US 6,101,503 AGranted

Active markup--a system and method for navigating through text collections

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsJames William Cooper, Mary Susan Neff

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Abstract

Concepts in documents selected are identified to a user. These concepts are represented by multiple words. A search engine is used to that accesses one or more selected documents from a plurality of documents storied in one or more of the memories. Then a markup engine selects multiple-word terms in each of one or more of the selected documents. The selected words, often multiple word/concepts, are selected because they are repeated in one of the documents and because that meet grammatical criteria. After the markup engine selects the selected words, it marks each of the selected words with marker. These active markers can then be used to launch additional searches or displays of related information. Optionally, documents with the selected words are displayed to a user with the markers.

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Dependent claims

A computer system for identifying concepts in a document to a user, comprising:

one or more memories and one or more central processing units;
a search engine, executed by one or more of the central processing units, that accesses one or more selected documents from a plurality of documents stored in one or more of the memories, the selected documents satisfying a query;
a markup engine, executed by one or more of the central processing units, that selects multi-word terms in each of one or more of the selected documents, the selected multi-word terms being selected because they are repeated in one of the documents and because they meet a grammatical criteria, the markup engine further marking each of the selected multi-word terms with an HTML markers;
wherein the markup engine produces a web page display of one or more of the documents on a display, displayed documents including one or more of the HTML markers as display markers, one or more of the display markers being active;
and
wherein selecting a display marker causes one or more of the following actions to occur:
launching a program, initiating a second search, and accessing a second set of documents.

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