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Abstract

The present invention solves the problems of the prior art by providing customized content-sensitive indexes, created for each reader from previously supplied user profiles. Information is provided in advance by the user for the creation of a sophisticated index scanning all articles in a given publication. User supplied factors and relationships between factors, as well as scanning criteria, identify the specific information most useful to the reader. For example, the customer may provide a request to have all articles relating to 'n', where 'n' is a key phrase or word relating to some area of interest. The system would then scan the content of a magazine and retrieve all articles where that key phrase or word appears 'x' times and at least one of those times is 'y' words away from 'z'. The indexes themselves are attached or otherwise provided, via fax, Internet, etc., for use with the physical magazine and can quickly and easily identify only those articles known to be of interest to the reader, segregating them from perhaps hundreds of less important articles. This custom index thus makes it possible for a consumer to locate articles which are highly likely to be of interest--a problem that would otherwise be impractical to solve without a wastefully large investment of time.

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