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AssigneeChegg, Inc.
InventorsSimon Hanukaev, Ohad Eder-Pressman, Vincent Le Chevalier, Charles F. Geiger
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An education digital reading platform provides HTML5 pages to a user's computing device to enable a browser executing on the user device to display it. Words, lines, paragraphs and columns on the page are identified to enable a user to easily select one or more words within the displayed page. Additionally, custom tools are provided to the user to enable the user to interface with the selected words. For example, a user is provided with customizable magnification and highlight tools, wherein the user can choose custom magnification levels and custom highlight colors. The tools advantageously enable a user perform such actions on the page without accessing the operating system resources on a computing device.
A computer implemented method of providing a custom selection functionality to a user of an application executing on a computing device, the method comprising:
A computer-readable storage medium storing executable computer program instructions for providing a custom selection functionality to a user of an application executing on a computing device, the computer program instructions comprising instructions for:
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