Reader mode-optimized attention application

A reader mode-optimized attention system, the system comprising:

• a network data transceiver that receives an initial hypermedia document from a media server over a network during an attention session, the initial hypermedia document including a set of markup tags and hyperlinks to media content therein;
• a processor connected to the network data transceiver and a computer program memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, implement:
• a classification engine that determines, prior to generating a document object model (DOM) based on the initial hypermedia document, that the initial hypermedia document satisfies a reader mode condition based at least in part on the set of markup tags and hyperlinks to media content therein;
• a tree transducer that:
• (a) determines, based at least in part on determining that the initial hypermedia document satisfies the reader mode condition, a subset of markup tags of the set of markup tags of the initial hypermedia document that satisfy the reader mode condition and extracts the subset of markup tags to yield a reader mode hypermedia document;
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• (b) generates, without rendering the DOM based on every markup tag of the set of markup tags of the initial hypermedia document during the attention session, a reader mode DOM based on the reader mode hypermedia document that omits markup tags of the initial hypermedia document outside of the subset of markup tags;
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• a render engine that generates, without rendering a DOM based on the initial hypermedia document during the attention session, a rendering of the reader mode DOM based on the reader mode hypermedia document for display to a user during the attention session.