TIME-BASED VIEWING OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS

Patent №

US 8,453,048

Granted

2013-05-28

Filed 2011

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

2

nlp · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13042324

Various embodiments provide techniques for time-based viewing of electronic documents. Examples of electronic documents include websites, webpages, text documents, web-based documents, and so on. In at least some embodiments, a time-based viewer is provided that enables a user to select a particular date and/or time for which to view an electronic document. The user can then navigate through the electronic document and view how the document will appear or did appear at the selected date and/or time. In at least some embodiments, a page container is provided that can include definitions for different versions of a page of an electronic document. According to some embodiments, the different versions of the page can correspond to different publication dates for the page. In some implementations, the time-based viewer can access a page container to retrieve a particular version of a page for display.

Natural languageAI hardwareG06F 40/166G06F 40/134G06F 40/197

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware1.00
Planning0.14
Knowledge representation0.05
Machine learning0.03
Evolutionary computation0.02
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 259140486

Assignors

KENNETH HOLT, ROBERT RICHARD, HADDAN, CHRISTOPHER N.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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