US Patent No: 6,457,026
Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000
System to facilitate reading a document
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Sep 24, 2002
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Sep 13, 2000
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09/661,184
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Abstract
An automatic reading assistance application for documents available in electronic form. An automatic annotator is provided which finds concepts of interest and keywords. The operation of the annotator is personalizable for a particular user. The annotator is also capable of improving its performance overtime by both automatic and manual feedback. The annotator is usable with any electronic document. Another available feature is a thumbnail image of all or part of a multi-page document wherein a currently displayed section of the document is highlighted in the thumbnail image. Movement of the highlighted area in the thumbnail image is then synchronized with scrolling through the document.
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| 11.5 Year Payment | $7400.00 | $3700.00 | $1850.00 | Mar 24, 2014 |
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