Content of electronic documents

• US 20030176996A1
• Filed: 02/05/2003
• Published: 09/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Lecarpentier, Francois-Xavier
• Application Number:
  US10/359,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20030176996A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/221 Parsing markup language streams streaming G06F40/149

Abstract

A method of adapting the content of an electronic document, comprising:

a) identifying a data type that may be expressed in a plurality of formats;

b) analysing the document to find data of the identified type and

c) changing the format of the data to a reader-preferred format so that the adapted content may be displayed to the reader.

Claims

1. A method of adapting the content of an electronic document, comprising:

a) identifying a data type that may be expressed in a plurality of formats;

b) analysing the document to find data of the identified type; and

c) changing the format of the data to a reader-preferred format so that the adapted content may be displayed to the reader.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the adapted content is displayed with the unadapted content.

3. A method according to claim 1 wherein the adapted content is displayed to the reader on request.

4. A method according to claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein the unadapted data, when displayed, is marked or otherwise highlighted to indicate to the reader that it may also be displayed in an adapted format.

5. A method according to any one of the preceding claims further comprising a toggle facility whereby a reader may toggle between the unadapted and adapted contents.

6. A method according to claim 5 wherein the toggle is effected using a mouse roll-over function.

7. A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the document is analysed by searching for occurrences of the identified data.

8. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 6 wherein the document is analysed by searching for tags indicative of the presence of the identified data.

9. A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the electronic document is a web page and wherein the analysis is performed using HTML, XML or other such markup language tags.

10. A method according to anyone of the preceding claims wherein the adapted content is expressed in the same natural language as the unadapted content.

11. A system operative to adapt the content of an electronic document based on a reader'"'"'s cultural identity, comprising:

a) a data type identifying element;

b) a document analyser operative to locate data of the identified type; and

c) a content modifier operative to modify the format of the data to a reader-preferred format, whereby the modified content may be displayed to the reader.

12. A system according to claim 11 wherein the data type identifying element is operatively associated with a reader-preferences database, the analyser comprises a search engine operative to identity occurrences of the identified data and/or to locate document tags, the content modifier also being operatively associated with the reader-preferences database.

13. A system operative to adapt the content of a web document based on a reader'"'"'s cultural identity, comprising:

a) a data type identifying element;

b) a document analyser operative to locate data of the identified type by locating content markup tags embedded within the document; and

c) a content modifier operative to modify the format of the data to a reader-preferred format, whereby the modified content may be displayed to the reader.