US 12,253,971 B1
Contextualization of digital content
Zachary A. Silverstein, Georgetown, TX (US); Logan Bailey, Atlanta, GA (US); Jeremy R. Fox, Georgetown, TX (US); Melanie Dauber, Oceanside, NY (US); and Jacob Ryan Jepperson, St. Paul, MN (US)
Assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Oct. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/492,236.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/14 (2019.01); G06F 16/36 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/144 (2019.01) [G06F 16/367 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
generating a corpus of metadata associated with a user, the metadata including technical information about devices associated with the user and applications that execute on the devices, and interaction data describing usage of the devices and applications that execute on the devices;
orienting the metadata to ontological elements, including keywords and concepts, the orienting comprising relating items of the metadata to externally-available information to identify at least some of the ontological elements;
monitoring, by software executing on a device used by the user, user consumption of digital content on the device and identifying content elements of the digital content, the user consumption including loading the digital content for graphical presentation to the user;
comparing the identified content elements to the ontological elements to which the metadata is oriented, and identifying, based on the comparing, a target content element, of the identified content elements, to contextualize for the user with selected metadata of the corpus; and
modifying the digital content for graphical presentation to the user, the modifying providing added information, associated with the target content element, in the digital content, the added information including the selected metadata of the corpus.