. Among other things, standard web page components such as text, graphics, multimedia content, and embedded code can be rendered in the first information pane 810. The web page rendered in the first information pane 810 may be reached by entering a URL into a search bar, performing a search using a search engine, or clicking a hyperlink from another web page, among other methods.

The second information pane or sidebar 820 may be displayed near the first information pane 810. The second information pane or sidebar 820, called a sidebar, may be part of one window that includes the first information pane 810 as shown, or may be presented in a separate window. . Also, as an alternative, the second information pane or sidebar 820 may be located on the left or right as well as the top or bottom of the window. Such placement may be in accordance with a user-selectable preference for the user interface 800.

The second information pane or sidebar 820 may provide an area in which various components, such as notes, chat boxes, and advertisements, disclosed and described herein, may be displayed in connection with other drawings. Note 830 includes a message from the user indicating that the user has a sale ticket for an event that occurs at approximately the same geographical location as the setting described by the web page rendered in the first information pane 810. Other messages are included in notes 840, 850, 860.

The note adding component 870 provides a text box and input control that allows the user to create and add a note that can be anchored to the domain name of the website currently being viewed in the first information pane 810. The chat box 880 provides an interface for the user to participate in a chat session related to the general topic of the currently observed web site. The advertisement area 890 provides a space for the target advertisement to be delivered to the user.

9-12, a flowchart in accordance with various methods or procedures is shown. For the sake of brevity of description, one or more methodologies shown herein are shown and described as a series of acts, such as in a flowchart form, but the examples and described methods and procedures as well as any method in which such methods or procedures may be used. Components are also not necessarily limited to the order of operations, and it should be understood and appreciated that some of the operations may occur in different orders and / or concurrently with other operations than those shown and described herein. For example, those skilled in the art should understand and appreciate that a methodology can be represented as a series of interrelated states or events, such as state diagrams. Moreover, not all illustrated acts may be required to implement a methodology or procedure.

9 is a flowchart illustrating the overall processing flow of the method 900 that may be used with components disclosed or described herein in connection with other figures. The method 900 can be used to obtain additional content related to content of interest to the user. Specifically, additional content may be obtained by analyzing the content of the currently observed web page and locating additional content related to the content of that web page.

Processing of the method 900 begins at a start step 910 and proceeds to a process step 920. At processing step 920, the web page is fetched from some location on the network. The network may be, inter alia, a LAN, WAN, intranet, or the Internet. The content of the fetched web page is analyzed at processing step 930. Various analysis algorithms can be used to search for important or related terms in a web page. Among these algorithms are the TF-IDF algorithms previously described with respect to the other figures.

In processing step 940, additional content associated with the content of the fetched web page is identified and obtained. Such content may be obtained from a location different from the network location that provided the analyzed web page or the web page being viewed. Content can be related in a variety of ways, including but not limited to being related to or anchored to the URL of a web page depending on the topic. In particular, the acquired content may be generated by the current user or another user such that the content can be used for public or group observation. In processing step 950, the obtained additional content is presented to the user. The presentation can be in an identification area of the human-computer interface, such as a graphical user interface. Processing of the method 900 ends at an end step 960.

10 is a flowchart illustrating an overall processing flow 1000 used with components disclosed or described herein in connection with other figures. The method 1000 may be used to obtain an interactive service related to content that is of interest to the user. Specifically, the interactive service may be obtained by analyzing the content of the currently-observed web page and locating the interactive service associated with the content of the currently-observed web page.

Processing of the method 1000 begins at a start step 1010 and proceeds to a process step 1020. In processing step 1020, a web page is obtained from a location on the network. Such a network may be, inter alia, a LAN, WAN, intranet, or the Internet. In processing step 1030, the content of the web page is analyzed. As another example, the TF-IDF algorithm can be used to analyze a web page. Other algorithms can also be used.

In this example, an interactive service associated with the content of the web page, a chat session is identified at step 1040. Identification may be based on keyword search for chat room topics, among other methods. At processing step 1050, a connection is made to at least one identified chat session, and chat room content is presented to the user. Processing of the method 1000 ends at end step 1060.

11 is a flow diagram illustrating the overall processing flow of the method 1100 that may be used with components disclosed or described herein in connection with another figure. The method 1100 may be used to obtain additional content related to content of interest to the user. Specifically, additional content may be obtained by analyzing the content of the currently-observed web page and locating additional content that may refer to the content of the currently-observed web page.

