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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Arunkumar Gururajan, Redmond, WA (US);
Mihai Aldea, Issaquah, WA (US);
Theodor J. Scott, Redmond, WA (US);
Kamal Choudhary, Redmond, WA (US);
Eugene Chudin, Kirkland, WA (US);
Si-Qing Chen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Daniel R. Snyder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michelle Keslin, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jeff D. Jarrard, Issaquah, WA (US);
Sanjeev Bagaria, Sammamish, WA (US);
John Hoegger, Woodinville, WA (US);
Cynthia Guo, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Tony Y. Tzeng, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Jin Hee Lim, Kirkland, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Automatic generation of document templates based on recognized composition element patterns in a group of clustered documents is provided. Composition elements used in documents are typically unique to a particular user or to a group of users. An automated template generation system detects composition element patterns in documents associated with a given user. Sequences of composition elements from one document are aligned with sequences of composition elements of one or more other documents. The aligned sequences are scored to generate a document distance matrix. The documents are clustered together based on the alignment scores and a document template is generated for each corresponding cluster of documents. In one or more aspects, selecting a document template and updating it results in a modified document template or, in certain cases, a new document template. The generated document templates are displayed in a user interface for selection by a user.