Webpage DOM Model for Universal Writing Assistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a lack of effective tools for providing advanced writing assistance to users of web-based content, as existing tools are limited in functionality and often specific to certain websites, failing to adapt to different web-based content structures.
Innovation Solution
A data processing system and method that utilizes a Document Object Model (DOM) to analyze and monitor the structure of webpages, providing writing assistance features such as spellcheck, grammar checking, and style checking by constructing a model of the webpage, detecting changes, and rendering annotations over the webpage without requiring prior knowledge of its structure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If writing assistance tools are tailored to specific websites, then they can provide accurate assistance for that website, but they cannot provide assistance across different web-based content types
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal writing assistance system that works across different web-based content types by using DOM traversal and content classification. The system analyzes the structure and content of any webpage dynamically, rather than requiring separate configurations for each website. This allows a single tool to provide spell checking, grammar checking, and style checking across emails, social media posts, blogs, and other online content.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically analyzes webpage structure and content type without requiring manual configuration. It traverses the DOM tree, identifies content elements, and adapts its assistance features based on the detected content type. This self-service approach eliminates the need for users to manually tailor the tool to each specific website or content type.
2Reliability
If advanced writing assistance tools are provided, then writing quality improves, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the writing assistance functionality into distinct modules: spell checking, grammar checking, and style checking. Each module operates independently on different aspects of the text content. The system also segments the webpage analysis into DOM traversal, content identification, and content type classification. This modular segmentation allows comprehensive writing assistance while managing system complexity through organized, independent components.
3Ease of operation
If writing assistance features are added to web browsers, then user experience improves, but browser performance may be impacted
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by selectively analyzing only the text content elements that require writing assistance, rather than processing the entire webpage. It uses content type detection to determine which elements should receive spell checking, grammar checking, or style checking. This selective approach provides comprehensive writing assistance while minimizing the processing overhead and performance impact on the browser.
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AI summary
Techniques for providing writing assistance features a web browser or a native application including an embedded web browser herein include detecting that a webpage has been rendered by the web browser; analyzing a structure of the webpage to determine a topology of the webpage by accessing a Document Object Model (DOM) of the webpage and traversing the DOM of the webpage to identify nodes comprising the webpage to determine the topology of the webpage; construct a model of the webpage based on the topology, wherein the model of the webpage is configured to automatically monitor the topology of the webpage and to update the model based on detected changes to the webpage; detect, using the model, a change in textual content of an input element of the webpage; obtain annotation information associated with the textual content; and render the annotations over at least a portion of the webpage.