Processing of the method 1100 begins at a start step 1110. The process then proceeds to a processing step 1120 of fetching the web page. Web pages can be fetched from some web servers, which can be local or remote. The remote web server can be accessed using a network, such as a LAN, WAN, intranet or the Internet, among others. In processing step 1130, the content of the fetched web page is analyzed. The analysis of the content of the web page may be specifically based on various algorithms, including the TF-IDF algorithm. Another suitable algorithm may replace the TF-IDF algorithm.

In processing step 1140, the content from the web log associated with the content of the fetched web page is identified and obtained. Web log content can be related in a variety of ways. For example, the web log may specifically describe the content on the web page on which the analysis was performed. The web log entry may also provide a hyperlink to the analyzed web page. In addition, the web log entry may simply describe a topic that is similar or identical to the analyzed web page. At processing step 1150, this web log content is presented to the user. Processing of the method 1100 ends at an end step 1160.

12 is a flow diagram illustrating an overall processing flow 1000 of the method 1200 that may be used with components disclosed or described herein in connection with other figures. The method 1200 may be used to obtain additional content related to content that is of interest to the user. Specifically, additional content may be obtained by analyzing the content of the currently-observed web page and performing a search to produce a result set that may be biased towards results that include content similar to the content of the analyzed web page. .

Processing of the method 1200 begins at a start step 1210. In processing step 1220, the web page is fetched from some information server, such as a web server. Such an information server can be local or remote. When the information server is remote, web pages can be obtained, inter alia, via a network such as a LAN, WAN, intranet, or the Internet.

In processing step 1230, the fetched web page is analyzed. In processing step 1240, important terms or concepts are identified. The analysis and identification task may be performed using various algorithms, including the TF-IDF algorithm described in connection with the other figures. Processing of the method 1200 proceeds to processing step 1250 of accepting the search query from the user.

In processing step 1260, selectively add search terms accepted from the user by adding key terms or concepts identified from the analyzed web page to the query. At processing step 1270, a search is performed using the augmented query. In this way, augmenting the query can be used to bias the search results towards results that include content similar to the content of the analyzed web page. Search can also be optionally refined in a variety of ways, such as restricting the query to only pages linked to the current domain or currently-observed pages. Other modifications are also possible. The results of the search may be obtained at processing step 1280 and presented to the user through some interface. In processing step 1285, the obtained results may be optionally reordered. Processing of the method 1200 ends at an end step 1290.

13, 14, and the following description are intended to provide a brief, general description of a suitable computing environment in which the disclosed and described components and methods may be implemented. While various specific implementations have been described above with reference to computer executable instructions of computer programs running on local and / or remote computers, those skilled in the art will recognize that other implementations may be made in conjunction with other program modules or alone. something to do. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types.

In addition, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the components and methods described above may be in operative communication with one or more related devices, as well as single processors or multiprocessors, as well as microprocessor-based and / or programmable consumer electronics. It will be appreciated that the implementation may be in other computer system configurations, including computer systems, minicomputers, mainframe computers. Certain illustrated aspects of the disclosed and described components and methods may be practiced in distributed computing environments where certain tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network or other data connection. However, some (but not all) of these aspects may be implemented on a standalone computer. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and / or remote memory storage devices.

13 is a schematic block diagram of an exemplary computing environment 1300 in which the present invention may be implemented. System 1300 includes one or more client (s) 1310. Client (s) 1310 may be hardware and / or software (eg, threads, processes, computing devices). System 1300 also includes one or more server (s) 1320. Server (s) 1320 may be hardware and / or software (eg, threads, processes, computing devices). Server (s) 1320 may, for example, have a thread or process that performs the transformation using the present invention.

One possible means of communication between the client 1310 and the server 1320 may be in the form of a data packet adapted to be transmitted between two or more computer processes. System 1300 includes a communication framework 1340 that can be used to facilitate communication between client (s) 1310 and server (s) 1320. Client (s) 1310 is operatively connected to one or more client data store (s) 1350 that can be used to store information local to client (s) 1310. Similarly, server (s) 1320 is operatively connected to one or more server data store (s) 1330 that can be used to store information local to server (s) 1320.

