| 摘要 |
A user-customized card includes a tailored intergenerational historic snapshot message which informs 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 tailored to the ages of the people involved. The message may also be tailored to recite circumstances specific to a topic area or a geographic location. The message may be used in the text generally, and in photo captions specifically, for example. The card may be a greeting card, birthday card, gift card, or other card. Items other than cards may also be customized with such a message. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method of producing a customized card containing a tailored 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 within a sentence:
“from where you are” and a distance parameter,“was your age” and a familial relationship parameter,“when she/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 tailored historic snapshot message from the parameters and the template data structure; and including a version of the tailored historic snapshot message in an electronic version of the customized card, the customized card containing text tailored for at least one of the following subjects: an anniversary, a birthday, a congratulation, a gift, a graduation, a seasonal greeting, a holiday, an expression of sympathy.
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