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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006

Filed:

Nov. 28, 2001
Applicants:

Amit Chakraborty, Cranbury, NJ (US);

Liang H. Hsu, West Windsor, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Amit Chakraborty, Cranbury, NJ (US);

Liang H. Hsu, West Windsor, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for extracting Anchorable Information Units (AIUs), from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, which may either be created using either an editor or by scanning in documents. The method includes parsing the portable document format document into textual portions and non-text portions, and extracting structure from the textual portions and the non-text portions. The method further includes determining text within textual portions, and text the non-text portions, and hyperlinking a plurality of keywords within the textual portions and non-text portions to a related document.


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