US Patent 10984180 Electronic document supplementation with online social networking information

A system and method includes receiving content of an electronic document during a time the content is being entered into an electronic document by a user by via an electronic document editor application. A content characteristic is extracted from the content and transmitted to an online data source. A content item related to the content characteristic is received from the online data source. A user interface presents the content item concurrently with the electronic document editor application.