Displaying in a first document a selectable link to a second document based on a passive query
First Claim
1. A method for displaying in a display of a previously authored first document, at least one link to another document, each other document being related to the first document, the method comprising:
- identifying at least one annotated segment of the first document entered by a reader while reading the first document;
identifying at least one second document that is related to the at least one annotated segment of the first document; and
displaying in the first document a selectable link for each of the at least one second document, wherein the selectable link for each of the at least one second document is displayed in the first document in response to a query passively generated by each annotation marking by the reader while reading the first document, wherein said annotation marking is a non-textual marking to annotate a textual segment used as a basis of the query.
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Abstract
The document reading system passively analyzes a document to generate margin or end notes of references to other documents that relate to annotated passages in the document or to the entire document. The invention is responsive to the annotation of a document to passively generate a query that retrieves documents that have similar content to the annotated passage. The retrieved documents are available to the reader through selectable links placed in the margin near the annotation. Additionally, the invention provides end notes with links to documents that are similar in content to the overall content of the annotated document. The invention assists the reader by passively generating selectable links to related documents to assist the user in relating the new document to previously read material.
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32 Claims
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1. A method for displaying in a display of a previously authored first document, at least one link to another document, each other document being related to the first document, the method comprising:
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identifying at least one annotated segment of the first document entered by a reader while reading the first document;
identifying at least one second document that is related to the at least one annotated segment of the first document; and
displaying in the first document a selectable link for each of the at least one second document, wherein the selectable link for each of the at least one second document is displayed in the first document in response to a query passively generated by each annotation marking by the reader while reading the first document, wherein said annotation marking is a non-textual marking to annotate a textual segment used as a basis of the query. - 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 second document in response to the selection of the selectable link.
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11. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of identifying comprises the steps of:
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identifying a plurality of second documents as related to the first document;
clustering the identified plurality of second documents; and
selecting at least one of the identified plurality of second documents for each cluster that typifies all of the identified plurality of second documents within each respective cluster, wherein the selectable link references the selected at least one of the identified plurality of second documents.
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12. The method of claim 1, wherein the relatedness is determined based upon the similarity of the contents of the at least one second document to the first document.
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13. The method of claim 12, further comprising the step of filtering out an identified at least one second document that is below a predetermined similarity threshold.
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14. The method of claim 1, wherein an icon representing the type of the identified at least one second document is displayed.
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15. The method of claim 1, wherein the title of the identified at least one second document is displayed.
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16. The method of claim 1, wherein a summary of the identified at least one second document is displayed.
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17. An electronic document system for suggesting in a display of a previously authored first document at least one second document that is related to the first document, the system comprising:
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a processor that identifies at least one annotated segment of the first document entered by a reader while reading the first document and that identifies at least one second document as related to the at least one annotated segment of the first document; and
a display that display a selectable link that references the identified at least one second document in a display of the first document, wherein the selectable link is displayed for each of the identified at least one second document in the display of the first document in response to a query passively generated by each annotation marking by the reader while reading the first document, wherein said annotation marking is a non-textual marking to annotate a textual segment used as a basis of the query. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A method for displaying in a display of a previously authored first document, at least one link to another document, each other document being related to the first document, the method comprising:
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selecting at least one annotated segment of the first document entered by a reader while reading the first document;
identifying at least one second document that is related to the at least one annotated segment of the first document; and
displaying in the first document a selectable link for each of the at least one second document, wherein the selectable link for each of the at least one second document is displayed in the first document in response to a query passively generated by each annotation marking by the reader while reading the first document, wherein said annotation marking is a non-textual marking to annotate a textual segment used as a basis of the query.
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