READING AND INFORMATION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20110087956A1
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Published: 04/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kenneth Nathaniel Sherman
• Original Assignee: Kenneth Nathaniel Sherman
• Inventors: Choi, Andrew Hyungwoo, Livingston, Andrew Michael, Sherman, Kenneth Nathaniel
• Granted Patent: US 9,489,853 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/233
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/31 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/316 Indexing structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/328 Management therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9017 using directory or table look-up use of a directory or look-up table in file systems G06F16/13
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/247 Thesauruses; Synonyms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F

Abstract

A written document (hereinafter referred to as a “work,” on electronic format which includes, stories, novels, education texts, biographies, compilations, collections, anthologies, tracts, and any other traditional format for relatively extensive texts) provides access to reference, bibliography and/or definition material through an electronic software capability associated with the work. Depending upon reader access information or characteristics (e.g., age, grade, proficiency, or position within the work or any other identifiable reader characteristic or access limitation), any request for reference material, definitions, explanations, translations, or other material provided in the associated software capability is automatically limited by system acknowledgement of the reader access information or characteristics. As the reader'"'"'s access information or characteristics change, the quality and/or quantity and/or format of requested information with respect to a work changes.

Claims

1. A method of a user accessing information relevant to an electronic text being read by activating a button on an electronic text, the electronic text supported on:

a reading device comprising a viewer screen, a processor, and a memory, the memory storing text the electronic text and a reference system containing multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text;

the reading device also having user input to activate the button at various positions within the electronic text;

the memory identifying a position of the words or terms within the electronic text and different buttons for the same term providing a different one of said multiple, accessible data entries from at least two of said buttons depending upon a location of the button within the electronic text; and

the reading device providing an image on the viewer screen that contains the different one of said multiple, accessible data entries provided according to the location of the button within the electronic text.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the memory stores the reference system in an electronic look-up file.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the look-up file has an index corresponding to words or terms within the electronic text according to a specific position within the electronic text.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the look-up file has an index corresponding to words or terms within the electronic text according to a range of positions within the electronic text.

5. The method of claim 2 wherein the look-up file has an index corresponding to words or terms within the electronic text according to ranges of positions within the electronic text.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein at least some of the ranges of positions within the electronic text include more than three distinct positions of the words or terms within the electronic text.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the electronic text in memory is maintained in one file and the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text is maintained in a separate file from the electronic text, and activating a button on a keyword or key-phrase in the electronic text, directs the processor to cross-reference the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text and to display a position relevant data entry with respect to the position of the button within the electronic text.

8. The method of claim 2 wherein the electronic text in memory is maintained in one file and the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text is maintained in a separate file from the electronic text, and activating a button on a keyword or key-phrase in the electronic text, directs the processor to cross-reference the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text and to display a position relevant data entry with respect to the position of the button within the electronic text.

9. The method of claim 3 wherein the electronic text in memory is maintained in one file and the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text is maintained in a separate file from the electronic text, and activating a button on a keyword or key-phrase in the electronic text, directs the processor to cross-reference the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text and to display a position relevant data entry with respect to the position of the button within the electronic text.

10. The method of claim 4 wherein the electronic text in memory is maintained in one file and the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text is maintained in a separate file from the electronic text, and activating a button on a keyword or key-phrase in the electronic text, directs the processor to cross-reference the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text and to display a position relevant data entry with respect to the position of the button within the electronic text.

11. The method of claim 5 wherein the electronic text in memory is maintained in one file and the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text is maintained in a separate file from the electronic text, and activating a button on a keyword or key-phrase in the electronic text, directs the processor to cross-reference the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text and to display a position relevant data entry with respect to the position of the button within the electronic text.

12. The method of claim 6 wherein the electronic text in memory is maintained in one file and the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text is maintained in a separate file from the electronic text, and activating a button on a keyword or key-phrase in the electronic text, directs the processor to cross-reference the multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text and to display a position relevant data entry with respect to the position of the button within the electronic text.

13. A method of providing an electronic text with a reference system containing multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text, the method comprising:

downloading the electronic text to a memory associated with a display screen;

providing to the memory a reference system containing multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text;

providing buttons to the electronic text on key word or key terms in the electronic text that cause a processor accessing the memory having the reference system containing multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text to display on the display screen only a single accessible data entry on the key word or key term button according to a relative location of the key word or the key term within the electronic text.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the reference system is downloaded and the downloading also overlays buttons throughout the text on predetermined key words or key terms, the reference system containing multiple, accessible data entries on the key words or key terms within the electronic text.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein providing the reference system containing multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text is done by downloading a file containing the reference system containing multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text in a look-up table into the memory.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein providing the reference system containing multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text is done by a writer adding multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text and associating those multiple, accessible data entries on words or terms within the electronic text to progressive locations of the key words or key terms within the electronic text.

17. An electronic text display system comprising:

a display screen;

a processor; and

a memory;

the memory having a display readable text embedded therein;

the memory having multiple, accessible data entries on key words or key terms within the electronic text; and

the processor configured to;

a) cause the display screen to display a readable text;

b) cause the readable text to have buttons on key words or key terms in the readable text;

c) respond to activation of a button at a location within the electronic text by displaying an accessible data entry dedicated to both the key word or key term and the location of the key word or key term within the electronic text.

18. The electronic text display of claim 17 wherein the accessible data entry is selected from the group consisting of prewritten text, an online connection to a source and active video content related to the key word or key term at that location.