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Visual representation of supplemental information for a digital work

  • US 10,108,706 B2
  • Filed: 09/27/2011
  • Issued: 10/23/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • one or more processors; and

    one or more non-transitory computer-readable media maintaining instructions executable by the one or more processors of an electronic device to perform operations comprising;

    displaying a digital work on a display of the electronic device, the digital work including text content;

    receiving a selection of an object of text identified in the digital work;

    determining, from an index, a first location in the digital work of an occurrence of the object;

    displaying a visual representation of the first location of the occurrence of the object, the visual representation including;

    a first side representative of a beginning of the digital work;

    a second side representative of an end of the digital work;

    an area located between the first side and the second side representative of a length of the text content; and

    a marking located in the area, wherein the marking is proportional to the first location of the occurrence of the object in the text content of the digital work out of the text content of the digital work;

    determining a second location that the user has reached in the digital work;

    determining an amount of the digital work between the second location that the user has reached and the end of the digital work;

    generating an opaque screen sized, wherein a size of the opaque screen is based at least in part on the amount of the digital work between the second location that the user has reached and the end of the digital work;

    determining a portion of the visual representation corresponding to the amount of the digital work between the second location that the user has reached and the end of the digital work; and

    hiding, by the opaque screen, the portion of the visual representation corresponding to the amount of the digital work between the second location that the user has reached and the end of the digital work.

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