Referring to FIG. 14, an example environment 1400 for implementing various aspects of the present invention includes a computer 1412. Computer 1412 includes a processing unit 1414, a system memory 1416, and a system bus 1418. The system bus 1418 connects system components, including but not limited to system memory 1416, to the processing unit 1414. Processing unit 1414 may be any of a variety of available processors. Dual microprocessors and other multiprocessors may also be used as the processing unit 1414.

The system bus 1418 may be any of several types of bus structures, including a memory bus or a memory controller, a peripheral bus or an external bus, and / or a local bus using any of a variety of bus architectures. Industry Standard Architecture (ISA), Micro-Channel Architecture (MCA), Extended ISA (EISA), Intelligent Drive Electronics (IDE), VESA Local Bus (VLB), Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), Card Bus, USB , Advanced Graphics Port (AGP), Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) bus, Firewall (IEEE 1394), and Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI).

System memory 1416 includes volatile memory 1420 and nonvolatile memory 1422. At the same time as during startup, a basic input / output system (BIOS) is stored in the nonvolatile memory 1422, which includes a basic routine that assists in transferring information between components in the computer 1412. By way of example, nonvolatile memory 1422 may include, but is not limited to, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, or flash memory. Volatile memory 1420 may include RAM that acts as external cache memory. For example, the RAM may include synchronous RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchlink DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct rambus RAM (DRRAM). ), But it is not limited thereto.

Computer 1412 includes removable and non-removable, volatile and nonvolatile computer storage media. For example, FIG. 14 shows disk storage 1424. Disk storage 1424 includes, but is not limited to, magnetic disk drives, floppy disk drives, tape drives, jazz drives, zip drives, LS-100 drives, flash memory cards, or memory sticks. no. In addition, disk storage 1424 may individually comprise storage media, or may comprise a CD-ROM, a CD recordable (CD-R) drive, a CD rewritable (CD-RW) drive, or a digital versatile disk ROM (DVD-ROM). Storage media may be included in connection with, but not limited to, optical disk drives, such as drives, and the like. To facilitate connecting disk storage 1424 to system bus 1418, a mobile or non-removable interface is typically used as interface 1426.

14 is understood to describe software that acts as a relay between the user and the underlying computer resources described in the appropriate operating environment 1400. Such software includes operating system 1428. Operating system 1428, which may be stored on disk storage 1424, functions to allocate and control the resources of computer system 1412. The system application 1430 uses the operating system 1428 to manage resources through program data 1434 and program modules 1432 stored in either system memory 1416 or disk storage 1424. It should be appreciated that the present invention can be implemented with various operating systems or combinations of operating systems.

A user enters commands or information into the computer 1412 via input device (s) 1434. The input devices 1434 may be a mouse, trackball, stylus, pointing device such as a touch pad, keyboard, microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, TV tuner card, digital camera, digital video camera, web camera. And the like, but not limited thereto. These and other input devices are connected to the processing unit 1414 via the system bus 1418 via the interface port (s) 1338. Interface port (s) 1338 includes, for example, a serial port, a parallel port, and a USB. Output device (s) 1440 use some of the same type of ports as input device (s) 1434. Thus, for example, the USB port can be used to provide input to computer 1412 and to output information from computer 1412 to output device 1440. The output adapter 1442 is provided to indicate that there are some output devices 1440, such as printers, speakers, and monitors, that require a particular adapter among the output devices 1440. Output adapter 1442 includes, but is not limited to, a video and sound card, for example, providing a means of connection between output device 1440 and system bus 1418. It should be noted that other devices and / or systems of devices provide both input and output functions, such as remote computer (s) 1444.

Computer 1412 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as remote computer (s) 1444. Remote computer (s) 1444 may be another personal computer, server, router, network PC, workstation, microprocessor-based consumer electronics, peer device or other conventional network node, or the like, typically computer 1412. It includes most or all of the components described in connection with. For simplicity, only memory storage 1446 is shown in remote computer (s) 1444. Remote computer (s) 1444 are logically connected to computer 1412 via network interface 1484 and then physically connected via communication connection 1450. Network interface 1484 includes wired and / or wireless communication networks, such as LANs and WANs. LAN technologies include Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDI), Ethernet, Token Ring, and the like. WAN technologies include, but are not limited to, point-to-point connections, circuit switched networks such as ISDN and variations thereof, packet switched networks, and digital subscriber lines (DSLs).

