User-determinable method and system for manipulating and displaying textual and graphical information

• US 20100235331A1
• Filed: 03/16/2009
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bert A. Silich
• Original Assignee: Bert A. Silich
• Inventors: Silich, Bert A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,874,529 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/692
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

One or more aspects of the invention include transforming source data in order to display a work product. A plurality of rules relating to content manipulation of the source data include at least one rule relating to content selection and at least one rule relating to content compression. Source data for content manipulation may also be received. A selected portion of the source data and a compressed portion of the source data may be formed. The compressed portion may then be received and presented on a computer a work product.

Claims

1. A system for transforming source data in order to display a work product, the system comprising at least one computer configured to:

receive a plurality of rules relating to content manipulation of the source data including at least one rule relating to content selection and at least one rule relating to content compression;

receive the source data for content manipulation;

select at least a portion of the source data according to the at least one rule relating to content selection to form a selected portion;

compress the selected portion of the source data according to the at least one rule relating to content compression to form a compressed portion; and

display the compressed portion, the compressed portion being the work product.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein

the plurality of rules relating to content manipulation of the source data includes at least two rules relating to content selection, the at least two rules comprising

a first rule for selecting primary content and

a second rule for selecting secondary content, wherein

the primary content has greater significance to a user than the secondary content;

and wherein

the at least one computer is further configured to display the work product such that the primary content has greater significance to a user than the secondary content.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one computer is further configured to:

receive a plurality of customization rules relating to customizing the display of the work product; and

customize the work product according to one or more of the plurality of customization rules.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein

the at least one rule relating to content compression includes at least one rule relating to an integrity, a position, or a compression format of the source data;

and

the at least one computer is further configured to manipulate the compressed portion based on the at least one rule relating to the integrity, position, or compression format.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein

the work product is presented on at least one device selected from the group consisting of personal digital assistants (PDAs), smartphones, cellphones, mobile devices, personal media players, and e-book readers.

6. The system of claim 1 further comprising

a database in communication with the at least one computer so that the at least one computer may retrieve reference information from the database for inclusion in the work product.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein

the at least one computer is further configured to present the work product aurally, visually, or both.

8. A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer readable medium comprising instructions for transforming source data in order to display a work product, the computer program product further comprising:

instructions for receiving a plurality of rules relating to content manipulation of the source data including at least one rule relating to content selection and at least one rule relating to content compression;

instructions for receiving the source data for content manipulation;

instructions for selecting at least a portion of the source data according to the at least one rule relating to content selection to form a selected portion;

instructions for compressing the selected portion of the source data according to the at least one rule relating to content compression to form a compressed portion; and

instructions for displaying the compressed portion, the compressed portion being the work product.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the compressed portion has less content than the source data.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein

the plurality of rules relating to content manipulation of the source data further includes at least two rules relating to content selection, the at least two rules comprising

a first rule for selecting primary content and

a second rule for selecting secondary content, wherein

the primary content has greater significance to a user than the secondary content;

and wherein

the computer program product has instructions for displaying the work product such that the primary content has greater significance to a user than the secondary content.

11. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein

the at least one rule relating to content compression includes one or more rules relating to removing source data that is not selected.

12. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein

the at least one rule relating to content compression includes one or more rules relating to removing only the selected portion of the source data.

13. The computer program product of claim 8 further comprising:

instructions for receiving a plurality of customization rules relating to customizing the display of the work product; and

instructions for customizing the work product according to one or more of the plurality of customization rules.

14. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein

the at least one rule relating to content compression includes at least one rule relating to an integrity, a position, or a compression format of the source data;

and

the computer program product further comprises one or more instructions for receiving the compressed portion based on at least two of the rules relating to the integrity, position, or compression format.

15. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the selected portion is blocked by highlighting, boldfacing, underlining, italicizing, or any combination thereof.

16. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the work product is displayed as an outline using at least one outlining format selected from the group consisting of roman numerals, bullet-points, and numbers.

17. The computer program product of claim 8 further comprising instructions for preventing changes to the order of the content of the source data such that the meaning of the content is unaltered.

18. The computer program product of claim 8 further comprising instructions to present the work product aurally, visually, or both.

19. A computer-implemented method for transforming source data in order to display a work product, the computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a plurality of rules on a computer relating to content manipulation of the source data including at least one rule relating to content selection and at least one rule relating to content compression;

receiving on a computer the source data for content manipulation;

selecting with an input means in communication with the at least one computer at least a portion of the source data according to the at least one rule relating to content selection to form a selected portion;

compressing the selected portion of the source data according to the at least one rule relating to content compression to form a compressed portion; and

receiving the compressed portion on the computer, the compressed portion being a work product.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising presenting the work product aurally, visually, or both.