Relevance-enhanced scrolling

Abstract

A graphical user interface enhances user information when scrolling through a document by determining the amount of relevant information at a particular scrolling location and changing one or more user perceptible system attributes such as color, sound or object displayed to reflect the amount of relevant information. In one approach, a <RELEVANT> tag or marker indicates relevance. Alternatively, adding an attribute to an existing HTML tag such as <STRONG> can indicate relevance. If information received from a search in response to a query contains no relevance indications, relevance markers are added locally.

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