Efficient review of data

• US 7,970,616 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2007
• Issued: 06/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ronald M. Dapkunas
• Original Assignee: Ronald M. Dapkunas
• Inventors: Dapkunas, Ronald M.
• Primary Examiner(s): ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS
• Application Number:
  US11/781,341
• Publication Number:
  US 20090030669A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,436 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/270
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/157 using dictionaries or tables

Abstract

A server may provide information to a processing device for displaying a parser user interface. The displayed parser user interface may include an input portal for inputting text input. The parser user interface may further include controls for selecting a level of compression. Upon selection of one of the controls, the server may process the text input and may produce text output which may include a placeholder symbol to replace specific words from the text input and/or abbreviated representations to replace other specific words from the text input. The server may send information to the processing device to display the produced text output, as well as other information. The server may further provide information to the processing device for displaying a speed reader user interface. The speed reader user interface may include controls for starting, stopping, and pausing a speed reading operation as well as other controls.

Claims

1. A machine-implemented method for compressing language input, including a plurality of words, the machine-implemented method comprising:

receiving the language input including the plurality of words;

determining whether respective ones of the plurality of words match any of a plurality of words to be deleted;

copying ones of the plurality of words of the language input to language output when the ones of the plurality of words do not match any of the plurality of words to be deleted;

copying a placeholder symbol to the language output for each of the ones of the plurality of words that match any of the plurality of words to be deleted;

receiving a selection of a portion of a word included in the language output; and

providing a definition relating to the selected portion of the word, wherein

the machine-implemented method is performed by a processing device.

2. The machine-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether respective ones of the plurality of words of the language input match any of a plurality of words to be abbreviated; and

copying a corresponding abbreviated word to the language output with respect to each of the respective ones of the plurality of words of the language input that match any of the plurality of words to be abbreviated.

3. The machine-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving an indication of a desired level of compression, the indicated desired level of compression determining the plurality of words to be deleted and the plurality of words to be abbreviated.

4. The machine-implemented method of claim 3, wherein:

when the desired level of compression is a first level of compression, the plurality of words to be deleted include articles, and

when the desired level of compression is a second level of compression, the plurality of words to be deleted include the articles and adjectives.

5. The machine-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing information for presenting the language output at a configurable rate, one word at a time.

6. The machine-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving information with respect to a selection of a respective placeholder symbol included in the provided language output; and

providing information for replacing the respective placeholder symbol in the language output with at least one of the plurality of words corresponding to the respective placeholder symbol.

7. The machine-implemented method of claim 1,

wherein the receiving a selection of a portion of a word included in the language output further comprises:

receiving a selection of a prefix, a root, or a suffix of the word included in the language output.

8. A processing device comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory connected to the at least one processor, the memory comprising;

instructions for receiving language input including a plurality of words,

instructions for producing and displaying language output based on the received language input,

instructions for receiving a selection of a portion of a word included in the language output,

instructions for providing a definition relating to the selected portion of the word, and

instructions for presenting, one word at a time at a given rate, the plurality of words of the language output or the plurality of words of the received language input.

9. The processing device of claim 8, wherein the memory further comprises:

instructions for skipping to a different position in the language input for presentation, in response to receiving a command to skip to the different position in the language input.

10. The processing device of claim 8, wherein the memory further comprises:

instructions for adjusting the given rate of the presenting of the plurality of words of the received language input or the plurality of words of the language output in response to receiving a command to adjust the given rate.

11. The processing device of claim 8, wherein the instructions for receiving the language input further comprise:

instructions for receiving the language input as speech input including the plurality of words, and

instructions for converting the speech input to text.

12. The processing device of claim 8, wherein the instructions for presenting the received language input or the language output further comprise:

instructions for displaying, at a same given position of a display screen, each of the words of the language input or the language output, one word at a time.

13. The processing device of claim 8, wherein instructions for receiving the language input further comprise:

instructions for receiving the language input as text placed into a displayed portal.

14. A machine-implemented method comprising:

providing information for presenting a user interface to a user, the user interface including a portal for textual input;

receiving the textual input, provided via the portal, into a storage medium, the received textual input including a plurality of words;

searching for at least particular ones of articles or adjectives included in the plurality of words included in the storage medium;

replacing the at least particular ones of the articles or the adjectives found in the plurality of words in the storage medium with at least one placeholder symbol;

providing information for presenting textual output to the user, the textual output including at least some of the plurality of words and the at least one placeholder symbol from the storage medium after performing the replacing;

receiving a selection of a portion of a word included in the textual output; and

providing a definition relating to the selected portion of the word.

15. The machine-implemented of claim 14, wherein

the presented user interface includes at least one selectable icon for selecting a level of compression from among a plurality of levels of compression, the selected level of compression determining which of the plurality of words included in the storage medium are to be replaced with the at least one placeholder symbol.

16. The machine-implemented method of claim 15, wherein:

the selected level of compression further determines which of the plurality of words included in the storage medium are to be replaced with a corresponding abbreviated representation, and

the textual output includes the corresponding abbreviated representation.

17. The machine-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving information with respect to a selection of one of the at least one placeholder symbol in the textual output; and

replacing the selected one of the at least one placeholder symbol in the textual output with a corresponding one of the replaced at least particular ones of the articles or the adjectives, as a result of the receiving of the information with respect to the selection of the one of the at least one placeholder symbol in the textual output.

18. The machine-implemented method of claim 14, wherein:

the user interface includes a link to a speed reading user interface,

the machine-implemented method further comprising;

providing information for presenting the speed reading interface as a result of receiving information with respect to a selection of the link to the speed reading interface, the presented speed reading interface including a text input portal; and

providing information for displaying, at a same given location of a display screen and at a given rate, one word or symbol at a time from the text input portal.

19. The machine-implemented method of claim 18, wherein:

the text input portal includes text from the presented textual output to the user, and

the displaying of one word or symbol at a time further comprises displaying respective ones of the at least one placeholder symbol corresponding to the replaced at least particular ones of the articles or the adjectives.

20. The machine-implemented method of claim 18, further comprising:

receiving information with respect to a selection of a selectable icon from the speed reading user interface to adjust the given rate.