Method and system for organizing documents based upon annotations in context
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsWilliam Noah Schilit, Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsky, Lynn D. Wilcox
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Abstract
A document organizing system extracts annotations made to a document along with the context surrounding each annotation and organizes the annotations based upon the annotation attributes and/or context. The annotations are created by grouping marks based upon their proximity in time and space. The document is segmented to determine a minimum context associated with each annotation. A list of the annotations sorted by the attributes are then displayed to the user. The context provided by the invention for each annotation allows the user to fully understand the annotation.
Claims34
A method for determining the context of annotations from at least one document containing the annotations, comprising:
- identifying at least one annotation from the at least one document;
- and
- determining, based on the at least one annotation, a context portion for each at least one annotation from a corresponding one of the at least one document.
An apparatus for determining the context of annotations from at least one document containing the annotations, the apparatus comprising:
- a memory that stores the at least one document;
- a processor that identifies at least one annotation and a context portion based on the at least one annotation of the at least one document corresponding to each annotation;
- and
- a display that displays the at least one annotation and the at least one corresponding context portion.
A method of accepting annotations to at least one document and determining the context of the annotations, comprising:
- accepting at least one annotation to the document from a user interface;
- storing the at least one annotation;
- determining a context based on the at least one annotation for each annotation from a corresponding one of the at least one document;
- storing the context for each annotation;
- retrieving the at least one annotation and corresponding context;
- and
- displaying the retrieved at least one annotation and its corresponding context.
An apparatus for accepting annotations to at least one document and for determining the context of the annotations, comprising:
- a user interface that accepts annotations to at least one document;
- a context identifier responsive to the annotations to identify the contexts of the annotations in the corresponding at least one document;
- a storage device that stores the annotations and the corresponding identified contexts;
- a processor that retrieves at least one of the stored annotations along with the corresponding context for each retrieved annotation;
- and
- a display that displays each retrieved annotation and its context.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.