Communication connection (s) 1450 refers to hardware / software used to connect network interface 1484 to bus 1418. Although communication connection (s) 1450 are shown inside computer 1412 for clarity, it may be external to computer 1412. The hardware / software required to connect to the network interface 1484 includes internal and external technologies such as modems, ISDN adapters, and Ethernet cards, including general telephone-grade modems, cable modems, and DSL modems, for illustrative purposes only. do.

What has been described above includes examples of the present invention. Of course, it is not possible to describe every conceivable combination of components or methodology for describing the present invention, but one of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that many other combinations and variations of the present invention are possible. Accordingly, the present invention is intended to embrace all such alterations, modifications and variations that fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

In particular with respect to the various functions performed by the aforementioned components, devices, circuits, systems, etc., the terms used to describe such components (including references to “means”) are to be described unless otherwise indicated. Although intended to correspond to any component that performs a prescribed function of (eg, a functional equivalent), this is not structurally equivalent to the disclosed structure for performing the function in accordance with the illustrative aspects of the invention described herein. In this regard, it will be appreciated that the present invention includes a system as well as a computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for performing the steps and / or events of the various methods of the invention.

In addition, while certain features of the invention may be disclosed with respect to one of several implementations, such features may be combined with one or more other features of other embodiments that may be advantageous and desirable for a given or particular application. Further, to the extent that the term "includes, including" and variations of the term are used in the description or claims, these terms are intended to be included in a similar manner as the term "comprising".

