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Context generation from active viewing region for context sensitive searching

  • US 9,292,504 B2
  • Filed: 12/15/2011
  • Issued: 03/22/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • retrieving a document;

    receiving a user-selection of a portion of the document;

    rendering and displaying the user-selected portion of the document in a window of a browser, wherein the user-selected portion of the document comprises less than an entirety of the document;

    identifying the user-selected portion of the document, that is rendered and displayed in the window of the browser, as an active viewing region based on whether the user-selected portion of the document is displayed within the window of the browser for at least a minimum threshold period of time;

    determining a number of times that the user-selected portion of the document has been rendered and displayed in a browser for viewing by a user and other first users and identified as the active viewing region;

    determining an amount of time that the user and other second users have viewed the user-selected portion of the document rendered and displayed in a browser and identified as the active viewing region;

    scanning the identified active viewing region to generate a scan;

    generating context from the scan of the identified active viewing region; and

    executing a search of a corpus of documents using the generated context and the amount of time that the user and the other second users have viewed the user-selected portion of the document rendered and displayed in a browser and identified as the active viewing region.

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