Method and system for term-occurrence-based navigation of apportioned e-book content

A computer-readable medium that stores instructions for a computing device, the computing device including a processor, a memory and a display screen having touch functionality, the display screen rendering an e-book content including text formatted in an ordered sequence of digitally constructed pages, the instructions being executable by the processor to cause the computing device to perform operations that include:

• receiving a term occurrence search request at a text portion of the e-book content, the text portion comprising the term, the content of the e-book being apportioned according to a plurality of content apportionments;
• determining a frequency of occurrence of the term within respective ones of the content apportionments;
• rendering a frequency indicator of the frequency of occurrence associated with the respective ones of the content apportionments at the display screen;
• receiving, at the display screen, a navigation request for transitioning to a selected one of the content apportionments of e-book content;
• and
• displaying a summary list of term occurrence content excerpts from the selected content apportionment.

A computing device comprising:

• a memory that stores a set of instructions and an e-book, e-book having content formatted according to a sequence of digitally constructed pages;
• a display screen having touch functionality;
• a processor that accesses the instructions in memory, the processor further configured to:
• receive a term occurrence search request at a text portion of the e-book content, the text portion comprising the term, the content of the e-book being apportioned according to a plurality of content apportionments;
• determine a frequency of occurrence of the term within respective ones of the content apportionments;
• render a frequency indicator of the frequency of occurrence associated with the respective ones of the content apportionments at the display screen;
• receive, at the display screen, a navigation request for transitioning to a selected one of the content apportionments of e-book content;
• and
• display a summary list of term occurrence content excerpts from the selected content apportionment.