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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2006
Mark J. Stefik, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Stuart K. Card, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ed H. Chi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lichan Hong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Barbara Stefik, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Mark J. Stefik, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Stuart K. Card, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ed H. Chi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lichan Hong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Barbara Stefik, Portola Valley, CA (US);
PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described that provide a reading pane for reading one or more content portions of a work and a guide pane that displays a structured overview of additional information from the corpus that is focused by an analysis of information from the currently-visible content portion of the work. The contents of the currently-visible content portion displayed within the reading page are used to derive dynamic representations of the user's immediate interests. At the user's request, a structured persistent context-aware guide is computed and displayed. The persistent context-aware guide provides a framework for accessing other parts of the corpus having the most-related information. The elements in the persistent context-aware guide are other content portions or other organizations such as sections, chapters, or articles in the corpus. The persistent context-aware guide may also incorporate additional closely-related information elements from outside the corpus including advertisements. Advertisements for information on the topics of immediate interest to the user can be incorporated within the structured, context-aware guide so that the reader can purchase them and review that information in the context of the current session. The guide pane and the reading pane support navigation controls so that the user can go to new or previous sub-portions of the content portion, new or previous content portions and/or new or previous persistent context-aware guides.