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Facility for highlighting documents accessed through search or browsing

  • US 7,660,813 B2
  • Filed: 10/21/2005
  • Issued: 02/09/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer implemented method of enhancing query results provided independent of a search engine, the method comprising:

  • sending a query to an independent search engine;

    create a context based at least in part upon a user model;

    receiving query results from the search engine;

    retrieving at least one document identifying by the query results;

    displaying the at least one document;

    identifying at least one name of a person or a company within the at least one document;

    generating a list of the at least one name of a person or company in a separate window from the at least one document, wherein each name is provide with features to navigate to occurrences of the name in the at least one document;

    dividing the document into sections, and generating a relevancy score for each section based upon the context; and

    automatically scrolling to a section of the document with a highest relevancy score.

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