Method and apparatus for improved information representation

• US 20050234893A1
• Filed: 03/25/2005
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Original Assignee: Surfnotes Inc.
• Inventors: Hirsch, Scott
• Granted Patent: US 7,882,115 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A information search and navigation system indexes, categorizes and condenses data from text or other documents. In various embodiments, the invention further can utilize user information goals, document or website types and multi-page link path options that together provide a fast, multi-page Web navigation system.

Claims

1. A method of representing source content to allow for flexible access comprising:

receiving source content;

determining one or more categories for said source content; and

extracting one or more notes from said source content, said one or more notes assigned to one or more categories.

2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

making said notes available for user access over at least two different user interfaces.

4. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

formatting said presenting for an access device according to one or more templates.

5. The method according to claim 4 further comprising:

formatting said presenting for a display device so that more notes are displayed on larger display areas and fewer notes are displayed on smaller display areas; and

providing control selections allowing selectable display of notes in a note set regardless of display size.

6. The method according to claim 5 further comprising:

formatting said presenting based on a user information goal.

9. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

applying a set of parsing rules in an automatic parser for extracting notes from said source content.

10. The method according to claim 9 wherein said parsing rules includes rules that identify key sentences from sentence structure and punctuation.

11. The method according to claim 9 wherein said parsing rules includes rules that identify important names or phrases by reference to a database.

13. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

identifying a classification for said source content; and

using said classification in determining said one or more categories.

14. The method according to claim 9 further comprising:

identifying a classification for said source content; and

using said classification in selecting parsing rules to apply to said source content.

15. The method according to claim 13 wherein said identifying a classification is performed manually.

16. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

accepting user search criteria associated with one or more of said categories; and

locating a document based on finding said search criteria in said one or more categories.

17. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

exporting one or more notes into Word, Excel or other common user file formats.

18. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

storing said notes in a database.

19. The method according to claim 1 wherein said parsing places single word subjects or sets of proper nouns into some categories.

31. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

extracting key sentences from said source; and

using said key sentences to represent said source.

3. (canceled)

7. (canceled)

8. (canceled)

12. (canseled)

20. A method for identifying documents of interest to a user comprising:

accepting input terms from a user, at least one of said terms associated with a category;

performing a general search of a universe of documents to derived a set of returned documents;

parsing said returned documents according to a set of parsing rules into one or more categories; and

scoring said returned documents by reevaluating parsed text of documents in light of said search terms.

21-29. -29. (canceled)

30. A method of selecting important content from a source using a logic device comprising:

identifying sentences in said content;

analyzing sentences based on sentence structure and punctuation; and

determining key sentences based on sentence structure and punctuation.

34. A media capable of storing digital data representing logic functions that when installed into appropriately configured information processing device will cause the device to operate in accordance with the method of claim 30.

32. (canceled)