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US 8,136,034 B2Granted
System and method for analyzing and categorizing text
OwnerAaron Stanton, Brandon Zehm +1inventors
InventorsAaron Stanton, Brandon Zehm, Paul Kreiner
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Abstract
A system and method are provided for analyzing elements of text for comparative purposes. Text is provided to the system in an electronic format readable by the system. The system divides the text data into scenes, which may then be compared against a range of various values across a database of scenes from different texts. Data from one text can be used to identify other texts with similar styles, or identify texts with different styles, and to rank those differences on a spectrum. The system may use data from one text to identify other texts that a user may like, and present information about the text to the user in various forms.
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A method of analyzing text, the method comprising:
- providing a system capable of electronically receiving and manipulating text data associated with the text;
- providing a database that is comprised of data relative to one or more reference texts;
- said system being enabled to electronically access said database;
- using said system to recognize the text data as one or more scenes and a plurality of boundaries;
- using said system to analyze said one or more scenes and identify one or more elements of the text within said one or more scenes;
- and compiling the identified one or more elements of text within said one or more scenes to provide a bookmark that is a measured representation of the text, wherein said bookmark is a perspective bookmark complied by counting a number of first person indicators within dialog containing sentences within said one or more scenes.
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A method of analyzing text, the method comprising:
- providing a system capable of electronically receiving and manipulating text data associated with the text;
- providing a database that is comprised of data relative to one or more reference texts;
- said system being enabled to electronically access said database;
- using said system to recognize the text data as one or more scenes and a plurality of boundaries;
- using said system to analyze said one or more scenes and identify one or more elements of the text within said one or more scenes;
- and compiling the identified one or more elements of text within said one or more scenes to provide a bookmark that is a measured representation of the text, wherein said bookmark is a dialog bookmark compiled by quantifying an amount of dialog within said one or more scenes spoken by a character.
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A method of analyzing text, the method comprising:
- providing a system capable of electronically receiving and manipulating text data associated with the text;
- providing a database that is comprised of data relative to one or more reference texts;
- said system being enabled to electronically access said database;
- using said system to recognize the text data as one or more scenes and a plurality of boundaries;
- using said system to analyze said one or more scenes and identify one or more elements of the text within said one or more scenes;
- and compiling the identified one or more elements of text within said one or more scenes to provide a bookmark that is a measured representation of the text, wherein said bookmark is an action bookmark compiled by analyzing a ratio of verbs to total word count within said one or more scenes.
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A method of analyzing text, the method comprising:
- providing a system capable of electronically receiving and manipulating text data associated with the text;
- providing a database that is comprised of data relative to one or more reference texts;
- said system being enabled to electronically access said database;
- using said system to recognize the text data as one or more scenes and a plurality of boundaries;
- using said system to analyze said one or more scenes and identify one or more elements of the text within said one or more scenes;
- and compiling the identified one or more elements of text within said one or more scenes to provide a bookmark that is a measured representation of the text, wherein said bookmark is a rating bookmark compiled by an analysis of user feedback, relative to user opinion of one or more reference texts, received by said system.
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A method of analyzing text, the method comprising:
- providing a system capable of electronically receiving and manipulating text data associated with the text;
- providing a database that is comprised of data relative to one or more reference texts;
- said system being enabled to electronically access said database;
- using said system to recognize the text data as one or more scenes and a plurality of boundaries;
- using said system to analyze said one or more scenes and identify one or more elements of the text within said one or more scenes;
- compiling the identified one or more elements of text within said one or more scenes to provide a plurality of bookmarks that are different from one another as measured representations of the text;
- and providing the system with a user-defined hierarchal ranking of said plurality of bookmarks;
- and comparing said plurality of bookmarks, according to said user-defined hierarchal ranking, with said data relative to one or more reference texts to identify similarities or differences between the text and said one or more reference texts.
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A method of analyzing text, the method comprising:
- providing a system capable of electronically receiving and manipulating text data associated with the text;
- providing a database that is comprised of data relative to one or more reference texts;
- said system being enabled to electronically access said database;
- using said system to recognize the text data as one or more scenes and a plurality of boundaries;
- using said system to analyze said one or more scenes and identify one or more elements of the text within said one or more scenes;
- compiling the identified one or more elements of text within said one or more scenes to provide a bookmark that is a measured representation of the text, wherein said system compiles the identified one or more elements of text within said one or more scenes to provide a plurality of bookmarks that are different from one another as measured representations of the text;
- providing the system with bookmark data from a user-created or user-selected source;
- and comparing said bookmark data from the user-created or user-selected source with said data relative to one or more reference texts to identify one or more of said reference texts with an intersection of bookmark data, irrespective of a hierarchal order of said bookmark data.
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A method of analyzing text, the method comprising:
- providing a system capable of electronically receiving and manipulating text data associated with the text;
- providing a database that is comprised of data relative to one or more reference texts;
- said system being enabled to electronically access said database;
- using said system to recognize the text data as one or more scenes and a plurality of boundaries;
- using said system to analyze said one or more scenes and identify one or more elements of the text within said one or more scenes;
- and compiling the identified one or more elements of text within said one or more scenes to provide a bookmark that is a measured representation of the text, wherein said bookmark is personalized to a user's preferences by:
- providing the text data as data relative to a plurality of user selected reference texts;
- using said system to identify one or more elements within each of the user selected reference texts;
- using the system to compare said plurality of user selected reference texts by identifying variations in said one or more elements among said plurality of user selected reference texts;
- and providing cumulative scores for said one or more elements of text to provide a personalized bookmark.
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