Method and system for suggesting related documents
First Claim
1. A method for identifying, for a source document, at least one link to a target portion, each target portion being related to the source document, based on at least one reader annotated passage and where a reader annotated passage includes dynamically highlighting passages, terms, and adding text, the method comprising:
- identifying at least one reader annotated passage of the source document;
in response to said identifying at least one reader annotated passage identifying at least one target portion that is related to the at least one reader annotated passage of the source document; and
displaying in a display of the source document a selectable link for each identified target portion.
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Abstract
The method and system of this invention analyzes a document to generate margin or end notes of references to portions of other documents and other portions of the same documents that relate to annotated passages in the document or to the entire document. The method and system of the invention is responsive to the annotation of a passage of a document to generate a query that retrieves portions of documents that have similar content to the annotated passage. The retrieved portions are made available to the reader through selectable links placed in the margin near the annotated passage in a display of the document. Additionally, the method and system of the invention provides end notes with links to portions that are similar in content to the overall content of the annotated document. The method and system of the invention assists the reader by passively generating selectable links to related portions to assist the user in relating the new document to other portions of documents.
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31 Claims
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1. A method for identifying, for a source document, at least one link to a target portion, each target portion being related to the source document, based on at least one reader annotated passage and where a reader annotated passage includes dynamically highlighting passages, terms, and adding text, the method comprising:
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identifying at least one reader annotated passage of the source document;
in response to said identifying at least one reader annotated passage identifying at least one target portion that is related to the at least one reader annotated passage of the source document; and
displaying in a display of the source document a selectable link for each identified target portion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
determining if the selectable link has been selected; and
displaying the identified at least one target portion in response to the selection of the selectable link.
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15. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of identifying comprises the steps of:
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identifying a plurality of target portions as related to the source document;
clustering the identified plurality of target portions; and
selecting at least one of the identified plurality of target portions for each cluster that typifies all of the identified plurality of target portions documents within each respective cluster, wherein the selectable link references the selected at least one of the identified plurality of target portions.
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16. The method of claim 1, wherein the relatedness is determined based upon the similarity of the at least one target portion to the source document.
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17. An electronic document system for suggesting in a display of a source document at lest one target portion that is related to the source document, based on at least one reader annotated passage and where a reader annotated passage comprises dynamically highlighting a passage, terms, adding text, the system comprising:
- a processor that identifies at least one reader annotated passage of the source document and that identifies at least one target portion as related to the reader annotated passage of the source document;
in response to said processor identifying at least one reader annotated passage of the source document and a display that displays a selectable link that references the identified at least one target portion in a display of the source document. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
- a processor that identifies at least one reader annotated passage of the source document and that identifies at least one target portion as related to the reader annotated passage of the source document;
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