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US 2013/0159835 A1Published application
Context generation from active viewing region for context sensitive searching
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsManah Mounir Khalil, Padala Anil Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Nagpal
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Abstract
A device retrieves content and renders a user-selected portion of the retrieved content in a browser as an active content viewing region. The device scans the active content viewing region to generate a scan, and generates context from the scan of the active content viewing region. A corpus of documents is searched based on the generated context.
Claims21
A method, comprising:
- retrieving content;
- rendering a user-selected portion of the retrieved content in a browser as an active content viewing region;
- scanning the active content viewing region to generate a scan;
- generating context from the scan of the active content viewing region;
- and
- searching a corpus of documents based on the generated context.
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A network device, comprising:
- a communication interface configured to communicate with a browser executed by another device;
- and
- a processing unit configured to:
- identify content accessed by the browser,
- identify a portion of the content viewed by a user in the browser, wherein the portion comprises less than an entirety of the content,
- determine a number of times the portion of the content has been viewed by the user and other users, and
- determine an amount of time that the user viewed the portion of the content in the browser.
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A method, comprising:
- obtaining content;
- identifying a portion of the content, wherein the portion comprises less than an entirety of the content;
- generating context from the identified portion of the content;
- and
- using the generated context for obtaining relevant search results.
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A device, comprising:
- a communication interface configured to obtain content from a content hosting server;
- and
- a processing unit configured to execute a browser and to:
- identify a portion of the content displayed in a window of the browser, wherein the portion comprises less than an entirety of the content, and
- generate context from the identified portion of the content,
- wherein the communication interface is further configured to send the generated context to a search engine to perform a search of a corpus of documents to obtain search results relevant to the generated context.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.