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Method, device and system for processing, browsing and searching an electronic documents

  • US 8,788,494 B2
  • Filed: 08/19/2009
  • Issued: 07/22/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An electronic document browsing method, the method comprising steps of:

  • creating, while the author is composing the electronic document, one or more queries according to content of the electronic document, and storing, in a computer, the created one or more queries with the electronic document, the created one or more queries including one or more of;

    keywords, keyword strings and questions, related to the content to the electronic document, the creating the queries including;

    calculating relevance degree of a term vector of a previous text segment and a term vector of a current text segment, the term vector of the previous text segment including a weight of each word included in the previous text segment, the term vector of the current text segment including a weight of each word included in the current text segment;

    if the relevance degree is higher than a threshold,decreasing the term vector of the previous text segment by values of multiplications of every weight of the each word of the previous text segment and an attenuation factor;

    merging the term vector of the previous text segment and the term vector of the current text segment;

    replacing the term vector of the previous text segment with the merged term vector;

    merging the previous text segment with the current text segment; and

    replacing the current text segment with the merged text segment;

    if the relevance degree is less than or equal to the threshold,replacing the term vector of the previous text segment with the term vector of the current text segment; and

    replacing the current text segment with the previous text segment;

    receiving, at the computer, a second query from a user;

    searching, by the computer, the created one or more queries which are same or related to the second query;

    presenting, by the computer, the user with the one or more searched queries which are same or related to the second query;

    reading, by the user, the one or more presented queries;

    selecting, by the user, one of the one or more presented queries; and

    presenting, by the computer, the user with the content of said electronic document corresponding to the selected query.

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