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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1999
Timothy W. Bickmore, Somerville, MA (US);
William N. Schilit, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andreas Girgensohn, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Joseph W. Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy W. Bickmore, Somerville, MA (US);
William N. Schilit, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andreas Girgensohn, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Joseph W. Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
An automatic re-authoring system and method re-author a document originally designed for display on a desktop computer screen for display on a smaller display screen, such as those used with a PDA or a cellular telephone. The automatic re-authoring system and method input a document to be re-authored and re-authoring parameters, such as display screen size, default font and the like. The automatic re-authoring system and method convert the document into a number of pages, where each page is fully displayable with only at most a minimal amount of scrolling on the display screen of the PDA or cellular phone. At each stage of the re-authoring, a number of different transformations are applied to the original document or a selected re-authored page. The selected re-authored page is the best page resulting from the previous re-authoring stage. The best page at each stage is determined based on the re-authoring parameters and the content of the document being re-authored.