SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANNOTATING DOCUMENTS USING A VIEWER
First Claim
1. A method for annotating a document in a viewer, comprising:
- associating the document with a user;
identifying one or more sub-document elements in the document;
augmenting the document by making words within the document selectable;
displaying the augmented document in the viewer; and
responsive to each user input selecting a word in the document displayed in the viewer, further augmenting the document displayed in the viewer by inserting the selected word following the sub-document element from which the word was selected.
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Abstract
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture therefor, are disclosed for annotating documents in a viewer. In one embodiment, the method includes: associating the document with a user; identifying one or more sub-document elements in the document; augmenting the document by making words within the document selectable; displaying the augmented document in the viewer; and responsive to each user input selecting a word in the document displayed in the viewer, further augmenting the document displayed in the viewer by inserting the selected word following the sub-document element from which the word was selected.
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22 Claims
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1. A method for annotating a document in a viewer, comprising:
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associating the document with a user; identifying one or more sub-document elements in the document; augmenting the document by making words within the document selectable; displaying the augmented document in the viewer; and responsive to each user input selecting a word in the document displayed in the viewer, further augmenting the document displayed in the viewer by inserting the selected word following the sub-document element from which the word was selected. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for annotating a document in a viewer, comprising:
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associating the document with a user; identifying one or more sub-document elements in the document; augmenting the document by inserting a tagging comment field after identified sub-document elements; displaying the augmented document in the viewer; and responsive to each user input selecting a word in the document displayed in the viewer, further augmenting the document displayed in the viewer by inserting the selected word in the tagging comment field corresponding to the sub-document element from which the word was selected. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for annotating a document in a viewer, comprising:
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identifying one or more sub-document elements in the document; computing a unique identifier for identified sub-document elements in the document; augmenting the located sub-document elements of the document with annotations associated with sub-document elements stored in a database that have comparable unique identifiers; displaying the augmented document in the viewer; and responsive to each user input selecting a word in a document displayed in a viewer, recording in the database the selected word and the computed unique identifier of the sub-document element from which the word was selected.
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