Reading Alerts and Skim-Reading System
AssigneeFreedom Scientific, Inc.
InventorsGlen Gordon, Joseph Stephen, Eric Damery, Ralph Ocampo
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Abstract
A screen reader software product including a pattern store containing at least one user-definable array of keywords relating to a subject of interest and skim reading module adapted to apply the at least one array of keywords to a target document whereby only portions of the target document matching the at least one array of keywords are output by the screen reader software to an end user.
Claims24
A screen reader software product comprising:
- a pattern store containing at least one user-definable array of keywords relating to a subject of interest;
- and
- a skim reading module adapted to apply the at least one array of keywords to a target document whereby only portions of the target document matching the at least one array of keywords are output by the screen reader software to an end user.
A screen reader software product comprising:
- an error checking module, a screen reading module communicatively coupled to the error checking module, and an error skimming mode whereby upon activation of the error skimming mode, the screen reader software skips content deemed error-free and only outputs content flagged by the error checking module as containing an error.
A method of controlling the output of a computer utilizing a screen reader function to enable a document to be skimmed for display information comprising the steps of:
- providing a target document to be skimmed;
- providing one or more text rules;
- scanning the target document for concurrence between the display information of the target document and the one or more text rules;
- and
- outputting a portion of the text of the target document responsive to the concurrence in a user-appropriate format.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.