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Displaying the meaning of selected text

  • US 10,229,335 B2
  • Filed: 02/23/2015
  • Issued: 03/12/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for information processing, comprising:

  • receiving through optical character recognition, by a user'"'"'s computer, a file that contains text and encoding the text in ASCII code or Unicode;

    displaying, by the user'"'"'s computer, the text on a display screen of the computer;

    reading an entry record of the user, and an entry record of another user that is indicated as related to the user, from a knowledge repository, each entry record at least including an entry name, a meaning of the entry name, a date of creation, a similarity to the entry name represented by a numerical value, an owner, and a relationship with the owner;

    highlighting text among the displayed text on the user'"'"'s current screen which is consistent with the entry name in the entry records according to a display pattern based on the numerical value of the similarity read from the knowledge repository of the text to the entry name, text highlighted darker to indicate a low numerical value with low similarity and lighter to indicate a higher numerical value with high similarity; and

    displaying the meanings of the entry name in response to an action of the user that includes any one of;

    clicking the text which is consistent with the entry name in the entry record, hovering a pointer of a mouse over a display area of the text which is consistent with the entry name in the entry record, and selecting the text which is consistent with the entry name in the entry record.

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