IDENTIFYING ACTIONS IN DOCUMENTS USING OPTIONS IN MENUS

摘要

Documents such as web pages may be regarded as offering various actions; e.g., a website for a movie theater may offer options for viewing movie listings and purchasing tickets. A user may wish to view the set of actions available for a particular document, and/or the performance of an action. However, it may be difficult to identify available actions with acceptable accuracy in an automated manner, and the set of documents (such as the entire worldwide web) may be too voluminous for human identification. In order to identify available actions, the document may be searched for menus containing options, and identifying the actions associated with each option according to an option score. Additionally, documents may be grouped into document categories (e.g., websites for movie theaters and websites for musicians) to facilitate the association options in similar documents with similar sets of actions that are often provided for such documents.

主权项

1. A method of identifying actions available for at least one document on a device having a processor, the method comprising:
executing on the processor instructions configured to:
for respective documents:
identify a document category of the document;identify at least one menu in the document;for respective menus, identify at least one option; andfor respective options, assign an option score to the option; andfor respective document categories, identify as actions the options having high option scores among the documents of the document category.