Samsung patents app that formats text summaries via server
Samsung has filed a patent for an electronic device that lets users choose a specific style for text summaries. The device sends a request to a server, which processes the text and returns the summary in the chosen format.
In the filing’s own words
Disclosed are an electronic device for summarizing text content according to a format and an operation method therefor. An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a memory including instructions. The electronic device includes a processor for executing the instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to generate a prompt for requesting summarization of text content in a predefined format, in response to receiving a prompt requesting to summarize the text content in the predefined format. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to transmit the prompt to a server that summaries the text content. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to receive, from the server, summary content of the text content generated based on the prompt.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: memory storing instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to: receive a selection of a target format from a display menu of a set of predefined formats for text content; generate a prompt requesting the text content to be summarized in the target format; transmit the prompt to a server configured to summarize the text content; and receive, from the server, summary content of the text content generated based on the prompt using the target format.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SUMMARIZING TEXT CONTENT ACCORDING TO FORMAT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREFOR
- Publication number
- US20260320280A1
- Application number
- 19708044
- Filed
- Jun 15, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 19
Classified under
G06F 40/103 Physics & computingG06F 40/166 Physics & computingG06F 3/0482 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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