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A computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions programmed to configure a computer implemented system for associating information when executed by at least one processor, the computer implemented instructions comprising: The computer implemented system, A summary of the content of the first portion of information, the summary including anchoring information, the web page service providing at least one web page for generating a summary of the information associated with the first network service. Analyze the content of the first portion using term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), and analyze the first portion of the information in note service, news feed service, chat session service, and notification-based chat. Run on the at least one processor using the anchoring information to associate with a second portion of information associated with a second network service including any of a notification-based chat service, an instant messaging service or an advertising service Association modules The anchoring information may be a domain name of a web resource, a fully-qualified uniform resource locator (URL), a partially-qualified uniform resource locator (URL), a relative uniform resource locator (RL) or a partial URL. One or more of at least one keyword in the content associated with the first portion of information, The first portion of the information comprises at least one of the at least one webpage or one of a text document, a blog entry, a wiki, an image file, an audio file, or a multimedia file associated with the at least one webpage, The second piece of information is a note, an intranet page, a text document, an image file, an audio file, a search term, a search result, information related to an interface for a search engine, an RSS feed, news feed, information related to a chat session, notification based At least one of information related to the chat session, an instant message, a tag, a rating, an in-link, an out-link, or an advertisement; A privacy module to protect personal information of a user of the associated module; A ranking and filtering module that uses one or more classifiers to assign one or more classes to a plurality of pieces of information, wherein a second portion of the information is based on the specified ranking; Associated with the first part; And Rendering module presenting a second portion of the information for use And a computer readable storage medium. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises a generating module for generating the second portion of the information. The method of claim 2, wherein the generation module is one of a text editor, a graphics application, an audio application, a multimedia application, a syndication application, a chat application, an instant messaging application, a tagging application, or an evaluation application. Computer-readable storage media. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the rendering module is pluggable. A computer implemented method for associating a portion of information, Analyzing the content of the first portion of information, the content of the first portion of information comprising at least a portion of a web page, to facilitate generating a summary of the content of the first portion of information; To be analyzed using a TF-IDF method, wherein the first portion of the information is received via a first network service, the web page service providing at least a portion of the web page; Generating the summary of the content of the first portion of the information, including anchoring information; Associating a first portion of the information with a second portion of information based at least in part on the anchoring information, the second portion of the information being a note service, a news feed service, a chat session service, a notification-based chat session. Based on a classifier that is received through a disparate network service, including one of a service, instant messaging service, or advertising service, and used by a ranking and filtering module that assigns one or more rankings to a plurality of pieces of information. Associated with the first portion of the information; Obtaining a second portion of the information The anchoring information comprises one or more of a domain name of a web resource, a fully qualified URL, a partially qualified URL, a relative URL or a keyword in the content associated with the first portion of the information, The first portion of information may comprise the web page, a text document associated with the web page, a blog entry associated with the web page, a wiki associated with the web page, an image file associated with the web page, an audio file associated with the web page, or At least one of the multimedia files associated with the web page, The second piece of information is a note, an intranet page, a text document, an image file, an audio file, a search term, a search result, information related to an interface for a search engine, an RSS feed, news feed, information related to a chat session, notification based At least one of information related to the chat session, an instant message, a tag, a rating, an inlink, an outlink, or an advertisement; Protecting a user's personal information; And Presenting the second portion of the information to the user along with the first portion of the information Using a processor to execute computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium to implement a computer implemented method for associating a portion of information. 6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further comprising generating the second portion of the information. 7. The method of claim 6, wherein generating a second portion of the information comprises: using a text editor, using a graphics application, using an audio application, to facilitate generating the second portion of the information; A portion of information comprising at least one of using a multimedia application, using a syndication application, using a chat application, using an instant messaging application, using a tagging application, or using a rating application. Computer-implemented method for associating a. A system for associating portions of information, At least one processor that facilitates associating a portion of information; A first portion of said information comprising said at least a portion of a web page associated with a first service that is a web page service that provides at least a portion of a web page to facilitate generating a summary of the content of the first portion of information Means for analyzing the content of the; Means for generating the summary of the content of the first portion of the information, including anchoring information; A first portion of information to obtain a second portion of information associated with a second service including any one of a note service, a news feed service, a chat session service, a notification-based chat session service, an instant messaging service, or an advertising service Means for using the anchoring information from the anchoring information comprising one or more of a domain name of a web resource, a fully qualified URL, a partially qualified URL, a relative URL, or a keyword in the content associated with the first portion of the information. Contains-; Means for ranking a plurality of pieces of information A second part of the information is associated with the first part of the information based on a specified ranking, The first portion of information may comprise the web page, a text document associated with the web page, a blog entry associated with the web page, a wiki associated with the web page, an image file associated with the web page, an audio file associated with the web page, or At least one of the multimedia files associated with the web page, The second piece of information is a note, an intranet page, a text document, an image file, an audio file, a search term, a search result, information related to an interface for a search engine, an RSS feed, news feed, information related to a chat session, notification based At least one of information related to the chat session, an instant message, a tag, a rating, an inlink, an outlink, or an advertisement; Means for generating a second portion of the information; Means for protecting a user's personal information; And Means for presenting the second portion of the information to the user along with the first portion of the information Including a portion of information. The method of claim 8, wherein the means for generating the second portion of information comprises: a text editor, a graphics application, an audio application, a multimedia application, a blogging application, a syndication application, a web publishing application, a chat application, an instant messaging application, a tagging application, And at least one of an evaluation application. A computer implemented system for associating information, At least one processor that facilitates associating information; Analyzing the content of the first portion of the information to produce a summary of the content of the first portion of information and using the anchoring information to associate the first portion of the information with a second portion of the information in computer memory; An association module running on at least one processor, wherein the content of the first portion of information is analyzed using TF-IDF technology to facilitate generation of the summary of the first portion of information; One or more of a domain name of a web resource, a fully qualified URL, a partially qualified URL, a relative URL, or a keyword in content associated with the first portion of the information; A ranking module that uses one or more classifiers to assign one or more rankings to the plurality of portions of information, wherein the second portion of the information is associated with the first portion of the information based on the designated ranking; Rendering module presenting a second portion of the information for use The first portion of information is associated with a first network service comprising a web page service providing a first portion of the information associated with at least one web page, at least one web page, at least one web page A text document associated with at least one web page, a blog entry associated with at least one web page, a wiki associated with at least one web page, an image file associated with at least one web page, an audio file associated with at least one web page, or at least one web page Is one of the multimedia files associated with The second portion of the information is associated with a second network service including one of a note service, a news feed service, a chat session service, a notification-based chat session service, an instant message or an advertising service, and notes, intranet pages, text. Documents, image files, audio files, search terms, search results, interface related information for search engines, RSS feeds, news feeds, information related to chat sessions, interfaces for information related to notification-based chat sessions, tags, ratings, One of inlink, outlink, or ad-; And Privacy module to protect the user's personal information of the associated module And a computer implemented system for associating information. delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete

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